About
Devised by the Heart of England Way Association, the Diamond Way loops through a quintessential set of villages — Stow, the Slaughters, Bourton, Chipping Campden — and connects them with the high beech-and-stone country in between. The name comes from the diamond shape the route traces on the map.
Most walkers take four to five days. The advantage of a circular route is that you start and end at the same point — no logistical question about how to get back to the car.
In Stow-on-the-Wold
A handsome wool town atop an 800-foot hill, ringed by antique shops, coaching inns and the famous yew-flanked church door.
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