About
Devised by the Ramblers' Association in the 1980s, the Gloucestershire Way is a 100-mile circular through the most varied county in southern England — beginning and ending at Tewkesbury, with a high-Cotswold section through Stow-on-the-Wold and Painswick before dropping into the Severn Vale and rising again into the Forest of Dean.
Most through-walkers take seven to eight days. The Cotswold portion is shorter and steeper than the Cotswold Way and rewards those who want to see Gloucestershire whole — high stone country, ancient forest, and tidal river — in a single trip.
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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