About
Launched in the 1990s as a charity walk for Macmillan Cancer Support, the Macmillan Way crosses the country diagonally from Boston in Lincolnshire to Abbotsbury in Dorset. Its central section runs through the Cotswolds via Chipping Norton, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water and Cirencester, before joining the Cotswold Way north of Bath.
Most through-walkers take three weeks for the full distance; the Cotswold section alone is a comfortable week's walk and arguably the most attractive third of the route. Waymarked throughout in the white-on-green Macmillan logo.
In Chipping Norton
A no-nonsense working market town with a famous skyline-dominating tweed mill chimney.
Read the Chipping Norton guide →