About
Created in 2007 by the Wychwood Project, the way traces the boundaries of the medieval Royal Forest of Wychwood, once one of the great hunting forests of Norman England. The route loops from the village of Combe near Woodstock, through Charlbury, Shipton-under-Wychwood, and back via Cornbury Park.
More wooded than most Cotswold trails and quietly atmospheric — the patches of surviving ancient forest in spring are full of bluebells and wood-anemones. A comfortable three to four days, or a long weekend with a midpoint stop at the Bull Inn at Charlbury.
In Charlbury
A working market town on the edge of the ancient Wychwood forest, with an unusually good independent restaurant scene and a direct train to London.
Read the Charlbury guide →