Everyone gets on the coach at Winchcombe (very concvenient for me) and we are taken to the start - the coach is waiting at the end of the walk. The coach driver didn't seem to know the way to the M5 and for reasons only known to him he took us all the way into Cheltenham and then back out again! Eventually we arrived in Bath.
The Cotswold Way goes out through Bath, past The Circus, the Royal Crescent and Victoria Park. On to Primrose Hill, through the suberb of Weston and then out into the countryside going steeply up Penn Hill. Continuing more gently upwards and around the edge of Kelston Round Hill. Up again to the topograph by Prospect Stile on the edge of Bath Racecourse. Then flat for a while through Lansdown Golf Course and on to Hanging Hill. Shortly after the monument to Sir Basil Grenville the path goes down to the Ford on Hall Lane. The final stretch was a steep uphill section past Hall Farm. The coach was waiting for us at the top by junction with the A46.
9.8 miles and 1660 feet of ascent.
Click here for the second leg
The start and end of the walk is outside the Abbey and is marked by this sculpture embedded into the ground.
Royal Crescent
Victoria Park
Steeply up Penn Hill...
...to the trig point from where you would get fine views over Bath on a clear day.
The route past Pendean Farm
The topograph at Prospect Stile - looking back to Kelston Round Hill...
...right next to the edge of Bath Racecourse.
Looking over Little Down
Sculptures by Michael David Morse on the edge of Lansdown Golf Course
Looking over Hanging Hill.
These marker posts on the Cotswold Way show the area of the battle.
The monument to Sir Basil Grenville, erected by his son, marks the place where he fell. He died the following day.
Masses of wild garlic
The path ahead from the edge of the battleground
These cows followed us down the hill and charged twice - not pleasant for those of us at the back!
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