My Country Walks



Welcome to my new blog following my move to the Cotswolds in early 2018.

Previously living on the edge of Dartmoor I shared details of my walks on Dartmoor on my previous blog My Dartmoor Walks. As I explore this new area I will share details of the routes here.

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Tuesday 15th July 2025 - Tewkesbury

Initially a walk through the Tewkesbury Battlefield area starting in the 'Bloody Meadow'. This is a preserved area where you can explore the landscape and the events of 4th May 1471 when King Edward IV's Yorkist forces defeated the Lancastrians. This was a major turning point in the Wars of the Roses.


We continued on the Severn Way - on the other side of the river is the Lower Lode Hotel.

The cattle looked and and appeared a little more fearsome than they actually were!

The Coalhouse Inn next to the..... 

...camping site and the caravans on raised stilts to protect from flooding.


May Hill in the very far distance

To the edge of Apperley

Towards Apperley

Through Willow Hill Farm......

..... and behind the barns a leisure complex although it is not currenly in use.

On to the Farmers Arms for a more  civilised lunch stop.

Returning through the edge of Apperley and a field with a crop of broad beans, all dead as a result of the lack of rain!

Into Deerhurst and past a flood gate. I haven't seen one like this before but we are on the Severn flood plain.

The raised bank around this field an further evidence of a route through a potentially flooded area.

Another unusual feature - this recently laid farm track made from old concrete railway sleepers

A place know as 'The Folly'

One of the information boards  on the site of the Battlefield.


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