Windrush Way
A 14-mile long-distance path in the Cotswolds covering the countryside between Bourton-on-the-Water and Winchcombe. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: SP 025 283
Distance: 14 miles (22 km)
Time: 5–7 hours
Duration: 1 day
Ordnance Survey Explorer Map (1:25,000):
OL45 The Cotswolds
Summary
The Windrush Way is a footpath in Gloucestershire linking the Cotswold Way at Winchcombe with the Oxfordshire Way at Bourton-on-the-Water. The Windrush Way goes over the hills, passing the remains of ‘lost’ medieval villages en route to the River Windrush in Bourton.
Mapped placenames on the route between Winchcombe and Bourton-on-the-Water include Sudeley Castle, No Man’s Patch, Waterhatch, Cole’s Hill, Spoonley Farm, Role Gate, the medieval village of Hawling, Windrush Hill, Hawling Lodge, Cloud Hill, Gazeley Wood, Westfield House, Downs Barn, Aylworth, the medieval village of Lower Harford, the River Windrush, and Aston Farm (Mill). The Wardens Way, which runs on a parallel course to the north, also links Winchcombe and Bourton but instead makes its way through the existing villages of Guiting Power, Naunton, Upper Slaughter, and Lower Slaughter.