Talking Walks in the North Cotswolds
Join a Talking Walk and you will discover there is more to walking ....
This is a great option for those who want a walk that suits them down to the ground. We are happy to offer tailor-made walks in the North Cotswolds area for groups comprising 2 to 15 people. (We can also cater for larger groups.) We can pick you up from your hotel, B & B or a local station in the morning and drop you back at the end of the day.
You tell us when you want to walk, how far, how strenuous, how long and the type of landscape or history that you are interested in, then leave it to us. Based on your criteria we will provide you with 2 or 3 options from which to choose.
As with our programme, we provide a commentary on the walk explaining the origins of the landscape features we pass and how and why they have changed over time.
Here are some examples of walkers who have made their own choice:
- The Lehman family from Chicago love walking, but did not want to embark on a long walk using unfamiliar maps in an unknown country. They are also very interested in gardens. Taking advantage of our offer to provide transport we picked them up from their B & B and first did a gentle walk through a very picturesque village with lots of beautiful cottage gardens. We then drove on to Ditchley Park where we walked through the parkland and looked at the formal gardens laid out by William Kent. We then drove on to Rousham House to walk through the gardens which have been almost untouched since William Kent laid them out in the 1700s. Their comment: “This was just so much more than we could ever have expected.”
- A group of friends from London wanted to have a walking weekend away in the Cotswolds. On Saturday, we provided them with a delightful walk along the Glyme Valley , through shrunken villages, passed disused mills across fields with ridge and furrow. We stopped for a delicious pub lunch at an award winning pub and for the occasional tasty snacks and nibbles which we also provide (along with bottles of water). They were also very grateful to borrow gaiters. (We have a range of walking wear to lend: over trousers, gaiters, hats, gloves – in case some vital piece of walking gear has been forgotten.)
On Sunday, we did a walk route which took in a range of different routeways, including a Roman road, a saltway, a turnpike road, an abandoned track which connected two villages and an old Anglo Saxon road. Their comments: “ Many thanks for a lovely weekend. Yes the food was great but so also was the walking. The countryside was new to me and so beautiful despite the cold weather. I am still mulling over the walking and the ' talking ' both will stay with me for a long time. Meanwhile I am boring my friends silly with my enthusiastic description of the whole experience.
- It was Amanda’s 40th birthday. She absolutely loves walking and doesn’t know the Cotswolds. As part of a special birthday weekend her husband, Jonathan, asked Talking Walks to devise a special one-day walk. He asked for great views and some interesting things to see on the way. Our response was a 9 mile walk which took in the Rollright Stones, an Iron Age Hill Fort, dramatic examples of ridge and furrow, a series of beautiful churches, a village redesigned by Clough Williams Ellis (of Port Merion fame), a shrunken mediaeval village and a preaching cross.
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