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Wardens' Way

Gloucestershire

22 km / 14 miles

Wardens' Way © Winchcombe Walkers are Welcome

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The Way provides a link between the Oxfordshire Way at Bourton-on-the-Water and the Cotswold Way National Trail at Winchcombe. Whereas its sister route, the Windrush Way, takes to the hills, the Wardens' Way winds through the villages of Lower and Upper Slaughter, Naunton and Guiting Power.

Updated route description and sketch map are now available from Walkers are Welcome (Winchcombe) as a pdf download, link below.

Details:

Waymark: Letters WW in green

Path Type:	Paths Marked on OS mapping
Waymark:	Letters WW in green
Attributes:	Average Gradients AONB Downland/Wolds
Start:	SP167209 - Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire
Finish:	SP023282 - Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Web Sites:	Wardens' Way

Publications, Badges and Certificates:

External download

Wardens' Way (Walkers are Welcome - Winchcombe - 2017 )

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Maps:

You can use the interactive controls to zoom in and out and to move around the map, or click on a path or a marker for more info.(interactive map help)

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2016.
© OpenStreetMap contributors under Open Database Licence.
Rights of way data from selected Local Authorities.
Large scale digital mapping is provided by John Thorn.
At high zoom levels the route is indicative only.

**Purchase Ordnance Survey Maps (path is named on OS maps):**

OS Landranger	150, 163
OS Landranger Active	150, 163
OS Explorer	45
OS Explorer Active	45

Accommodation within 5 km of this Path:

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Path

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Path

Hostel Accommodation

Stow on the Wold YHA, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire

4 km

3 km

Walkers are Welcome

Winchcombe (Walkers are Welcome)

< 1 km

22 km

Connected Paths:

E Routes

E-Route 2 UK Section - Middleton-in-Teesdale to Dover

National Trails (England & Wales)

Cotswold Way National Trail

Paths Marked on OS mapping

Diamond Way (North Cotswold) Gloucestershire Way Heart of England Way Macmillan Way - Boston to Abbotsbury Monarch's Way Oxfordshire Way Winchcombe Way Windrush Way Click to show 5 more Paths Marked on OS mapping

Other Paths

Cotswold Ring Cotswold Round Cotswold Village Trail Cotswolds Walk Donnington Way Gustav Holst Way Hobblers Way (Coast to Coast - Wash to Severn) Isbourne Way Isbourne Way - Prologue Isbourne Way - Return Route Macmillan Way - Cross Cotswold Pathway St Kenelm's Way Click to show 9 more Other Paths

Downloads:

GPX Route File

Wardens' Way GPX Exchange Format Route File

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MemoryMap Route File

Wardens' Way Memory Map Route File

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Tracklogs Route File

Wardens' Way Tracklogs Route file

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Route Profile:

22.1 km (13.7 miles)
389 m (1,276 ft) ascent
296 m (971 ft) maximum height

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