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Useful Links

Besides the books I referred to in the previous post, we looked at several websites while planning our trip.  Here's a list, in case you want to plan your own or learn more than I tell these next three weeks, or in case I want to find one again.

These are sites useful for planning or viewing the trail and region as a whole:


This is the official national trails site, I remember finding it very informative in the early stages of planning.
https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/cotswold-way

This one is nice because it includes user reviews and photos of all kinds of stuff along the way.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g186281-d187766-Reviews-Cotswold_Way-Cotswolds_England.html

I don't know if this one got a facelift since back in the winter, but it now has Google Earth street views of several parts of the Way, which are really cool.
https://www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/visiting-and-exploring/walking/cotswold-way-national-trail/

This is a page on the regional tourism site, so it could lead you well beyond the walking path.
https://www.cotswolds.info/cotswolds-way-walk.shtml

This one is really good on the details of the trail, including an elevation profile and a good map.
https://www.hillwalktours.com/hiking-england/cotswold-way-trail-info

These are pages for the places we are staying on our trip:

We stay at the Volunteer Inn in Chipping Camden before heading out.  They also are handling our luggage transfers.

After our first day of hiking (10 miles), we stay at Shenberrow Hill, and have reservations for dinner at the Mount.

The second day is 15 miles to Prestbury Hill.

Then 14 miles to the Royal George Hotel in Birdlip.

The big day is 17 miles from Birdlip to Kings Stanley.   There we stay at Orchardene, a stone cottage B&B.

The walks become shorter the rest of the way.  It's 13.5 miles to North Nibley where we stay at the Black Horse Inn.  Their website makes me eager to visit and stay there.

Little Sodbury is 13 miles from North Nibley.  We stay at the Dog Inn, a 500-year-old pub.

A 10.5-mile stroll the next day brings us to Hill Farm in Cold Ashton.  This place is on AirBnB & is really cool looking.  We're staying in a sheep shed and sheepherder's caravan.  There's nothing nearby.  

Hill Farm's website says Bath is eight miles; we have it listed as ten.  Either way, it's a downhill jaunt.  In Bath, we stay a couple nights in an apartment booked on AirBnB.

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