PLAP 2a Cotswold Drive North (9.38 miles 15 km ) Print

PL2aw01 Waypoint 1
Cotswold Drive North
Turn right out of the gate opposite the back of Melcourt Industries Ltd. bark chipping yard. When you meet the road (Crudwell Lane) turn right to Chedglow and follow the road. It is possible to continue up the Fosse Way by turning left after approximately 50m on the right-handed bend in the road but if you do this you will miss the chance to see the picturesque village of Chedglow.


PL2aw02 Waypoint 2
Cotswold Drive North
Continue along the road for just over a mile to Chedglow where you take the first turning left towards Ashley.


PL2aw03 Waypoint 3
Cotswold Drive North
Once again, continue along this road for approximately another mile and a half until you reach a left hand bend in the road at the foot of a hill, here turn right onto the Fosse Way Byway at Fosse Gate.


PL2aw04 Waypoint 4
Cotswold Drive North
On reaching the tarmac road at the end of the track turn left towards Culkerton (if you try to follow along the Fosse Way any further it leads to a dead end at the Cotswold Airport).


PL2aw05 Waypoint 5
Cotswold Drive North
Continue for another one mile until you reach Culkerton. Turn left here at small crossroads (by a stone wall) and continue towards Manor Farm buildings.


PL2aw06 Waypoint 6
Cotswold Drive North
This road will lead you to Ashley, where you turn first right just after the tennis court and red telephone box, keeping the Manor House with its small church on your left.


PL2aw07 Waypoint 7
Cotswold Drive North
Continue for almost two miles along this road and take the first left, signed Crudwell and Long Newnton.


PL2aw08 Waypoint 8
Cotswold Drive North
Once again continue along the road to the next left turn (by Church Farm).


PL2aw09 Waypoint 9
Cotswold Drive North
Follow this road for another one and a half miles (passing the entrance to Melcourt Industries) and you will see the Byway sign indicating the Fosse Way on your right.


PL2aw10 Waypoint 10
Cotswold Drive North
Turn down this, and you will reach the place where you parked.