Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Views begin to extend out to the west as you wander along this escarp-
ment track. It's easy walking, with no route-finding problems, just long
views and cloudscapes, with flowers at your feet and birds singing from
the wayside scrub and crowns of trees.
The track then begins to lose height and brings you to a cluster of farm
buildings on the edge of Buckland Wood. Bear left now on a continuation
of the track heading north for nearly ½ mile (800m). Over a stile on the
right you approach a barn - which sits astride the county boundaries of
Gloucestershire and Hereford and Worcester - and make a right-hand de-
tour round it.
Having passed the barn on your left, resume direction along the right
headland of a field at the far side of which you enter Broadway Coppice.
Descend through this little woodland of hazel, oak, birch and ash, and
when you emerge Broadway Tower can be seen on a hill crest to the north-
east. Continue down the slope to an enclosed path which takes you onto
the narrow West End Lane (grid ref: 090371).
Cross the lane and continue directly ahead through linking fields and
over a footbridge. Soon come onto a track (or drive) leading into Church
Street, almost opposite the Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels in
Broadway
(accommodation, refreshments). Turn left and wander down
the street to the green, then bear right to walk through Broadway's busy
High Street.
BROADWAY
The quintessential Cotswold village, Broadway is much larger than Stanton, and lined
with handsome shops, cottages and hotels on a wide street (hence 'broad way'). It
is said to have been 'discovered' by William Morris, in whose wake came a number
of Victorian artists to further extend its fame. The village grew in importance dur-
ing the era of the stagecoach by providing accommodation and a change of horses
in readiness for the steep haul up Fish Hill. Nowadays horses have been replaced by
horsepower, and Broadway is at times a snarl of traffic amid a clutter of commerce.
Without traffic the village is a gem, with wisteria-clad cottages, 17th-century alms-
houses, an avenue of red-flowering chestnut trees, a village green and two churches,
the oldest of which is St Eadburgh's, dating from the 12th century. Tourist informa-
tion: Cotswold Court, The Green, Broadway 01386 852937.
