Travel Reference
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dock to another gate, then bear half-left where the way now progresses
uphill through meadows linked by kissing gates or stiles towards
Broad-
way Tower
. Shortly before you reach the tower the path is enclosed by
fences.
BROADWAY TOWER
Broadway Tower is set upon a grassy knoll from which it commands a tremendous
panoramic view over the Vale of Evesham. At 1089ft (332m) the top of the tower is
(just) the highest point in the Cotswolds (Cleeve Common's high ground measures
1083ft (330m)). Designed by James Wyatt in 1798 for the sixth Earl of Coventry, the
tower is a Norman-style keep with three rounded turrets. Around it lies part of the
Broadway Tower Country Park, in which the Tower Barn is about 150 years old, while
Rookery Barn houses an information centre and restaurant.
Access to the country park is on the right, while the Cotswold Way
breaks to the left through a gate and advances across a rough undulating
pasture. Go through another gate and wander down a shallow cleave bey-
ond which you enter woodland. Follow the footpath winding through, and
when you leave the woodland continue on a track which curves to the right
behind a house (the former Fish Inn) and onto a tarmac service road with
a quarry on your right. So come to the A44 at the top of Fish Hill (grid ref
120368).
Cross the road with great care and go through a gap in the wall opposite
a toilet block at the Fish Hill picnic site. Bear left following waymarks up
a grass slope through the picnic area, and then turn right at the top just
before a topograph. Through a gate the continuing path takes you across
a field to a country road, Buckle Street. Maintain direction over two more
fields, then through a gap in a drystone wall to join the Mile Drive.
Wander ahead along the broad grassy avenue of the Mile Drive, crossing
a farm drive midway, and at the far end go briefly through a spinney and
out again by way of another gap in a drystone wall. Come onto a coun-
try road and bear right for about 400 metres or so (there's a spacious
grass verge for safe walking), passing the Kiftsgate Stone on the left which
marks the site of an ancient meeting place. On coming to a minor cross-
roads turn left, soon after which you arrive at a National Trust car park
giving access to
Dover's Hill
on the right.
DOVER'S HILL
