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The Cotswold Way enters Stanway through Stanway Park
This is a fine, easy stretch of the walk, the path leading alongside mead-
ows and finally bringing you to the parkland of Stanway House, where long
avenues of stately oaks and chestnut trees throw welcome shade on a hot
summer's day. Across the parkland, guided by oak marker posts, come
to a country lane (note the thatched cricket pavilion perched on staddle
stones opposite). Bear left and walk into the hamlet of
Stanway
(accom-
modation), noting on the way the huge tithe barn in the ground of Stan-
way House behind the church.
STANWAY
Church Stanway as it is also known, is even smaller than Stanton - a clutch of build-
ings in the shadow, so to speak, of the Jacobean manor, Stanway House. The village
has an air of feudalism about it - the church, the houses, even the trees, appear
to come under manorial patronage. In almost 1300 years' ownership the manor has
changed hands only once (except by inheritance), so perhaps it is not surprising that
the community should appear so closely knit. As well as the manor and 12th-century
Church of St Peter (with much Victorian reconstruction), note the massive tithe barn,
the three-storey Jacobean gatehouse with gables adorned with scallop-shell finials,
and the 13th-century watermill that once belonged to the abbots of Tewkesbury.
