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Carterton Walks
A Five Mile Walk from Burford
From Capps Lodge, Payne’s Farm, Swinbrook, Widford. Riverside and field paths, country lanes and quiet road walking. Car parking by the side of the river Windrush to the east side of the church. Burford is steeped in history and also often referred to as the Gateway to the Cotswold.
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Leaving the car park turn right and walk on the road round a sharp bend to the left-hand side of the church. Do not go into the churchyard but look for the pathway in the left-hand corner.
• Follow this path until you come out into a cul-de-sac, walk along here until you come to the main road. • Turn right and with care walk over the bridge until you come to a mini roundabout. Look to the opposite side of the road and you will see a finger post pointing up some steps. Follow the path until you reach a stile, over the stile and walk to the right-hand side of a building where there will be another stile. Turn right and follow the road until you come to the main road. • Turn left (you may wish to cross the road here) and follow the road past a turning to Swinbrook, continue past the Mason Arms. Look for a finger post on the right, pass through a gate walk up the steps and follow the path all the way through the middle of the field. Go through a gap in the hedge, cross two more fields until you come to a wood. (Look left here, the lane goes towards Capps Lodge where it is said that 2 out of 3, of the highway men named Tom, Dick and Harry were hung on a gibbet tree and left to rot). Turn right through the woods until you come to a small road, keep right passing a row of cottages. Descend a hill and when you get to a sharp corner, turn sharp right up a track.
Go through the gate and follow the unfenced pathway over a field. Descend the slope to a gate and continue between hedges up the hill to the road. • Turn right and follow the road down into the dip. Turn left at a sign to Widford, go over a stone stile and follow the grassy valley to Dean Bottom. Turn right when you reach the T-junction by the little medieval Church, St
Oswald’s Widford (pictured above), well worth going inside.
• Leave the church and turn right until you come to a lane, turn left and walk over the river bridge. Reaching the main road turn right for approx 150 yards until you come to a footpath sign on the right. Walk down the slope to a stile. Cross the stile and follow the path alongside the river, over several more stiles until you reach a road. Turn right towards Burford, pass the Great
House and then opposite the Royal Oak the road turns right into Guildenford and the car park will be 50 yards down the slope, on the right-hand side.
