We are the Worcester Ramblers. We open the way for everyone in our local community to enjoy the pleasures of walking.
Shan South
This walk starts from Winchcombe Back Lane car park (£1 all day fee), passing Winchcombe Church and Sudeley Castle to the Neolithic Belas Knap long barrow; joined by a valley walk and the villages of Charlton Abbots and Brockhampton.
Crossing the fields behind Winchcombe gives good views of St Peter's, one of the great Wool Churches of the Cotswolds. Before the walk enters Sudeley Castle, final resting place of Katherine Parr after her short marriage to Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, having survived Henry V111. From the front of the Castle the path drops to Beesmoor Brook, then after crossing several fields a climb into Charlton Abbots, site of a former leper colony. The walk then continues to Brockhampton (Craven Arms)' The 19th Century mansion at Brockhampton Park is now split into flats. The walk then crosses farmland and an old quarry and climbs up to meet the Cotswold Way and continues to Belas Knap Long Barrow; a neolithic burial chamber where the remains of at least 38 people were found during excavations in the 1860'sand again between 1928 and 1930. The Barrow has been restored giving good indication of its original profile. The walk is then downhill across fields go the start.
Winchcombe Back Street Car Park Car park charge £1 all day.
