Cirencester Open Air Swimming Pool

Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

0.1 km SW

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

0.3 km NE · spans 14 counties

The river from its Cotswold trickle to the Thames Barrier — the gentlest long walk in Britain.

4.7 km SW · spans 7 counties

Ornate classical portal of one of Britain's longest canal tunnels, in the woods above Coates.

5.5 km W

The influential garden Rosemary Verey made her own, with a knot garden and laburnum walk.

6.4 km NE

A gas-lit, one-room Cotswold alehouse with beer poured from the tap, run single-handed for decades and beautifully unspoilt.

7.1 km E