Here we go again, Barbara, Margaret and Stuart set off on the train from Leeds to Stratford upon Avon to walk the 102 mile national trail, the Cotswold Way. We had arranged for a taxi to pick us up at Stratford, take us to Chipping Camden and then take our luggage on to our first stop Broadway. The journey was uneventful apart from having to change stations in Birmingham in quite a short space of time, but all went well and we duly arrived in Chipping Camden. This was to be a splendid walk with iron age burial chambers, hill forts, battlefields, old churches, thatched cottages, wild flowers, snails and snakes but more of that later.
The first day was a short 6 mile walk just to get us going. We spent some time trying to find the stone marker at the start of the trail until a local resident put us straight and we found we had already walked past it without noticing ! Well it was pretty uninspiring wasn't it.
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| The Beginning |
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| Market Hall |
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| Graham Green lived here |
We made our way down a long grassy track and then through fields of broad beans before ascending to Broadway Tower, the second highest point of the trail. Here we found an enclosure of red deer.
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| Broadway Tower |
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| Red Deer |
Down in Broadway we discovered lovely stone cottages and a wide street with grass verges which gave the village its name.
It was very quiet as we wandered through looking for our destination, Brook House Guest House. This was run by a lady who lived in Bradford until the age of 18 and even knew Harden.......its a small world! She was a little eccentric and not a morning person. Breakfast 8 till 9 but please don't come at 8.00, so we compromised and went at 8.15.
The Crown and Trumpet served perfectly acceptable pub grub with a smile and after a wander around the village we retired early after a busy first day.
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