Distance
5.5 miles / 8.85 km
Duration
3.5 hours
Difficulty
Moderate
Shape
Circular
Route description
| Kingscote is a small village but has a lot of history associated with it. There was a large Roman settlement there and a Roman road runs through the parish. The manor and estate (4000 acre) are mentioned in the Domesday book and until 1960 was owned by the Kingscote family.
John Wedgewood, son of Josiah of pottery fame, and founder of the Royal Horticultural Society lived there. Jenner the pioneer of vaccination married one of the Kingscote family’s daughter in the village church; another daughter married Alan Cornwall who was vicar of the neighbouring parish of Bagpath and a colleague of Wilberforce in the fight against slavery, |
Organised by: Cotswold Voluntary Wardens
Led by: Eric Brown, Brian Mundy, Phil Taylor
Start
Address
Hunters’Hall Inn, Kingscote, Glos. The inn lies on the A4137 Dursley- Tetbury road about 0.5 mls. west of the A46 crossroads at Calcot.
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OS Grid Ref
ST 814 960
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