The Heart of England Way runs for about a hundred miles through the Midlands, from Milford Common in Staffordshire to Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds. It skirts around the eastern rim of Birmingham, England’s second-largest city, and passes close to the city of Coventry. But, despite this, it’s not at all urban. In fact, for the most part, it feels deeply rural. Of all of the National Trails, it is – with its woods, pastures, country lanes, canals, orchards, cultivated fields, steepled churches, and sleepy villages – perhaps the most quintessentially English. The Cotswold Way is England’s newest National Trail. It runs 102 miles from Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire to Bath in Somerset. For most of its length, it follows the Cotswold Edge escarpment, zigzagging its way between the peaks and troughs of the Cotswold Hills. It is absurdly pretty, running through a sculpted landscape so picturesque that it might have been designed by The Walt Disney Company. Among a host of other delights, it boasts exhilarating high-level views, lush meadows sprinkled with cattle and sheep, shady woodlands, and charming villages with houses of honey-coloured Cotswold stone.
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