Cotswolds Day 3 – Broadway to Chipping Campden 9/22/24

Sunday, September 22, 2024

6 miles

The rain and fog moved in today. We donned our rain gear and Court and I started out with a steep uphill climb from the town of Broadway to the top of a hill where Broadway Tower overlooks the landscape. Mom would join us at the cafe by the tower and hike with us the rest of the day to Chipping Campden.

The Broadway Tower was also a nuclear fallout shelter in the Cold War and they play up that angle quite a bit. It was touristy, but fun.

Mom joined us at the tower and hiked the rest of the day with us, about 4.5 more miles through the rain and fog to Chipping Campden.

The trail led us through the woods and then across a couple of mucky fields that made our shoes heavy with mud.

After scraping the mud cakes off our shoes and losing about 10 pounds in weight, we reached Dover Hill and the Vale of Evesham. I loved that name. It felt very Tolkien-esque.

Coming down off the hill, we descended into Chipping Campden, which felt like one of the oldest towns we would stay in. Very medieval feeling. This is also the official northern terminus of the Cotswold Way. I nerd out about long trail termini.

We checked into our hotel and hung out in the bar for our post-hike pint. A great deluge would await us tomorrow.