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 here are many enjoyable walks starting from Wotton and most local people will no doubt have their own favourites. The 100 mile Cotswold Way passes through Wotton and good Cotswold Way Guides are available for those who wish to walk all or part of it.
There are many footpath signs and there has recently been a campaign to replace stiles on footpaths close to the town with kissing gates in order to make the paths more accessible to the less athletic. It is now possible to enjoy the wonderful spring flowers - wood anemones, primroses, violets, bluebells, wild garlic, and all the rest - in Westridge Wood without having to climb over tricky stiles. Westridge wood can be entered at a low level from Westridge Road, off Bradley Road (NO parking), or from the small lay-by at the top of the steep climb of the Old London Road (there is a view point half way up for those on foot to pause at). From here the way is quite level right along to the Tyndale Monument above North Nibley (where the key can be obtained for the ascent of the monument). It is also easy to walk to Wotton Hill and the Jubilee Clump of trees, from where there are magnificent views to the south and west. A path (the nipnap) leads directly down to Bradley Road. There are good walks too from the Old London Road lay-by round Coombe Hill, and through Conygre Wood and Adey's Lane back down into town or through Streamsfield into Parklands.
Those who prefer to walk north along the stream can go right along through Coombe and Tyley Bottom, and even further afield. There are excellent walks in the Newark, Ozleworth area.
A walk below the town, from which the beauty of the Cotswold wooded escarpment can be seen to advantage, begins in Bradley Street. To avoid walking along the main road, keep straight on into Ellerncroft Road and turn left down a pathway just before Ellerncroft House (a large mansion, from which its former owner Sir Stanley Tubbs used to look down at his works at New Mills). This comes into Bradley Green. A right turn along the narrow lane reaches a T junction with a drive almost opposite: continue straight on across the road and you shortly reach a stile into the moat field, where the contours of the pastureland give some signs of the moated manor house that gives the field its name. It is possible to continue in this direction and come to the Nibley road (B4060), but let us return to the lane and go downhill past the fine Elizabethan mansion of Bradley Court. The first turning to the left leads to a round house on the road to Charfield and, turning right, past New Mills, carefully restored by Renishaws and with much recent development. The first left leads to Kingswood where the well restored 15th century Gateway is all that remains of the medieval Kingswood Abbey. The road back from Kingswood to Wotton rises past Katharine Lady Berkeley's School.
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