Features

Overview

Gloucestershire has about 3,340 miles of footpaths, bridleways and byways, including the Gloucestershire Way, and parts of the Cotswolds Way and Three Choirs Way. This gives access to a landscape that is timeless, captivating and quintessentially English. The Cotswolds cover a large part of Gloucestershire and are famous for the architecture of the picturesque villages of honey coloured stone cottages, nestling in valleys of the limestone hills. Elsewhere, the Royal Forest of Dean, one of Britain's ancient hunting forests provides many walks, and is bounded on the western edge by the spectacular gorges of the River Wye.