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Cotswold Line trundling route | cycle.travel cycle◦travel Route GuidesRoutes ▼MunicipalityGuidesCities ▼ Map My Avenue Verte France Avenue Verte UK BayTrundlingWay C2C Celtic Trail Coast & Castles Cornish Way Cotswold LineTrundlingacross the Beacons Devon C2C Hadrian's Cycleway Kennet & Avon Lon Cambria London to Brighton Lon Las Cymru Lon Teifi Oxford to Cambridge Pennine Cycleway Radnor Ring Thames Valley Tour de Yorkshire Way of the Roses West Country Way • Bikes on trains • Canal cycling • Full list Birmingham Bristol Cambridge London Oxford Swindon Worcester York • Full list • Add your municipality Cotswold Line Guide Routebook Gallery Stay Ride reports Forum ...across the Cotswolds by train and velocipede Route facts 442 Length: 77 miles Difficulty: Moderate GPX file: DownloadTrundlingas far as you like, then jump on the train home. That’s the idea overdue the Cotswold LineTrundlingRoute, a trappy ride pursuit the scenic Cotswold Line railway from Oxford to Worcester.From the playground of the Chipping Norton set, through Moreton-in-Marsh and pretty Chipping Campden, to the wholesale Vale of Evesham, it’s a tour of fine Cotswold scenery without the lattermost hills found remoter south. At 77 miles, it’s well suited to a weekend break; but with a railway station every 10 miles, you can moreover segregate to tackle the route one section at a time.What sort of bike?Any velocipede will be fine. There are two short grassy sections at Charlbury and Adlestrop, and two bumpy (car-free) lanes at Charlbury and Hidcote Boyce, where road velocipede riders might segregate to follow the parallel (busier) road instead.How many days?Two days is unbearable time, but consider taking three and enjoying increasingly of the villages and towns en route. Experienced cyclists could do the route in a single day.So what well-nigh the trains?The Cotswold Line runs from Oxford to Worcester. There’s a train every hour: scrutinizingly all start at London Paddington, and some protract to the Malverns and Hereford. So it’s an platonic escape from London for the weekend – or from Birmingham, which has regular trains to both Oxford and Worcester.Most Cotswold Line trains have six velocipede spaces: a few are 2/3-carriage stoppers where you simply stash your velocipede in the vestibules. The guards are invariably friendly, but you can help them by waiting at the right place on the platform. On the eight-coach High Speed Trains, all of them are at the country (western) end, and you load your own bikes. On the five-carriage Adelante trains, there are three spaces at each end, and the baby-sit or suburbanite opens the door; we’d suggest standing at the front end, so the suburbanite can see you. The platforms are often shorter than the trains; let the baby-sit know where you’re getting off.Avoid the rush hour on weekdays, when the trains are very rented and most velocipede spaces are taken up by commuters. At other times, reserving a velocipede space is optional but worthwhile on sunny summer weekends.Is it suitable for a first-timer?Very. The hills are challenging but humane, there are plenty of cafés and pubs for a rest, and you can unchangingly take the train if it all gets too much. A three-day unravel is the platonic first-time tour.Is the route open?Most of the route was opened by the then Prime Minister David Cameron in April 2014. There are signposts all the way from Hanborough to Honeybourne, and then from Evesham to Worcester. That leaves two unsignposted sections – Oxford to Hanborough, and Honeybourne to Evesham – so you’ll need to take a map if you’re going that way.From Oxford to Hanborough, the final route needs a new trundling path to be built near Bladon, which we’re expecting in the next couple of years. For now, we suggest you follow the trundling path abreast the A40 road to Eynsham, then throne north to join the main route. Or, of course, you could just get the train to Hanborough. From Honeybourne to Evesham, the local steering is currently upgrading a byway and working on an improved road crossing of the Evesham bypass, but there’s nothing to stop you going that way now.Where to start and finish?The route can be tackled in either direction. The climb onto the Cotswold escarpment (at Mickleton) is harder if you’re travelling from Worcester to Oxford, but we’ve seen 10-year olds manage it. Stage-by-stage guide and map » Click through to our detailed maps, stage-by-stage guide, walk-up and campsite listings. cycle◦travel Made in the Cotswolds, England. Published by Éditions Système D Ltd. Terms of use & cookies ·Well-nighus · Advertise · Feedback · Contact us