Palladian Way
A 117-mile long-distance path across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire rich in Palladian architecture, including Stowe Landscape Gardens, Blenheim Palace, and the historic city of Bath. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: SP 696 341
Distance: 117 miles (189 km)
Time: 50–58 hours
Duration: 8–12 days
Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps (1:25,000):
OL45 The Cotswolds
155 Bristol and Bath
156 Chippenham and Bradford-on-Avon
168 Stroud, Tetbury and Malmesbury
169 Cirencester, Swindon, Fairford and Cricklade
180 Oxford, Witney and Woodstock
191 Banbury, Bicester and Chipping Norton
192 Buckingham and Milton Keynes
Summary
The Palladian Way long-distance path is named after the classical style of architecture established by Andrea Palladio in 17th-century Italy. The route stretches across southern and central England in a general east-to-west direction from Buckingham to Bath through the countryside of Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire.
Highlights along the route include Stowe Landscape Gardens with its famous Palladian Bridge, Brackley, Evenley, Tusmore Park, Stoke Lyne, Buckley, Middleton Stoney, Tackley, the Oxford Canal, Woodstock and the grounds of Blenheim Palace, Combe, North Leigh, New Yatt, the Windrush Valley, Minster Lovell, Swinbrook (with its Mitford family connections), Burford, the Akeman Street Roman Road, Coln St Aldwyns, Bibury, Ablington, Barnsley Park, Ampney Crucis, Cirencester, Coates, Rodmarton, Malmesbury, Corston, Hullavington, Castle Combe, Ford, Slaughterford, Colerne, Box, Monkton Farleigh, the River Avon, the Kennet and Avon Canal, the Dundas Aqueduct, Monkton Combe, and Bath.