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Additional mapping

While the maps in this guide show each stage of the route at 1:100K, and the map booklet shows the whole route on 1:25K OS mapping, you may wish to carry or consult the 1:50K mapping in order to gain a wider picture of the landscape. Five Landranger sheets cover the length of the Cotswold Way: numbers 150, 151, 162, 163 and 172.

Waymarking

The National Trail acorn symbol adorns Cotswold Way waymarks and signposts

Waymarks follow the national conventions, using different coloured arrows: yellow for footpaths, blue for bridleways, white for public roads. What differentiates Cotswold Way arrows from other route directions is the black acorn symbol of a national trail (the original CW symbol was a white spot painted on or by the arrowhead, and some of these still exist).

Where the route goes through a town, waymarks may be seen on kerbstones, on the posts of traffic direction signs, or on walls. Where it crosses a golf course (on Cleeve Common, Stinchcombe Hill, and Painswick Hill, for example), low wooden waymark posts will be seen. (Note that the original metal signposts along the Cotswold Way give distances in kilometres, while the new National Trail posts give them in miles.)