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On entering the village street in Stanton, turn left and wander between honey-coloured cottages (note the medieval village cross halfway through), and bear left where the road forks shortly after passing the church. When it curves to the right, go straight ahead on a farm drive, and after about 80 metres pass a red, corrugated-iron Dutch barn, then bear right through a gate. The continuing footpath skirts the base of the hills, while off to your right spread the lowlands of the Vale of Evesham, broken here and there by groups of individual hills and distant green ridges topped by woodlands, a soft, gentle landscape to admire.

The Cotswold Way enters Stanway through Stanway Park

This is a fine, easy stretch of the walk, the path leading alongside meadows and finally bringing you to the parkland of Stanway House, where long avenues of stately oaks and chestnut trees throw welcome shade on a hot summer’s day. Across the parkland, guided by oak marker posts, come to a country lane (note the thatched cricket pavilion perched on staddle stones opposite). Bear left and walk into the hamlet of Stanway, noting on the way the huge tithe barn in the ground of Stanway House behind the church.