#CotswoldWay Highlight 5 of 20: Carved head – St Peter’s church, Stanway

#CotswoldWay Highlight 6 of 20: Dyrham Park – the West Front, built in the 1690s

#CotswoldWay Highlight 7 of 20: Sir Bevil Grenville Monument – remembering the leader of the Cornish Royalists, fatally wounded at the 1643 Battle of Lansdown

#CotswoldWay Highlight 8 of 20: Hailes Church – 14th-century wall paintings

#CotswoldWay Highlight 9 of 20: Little Sodbury Camp – the double line of ramparts of the Iron Age hillfort, possibly where the West Saxons camped prior to defeating the Britons at Deorham in 577

#CotswoldWay Highlight 10 of 20: 17th-century doorway in Stanton

#CotswoldWay Highlight 11 of 20: St Kenelm’s church, Alderley – Gravestone of Marianne North, pioneering 19th-century botanical artist and traveller

#CotswoldWay Highlight 12 of 20: Royal Crescent, Bath – John Wood the Younger’s perfect Georgian street

#CotswoldWay Highlight 13 of 20: Cold Ashton Manor House – the 17th-century Renaissance-style gateway, with mounting block to the right

#CotswoldWay Highlight 14 of 20: Broadway Tower – an iconic folly and one-time holiday home for members of the Arts and Crafts movement

#CotswoldWay Highlight 16 of 20: Somerset Monument, Hawkesbury Upton – memorial to the general who let the Household Cavalry at Waterloo

#CotswoldWay Highlight 17 of 20: Plaque to the lost abbey of Winchcombe – the tomb of St Kenelm, a major draw for medieval pilgrims

#CotswoldWay Highlight 18 of 20: All Saints church from Selsley Common, with Stroud beyond

Thanks walking-books.com! And now with added #CotswoldWay, and the #ThamesPath coming soon!

So excited to be out researching our 5th Sparky Walking Guide – to the fabulous Hadrian’s Wall Path. Day 1: Bowness to Carlisle – the wondrous expanse of the Solway Firth, Scotland almost within touching distance, and Carlisle Cathedral #hadrianswall #nationaltrail @HWPath

sparkybooks.co.uk walks #HadriansWall Day 2: Carlisle to Banks – A very welcome honesty Snack Shed at Newtown and, finally, our first glimpse of the Wall! #NationalTrails

sparkybooks.co.uk walks #HadriansWall Day 3: Banks to Twice Brewed – Wow! Two days with barely a glimpse of Wall, and now the Romans are everywhere! Birdoswald, Willowford Bridge, Walltown and Cawfield Crags – such riches! #NationalTrails

sparkybooks.co.uk walks #HadriansWall Day 4: Twice Brewed to Chollerford – Another fabulous day… Vindolanda, Housesteads, new shoots on the much-lamented sycamore and the last of the spectacular Great Whin Sill #NationalTrails

sparkybooks.co.uk walks #HadriansWall Day 5: Chollerford to Heddon-on-the-Wall – A confession… we took a diversion from the standard route to experience the wonders of Hexham Abbey and the wonderful Corbridge Roman Town #NationalTrails

sparkybooks.co.uk walks #HadriansWall Day 6: Heddon to Wallsend – Finally, we follow the Tyne into Newcastle below a multiplicity of bridges. Little evidence of the Romans, but a lone curlew probing the mudflats in the shadow of the Dunston coal staithes #NationalTrails