Cotswolds Choices from Moreton
May 31st, 2010, 05:14 PM
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Cotswolds Choices from Moreton
Researching a day trip from London to Cotswolds. Just a day trip - overnight has been considered and ruled out. Because of the rail connections, we would take a train from London Paddington to Moreton on Marsh. From there, I'm debating what places to explore and how to explore them.
Options seem to be Moreton, Chipping Campden, and Broadway (previously suggested in an old post). Or maybe Morteon, Stow, and Upper/Lower Slaughters.
My goal is to visit a village or two and explore. I have blocked out the entire day for this side trip from London - it will be on a Thursday. We are open to walking between villages, taxis between villages, and bus options. I'm not sure what would be best. Primary consideration is bus/train schedule. I should also mention that while we both will want to walk around, both of us have some foot issues triggered by long-term walking (it is a balancing act between pain, advil, and wanting to walk around!).
Suggestions? And if for some reason the weather is horrible that day, is the trip still worth it to make, or should we stay in London and find other activities?
Options seem to be Moreton, Chipping Campden, and Broadway (previously suggested in an old post). Or maybe Morteon, Stow, and Upper/Lower Slaughters.
My goal is to visit a village or two and explore. I have blocked out the entire day for this side trip from London - it will be on a Thursday. We are open to walking between villages, taxis between villages, and bus options. I'm not sure what would be best. Primary consideration is bus/train schedule. I should also mention that while we both will want to walk around, both of us have some foot issues triggered by long-term walking (it is a balancing act between pain, advil, and wanting to walk around!).
Suggestions? And if for some reason the weather is horrible that day, is the trip still worth it to make, or should we stay in London and find other activities?
Jun 1st, 2010, 06:20 PM
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It sure would be nice if you were able to spend the night.
I'm not that familiar with bus schedules from Moreton-in-Marsh, but hopefully the UK folks will see this and help you out when they wake up tomorrow.
If you're open to changing your plans a bit and traveling to Bath instead of Moreton-in-Marsh, Mad Max Tours is a good company that offers one-day tours of the Cotswolds from Bath: www.madmax.abel.co.uk.
You could return to Bath after the bus tour, stroll around town and have a nice dinner, then see more of Bath the following morning and train back to London.
I'm not that familiar with bus schedules from Moreton-in-Marsh, but hopefully the UK folks will see this and help you out when they wake up tomorrow.
If you're open to changing your plans a bit and traveling to Bath instead of Moreton-in-Marsh, Mad Max Tours is a good company that offers one-day tours of the Cotswolds from Bath: www.madmax.abel.co.uk.
You could return to Bath after the bus tour, stroll around town and have a nice dinner, then see more of Bath the following morning and train back to London.
Jun 2nd, 2010, 12:03 AM
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You don't say when you're planning to visit.
Bus and railway timetables are at http://www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/user...0timetable.pdf. They're currently out of date. Though new timetables introduced on May 22 are mostly only trivially different, and don't affect connections, you need to double-check trains back to London after around 1900 at www.natonalrail.co.uk as there have been some significant temporary reductions in evening trains to allow engineering on the line.
There are a few suggestions for days out involving public transport at http://www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/user...e%20June09.pdf, and the whole of the www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk site is worth browsing. Can't recommend anything to you: it's not clear whether your problems make a 200 yd walk impossible or a 20 mile walk just a bit uncomfortable. No doubt "foot issues" means something to you: the phrase tells anyone you're asking for help as little as the word "advil". Is this a kind of walking stick? A special shoe? Some sort of ethnic folk medicine? Whatever: it's not in my copy of the OED.
Note that there are no direct trains between Moreton and London on June 27 this year, or (on current plans) between May 28 and June 5 next year: a bus is substituted at Oxford, which can add up to 45 mins to the journey each way. Train frequency to Moreton is planned to be substantially increased from June 6, 2011, as is frequency on the whole of the Cotswold line from September 2011.
We don't do "horrible" weather here.
We leave that to unfortunate countries lumbered with earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, serious cold, absurd heat or climates humans can live in only with the help of planet-destroying amounts of air conditioning or by piping water over unsustainable hundreds of miles.
If you're unable to handle a few drops of rain or a gentle breeze - and haven't got the gumption to cover up (for there's no such thing as bad weather: just people too feckless to buy an umbrella), the Cotswolds aren't the place to be. But the likelihood is that even the most deficient in moral fibre will find our weather too trying for their sensitive souls for only an hour or so on a normal day. The simple answer, if that happens, is to deal with it when it hits you, stay in the pub with another pint of Hook Norton and go about your business a bit later.
The more extreme alternative, in the unlikely event of weather visibly down to other countries' standards of unspeakable awfulness and (even unlikelier) certain to stay that way all day, is to get off the train in Oxford, where there's enough under cover to prevent that plague of locusts from ruining your day.
Bus and railway timetables are at http://www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/user...0timetable.pdf. They're currently out of date. Though new timetables introduced on May 22 are mostly only trivially different, and don't affect connections, you need to double-check trains back to London after around 1900 at www.natonalrail.co.uk as there have been some significant temporary reductions in evening trains to allow engineering on the line.
There are a few suggestions for days out involving public transport at http://www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/user...e%20June09.pdf, and the whole of the www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk site is worth browsing. Can't recommend anything to you: it's not clear whether your problems make a 200 yd walk impossible or a 20 mile walk just a bit uncomfortable. No doubt "foot issues" means something to you: the phrase tells anyone you're asking for help as little as the word "advil". Is this a kind of walking stick? A special shoe? Some sort of ethnic folk medicine? Whatever: it's not in my copy of the OED.
Note that there are no direct trains between Moreton and London on June 27 this year, or (on current plans) between May 28 and June 5 next year: a bus is substituted at Oxford, which can add up to 45 mins to the journey each way. Train frequency to Moreton is planned to be substantially increased from June 6, 2011, as is frequency on the whole of the Cotswold line from September 2011.
We don't do "horrible" weather here.
We leave that to unfortunate countries lumbered with earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, serious cold, absurd heat or climates humans can live in only with the help of planet-destroying amounts of air conditioning or by piping water over unsustainable hundreds of miles.
If you're unable to handle a few drops of rain or a gentle breeze - and haven't got the gumption to cover up (for there's no such thing as bad weather: just people too feckless to buy an umbrella), the Cotswolds aren't the place to be. But the likelihood is that even the most deficient in moral fibre will find our weather too trying for their sensitive souls for only an hour or so on a normal day. The simple answer, if that happens, is to deal with it when it hits you, stay in the pub with another pint of Hook Norton and go about your business a bit later.
The more extreme alternative, in the unlikely event of weather visibly down to other countries' standards of unspeakable awfulness and (even unlikelier) certain to stay that way all day, is to get off the train in Oxford, where there's enough under cover to prevent that plague of locusts from ruining your day.
Jun 2nd, 2010, 12:04 AM
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"you need to double-check trains back to London after around 1900 at www.natonalrail.co.uk "
I meant www.nationalrail.co.uk
I meant www.nationalrail.co.uk
Jun 2nd, 2010, 02:26 PM
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We are traveling in September. Foot issues, more specifically, means that while I could probably handle a one way 4 mile walk between a couple of towns, much more than that will probably not be a good idea. There's no wheelchairs, canes, etc - just two ladies whose feet were made wrong. I believe Moreton and Stow are 4 miles apart, and it seems that this area is very much a get out and walk area. With that in mind, I'd rather walk a bit and enjoy the area, and just rest my feet that night.
One of my ideas was to train to Moreton, walk to Stow, bus to the Slaughters, then bus back to Moreton to head home. I did not know if others had a better plan.
Do all the London to MOreton trains go through Oxford? That's a nice backup should the weather be really awful. We don't melt in the rain, but I like to have other options at the ready!
One of my ideas was to train to Moreton, walk to Stow, bus to the Slaughters, then bus back to Moreton to head home. I did not know if others had a better plan.
Do all the London to MOreton trains go through Oxford? That's a nice backup should the weather be really awful. We don't melt in the rain, but I like to have other options at the ready!
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Hi, Raven01. We're using Moreton-in-Marsh as our base for touring the Cotswolds, but we're going to spend 3 nights there. On one of our days, we hope to take a cab to Stow, walk to Bourton-on-the-Water, thenand walk the Slaughters, back to Bourton. When I last checked the bus schedule, there was a 6:35 pm bus from Bourton-on-the-Water to MIM. Does your schedule show that? If there isn't a bus at that time, we're going to have to get a taxi back to MIM.
We're going in August. My step-daughter has some foot issues, but I think she'll be ok on this trip. Last summer, she was able to do a lot of hiking in Switzerland, with only a few stops to soothe the aching foot (she had three surgeries on her big toe, with the last one fusing the bones in that toe).
A lot of people have tried to talk me out of doing the Cotswolds by public transportation, foot and taxi (see the thread I started -- you might get some ideas), but at this point I can't be swayed to rent a car.
We'll be back in mid-August, and I will gladly let you know how everything worked out.
Good luck with your planning!
We're going in August. My step-daughter has some foot issues, but I think she'll be ok on this trip. Last summer, she was able to do a lot of hiking in Switzerland, with only a few stops to soothe the aching foot (she had three surgeries on her big toe, with the last one fusing the bones in that toe).
A lot of people have tried to talk me out of doing the Cotswolds by public transportation, foot and taxi (see the thread I started -- you might get some ideas), but at this point I can't be swayed to rent a car.
We'll be back in mid-August, and I will gladly let you know how everything worked out.
Good luck with your planning!
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