Coleshill Parkland Walk

Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire & Berkshire

A pair of ornately decorated stone gateposts topped with a pair of stone urns at Coleshill Park in Oxfordshire — The gateposts at Coleshill Park | © National Trust Images/John Miller

A short circular walk around the historic parkland at Coleshill. See traces of the former Coleshill House and discover some of the nature restoration work that’s been taking place in this historic landscape.

Near to

Buscot and Coleshill Estates

Start point

Main visitor car-park at Coleshill

Trail information

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Difficulty*

Accessibility**

Full trail

DistanceMiles: 1.8 (km: 2.88)

Duration 40 mins

Not suitable for dogs***

*A walk around the parkland with minimal change in elevation. Short sections of gravel path, majority of walk on mown grass paths.
**Most of the walk is mown grass paths, with a short section on a gravel track.
***Dogs are welcome, but must be under effective control or on a lead. Please follow signs for further information.

Cattle

Free-roaming cattle graze the parkland in the drier months, please keep your distance from cattle, keep your dog on a lead and follow signage.

Dogs
Dogs are welcome under effective control, or on a lead. Free grazing cattle are often present between March-October. Please be responsible when walking near livestock, especially those with young. Try not to get too close and keep your dog on a lead under close control. If approached by cows, move away as carefully and quietly as possible, and if necessary let go of your dog's lead and let it run free, the dog will outrun the cows.
Toilet
Toilets, including an accessible toilet, can be found in the Carpenters’ Yard of Home Farm at the start/end of the walk.
Café
The nearest café is in the Carpenters’ Yard at Home Farm, the start and end point of the walk. In Coleshill village, a short walk from the start/end point, there is also the Radnor Arms pub.
Total stages: 6
Total stages: 6
Start point
Main visitor car-park at Coleshill
Stage 1
Turn right out of the car park and follow the lane until you reach a gate in front of you, walk straight continuing until you reach a kissing gate into the parkland.
Stage 2
Turn left and follow the mown path up the hill. Follow waymarks around the site of Coleshill house, before heading towards the gate pillars.
Stage 3
Pass the gate piers and follow the edge of the parkland until you come to a post directing you across the parkland, cutting out the top section.
Stage 4
Continue across the parkland, following waymarkers until you reach the gravel track that crosses the parkland. Turn right up the track, following it for a short distance, before turning left on to another track that heads towards a small lodge.
Stage 5
Pass the lodge and continue along the track. When the track curves off to the left, turn right, almost turning back on yourself to pass through a gate. Keep the fence on your left until you reach the mill leet.
Stage 6
Continue to follow the mill leet until you pass through a metal kissing gate. Follow the path around the edge of the parkland, and exit the parkland via the cattle grid. Turn right and return to the car park where you started the walk.
Wetlands
The floodplain of the river Cole has a rich history of habitat creation. In the 1990s the river Cole was chosen for a pioneering restoration scheme that restored the original course of the river by recreating meanders and backwaters. More recently work has been carried out to improve the wider floodplain, with a mosaic of ponds, giants’ graves and scrapes holding more water in the landscape, creating habitats for rare wetland plants and birds such as Lapwing and Snipe.
Newly created ponds and scrapes at Buscot and Coleshill Estate, Oxfordshire | © National Trust Images / James Dobson
End point
Main Car Park, Coleshill
Trail map
Coleshill Parkland Walk Map | © Bronwen Thomas
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Coleshill, near Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 7PT

01793762209

buscotandcoleshill@nationaltrust.org.uk

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