Wikiloc | Sudeley Castle - Roman Villa Trail

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Distance: 4.68 mi
Elevation gain: 335 ft
Technical difficulty: Easy
Elevation loss: 335 ft
Max elevation: 535 ft
TrailRank: 43
Min elevation: 325 ft
Trail type: Loop

Time: 2 hours 47 minutes
Coordinates: 821
Uploaded: September 6, 2015
Recorded: July 2015

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near Winchcombe, England (United Kingdom)

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This walk takes you from the Sudeley Castle car park (free parking) to the ruins of a Roman Villa. The ruins are significantly overgrown, so there isn't that much to see. But, to our surprise there was a tin roof over the remains of a small section of original mosaics. The mosaics are protected by black plastic, held down by stones. Some notes we found at the site suggested lifting the plastic to see the mosaics and then replace it and the associates stones.

The most difficult part of the navigation is finding the track at the point marked 'Deviated'. The path goes through a field of what looked like wheat, not down the fence line which is where you would be expecting it to go. We walked down the fence line, which it looked like a lot of other people had done.

Once we got to 'Rejoin Path' it was obvious where we should have been. The map shows the correct path going almost directly from 'Deviated' to 'Rejoin Path', however, we failed to find it in the direction we were traveling.