'Aston Cantlow Parish is a beautiful place to walk in the countryside and it is excellent exercise to help to keep you fit & healthy ... You can download lots of local walks from Aston Cantlow in PDF format that were produced in conjunction with the Aston Cantlow Parish Path Volunteers.'

Walking in and around Alcester 'Alcester has much to offer ramblers and walkers. There are great opportunities to explore the town, countryside and surrounding villages.' Unfortunately the four Walks formerly referenced here no longer seem accessible via the Alcester Website.

Roger Noyce

'Route from Henley-in-Arden through Alcester and Aston Cantlow using mainly public footpaths and bridleways.'

Heart of England Way Association

'Here are a set of nine walk leaflets describing circular walks of between eight and twenty kilometres (five and thirteen miles) around Southam, Stockton, Long Itchington, Leamington Hastings, Birdingbury, Ladbroke, Napton, Bishop's Itchington, Harbury and Ufton.'

Southam Town Council

'The Way's 65 miles run through the unspoilt countryside along the western side of Oxfordshire ... The idea behind the Way was to form a link between the Oxford Canal towpath, the Oxfordshire Way, the Thames Path and the Ridgeway.'

There is a Guidebook - The D'Arcy Dalton Way across the Oxfordshire Cotswolds and the Thames Valley by Nick Moon - but you might have difficulty locating a copy.

Oxford Fieldpaths Society

D'Arcy Dalton Circular [Barry Cornelius] | The D'Arcy Dalton Way [Carl Sprake]

'Circular walk linking eight villages around Southam. The guide was produced in memory of Harry Green who was the Chairman of the Southam Ramblers for 20 years and who devised the walk in 1988.' Unfortunately the Route Guide referenced here no longer seems accessible online via the Southam Website.

Walking Around Rugby

'Links some of Britain's best-loved tourist destinations - London, the Chilterns, Oxford, Blenheim Palace, the Cotswolds and Stratford-upon-Avon.'

The Shakespeare's Way Association

'Follows the course of part of the Honeybourne Line, a single track railway built in 1859 by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and closed in 1976. Now a trail for walkers and cyclists, the route links the attractive town of Stratford-upon-Avon with the village of Long Marston.'

Stratford Greenway [Sustrans]

'The canal is usually considered as a northern and a southern section. The Northern Stratford starts at Kings Norton Junction, with its guillotine-gated stop-lock that prevented water loss from one company's line to the other.  It continues on the same level for ten miles then descends by 19 locks to Kingswood Junction, where there is a link to the Warwick & Birmingham Canal (now the Grand Union Canal). The South Stratford is memorable for its split bridges, built with a gap to allow the tow ropes of the boat horses to pass through, and its unique barrel-roofed lock cottages.'

The Stratford upon Avon Canal Society | The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal