Thames and Severn Way

Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire

The Thames and Severn Way is a canalside route designed by the Cotswold Canal Trust and shown on OS mapping and waymarked following where possible the canals between Framilode and Lechlade on Thames, passing through Stonehouse, Stroud, Brimscombe, the Golden Valley, Siddington, South Cerney, Cricklade and passing over the route of the Sapperton Canal Tunnel. Waymarks provided by Stroud District Council mark the route that is shown on OS mapping. The Way has been marked out by volunteers from the Cotswold Canals Trust. Parts of these canals have been restored and work is continuing.
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Cotswold Canals is the title given to two connected Gloucestershire waterways, The Stroudwater Navigation and The Thames & Severn Canal. The thirty six mile long waterway links England’s two great rivers, The Severn and Thames. The Stroudwater Navigation runs from the Severn and at Wallbridge in Stroud meets the Thames & Severn Canal that continued to Lechlade. The canals map linked below in the websites listing shows the former canals' routes

The route of the Way aims to follow the line of these canals but where necessary uses other nearby paths including the Thames Path. Its route is the same as the Cotswold Canals Walk (an earlier promoted route covered on this website) apart from the final section from Latton to Lechlade where the Way first follows the line of the Thames, to finally leave it to pass south of the Cotswold Waterpark to reach Lechlade.

The Way can be joined by Thames Path walkers upstream of the Thames source that is near Kemble by walking to the canal path and then continued to the Severn.

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Details:

Path Type:	Paths Marked on OS mapping
Waymark:	Name and 'T&S' with barge graphic on blue roundel
Attributes:	Paths marked on OS mapping Easy Canal River
Start:	SO751104 - Framilode, Gloucestershire
Finish:	SU213993 - Lechlade on Thames, Gloucestershire
Open Date:	2016
User Group:	Cotswold Canals Trust Cotswold Canals Trust
Web Sites:	Cotswold Canals Trust

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Publications, Badges and Certificates:

Guidebook	Cotswold Canals: An Introduction to the Stroudwater Navigation and the Thames and Severn Canal  (Cotswold Canals Trust  - 2009 )
External download	Cotswold Canals - Canal Map  (Cotswold Canals Trust  - 2017 )

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