Walk from Stow on the Wold to Moreton & train to Oxford/Kingston?

Are you sure about the 4 km? Asking because I get 7.3 km from the center of Stow-on-the-Wold to the train station at Moreton, along the A429 road, measured using Google Earth. I don't think you'll find anyone here with personal experience walking with luggage 4 miles from Stow to Moreton. So you may want to take a look at that road (A429) using Google Earth, which gives you a pretty good look at the road from above. To my eye, it looks like there's no shoulder on much of the road, with vegetation and/or trees pretty much up to the edge of the road along much of it, until you get to Moreton. How much/what type luggage do you have? Have you considered having your lodging arrange for a taxi?

I got the 4 miles from the Rick Steve's book. I haven't looked anywhere else at this point since I just read it tonight. We'll probably take backpacks instead of suitcases if we were to do this route. Maybe there's a bus from Stow to Moreton, but we are avid hikers, so 4km isn't any bother for us unless it's a dangerous narrow road or something wierd like that. Thanks!

Oh..also, I believe that 7km is approx. 4 miles?? Thank you again

Oh yes, my typo in the original post...thx..will check Google Earth..

charleyhorse, Four miles or kilometres is a long way to walk with luggage. My preference would be to take a Taxi or local Bus.

Charleyhorse You can do Oxford to Kingston in about two and a quarter hours if you travel Oxford to Reading, Reading to Twickenham and then Twickenham to Kingston. Trains out of Oxford are fairly frequent. They used to be half hourly at a minute past the hour and half hour, but that's worth checking. Have a look here http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ If you enjoy walking there is a nice walk from Kingston up the river (3 miles) to Ham House http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-hamhouse In the opposite direction you can easily walk to Hampton Court. The walk up the river is nice but fairly long as the river bends. It's more direct to walk through Home Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Court_Park Have a good time. Alan

I know the road from Stow-on-the-Wold (where the wind blows cold, according to local doggeral) to Moreton-in-Marsh like the back of my hand, having driven it hundreds of times. My great aunt used to be a landlord (pub keeper) in Stow, and my parents lived nearby. I wouldn't walk it on that road. It is extremely busy with lots of trucks. It is quite narrow, and although it is the Fosse Way which was built by the Romans so you would expect it to be straight as a die, has a nasty bend, left, right, left then straight down the hill. The speed limit is 60 mph as soon as you pass the Tesco's supermarket all the way to the zebra crossing by the plant nursery at Moreton. Because there is a straight bit lots of people pass or try to pass the trucks and slower cars, but the road really isn't good enough for that, especially with the steep hill and trees next to the road, and there have been many horrific crashes between the two towns. There was one particularly bad one a few years ago when an entire family was wiped out. If you want to walk between the two towns you could go to Upper Swell and walk through the fields to Moreton or up to Bourton-on-the-Hill, both via Doddington and its ale and trout farm (no, they don't farm ale, but they do brew it). Me? If I had no car I would take the frequent, fast, and convenient bus which goes from next to the library in Stow right to the centre of Moreton, not far from the station. Over 4 miles, even a cab wouldn't be much money.