The long-distance paths
The Cotswold Way, end to end.
Chipping Campden to Bath along the western edge of the Cotswolds: a hundred and seventy-one kilometres that stay on the escarpment almost the whole way, with the Severn vale falling away to one side.
From £19.95 unframed, £59.95 framed · no walk needed
What the print holds
The Cotswold Way on paper
The Cotswold Way is a line with a rule, and the rule is legible on paper: keep to the edge. The path runs south-west from Chipping Campden and then spends a week refusing to leave the scarp, dropping to the villages below only when the geology forces it and climbing straight back up again.
That gives the print its character. The line is not straight — it scallops in and out of every combe — but it never wanders, and the scallops all face the same way. Seen whole it reads as a coastline for a sea that is not there, which is more or less what an escarpment is.
The landmarks arrange themselves along it. Broadway Tower near the start, Cleeve Hill at the high point above Cheltenham, then the long middle through Painswick and Stroud where the valleys cut in deepest, and finally the descent into Bath and a finish at the abbey rather than on a hill.
It prints portrait and hangs as a tall ribbon. It is a popular first long-distance path — a week, good pubs, no navigation to speak of — so it is bought as a first-finish print more than most.
There is an argument for hanging this one beside the Ridgeway. They run through the same chalk country from opposite directions and cross nothing in common, and the pair of them together describe the shape of southern England better than either does alone. The two sheets are the same size and the same paper.
What to frame
Each opens the Studio already framed. Change your mind there — the path, or a day of it.
How it works
From the Studio to your wall in three steps.
Step 01
Choose your subject
Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.
Step 02
Choose your style
Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.
Step 03
We print and frame it
Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.
- Made to orderPrinted for you, never from stock
- Fine-art paperArchival inks, framed by hand
- Tracked deliveryUK delivery £7.85, tracked · worldwide, priced at checkout
- Arrives damaged?We replace it, no quibble
Good to know
Why does the path zigzag so much?
Because it follows the scarp rather than cutting across it. Each in-and-out is a valley the edge wraps around, and together they add perhaps a fifth to the straight-line distance.
Is the finish really in the middle of Bath?
Yes — the waymarked route ends at Bath Abbey, so the last kilometres are through streets rather than fields, and the print draws them as they are.
Can I have it on cream rather than green?
The Studio offers five papers and you can change it in a click; open it from this page and the path is already loaded.
I have not walked the whole thing. Can I still have it?
Yes. The print draws the Cotswold Way itself — the path as it is waymarked, end to end — with or without a walk of your own on it. People buy it before they set off as often as after.
Can it show my own walk instead?
It can show both. Connect Strava and the Studio draws your days along the path — the miles you actually covered over the line as it is mapped, with your time on feet and your climb beneath.