A Cotswold Way Tweet

I have tried to compress an impression of the Way into a series of tweets; which I have actually posted on Twitter, much I am sure to the bafflement of any reader.


Tweets, like texts are limited to 140 characters, including spacing. However for ease of reading, I intend to set these tweets in a more traditional style.

Cots1

From Campden,

 rise up Dover's Hill

and hear ancient games;

before the folly of Broadway.

Near Winchcombe be blessed

at Hailes Abbey.

Cots2

Climb and pray for ancestors

at Belas Knap.

A common stroll above

Cheltenham

meeting the 

Devil's Chimney

before the

bronze age fort.

Cots3

Down through trees to where

 cheese rolls reaching

dark mills and old canals of

Stroud.

Pass barrows and look

at Severn vistas.

Cots4

March up from

Dursley to

Tyndale's Bible Tower;

then down with jubilee 

to Wotton.

From busy stream, paths

lead to

Somerset's spire.

Cots5

The cold wind

from Hawkesbury,

blows upon 

sleeping knights of

Sodbury thence

to Tormarton's

peaceful Norman tower.

Allegro over M4.

Cots6

Pace and traffic return;

Pathways swoop and

loop in Civil War

homage gallop

up to racecourse

and  cascade to 

gentle finish

in Bath.

Ck 01/06/'10