Barrow Wake Walk and Map

Barrow Wake is a Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust nature reserve near Birdlip. It’s famous for its glorious views from the Cotswold escarpment and offers keen walkers a challenging and beautiful range of walks. If you would like to explore this area, download the Gloucestershire Walks app for a map which shows your position on the Barrow Wake route as you walk.

 
 
 

Barrow Wake
1.5 miles

Although this might look like a short walk, you will need plenty of energy for this Barrow Wake route.

The walk begins in the car park at the Barrow Wake viewpoint and before you have even started, you can enjoy the amazing views from one of the best viewing points on the Cotswold escarpment. On a clear day you can see the Malvern Hills and glimpses of Wales in the distance.

This strenuous walk heads along the escarpment, through some woods and down a steep track before looping back below the Barrow Wake viewpoint and climbing back up to the car park. Please be aware that there is steep and uneven terrain and the area is popular with mountain bikers so please be careful.

Here is a route map for the Barrow Wake walk

Download the Gloucestershire Walks app to see your position on the map as you walk

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To get the Barrow Wake walk on your phone, just search ‘Gloucestershire Walks’ on your app store.

Here are a few more pictures of Barrow Wake…

 

If you stand at the Barrow Wake viewpoint and look to your right, you can see Leckhampton Hill and just over the ridge is Cheltenham.

From Barrow Wake car park, if you walk clockwise on the map you will reach the beautiful shaded woods. There is something magical about walking through woodland high up on a hill on a sunny day, looking down into a valley below.

Barrow Wake has many paths and tracks to explore and this one takes you from Barrow Wake down a steep descent towards Birdlip. However, when you get to the bottom, instead of carrying on to Birdlip, our walk route circles back around under the Barrow Wake viewpoint followed by a steep hike back up to the car park.

 

More walks near Barrow Wake…

Crickley Hill Walk
1.8 miles from Barrow Wake

Leckhampton Hill Walk
3.1 miles from Barrow Wake

 
Gary Stevens