Walk up the hill out of Horton. About 50yds (46m) before a road junction turn right onto a track towards Little Sodbury. After 20yds (18m) keep left through a fence gap to a path. Continue to a stile, to follow the Cotswold Way and Monarch’s Way between paddocks. Make for a stile on the far side and descend passing under pylon cables. Cross a stile in the field corner and continue ahead across farmland to the next stile by a cottage. Cross onto a path and turn left to follow it to a lane in Little Sodbury.a steep bank. Ascend again, passing a small reservoir. Cross a stile and go ahead across pasture for 0.25 miles (400m), easing right towards a hedge and

Turn right, and at the next junction go left, still on the Cotswold Way. Pass Little Sodbury’s Church of St Adeline on your left and continue along this lane for 550yds (503m), the last part uphill. At a junction at the top fork left by a Cotswold Way sign along what is really the drive to Little Sodbury Manor.

After a few paces turn right onto a path. Then, at a triangle of conifers, bear left as the path rises up the slope and brings you to the fortified-looking walls of a farmhouse. To visit Little Sodbury hillfort, turn right and then left through a kissing gate. The fort is considered to be one of the finest in the Cotswolds. Continue on the main path and at the end of the wall turn right through a gate. Turn left across gravel and then cross a paddock to a gate. Go through to a field and follow the clear path through crops to a ladder stile. Climb over to join New Tyning Lane, opposite.

Follow this for 700yds (640m) until you come to a junction. Turn right along Hall Lane. Follow the road for 80yds (73m) then, at a corner, turn left into Highfield Lane. Beyond woods pass the fort at Horton Camp, then some houses. About 300yds (274m) beyond Highfield Farm, at a left bend with a passing place, turn left before gates to join a path marked by a wooden post (Monarch’s Way logo). Follow the path through woodland, keep right at a fork further down, and make for a gate into a field. Cross the field to another gate and exit to a lane.

Turn right and walk down to the entrance to Horton Court. At a sharp right corner turn hard left to a bridleway. Cross a field, then pass through a hedge to reach a gate. Continue to another gate and then keep left, following a hedge to a kissing gate. Pass through it into a field, bear right to another gate and briefly follow an enclosed path to a tarmac lane. Turn right and return to the centre of Horton.