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Stratford Greenway – Milcote Carriage Café loop from Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford Greenway – Milcote Carriage Café loop from Stratford-upon-Avon

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Stratford Greenway – Milcote Carriage Café loop from Stratford-upon-Avon

01:06

20.8km

50m

Gravel riding

Easy gravel ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 23, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 16.8 km for 177 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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324 m

Stratford Cycle Hire

Highlight • Rest Area

Convenient bike hire close to the car park. E-bikes as well (if you like/need that sort of thing!)

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405 m

Bobby's Railway Carriage Café

Highlight • Restaurant

They use the disused railway carriage which has been neglected for years and now being done up, it's going to be good, the coffee is nice and the guys are very nice chatty guys...

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1.01 km

View of Stratford Racecourse

Highlight • Viewpoint

Great views over the racecourse from the Greenway. Nice benches so you can sit and admire the view or even watch the racing if you are very lucky.

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1.23 km

Stannals Bridge, Stratford Greenway

Highlight • River

An impressive steel girder bridge, which used to carry the old Great Western main rail route south of Stratford over the River Avon.

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2.35 km

An 8km flat smooth gravel path. Share with runners and dog-walkers in the morning and evening. Best at crack of dawn when mist is rising over the race course and the river meadows. Can also cut down to a riverside path.

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5.94 km

Welford-on-Avon Maypole

Highlight • Monument

This is one of England's tallest remaining maypoles. It is a striped pole that stands over 20 metres high. It has been present since the days of Shakespeare, and its original incarnation was made of wood (until it was struck by lightning and destroyed). The current pole is made of aluminium and is officially a Grade II historical monument listed by English Heritage.

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12.8 km

St. James' Church, Long Marston

Highlight • Historical Site

The Church of England parish church of Saint James the Great has a 14th-century Decorated Gothic nave and chancel, but was rebuilt in the 19th century. The pulpit is Jacobean. The church is a Grade I listed building. Its parish is part of the Benefice of Quinton, Welford, Weston and Marston Sicca.

LONG MARSTON

SP1548 DORSINGTON ROAD
1912-1/13/85 (South side)
05/04/67 Church of St James

GV I

Church. C14 nave and chancel, with C16 porch and restored C16 bell turret. Narrow coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; graduated stone slate roof; timber-framed porch and bell turret.

PLAN: 2-bay chancel, 3-bay nave with south porch and west Bell turret.

EXTERIOR: coped stone gables. Chancel has offset diagonal and angle buttresses flanking 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery; coped gable with cross.
North side has 2 windows of 2 traceried lights flanking round-headed priest's entrance with plain surround with beading, enriched imposts and fielded-panel key block, plank door; south side has similar windows.
Nave has alternately wide and narrow courses of stone.
North side has offset buttress to left of gabled porch. Porch with close-studded framing on limestone plinth; entrance with renewed spandrels to 3-centred head and renewed plank door with strap hinges, 3-light windows to returns. 2 single-chamfered traceried nave windows of 2 lights.
South side has some patches of ashlar; 4 offset buttresses, that to west on plinth, that to east is diagonal; small 2-light window to west and 2 larger 2-light windows with C14 tracery and hoods; scratch dial to east end.
West end has 2 tall offset buttresses and lower angle buttresses; 2-light single-chamfered traceried window; bell turret has close-studded framing and saddleback roof; 3-light louvred bell openings and weather cock. Nave has short East return to north with wall monument to Mary Tomes, d.1751: worn slab with tapering pilasters, entablature with pulvinated frieze and pediment.

INTERIOR: chancel has tie beam and collar roof with arch-braced queen posts and wind braces; segmental-headed piscina recess with remains of projecting bowl; rebated chancel arch with continuous chamfer.
Nave has collar rafter roof with ashlaring; plastered timber-framed partition wall to west end has exposed close studding over 2 tall timber posts to centre, forming open space below bell turret which has battened panelling to returns with plank doors and high opening to south with turned balusters.

FITTINGS: chancel has C19 altar rail and candelabra, plain stalls; nave has early C17 pulpit with enriched round-headed panels; plain C19 stalls with candelabra; circular font on traceried base; ex-situ stone altar slab on 4 tapering supports; porch has roof with wind braces and one arch-Braced collar truss, plain rebated inner door and stone benches.

MONUMENTS: chancel has 3 brass plates on north wall: Joan, Dorothea and Elizabeth Cooper, d.1658, 1650 and 1657, floor slab to Richard Day, d.1697, with scrolly frame and armorial bearing; porch has floor slab to Elizabeth Goodin, d.1732.
Stained glass: chancel east window has medieval fragments, small C19 roundels to other chancel windows.
An attractive church in good setting and an unusual timber-framed bell turret.

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16.9 km

Milcote Carriage Café

Highlight • Cafe

Quirky converted train carriage that's a great little cafe. Well placed on the Stratford-upon-Avon Greenway just outside Stratford. Closed on Mondays but open 9am to 4pm every other day.

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20.8 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

9.96 km

7.77 km

1.38 km

974 m

625 m

102 m

Surfaces

9.31 km

6.88 km

2.22 km

2.08 km

289 m

Elevation

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Stratford Greenway – Milcote Carriage Café loop from Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford Cycle Hire

Bobby's Railway Carriage Café

View of Stratford Racecourse

Stannals Bridge, Stratford Greenway