RoutesHiking trails & RoutesUnited KingdomEnglandWest Midlands RegionWarwickshireStratford-On-AvonNewbold Pacey CP
St John the Baptist Church – Charlecote Park loop from Newbold Pacey CP
RoutesHiking trails & RoutesUnited KingdomEnglandWest Midlands RegionWarwickshireStratford-On-AvonNewbold Pacey CP
St John the Baptist Church – Charlecote Park loop from Newbold Pacey CP
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3.0
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16
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St John the Baptist Church – Charlecote Park loop from Newbold Pacey CP
04:07
16.1km
70m
Hiking
Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: April 18, 2026
Waypoints
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Start point
Bus stop
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5.28 km
Wasperton Village Hall
Highlight • Rest Area
Wasperton Village Hall, formerly a school, built in the Imperial period. It is situated 100m north of the Baptist Church.
In 1843, Rev. Thomas Leverson had a school built in Wasperton. Since 1923 the building has been used as the Parish Hall. It is of red brick and has the date 1843 inscribed over the door.
In 1843, Rev. Thomas Leverson had a school built in Wasperton. Since 1923 the building has been used as the Parish Hall. It is of red brick and has the date 1843 inscribed over the door.
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5.42 km
St John the Baptist Church
Highlight • Historical Site
Parish church. 1843 by Sir G G Scott, adapted from church of 1736. Red sandstone with plain tile roofs. The chancel, south aisle, bell-turret, and all the windows are by Scott. Early English/Decorated style. Comprising nave, chancel, south aisle,south vestry and north porch. Octagonal lead-clad timber bell-turret over west end with short spire. C19 timber-framed north porch containing early C16 glass. Decorated style traceried windows. Interior: Early English style three-bay south arcade. Crown-post nave and aisle roofs with crenellated tie-beams. Angel corbels in chancel. Screen by Scott dated 1845 in circa 1300 style. Pulpit of circa 1600. Communion rail of early C18 in wrought iron. East window by Hardman to designs of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.
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7.51 km
Charlecote Mill Pool and Dam
Highlight • Historical Site
The dam, sluice, race and pond associated with Charlecote watermill. They date to the Post Medieval period, and are situated to the west of the restored mill, 300m north east of the church at Hampton Lucy.
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7.56 km
Charlecote Mill
Highlight • Historical Site
Useful information on the website
charlecotemill.co.uk
charlecotemill.co.uk
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5
8.72 km
Charlecote Park
Highlight • Historical Site
The Lucy family owned the land since 1247. Charlecote Park was built in 1558 by Sir Thomas Lucy, and Queen Elizabeth I stayed in the room that is now the drawing room. Although the general outline of the Elizabethan house remains, nowadays it is in fact mostly Victorian. Successive generations of the Lucy family had modified Charlecote Park over the centuries, but in 1823, George Hammond Lucy (High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1831) inherited the house and set about recreating the house in its original style.
Charlecote Park covers 185 acres (75 ha), backing on to the River Avon. William Shakespeare has been alleged to have poached rabbits and deer in the park as a young man and been brought before magistrates as a result.
From 1605 to 1640 the house was organised by Sir Thomas Lucy. He had twelve children with Lady Alice Lucy who ran the house after he died. She was known for her piety and distributing alms to the poor each Christmas. Her eldest three sons inherited the house in turn and it then fell to her grandchild Sir Davenport Lucy.
In the Tudor great hall, the 1680 painting Charlecote Park by Sir Godfrey Kneller, is said to be one of the earliest depictions of a black presence in the West Midlands (excluding Roman legionnaires). The painting, of Captain Thomas Lucy, shows a black boy in the background dressed in a blue livery coat and red stockings and wearing a gleaming, metal collar around his neck. The National Trust's Charlecote brochure describes the boy as a "black page boy". In 1735 a black child called Philip Lucy was baptised at Charlecote.
The lands immediately adjoining the house were further landscaped by Capability Brown in about 1760. This resulted in Charlecote becoming a hostelry destination for notable tourists to Stratford from the late 17th to mid-18th century, including Washington Irving (1818), Sir Walter Scott (1828) and Nathaniel Hawthorn (c 1850).
Charlecote was inherited in 1823 by George Hammond Lucy (d 1845), who married Mary Elizabeth Williams of Bodelwyddan Castle, from whose extensive diaries the current "behind the scenes of Victorian Charlecote" are based upon. GH Lucy's second son Henry inherited the estate from his elder brother in 1847. After the deaths of both Mary Elizabeth and Henry in 1890, the house was rented out by Henry's eldest daughter and heiress, Ada Christina (d 1943). She had married Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, (d 1944), a line of the Fairfax Baronets, who on marriage assumed the name Fairfax-Lucy.
From this point onwards, the family began selling off parts of the outlying estate to fund their extensive lifestyle, and post-World War II in 1946, Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy, who had inherited the residual estate from his mother Ada, presented Charlecote to the National Trust in-lieu of death duties. Sir Montgomerie was succeeded in 1965 by his brother, Sir Brian, whose wife, Lady Alice, researched the history of Charlecote, and assisted the National Trust with the restoration of the house.
Charlecote Park covers 185 acres (75 ha), backing on to the River Avon. William Shakespeare has been alleged to have poached rabbits and deer in the park as a young man and been brought before magistrates as a result.
From 1605 to 1640 the house was organised by Sir Thomas Lucy. He had twelve children with Lady Alice Lucy who ran the house after he died. She was known for her piety and distributing alms to the poor each Christmas. Her eldest three sons inherited the house in turn and it then fell to her grandchild Sir Davenport Lucy.
In the Tudor great hall, the 1680 painting Charlecote Park by Sir Godfrey Kneller, is said to be one of the earliest depictions of a black presence in the West Midlands (excluding Roman legionnaires). The painting, of Captain Thomas Lucy, shows a black boy in the background dressed in a blue livery coat and red stockings and wearing a gleaming, metal collar around his neck. The National Trust's Charlecote brochure describes the boy as a "black page boy". In 1735 a black child called Philip Lucy was baptised at Charlecote.
The lands immediately adjoining the house were further landscaped by Capability Brown in about 1760. This resulted in Charlecote becoming a hostelry destination for notable tourists to Stratford from the late 17th to mid-18th century, including Washington Irving (1818), Sir Walter Scott (1828) and Nathaniel Hawthorn (c 1850).
Charlecote was inherited in 1823 by George Hammond Lucy (d 1845), who married Mary Elizabeth Williams of Bodelwyddan Castle, from whose extensive diaries the current "behind the scenes of Victorian Charlecote" are based upon. GH Lucy's second son Henry inherited the estate from his elder brother in 1847. After the deaths of both Mary Elizabeth and Henry in 1890, the house was rented out by Henry's eldest daughter and heiress, Ada Christina (d 1943). She had married Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, (d 1944), a line of the Fairfax Baronets, who on marriage assumed the name Fairfax-Lucy.
From this point onwards, the family began selling off parts of the outlying estate to fund their extensive lifestyle, and post-World War II in 1946, Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy, who had inherited the residual estate from his mother Ada, presented Charlecote to the National Trust in-lieu of death duties. Sir Montgomerie was succeeded in 1965 by his brother, Sir Brian, whose wife, Lady Alice, researched the history of Charlecote, and assisted the National Trust with the restoration of the house.
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6
11.4 km
Shed Café
Highlight • Rest Area
Welcoming to cyclists with dedicated off street covered cycle parking area.
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7
16.0 km
Ashorne Village Hall
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16.1 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
12.2 km
2.80 km
794 m
159 m
< 100 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
6.99 km
4.08 km
2.18 km
1.76 km
< 100 m
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