Shakespeare's Birthplace – Welford-on-Avon Village Center loop from Quinton CP
Shakespeare's Birthplace – Welford-on-Avon Village Center loop from Quinton CP
6
riders
Shakespeare's Birthplace – Welford-on-Avon Village Center loop from Quinton CP
02:25
40.2km
230m
Cycling
Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
Tips
Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted
After 22.7 km for 176 m
Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
Get Directions
21.9 km
Bancroft Basin
Highlight • River
22.2 km
Stratford-upon-Avon High Street
Highlight • Historical Site
In 1863 major alterations resulted in a Hall very much as you see it today. Ill fate dogged it again in 1946 when fire, started from a cigarette, completely gutted the beautifully proportioned Ballroom, when a valuable painting by Gainsborough of David Garrick was destroyed.
The Town Hall houses many interesting and historic paintings and treasures and it is unsurprising that today smoking is definitely not permitted.
(stratford-tc.gov.uk/town-hall/history--of-the-town-hall)
Tip by
22.7 km
Shakespeare's Birthplace
Highlight • Historical Site
Tip by
24.2 km
Greenway Bridge Over the River Avon
Highlight • Bridge
31.9 km
Avon Weston-on-Avon
Lake
32.8 km
Welford-on-Avon Village Center
Highlight • Settlement
Tip by
36.6 km
St. James' Church, Long Marston
Highlight • Historical Site
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.
Tip by
37.1 km
Wellington Road Greenway: Long Marston to Milcote
Highlight • Trail
Tip by
39.0 km
Large Tree in the Fields Near Edge Hill
Highlight • Natural
Tip by
40.2 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
31.6 km
2.82 km
2.50 km
2.46 km
736 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
24.8 km
14.8 km
228 m
134 m
118 m
< 100 m
Sign up to see more specific route details
Sign up for free
Elevation
Highest point (120 m)
Lowest point (30 m)
Sign up to see more specific route details
Sign up for free
Weather
Powered by Foreca
Sunday 5 July
28°C
14°C
0 %
Additional weather tips
Max wind speed: 24.0 km/h
to get more detailed weather forecasts along your route
Our route recommendations are based on thousands of hikes, rides, and runs completed by other people on komoot.
Comments
Want to know more?
Sign up for a free komoot account to join the conversation.
Sign up for free