RoutesHiking trails & RoutesUnited KingdomEnglandWest Midlands RegionWarwickshireStratford-On-AvonHampton Lucy
Charlecote Park – Shed Café loop from Charlecote CP
RoutesHiking trails & RoutesUnited KingdomEnglandWest Midlands RegionWarwickshireStratford-On-AvonHampton Lucy
Charlecote Park – Shed Café loop from Charlecote CP
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Charlecote Park – Shed Café loop from Charlecote CP
02:16
8.89km
20m
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 23, 2026
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Bus stop
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125 m
St. Peter's Church, Hampton Lucy
Highlight • Religious Site
The parish church of ST. PETER dates from 1826 and is interesting as being one of the earliest and best examples of the work of the 19th-century 'Gothic revivalists'. It was designed by T. Rickman and consists of a chancel, nave with a clearstory, north and south aisles, north porch, and west tower. In 1858 the east end was remodelled by Sir Gilbert Scott, who provided the chancel with an apsidal end: he also refurnished the church.
The medieval church, which stood 'not exactly on the same site' as the present building, was completely demolished in 1826. A drawing made a few years before its destruction shows that it consisted of a chancel, nave with clearstory and south porch, south chapel, and western tower. The chapel appears to have been of 13th-century date, and the visible details of the rest of the church belong to the 14th and 15th centuries. The tower is finished off with a plain parapet and the roofs are leaded and low-pitched.
There is one bell dated 1826. The old church, how ever, had 6 bells in 1750. Three of the bells were recast at Woodstockpresumably by Richard Keenein 16713 at a cost of 104 14s. 7d., of which nearly half was contributed by the rector, John Rogers.
The register of baptisms begins in 1553 and of marriages and burials in 1556. The earliest volume contains the entry 'md. the note of those yt. were bapt. 1646 was torne by the souldiers'. The registers and other parish records are now deposited at the Shire Hall, Warwick.
The only ancient feature preserved is two squares, each of four inlaid 4 in. tiles, probably of the 14th century, in the south aisle. One is a set forming a complete quatrefoil and foliage pattern. The other has three shields of arms; two are charged checky white and red and have oak leaf and acorn designs above them; another has a lion and is flanked by monsters. The fourth tile has a quatrefoil of pointed lobes, one has a running hound, chasing a hare on the opposite lobe, and the other two have human-faced monsters.
Also in the south-aisle floor is a small brass inscription to Richard Popham, gentleman and steward to the Lucys, died 1730, aged 45.
A leaden seal of Pope Innocent VI was found in a grave in the new churchyard in 1934 and is now preserved at the west end of the church. It has been suggested that it was perhaps attached to the licence issued in 1356 authorizing the rector, Simon de Gaynesburgh, to exchange livings with Thomas Mershton.
The medieval church, which stood 'not exactly on the same site' as the present building, was completely demolished in 1826. A drawing made a few years before its destruction shows that it consisted of a chancel, nave with clearstory and south porch, south chapel, and western tower. The chapel appears to have been of 13th-century date, and the visible details of the rest of the church belong to the 14th and 15th centuries. The tower is finished off with a plain parapet and the roofs are leaded and low-pitched.
There is one bell dated 1826. The old church, how ever, had 6 bells in 1750. Three of the bells were recast at Woodstockpresumably by Richard Keenein 16713 at a cost of 104 14s. 7d., of which nearly half was contributed by the rector, John Rogers.
The register of baptisms begins in 1553 and of marriages and burials in 1556. The earliest volume contains the entry 'md. the note of those yt. were bapt. 1646 was torne by the souldiers'. The registers and other parish records are now deposited at the Shire Hall, Warwick.
The only ancient feature preserved is two squares, each of four inlaid 4 in. tiles, probably of the 14th century, in the south aisle. One is a set forming a complete quatrefoil and foliage pattern. The other has three shields of arms; two are charged checky white and red and have oak leaf and acorn designs above them; another has a lion and is flanked by monsters. The fourth tile has a quatrefoil of pointed lobes, one has a running hound, chasing a hare on the opposite lobe, and the other two have human-faced monsters.
Also in the south-aisle floor is a small brass inscription to Richard Popham, gentleman and steward to the Lucys, died 1730, aged 45.
A leaden seal of Pope Innocent VI was found in a grave in the new churchyard in 1934 and is now preserved at the west end of the church. It has been suggested that it was perhaps attached to the licence issued in 1356 authorizing the rector, Simon de Gaynesburgh, to exchange livings with Thomas Mershton.
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2
181 m
Hampton Lucy Church
Highlight • Other
3
630 m
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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4
679 m
Charlecote Mill
Highlight • Historical Site
Useful information on the website
charlecotemill.co.uk
charlecotemill.co.uk
Tip by
5
1.84 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
2.73 km
White Horse by the Stream
Highlight • River
A public pathway is available also for cyclists where you will meet very friendly and chatty fellas.
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7
4.71 km
Shed Café
Highlight • Rest Area
Welcoming to cyclists with dedicated off street covered cycle parking area.
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B
8.89 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
4.16 km
4.00 km
655 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
3.40 km
3.03 km
1.81 km
412 m
111 m
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