RoutesHiking trails & RoutesUnited KingdomEnglandWest Midlands RegionWarwickshireStratford-On-AvonWellesbourne CP
Charlecote Park Brewhouse – Charlecote Park loop from Charlecote CP
RoutesHiking trails & RoutesUnited KingdomEnglandWest Midlands RegionWarwickshireStratford-On-AvonWellesbourne CP
Charlecote Park Brewhouse – Charlecote Park loop from Charlecote CP
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Charlecote Park Brewhouse – Charlecote Park loop from Charlecote CP
01:08
4.45km
10m
Hiking
Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: May 26, 2026
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Temporary access restrictions
Includes segments with temporary access restrictions.
After 1.81 km for 1.66 km
Customers only
Waypoints
A
Start point
Parking
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1
1.82 km
Southwest Gate
Highlight • Historical Site
A beautiful gate out in the park
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2
2.74 km
Charlecote Park Carriage Collection
Highlight • Historical Site
Charlecote Park's travelling coach is slightly unusual as it was built to travel both around town and in the country.
When in the town the coach could be 'dressed up' with a fine hammer cloth over the coachman seat. The coachman and the footmen would be dressed in full livery. For travelling to the country a 'boot' for the storage of luggage would have been added and the coach 'dressed down' in plainer, coarser dressings.
Travelling coaches were a comfortable carriage to travel in as the body was sprung on 'Whip' or 'C' springs. These helped to make the bumps of the poor road surfaces less obvious to the passengers. They were also spacious inside allowing the passengers to lie flat to sleep.
Built by Wyburn & Meller in circa 1845 for George Lucy, this carriage is painted in black and brown and carries the Lucy family crest.
When in the town the coach could be 'dressed up' with a fine hammer cloth over the coachman seat. The coachman and the footmen would be dressed in full livery. For travelling to the country a 'boot' for the storage of luggage would have been added and the coach 'dressed down' in plainer, coarser dressings.
Travelling coaches were a comfortable carriage to travel in as the body was sprung on 'Whip' or 'C' springs. These helped to make the bumps of the poor road surfaces less obvious to the passengers. They were also spacious inside allowing the passengers to lie flat to sleep.
Built by Wyburn & Meller in circa 1845 for George Lucy, this carriage is painted in black and brown and carries the Lucy family crest.
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3
2.77 km
Charlecote Park Laundry Room
Highlight • Monument
Laundry and brewhouse: C16 with later
restoration. Brick laid to English bond with limestone dressings and high plinth; steeply pitched old tile roof with octagonal brick ridge and internal stacks. L-plan.
restoration. Brick laid to English bond with limestone dressings and high plinth; steeply pitched old tile roof with octagonal brick ridge and internal stacks. L-plan.
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4
2.80 km
Charlecote Park Brewhouse
Highlight • Monument
Charlecote’s brewhouse has mostly 18th century brewing equipment, water pumps, coppers and stalls. It is a typical brew-house of a well-ordered English country estate during late 18th century. The equipment was used to brew beer for the household until early 20th century.
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5
2.87 km
Charlecote Park House
Highlight • Historical Site
The house was built in the 1550s for the first Sir Thomas Lucy. It was one of the first great Elizabethan houses and although it has undergone many changes, some of the original brickwork remains.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlecote_Park
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlecote_Park
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6
2.95 km
Tudor Gatehouse, Charlecote
Highlight • Historical Site
The Tudor Gatehouse
The Gatehouse is the best example of Tudor architecture at Charlecote. Most of the brick and stonework is more than 400 years old. It was built for show rather than defence though. The clock is Victorian and you'll hear it striking during your walk. In the past, the chimes encouraged the estate workers to arrive at work on time.
The Gatehouse is the best example of Tudor architecture at Charlecote. Most of the brick and stonework is more than 400 years old. It was built for show rather than defence though. The clock is Victorian and you'll hear it striking during your walk. In the past, the chimes encouraged the estate workers to arrive at work on time.
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7
3.26 km
St Leonard's Church, Charlecote
Highlight • Historical Site
The family church
St Leonard's church was rebuilt in 1862 with the help of the Lucy family. Please note the gate into the churchyard is one way. It does not allow re-entry into the park - just pop back into Visitor Reception.
St Leonard's church was rebuilt in 1862 with the help of the Lucy family. Please note the gate into the churchyard is one way. It does not allow re-entry into the park - just pop back into Visitor Reception.
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8
3.49 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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4.45 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
1.66 km
1.30 km
1.25 km
241 m
Surfaces
1.78 km
1.11 km
688 m
434 m
248 m
189 m
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