Painswick
Just prior to arriving at Painswick, the National Trail brings you to Painswick Beacon, a thoroughly impressive Iron Age hill fort with many earthworks surviving intact.
Painswick is a medium sized Cotswold town with some very interesting examples of architecture from its days as a prosperous cloth and wool trading centre. The stone is of a paler shade to that found elsewhere along the Cotswold Way. St Mary's church is a fine example of a Cotswold church with the village stocks and its picturesque Lychgate along with the 99 yew trees growing in the church grounds. The churchyard is noted for its many table tombs, which are richly carved.
Painswick contains a rare example of a Rococo garden which is to be found in a sheltered valley on the town's outskirts. The town offers places to eat and drink.
Picture taken by Suzie Sue
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