(S/E) From the front door of the New Inn, turn left down the main village street, crossing a mill-stream and bearing right to leave the village.
(1) Bear left to cross the river, then turn immediately right past a small stone house. Beyond a gate, follow a line of trees ahead, up the slope and away from the river. Go through a gate and between some beech trees, then bear left past some small disused quarries. Follow a Cotswold stone wall to a gate, then cross two arable fields to a farm cottage.
(2) Pass in front of the house and go through a gate, and cross the field to another. At the far end of the next field the path approaches another house then joins a lane via a gate on the left. Turn right. Walk past two houses on the right, ignoring the track between them.
(3) About 100 yards beyond the houses, turn right on a signposted footpath along a field edge. Beyond a gate, descend a dry valley. After another gate, climb the hill along an enclosed trackway and then follow it along a field edge and along a further hedged stretch.
(4) When you come to a crossroads of tracks, turn right. Go straight ahead at another crossroads, then, when the track bears right, go through a hand gate straight ahead. Join a lane, which passes between houses to a triangular junction (Awkward Hill).
(5) Turn right and descend to Arlington Row. Walk in front of the Row and cross the River Coln to the road. Turn right, and when the main road leaves the river take the road on the right with the no-entry signs (Church road).
(6) At the end of the road, by the church and school, take the second left in front of Church Barn (marked as a no-through road). Walk up between the houses back to the main road (B4425), where you turn right. Take the next right (with a brown sign for the New Inn At Coln).
(7) After a house on the right, turn right into a driveway and walk down to Bibury Mill, with views to Bibury Court on your right. Cross the river and follow the track as it winds between the mill buildings to a field gate.
Ignore the track to the right and head straight on, parallel to the river on your left. Beyond a gate and walled sheepfold, the track climbs through trees.
(8) At the top, bear left along the top of the wood to a gate, before descending to a footbridge over a stream (often dry). Turn left across the field along the bottom of the slope to a metal gate.
(9) Walk along the bottom of the wood, with the river on your left. The path continues between the river to your left and a grassy slope on the right, passing a private footbridge. Follow the riverside beyond a gate, then leave it to follow an overgrown hedge on the right (if you reach a weir over a side-stream, you’ve gone too far).
Follow the hedge then walk below a wooded bank. Follow the track through a wood and exit through a field gate; cross the field beyond, with the river to your left and woodland to your right. A gate at the end leads past a house to the road.
(10) Turn left over the river, and then immediately left into a drive. Pass a house entrance on the right then, opposite a gate on the left, turn right over a footbridge across the mill-stream in front of the mill house. Follow the walled path half-left then right, uphill, to meet a lane.
(11) At a junction, turn left to visit the church. Returning to the junction, keep straight on past the Memorial Cottages almshouses.
At the next junction, turn right. Turn right by the post office and walk down the main street back to the New Inn. (S/E)
