Jonathan and Lesley Williams have been directors of Cicerone for 25 years, now partly retired with the next generation of directors firmly established, they now enjoy increased time exploring and researching as authors. Based on the edge of the Lake District, they enjoy spending days in the hills and months in the mountains and have written or updated several Cicerone guidebooks for Switzerland, as well as guidebooks for areas of the UK. Lesley particularly enjoyed revisiting some parts of the Cotswolds, including Crickley Hill, where she briefly helped on the 1972 archaeological dig. Although this is entirely a new guidebook, it owes much to the foundations of previous editions of the Cicerone guide to the Cotswold Way written by Kev Reynolds. Kev Reynolds was a prolific author of guidebooks for Cicerone Press. Although most of his guides were devoted to mountain regions such as the Alps, Pyrenees and Himalaya, he considered the gentler landscapes of the English countryside to be no second best, regarding every day spent among them as a gift to cherish. His passion for mountains in particular and the countryside in general remained undiminished after a lifetime's activity, until his death in 2021.
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Stage 1 Chipping Campden to Broadway Stage 2 Broadway to Stanton Stage 3 Stanton to Winchcombe Stage 4 Winchcombe to Cleeve Hill Stage 5 Cleeve Hill to Dowdeswell Stage 6 Dowdeswell to Birdlip Stage 7 Birdlip to Painswick Stage 9 Painswick to Middleyard (King's Stanley) Stage 9 Middleyard (King's Stanley) to Dursley Stage 10 Dursley to Wotton-under-Edge Stage 11 Wotton-under-Edge to Hawkesbury Upton Stage 12 Hawkesbury Upton to Tormarton Stage 13 Tormarton to Cold Ashton Stage 14 Cold Ashton to Bath