Route map0 stops · 3 along the way
Use caution - walking directions may not always reflect real-world conditions.
Plan your visit
- Getting there
- Drive to Hailes; the abbey and church share the same lane and small car park.
- Parking
- English Heritage / National Trust car park at Hailes Abbey.
- Best time
- Spring and summer afternoons when the church wall paintings catch soft light through clear glass.
- Terrain
- Flat gravel paths around the abbey ruins and a short walk to the parish church.
The trip story
0 stopsSome site IDs in this trip weren't found in the sheet: hailes-abbey, hailes-church
What remains
What remains is a Cotswold pairing of scandal and survival: a relic abbey reduced to arches, and a small church whose painted walls quietly outlived it.