Welcome to MCTTG

Mid Cotswold Tracks & Trails aims to improve and expand the tracks and trails network of Stroud, Cirencester and the surrounding areas. Click here to see the area we cover.

What's new

There are three new Events on the Events page

The following page is still under construction, but includes some examples of what can be done.

Please take a look at the February newsletter which features a number of improvements that the MCTTG has been involved in. Well done to all involved!

Missing Horse

You can now see a copy of our Handbook and the draft minutes for the 2011 AGM.

Please note that the recently advertised BHS Gloucestershire Novice Show at Barton End on May 7th has been postponed.

An especially good cause. Our first chairman, William Reddaway, has been supporting "access" issues in the UK for more than 20 years. In retirement, he's planning to undertake a serious long distance ride to raise funds for a number of really good causes. Please check out his new web site.

There's a new riding club in the area: Cheltenham Horsemanship Club. For more details of planned events, check out their Facebook page. To email them, click chelthorseclub@gmail.com

Read the views of a local MP on cycle tracks here.

For current events, see the events page.

A rider in the Chalford Hill area is looking for some help with a young horse. For more details see the adverts page.

The organised ride on May 22nd 2011 in support of BHS Access week and the launch of the third edition of "Cotswold on Horseback" was a great success; see the "Features and Links" page or the June Newsletter for a full report with photographs.

In the meantime, check out the BHS "Emagin" web site here. This gives details of circular rides in the Mid Cotswold area, based on research carried out by members of this group.

What we do

By working with local authorities, landowners and other user groups (such as walkers, cyclists, disabled, trail riders and carriage drivers), we aim to create new links between tracks, develop additional multi-use routes and circuits, and to assist in maintaining and improving our tracks and trails.

If you would like to be part of a group who enjoy the tracks and trails network, help us preserve and improve them, and have fun joining in our activities then please download a membership form here.

Our tracks and trails network is as much a part of our historical heritage as our castles and great houses - perhaps more so because they have been bequeathed to us by common usage. It is important that we fight for them and do our best to protect them for the next generation.

In the Cotswolds, our tracks and trails define us as much as the Cheese Rolling or the Woolsack Races, but are arguably an even more precious inheritance because they are a healthy sport and leisure amenity for all ages, for all abilities and for all seasons.