The south Cotswold village of Miserden seems to have it all — shop, post office, school, dentist, craftspeople, (occasional) bus and a cosy and welcoming pub. In addition, it’s a pretty place of mellow limestone houses, barns and field walls.
Do rural Edens like this harbour serpents? Impossible to believe it as we passed a posse of happily babbling village toddlers on their morning constitutional and set out along an old country lane. Hock-deep mud and a surface abraded to stumbly rubble by winter’s floods soon brought us back to earth.
Two worlds intersected along the route from Miserden to Througham. The byway, evolved to suit man’s objectives, led purposefully between the two settlements, while claw-scraped mudslides in the banks marked the passage of animal
