Cycled from Charlbury to Cheltenham yesterday, having plotted an interesting-looking route on an OS map which turned out to be interesting in several ways - not least the passability (or otherwise) of several "tracks" which were in fact varying levels of quagmire. I'm trying to identify an NCN standard route from Charlbury to the other side of the Cotswolds. This wasn't it - well, not in its western sections, at least.

Despite that, I got to the outskirts of Cheltenham in sufficient time to be able to detour to Gloucester (and back) along NCN41, mostly unmapped until now, which turned out to be one of those uninspiring routes pieced together from housing estate roads and cut-throughs.