Gloucestershire's pub walks lean heavily on the Cotswolds, and there are worse things to lean on. Painswick — the self-styled 'Queen of the Cotswolds' — sits among some of the finest beechwood and escarpment walking in England, with the Oak waiting at the end of it. A few miles north, Cranham's woods hide the Black Horse, a proper village local with nothing twee about it. Down where the hills meet the Severn Vale, Framilode's Ship Inn sits by the old Stroudwater canal — a reminder that this county's pubs aren't all hilltop affairs.

Three short walks, three very different pubs, all within a short drive of each other.