Same here, have only walked the Cotswold way and can recommend it, though we B&B’d. It wasn’t as busy as we had expected, and we met very few people doing the whole walk, it was mostly local dog walkers! It turned out that as we had started in the week the schools went back (end of Aug), lots of people were starting the following week ( this according to the baggage transfer co. we used as they said they were going to be very busy the following week). So you may be lucky too!