Where to stay in Chipping Campden

In the town

The Noel Arms has 27 rooms, parking and accessible rooms, and takes dogs booked ahead. Cotswold House, a Regency town house on the Upper High Street, is the spa hotel, with free parking when you book direct. The Lygon Arms has ten rooms, family rooms, secure bike storage and free parking at the rear, and welcomes dogs in the rooms and public areas, and The Eight Bells on Church Street has six rooms above the pub.

Just outside

The Seagrave Arms at Weston Subedge is a seventeenth-century coaching inn with seven rooms, and Three Ways House at Mickleton, home of the Pudding Club, has 48 rooms and welcomes dogs; Hidcote and Kiftsgate are close by.

For walkers

The Cotswold Way starts at the Market Hall, so an inn in the town makes a good first or last night. The Lygon Arms has bike storage, and the Noel Arms and the Lygon Arms have parking for a car left while you walk.

From your door

Court Barn tells the story of the Guild of Handicraft, a few steps from the church. The 4.5-mile walk to Dover's Hill starts in the town, Hidcote and Kiftsgate Court are a few miles north-east, within 2 miles of Mickleton, and the Cotswold Way reaches Broadway in 6 miles. In late May or early June come Robert Dover's Olimpick Games on Dover's Hill and the Scuttlebrook Wake the next day, the town's busiest two days (the Games fall on the Friday after the late May bank holiday; the next dates were not yet announced when we checked), and in May the Chipping Campden Music Festival.

Getting here

Stagecoach's 1 and 2 run from Moreton-in-Marsh station, and Honeybourne station is about 5 miles away. The town is busiest in late May or early June, for the Olimpicks and the Scuttlebrook Wake, so book early then. For other bases, see where to stay in the Cotswolds.

In the town, the Market Square car park has 32 spaces, free for the first 20 minutes and then £1 for an hour or £2 for two, from 7am to 7pm, by card or PayByPhone (no cash, and Blue Badge holders pay); walkers are asked to use Back Ends instead. The public toilets on Sheep Street have an accessible toilet and baby change.

Our gardens weekend is based here, with Hidcote and Kiftsgate on the Saturday. For the day, see things to do in the North Cotswolds, and for meals, places to eat in the North Cotswolds.