The Moda House
B&B · Chipping Sodbury
A bed and breakfast in a Grade II* listed house of the late seventeenth century that closes the top of Chipping Sodbury's High Street, with eight en-suite rooms and breakfast cooked on the Aga.
Verified Oct 2026
Where to stay in the Cotswolds
168 places · every place verified by us
Coaching inns on market squares, pubs with rooms in the villages and country-house hotels. Choose your base first: the right town saves hours of driving, or lets you leave the car at home.
168 places
168 places
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The Mousetrap Inn
Inn · Bourton-on-the-Water
A nineteenth-century inn with eleven rooms at Lansdowne, Bourton-on-the-Water, with a restaurant and bar, a small car park and dogs in its ground-floor twins.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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The New Inn
Inn · Coln St Aldwyns
A 16th-century coaching inn with rooms in Coln St Aldwyns, reopened in 2020 by Baz and Fred, with a Garden Suite and food every day.
Verified Nov 2026
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The New Inn Hotel
Hotel · Lechlade-on-Thames
A 17th-century coaching inn on the Market Place in Lechlade-on-Thames, with thirty rooms, a restaurant and bar, and weddings.
Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
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The Noel Arms Hotel
Inn · Chipping Campden
A Grade II listed inn with 27 rooms on Chipping Campden's High Street, with a restaurant, parking, accessible rooms and dogs by arrangement.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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The Northey Arms
Inn · Box
A Butcombe pub with 13 en-suite rooms on the Bath Road at Box, serving food from breakfast to evening, with a big garden and a children's play area.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Old Bell
Hotel · Malmesbury
A Grade I listed hotel beside Malmesbury Abbey, which says it has welcomed guests since 1220, with the Abbey Row restaurant, afternoon tea and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Old Brewhouse
B&B · Cirencester
A bed and breakfast in a 17th-century town house on London Road, Cirencester, with ten rooms in the house and round a courtyard, free parking and a VisitEngland four-star rating.
Verified Oct 2026
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The Old Lodge
Inn · Nailsworth
An inn with six rooms on Minchinhampton Common, about two miles by road from Nailsworth, breakfast included and food all day.
Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Old Stocks Inn
Inn · Stow-on-the-Wold
A seventeenth-century coaching inn on the Square at Stow-on-the-Wold, with 16 rooms and a restaurant with two AA Rosettes.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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The Painswick
Hotel · Painswick
A 16-room hotel in a Palladian house on Kemps Lane, Painswick, part of the Calcot Collection, with an AA Rosette restaurant and dogs in some rooms.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
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THE PIG-in the Cotswolds
Hotel · Barnsley
Barnsley House, the 17th-century house with Rosemary Verey's garden, now a 24-bedroom hotel in the PIG group, with a kitchen-garden restaurant and a spa, four miles from Cirencester.
Verified Nov 2026
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The Porch House
Inn · Stow-on-the-Wold
An inn with 13 rooms on Digbeth Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, which calls itself England's oldest inn.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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The Priory Inn
Inn · Tetbury
An Arkell's pub with 14 en-suite rooms, including a large family room, on London Road, Tetbury, with an EV charger in the car park.
EV charging · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Punchbowl
Inn · Woodstock
A family-run Arkell's pub with nine rooms, most of them family rooms, on Oxford Street, Woodstock, with EV charging and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · EV charging
Verified Oct 2026
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The Rectory Hotel
Hotel · Malmesbury
A hotel in an early 18th-century rectory at Crudwell, near Malmesbury, with 15 rooms in the house, a three-bedroom garden cottage and a heated outdoor pool in summer.
Verified Oct 2026
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The Rectory Lacock
B&B · Lacock
An adults-only bed and breakfast in Lacock's Victorian rectory, in six acres a two-minute walk from the village, with two self-catering cottages for families in the old stables.
Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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The Red Lion, Lacock
Inn · Lacock
A Wadworth pub in a Georgian building on Lacock's High Street, with five double rooms upstairs and dogs welcome in the bar and the bedrooms.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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The Rising Sun Hotel
Hotel · Cleeve Hill
A Greene King Inns hotel, pub and restaurant with 23 bedrooms near the top of Cleeve Hill, with views over five counties from its beer garden.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Royal Oak, Tetbury
Inn · Tetbury
A late eighteenth-century pub with rooms on Cirencester Road, Tetbury, back in community hands since 2013, with dog-friendly rooms.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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The Seagrave Arms
Inn · Chipping Campden
A seventeenth-century coaching inn with seven rooms at Weston Subedge, about two and a half miles from Chipping Campden, renovated in 2021.
Verified Nov 2026
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The Sheep on Sheep Street
Inn · Stow-on-the-Wold
An inn with 22 rooms and a restaurant on Sheep Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, open from breakfast to late every day, with some rooms for dogs.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Sheiling
Glamping · Bledington
A shepherd's hut for two in the grounds of the owner's house in Bledington, a short walk from the village green and the King's Head, with a wood burner and room for one small dog.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Slaughters Country Inn
Inn · Lower Slaughter
An inn in Lower Slaughter, bought and renamed by the Brownsword family in 2011, with dog rooms and a Field Kitchen from April to September.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Choosing a base
The Cotswolds cover nearly 800 square miles, from Warwickshire and Worcestershire in the north to Bath and Wiltshire in the south, so where you stay shapes your trip more than which hotel you choose. Pick the region you most want to see, then a town with good links. Planning a wedding? Our guide to getting married in the Cotswolds has the legal steps. Our guides to the best towns and the best villages in the Cotswolds say what each is like and who it suits.
Without a car
Moreton-in-Marsh has a station about 90 minutes from London Paddington, and the 801 bus runs from outside it to Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water and Cheltenham every day. Stow is about 15 minutes along that route. In the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, Kingham has its own station and two pubs with rooms. In the south, Stroud has direct trains to London and buses up the valleys. See where to stay in Moreton-in-Marsh, Stow, Kingham and Stroud, and our guide to the Cotswolds without a car. Our three days without a car is planned from Moreton.
For the north Cotswolds
Chipping Campden makes a fine base in the north, with the Cotswold Way starting beside its 1627 Market Hall on the High Street and buses to Moreton station. Broadway has the Lygon Arms, a historic coaching inn with parts of the building from the fourteenth century, and Broadway Tower on the hill above. Bourton-on-the-Water is busy by day but quiet before 10am, which is when people who stay there see it at its best. See where to stay in Chipping Campden, Broadway and Bourton-on-the-Water. Our itineraries use these bases too: two days in the North Cotswolds from Stow, and one day in the Cotswolds with a night in Broadway at the end.
For the south and the Coln valley
Cirencester is the natural base for the south-east, with Bibury (the 855 bus) and Fairford (the 77) both reached by bus from Monday to Saturday. Tetbury puts you close to Westonbirt and Highgrove, and Castle Combe has the Manor House, whose Bybrook restaurant kept its Michelin star in the 2026 guide, and the twelve-room Castle Inn. See where to stay in Cirencester, Tetbury, Malmesbury and Nailsworth. A weekend in the South Cotswolds spends its night in Malmesbury, and three days in the Cotswolds is based in Northleach, between north and south.
For the Oxfordshire Cotswolds
Burford is the classic base on the Oxfordshire side, with free parking at Guildenford and the X52 bus to Oxford and Cheltenham. Woodstock puts Blenheim Palace on your doorstep, with the S3 bus from Oxford station. See where to stay in Burford, Witney and Woodstock.
For walkers
Winchcombe is the walkers' town: the Cotswold Way passes through, the Winchcombe Way starts there, and the walk up to Belas Knap starts from the town. Its walking festival is held each May. Burford and Wotton-under-Edge both have free car parks and walks from the door. See where to stay in Winchcombe and Painswick, and our half-day walks and long walks.
Pubs with rooms in the villages
Six village inns with bedrooms, a short drive from Cirencester, Burford, Kingham, Witney and Chipping Campden.
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The Bathurst Arms
Inn · Cirencester
A pub with five rooms on the River Churn at North Cerney, about five miles north of Cirencester, with a beer garden, food every day and roasts on Sundays.
Verified Nov 2026
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The Village Pub
Inn · Cirencester
A pub with six bedrooms in the eaves at Barnsley, about four miles from Cirencester, part of THE PIG group, with gravity-fed ales and steak night on Thursdays.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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The Inn for All Seasons
Inn · Burford
A country inn at the Barringtons, about three miles west of Burford, begun in the 1500s and a coaching inn from the 1700s, with twelve rooms and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Feathered Nest Inn
Inn · Kingham
An inn with four rooms and a cottage at Nether Westcote near Kingham, in a building that began 350 years ago as a malt house.
Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
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The Bird in Hand
Inn · Witney
A 17th-century country inn with sixteen rooms, two of them accessible, at Whiteoak Green, Hailey, about three miles north of Witney.
Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Ebrington Arms
Pubs · Chipping Campden
A village pub in Ebrington, about 3 miles by road from Chipping Campden, with a landscaped terrace and garden, food every day and five rooms.
Verified Oct 2026
Before you book
- Book early
- Book well ahead for summer weekends, bank holidays and the Cheltenham Festival in March.
- Parking
- Ask where to park. In Bibury, Castle Combe and the Slaughters there is little or no public parking in the village itself.
- Dogs
- Many inns welcome dogs, often for a nightly charge and only if booked ahead.
- Car-free
- Stay near Moreton-in-Marsh, Kingham, Stroud or Kemble stations to travel without a car.
Guest houses and town hotels
Rooms in the middle of Cirencester, Bourton-on-the-Water, Nailsworth and Stroud.
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Cotswold Hare
B&B · Cirencester
A bed and breakfast with seven en suite rooms on Victoria Road, Cirencester, with a parking space for every room, for adults and children over ten.
Verified Nov 2026
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The Old Brewhouse
B&B · Cirencester
A bed and breakfast in a 17th-century town house on London Road, Cirencester, with ten rooms in the house and round a courtyard, free parking and a VisitEngland four-star rating.
Verified Oct 2026
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The Lansdowne Guest House
B&B · Bourton-on-the-Water
An adults-only guest house in Victorian buildings on Lansdowne Road, Bourton-on-the-Water, with 14 rooms plus cottage rooms and suites, breakfast included and free parking outside.
Verified Oct 2026
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Chester House Hotel
Hotel · Bourton-on-the-Water
A family-owned hotel with 22 rooms on Victoria Street, Bourton-on-the-Water, with L'Anatra Italian Kitchen, a walled garden, a car park and rooms for small dogs.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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Egypt Mill
Inn · Nailsworth
A Grade II* listed former mill in Nailsworth, with its waterwheel and mill pond, now a hotel, pub and restaurant with 28 bedrooms, open from breakfast every day.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
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Premier Inn Stroud
Hotel · Stroud
A Premier Inn in the Grade II-listed Stratford Lodge, opposite Stratford Park in Stroud, with free parking and a pub next door for meals.
Verified Oct 2026
Plan your next stay
Where to go, what is on and what is in season, about once a month.
Questions
Where is the best place to stay in the Cotswolds without a car?
Moreton-in-Marsh or Stow-on-the-Wold: Moreton has the station, and the 801 bus links both with Bourton and Cheltenham every day.
Which Cotswold town is best for walking?
Winchcombe, where the Cotswold Way and the Winchcombe Way meet and a walking festival is held every May.
Is it better to stay in Bourton-on-the-Water or Stow?
Stow is quieter in the day and on the 801 bus to Bourton. Staying in Bourton lets you see it early and late, when the day visitors have gone.
Where should I stay for Bibury?
Cirencester, about 7 miles away, with the 855 bus to Bibury from Monday to Saturday.