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
Hotel · Lower Slaughter
A 17th-century manor house hotel with 19 bedrooms on Copsehill Road, Lower Slaughter, home of the Whitmore family until 1964, with dog rooms booked by phone.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Oct 2026
Hotel · Tetbury
A hotel, restaurant and bar with 12 rooms on Tetbury's Market Place, with dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
Self-catering · Malmesbury
Two self-catering cottages for couples on the edge of Malmesbury: the Stables, in a listed stone stable, and the Coach House, where dogs stay free.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Hotel · Bibury
A former coaching inn by the bridge over the River Coln in Bibury, part of Cotswold Inns and Hotels, with a brasserie, a lift, a free car park and dog-friendly rooms.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
Hotel · Wotton-under-Edge
A Grade II listed coaching inn on Market Street in the middle of Wotton-under-Edge, with 18 en-suite rooms, a restaurant and bar, and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Inn · Moreton-in-Marsh
An inn with eight rooms in a Grade II listed nineteenth-century building on Moreton-in-Marsh's High Street, with pub food five days a week.
Verified Oct 2026
Inn · Burford
An inn on the River Windrush at Swinbrook, near Burford, with bedrooms in its stables and a riverside cottage.
Verified Oct 2026
Inn · Kingham
A 16th-century pub with eleven rooms at Ascott-under-Wychwood, about four miles south-east of Kingham, with dogs welcome in every bedroom.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Oct 2026
Inn · Burford
An eighteenth-century pub with six rooms at Asthall, near Burford, where innkeepers have been recorded since 1726.
Verified Oct 2026
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
Inn · Winchcombe
An inn with sixteen rooms on Winchcombe's High Street, with dog-friendly rooms and a restaurant and bar open all day to non-residents.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues · Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Inn · Moreton-in-Marsh
An old coaching inn on Moreton-in-Marsh's High Street, where tradition says Charles I stayed, with a courtyard restaurant and accessible rooms.
Dog-friendly · Car-free · Wedding venues
Verified Oct 2026
Inn · Kingham
A Daylesford pub with rooms and cottages in a 17th-century house at Kingham, with three AA Rosettes and dinner from Wednesday to Sunday.
Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
Inn · Shipton, Milton and Ascott-under-Wychwood
A village pub with five refurbished bedrooms on the High Street in Shipton-under-Wychwood, with a restaurant, a garden bar and dogs welcome in the rooms.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Hotel · Chipping Campden
A 48-room hotel at Mickleton, three miles from Chipping Campden, home of the Pudding Club since 1985, with pudding-themed rooms and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Hotel · Eastleach and Southrop
The Hibbert family's estate round Southrop Manor, a mile from Eastleach: 31 bedrooms in restored farm buildings and cottages, the Ox Barn restaurant, a spa and pool, and a cookery school.
EV charging
Verified Oct 2026
Glamping · Chalford
A 70-acre hill farm at the head of the Golden Valley above Chalford, with six off-grid yurts and cabins in its ancient woodland and three stone cottages, all dog-friendly.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Hotel · Malmesbury
A country house hotel and spa with 23 rooms in 12 acres with 22 gardens at Easton Grey, near Malmesbury, with a Michelin-starred restaurant and seven dog-friendly rooms.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues · EV charging
Verified Nov 2026
Inn · Northleach
A seventeenth-century coaching inn on West End, Northleach, with 14 bedrooms, a garden and food all day, friendly to families and dogs.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
B&B · Nailsworth
Five self-check-in rooms and suites and two apartments at 3 Cossack Square, Nailsworth, run since 2007 by the team behind the restaurant Wilder.
Verified Nov 2026
Self-catering · Minchinhampton
A two-bedroom lodge for four in three acres of meadow at the end of a lane below Minchinhampton, with an outdoor bath, a fire pit and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Self-catering · Nailsworth
Three barn suites for two, a two-bedroom farmhouse and a six-bedroom house among the vines at Woodchester Valley Vineyard, near Nailsworth.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
B&B · Dursley
A seven-room B&B in a quiet cul-de-sac six minutes' walk from Dursley, with a hot tub, a sauna, a guest kitchen and parking for seven cars.
Walker-friendly · Hot tubs · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Self-catering · Sheepscombe
A National Trust holiday cottage for four in the beechwoods half a mile from Sheepscombe, built in the 19th century for the Ebworth estate, with a garden room looking down the valley.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Six village inns with bedrooms, a short drive from Cirencester, Burford, Kingham, Witney and Chipping Campden.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rooms in the middle of Cirencester, Bourton-on-the-Water, Nailsworth and Stroud.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Where to go, what is on and what is in season, about once a month.
Moreton-in-Marsh or Stow-on-the-Wold: Moreton has the station, and the 801 bus links both with Bourton and Cheltenham every day.
Winchcombe, where the Cotswold Way and the Winchcombe Way meet and a walking festival is held every May.
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.
Cirencester, about 7 miles away, with the 855 bus to Bibury from Monday to Saturday.
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