Public toilets in the Cotswolds

Every Cotswold town has a public toilet, and most of the famous villages do not. Cotswold District Council (opens in a new tab) runs eleven blocks, 50p each except Northleach, which is free. West Oxfordshire charges 20p in coins at Burford, Woodstock, Witney, Chipping Norton and Bampton, and Stroud District's nine toilets, Painswick's among them, are free. Lower Slaughter and Upper Slaughter have none, and Bibury has a single block on The Street. Hours and charges are the councils' own lists, read on 27 October 2026.

Cotswold District: 50p, summer and winter hours

The district council's eleven toilets cost 50p and keep two sets of hours, later in summer and 6pm closing in winter; the table below has each. The council does not say how you pay, so carry a 50p coin. Every block has an accessible cubicle, free with a RADAR key, and all but Northleach have baby change. Bourton-on-the-Water has two, at the Rissington Road car park and the Church Rooms. Stow-on-the-Wold's are on Market Square, and Chipping Campden, Cirencester, Tetbury, Moreton-in-Marsh, Fairford and Lechlade each have one. Northleach's, in the Market Place, is the free one; the town council resolved to take it over from April 2026 and keep it free.

West Oxfordshire: 20p, coins only

West Oxfordshire District Council (opens in a new tab) charges 20p and its machines take coins only, from 5p to £2, with no change given. Burford has two blocks, on the High Street and at the Guildenford car park; Woodstock, Witney, Chipping Norton and Bampton have one each. Most open 7.30am to 7.30pm, the accessible toilets take a RADAR key and are free, and all are closed on Christmas Day.

Stroud District and the Cotswold Edge: free

Stroud District Council (opens in a new tab) charges nothing at any of its nine toilets, open every day. Painswick's are in the Stamages Lane car park, 7am to 7pm, with a disabled cubicle on the RADAR key. Minchinhampton has a block in Bell Lane opposite the church and Wotton-under-Edge one on the Ropewalk, both 7am to 7pm, as is Dursley's by the May Lane car park. Stroud's Bedford Street block and Nailsworth's at the bus station shut at 5pm.

Broadway, Castle Combe, Lacock and the south

Wychavon District Council keeps Broadway's toilets in the Church Close and Milestone Ground car parks, 8am to 6pm, with a Changing Places toilet at Church Close. The council publishes no charge. Castle Combe's are just south of the bridge at the bottom of the village, run by Wiltshire Council and open in daytime hours, with an accessible toilet on the RADAR key, and Malmesbury's are free, behind and inside the Town Hall on Cross Hayes. At Lacock the National Trust's toilets are by the Stables Café, and there is an accessible toilet on the RADAR key in the village; for others, ask at the abbey. Chipping Sodbury's are in the Clock Tower on the High Street, open daily from 9am to 4pm, often longer.

RADAR keys and accessible cubicles

Most accessible cubicles here are locked and open with a RADAR key, the National Key Scheme key, which also opens Changing Places toilets; with it, the cubicle is free even where the others charge. The keys are sold for disabled people's own use: Cotswold District Council points to nks.co.uk and Stroud District Council to radarkeys.org. Changing Places toilets, with a hoist and an adult-sized changing bench, are fewer: the accessible Cotswolds lists every one we can confirm, at Broadway, Birdland, Westonbirt, Blenheim, Cirencester's Abbey Grounds and the Moreton, Kingham and Kemble stations among them.

The villages with none

Neither of the Slaughters has a public toilet or a car park. The nearest are at Rissington Road in Bourton, at the start of the walk to the Slaughters. Coln St Aldwyns, the Rissingtons, the Swells, Adlestrop and Slad have none either, and Bibury's one block on The Street serves what the county council puts at up to 20,000 visitors on a peak weekend. Naunton's church has toilets for visitors. Pubs and cafés keep theirs for customers, so buy something first.