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81 stories
Story · Guides · 10 minute read
Where to have afternoon tea in the Cotswolds: country house hotels at the Slaughters and Buckland, old inns in Woodstock, Broadway and Malmesbury, and tearooms in Chipping Campden, Stow and Bourton, with times, prices and booking.
Story · Guides · 9 minute read
The antiques towns of Stow, Tetbury, Burford, Broadway and Cirencester, the shopping villages, the makers of Chipping Campden and Stroud, the fairs, the bookshops, Daylesford and Burford Garden Company, and what the Cotswolds are known for buying.
Story · Guides · 10 minute read
Autumn in the Cotswolds, from Westonbirt's maples and Batsford to the beech woods of the escarpment, Blenheim's park and the Slad valley: when the colour comes, the best autumn walks, the October events, how to miss the half-term crowds, what to wear and where to stay for a fire.
Story · Guides · 10 minute read
The best bluebell woods in the Cotswolds, from Westonbirt's Silk Wood and Lynches Wood below Dover's Hill to Standish Wood, Frith Wood, Siccaridge Wood and Foxholes: when they flower, who looks after each wood, where to park, the dog rule and the walk that goes through it.
Story · Guides · 4 minute read
Snowshill, above Broadway, was the village of Bridget's parents in Bridget Jones's Diary: St Barnabas church and the cottages round it, what you can see, Snowshill Manor and the lavender, and how to get there.
Story · Strange Things · 3 minute read
In 1741 Sir William Keyt set fire to his mansion near Chipping Campden and died in the flames. Nearly two centuries later the ruin gave T. S. Eliot a poem.
Story · Strange Things · 4 minute read
Every spring bank holiday people hurl themselves down Cooper's Hill near Gloucester after a Double Gloucester cheese. The race is old, unofficial and dangerous.
Story · Guides · 10 minute read
Christmas in the Cotswolds: Blenheim's and Sudeley's light trails, Christmas markets at Cogges and Stroud, steam trains to Broadway's late-night shopping, candlelit carols, Boxing Day mummers, winter walks and inns with fires.
Story · Guides · 7 minute read
Where Clarkson's Farm is made, what you can and cannot see at Diddly Squat Farm Shop near Chadlington and at the Farmer's Dog near Burford, and how to visit without the worst of the queues.
Story · Guides · 11 minute read
Where Clarkson's Farm, Downton Abbey, Harry Potter, Father Brown, Poldark, Bridget Jones and Cider with Rosie were filmed in and around the Cotswolds, what you can see today, and the claims that do not stand up.
Story · Guides · 10 minute read
What the Cotswolds make and where to buy it: Cotswold lamb, the Gloucester cheeses, Donnington and Uley beer, whisky from Stourton, wine from Woodchester Valley, the farm shops, the markets at Stroud, Moreton and Cirencester, and the tastings worth booking.
Story · Guides · 4 minute read
Donnington, Hook Norton, Arkell's and Wadworth, the newer breweries at Uley and Stroud, the old coaching inns and the village pubs with rooms: a guide to Cotswold pubs.
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