52 stories from the Cotswolds: Walking, cycling and the outdoors in the Cotswolds, When to visit the Cotswolds, month by month, Where are the Cotswolds?.
52 stories
Story · Guides · 5 minute read
The Cotswold Way and other long walks, the cycle routes that follow the railway and the valleys, and the Cotswold Water Park's lakes: how to get outdoors in the Cotswolds.
Story · Guides · 13 minute read
The best months to visit the Cotswolds are May, September and October. June to August and the bank holidays are the busiest, January the quietest. Here is the year month by month, with what is in flower, the customs, the weather and what to book ahead.
Story · Guides · 11 minute read
The Cotswolds are a range of limestone hills in south-central England, a National Landscape of 787 square miles across six counties, most of it in Gloucestershire. Here is where they are, what the boundary includes, and what makes the stone golden.
Story · Guides · 13 minute read
Where to stay in the Cotswolds, by region, by kind of place and by trip: Moreton-in-Marsh or Kingham without a car, Stow, Chipping Campden or Burford with one, Tetbury or Painswick for the quieter south, Winchcombe for walkers, and what a night costs in 2026.
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