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81 stories
Story · Guides · 12 minute read
The honest picture of access in the Cotswolds: which villages are level and which are cobbles and hills, the step-free days out, every Changing Places toilet we can confirm, Blue Badge parking, stile-free walks, accessible stays and getting about by train, bus and taxi.
Story · History · 10 minute read
How Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft, Gimson and the Barnsleys, Rodmarton Manor, Gordon Russell and the gardens at Hidcote made the Cotswolds a home of Arts and Crafts, and where to see it now.
Story · Guides · 11 minute read
The best pubs in the Cotswolds: village pubs on the green at Biddestone and Guiting Power, medieval inns at Castle Combe and Lacock, riverside pubs at Lechlade and Swinbrook, pubs with rooms round Kingham, and the pubs at the end of our walks.
Story · Guides · 13 minute read
The best pubs with rooms in the Cotswolds, region by region: the Kingham Plough and the King’s Head at Bledington, the Lion at Winchcombe, the Falcon at Painswick and the Red Lion at Lacock, with the rooms, the food, the dog rules and the walk from the door.
Story · Guides · 12 minute read
The best market towns in the Cotswolds, from Chipping Campden, Stow and Burford to Cirencester, Tetbury, Winchcombe and Stroud: what each town is like, who it suits, and how to get there.
Story · Guides · 11 minute read
The best viewpoints in the Cotswolds, from Broadway Tower, Dover's Hill and Cleeve Hill to Haresfield Beacon, Crickley Hill and the Tyndale Monument: what you see from each, where to park and the walk that gets you there.
Story · Guides · 13 minute read
The best villages in the Cotswolds, from Bibury, Castle Combe and the Slaughters to quieter Naunton, Eastleach and Biddestone: what to see in each, a walk from the green and a pub or tearoom.
Story · Strange Things · 4 minute read
In 1660 a Chipping Campden steward vanished and three people were hanged for his murder. Two years later he came home, with a tale of Turkish slavery.
Story · History · 9 minute read
The storming of Cirencester and the battle of Lansdown in 1643, Sudeley Castle besieged and slighted, Campden House burned, the last battle of the first war at Stow in 1646, the Levellers at Burford and Chastleton's hidden Royalist, with where to see each.
Story · History · 9 minute read
How the Cotswold sheep made the hills rich: the medieval export of raw wool through the Staple at Calais, the woolmen of Campden, Northleach and Fairford, the cloth mills of the Stroud valleys, the decline, and where to see it all today.
Story · Guides · 8 minute read
The Cotswolds in April: Easter and its crowds, the bluebell woods from the middle of the month, blossom and the gardens reopening, the jazz festival at the month's end, what opens when, four walks through the bluebells, and a day on the Stroud edge.
Story · Guides · 8 minute read
The Cotswolds in August: the busiest month in the famous villages, the football in the river at Bourton, Big Feastival, sunflowers and pick-your-own, the last weeks of the summer-only houses, quiet valley walks, and how to plan round the school holidays and the bank holiday.
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