19 BEST Things to do in The Cotswolds [PLUS 13 Best Cotswolds Villages You MUST-SEE]
There are so many ways to experience the charming villages of The Cotswolds in England. From climbing Broadway Tower for incredible views, enjoying decadent Afternoon Tea in medieval tea rooms, to exploring golden villages and wool churches. For more information, visit
Planning a trip to the Cotswolds? This ultimate guide includes the top 19 things to do in the Cotswolds in England plus 13 pretty Cotswolds villages you must visit...
My personal favourite thing to do was visiting Broadway Tower.
Here are the 19 Best things to do in the Cotswolds, England
1. Castle Combe - The ‘prettiest village in England’.
2. Arlington Row - Located in Bibury, this quaint village is famous for its row of 14th-century weavers cottages.
3. Burford - A stunning medieval town located on the River Windrush with gorgeous views of the countryside.
4. Bourton-on-the-Water - A river-side village nicknamed the ‘Venice of the Cotswolds’ and home of the Model Village.
5. Upper Slaughter - A ‘Doubly thankful’ and picturesque village completely untouched for over a century.
6. Lower Slaughter - Home to honey-coloured homes and a 19th-century flour mill with water wheel
7. Broadway - Dubbed the ‘Jewel of the Cotswolds’ and home to the iconic folly Broadway Tower
8. The Rollright Stones - The site of Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic stone monuments
9. Sudeley Castle - Resting place of the Catherine Parr, the last of Henry’s VIII’s six wives.
10. Snowshill - Filming location in Bridget Jones’ Diary and home to Snowshill Manor.
11. Stow-on-the-Wold - The highest town in the Cotswolds and location of the last important battle of the English Civil War took place.
12. Painswick - A gorgeous town of steeply winding streets and dubbed the ‘Queen of the Cotswolds’
13. Tetbury - The Cotswolds most royal village
14. Chipping Campden - Famous for its elegant terraced High Street
15. Blenheim Palace - Located in Woodstock, this is the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill
16. Moreton-in-Marsh - Gateway to the Cotswolds and home to the Curfew Tower and White Hart Royal Hotel where King Charles stayed.
17. Batsford Arboretum - 56-acres of trees and shrubs from around the world
18. Bourton House Garden - Home to award-winning gardens surrounding an 18th century Manor House
19. Sezincote Estate and Garden - For a taste of India, visit Sezincote Estate for its Hindu and Muslim inspired architecture, perfectly landscaped gardens and pavilion.
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12 Best Things To Do in The Cotswolds
Welcome to the Cotswolds! in this video, we are exploring across the entire length of the Cotswolds and I'll be giving you my 12 best ideas for things that you can do in (and in the areas surrounding) the Cotswolds for the perfect England day out or holiday!
The Cotswolds is England's 3rd largest Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and one of my favourites, throughout my life, I have explored all over the Cotswolds and seen so much of what it has to offer. So here is my travel guide for all there is to see and do!
My 12 Best places to visit in the Cotswolds with video links for if you want to learn more (excuse the potato quality of some of them... they were very old videos):
- 1:08 Bourton-On-The-Water (Model Village, Motor Museum & Birdland):
- 1:54 Lower Slaughter (Most romantic street in England)
- 2:40 Lacock (Abbey and Town)
- 4:03 Fox Talbot Museum (included in the ticket to Lacock Abbey)
- 6:03 Cotswold Wildlife Park
- 6:59 Bristol:
- 6:59 Bath:
- 6:59 Gloucester
- 8:30 Castle Combe
- 9:00 Rollright Stones:
- 9:22 Stonehenge (1 hour away, bonus suggestion):
- 9:41 Broadway Tower
Bonus suggestions, just 30 minutes north of the Cotswolds you will find the towns of Warwick (home to one of Englands best castles 'Warwick castle'), Stratford Upon Avon (the Town of Shakespeare) & Kenilworth (home to Kenilworth castle). Videos to those linked below:
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The Top Ten Most Beautiful Villages In The Cotswolds
The Top Ten Most Beautiful Villages In The Cotswolds
The Cotswolds is an area in south-central, West Midlands and South West England encompassing the Cotswold Hills, a range of rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to the Cotswold Edge, above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale.
The area is defined by the bedrock of Jurassic limestone that creates a type of grassland habitat rare in the UK and that is quarried for the golden-coloured Cotswold stone.
With quintessentially English villages, lively market towns, some of the country’s greatest palaces, castles and country houses and breath-taking landscapes, the Cotswolds is enjoyed by locals and visitors alike.
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10. Painswick
9. Tetbury
8. Stanton
7. Stow-On-The-Wold
6. Blockley
5. Chipping Campden
4. Castle Combe
3. Cirencester
2. Burford
1. Bourton-On-The-Water
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Walking The Cotswold Way | 100 Miles To Bath, A World Heritage City
The Cotswold Way runs for just over 100 miles from Chipping Campden to Bath through the Cotswold Hills AONB. It passes by ancient hill forts and long barrows, through petite honey-coloured villages, and along babbling brooks. There are fields, forests, and open grassland escarpments, and overall, it makes for a rather lovely amble through English countryside.
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The Cotswolds is is situated in central, south west England.
With it's gently rolling hills, beautiful honey coloured cottages and endless walks, this is one of my favourite places to visit in England and I'm going to share 10 things you can do in the Cotswolds England with a couple of extras at the end.
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00:00 10 Things to see and do in The Cotswolds
00:29 Winchcombe
01:14 Cotswolds way
01:56 Stanway house and Battle re-enactment
02:48 Belas Knap
03:27 Chipping Cambden
04:07 Broadway village
04:53 Broadway tower
05:13 Steam train ride
06:18 Bourton-on-the-water
07:04 Lower Slaughter
08:03 Avondale Miniature Railway
08:57 Gloucester Cathedral (Harry Potter film set)
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Best Places in Cotswolds, UK: Picturesque, yummy and budget stay. Follow Alice in the Wonderland
The number one place to visit in the UK during the fall season is definitely the Cotswolds. It's perfect for a weekend trip as it's only 1.5 - 2 hours drive from London.
But Cotswolds is big and expensive. Follow me on a peaceful stroll and get all the tips for a budget-friendly 24 hours in Cotswolds.
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00:43 Pretty Sunset - Stow on the Wold
01:32 The restaurant to go back to again and again
01:47 Budget-friendly bed and breakfast in Burford
02:25 A stroll in Lower Slaughter
05:29 Most romantic Street in Britain
07:43 Cemetary
08:18 Cottages with thatched roofs - Stanton
09:13 Shopping at Broadway
09:23 Scones and tea
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The Old Butchers: 7 Park St, Stow-on-the-Wold, Cheltenham GL54 1AQ
Inn for All Seasons: A40, Burford OX18 4TN
Tisanes Tea Rooms: Cotswold House, 21 The Green, Broadway WR12 7AA
Broadway Deli: 29 High St, Broadway WR12 7DP
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UNITED KINGDOM Chipping Campden & Blockley (9 Oct 2017)
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In the afternoon we drove to #Chippingcampden and #Blockley.
Chipping Campden is a market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is known for its terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. (Chipping comes from Old English cēping, 'market', 'market-place'; the same element is found in other towns such as Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury, and Chipping (now High) Wycombe.
Chipping Campden, a wool trading center in the Middle Ages, enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants, most notably William Greville (d.1401). Lined with buildings constructed from locally quarried Oolitic limestone, known as Cotswold stone, the High Street has a wealth of vernacular architecture. Much of the city center is a conservation area which has contributed to the preservation of the original buildings. The town is a terminus for the Cotswold Way, a 102 mile footpath.
Blockley is a village, civil parish and ecclesiastical parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about 5 km north west of Moreton-in-Marsh. Until 1931 Blockley was an exclave of Worcestershire.
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Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a small market town in the Cotswold's, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It dates from the 14th century and has a long and wide High Street with a selection of shops, pubs, and restaurants.
The name Chipping is from Old English cēping, meaning a marketplace. Other towns in the area also use the name Chipping Norton and Chipping Sodbury. In the Middle Ages, the town became wealthy through the wool trade, but there was a settlement here in the 7th century. The wool from the long-backed Cotswold Lion sheep was prized across Europe. William Grevel, the son of a local man, became Campden's (and, by reputation, one of England's) most successful wool merchants. In about 1380, he built a new house in the High Street (Grevel House) that still stands today. The Woolstaplers Hall on the other side of the High Street was built in the 14th century by Robert Calf and illustrated how Campden had become an important collecting point for fleece, later sold to Flemish and Italian clothiers.
Chipping Campden has 256 historically listed buildings, and in the early 20th century, the town became known as a centre for the Cotswold Arts and Crafts Movement. We came across the home of Graham Green. The cottage where he achieved his first commercial success in writing Stamboul Train, due in no small part to the sale of film rights. However, the book's success was diluted by the threat of a libel suit by J.B. Priestley, which demanded urgent, last-minute action to be taken by Greene to change certain parts of the novel. The red telephone box in the village that you will see in the video played an essential element in the issue.
We venture into the garden to commemorate Ernest Henry (Chinese) Wilson, born in Chipping Campden in 1876. He was one of the greatest plant collectors in the early part of the last century.
We come across the restored cart wash opposite the Almshouses, built by Sir Baptist Hicks and dated around the early 1800's. It allowed carts to wash their wheels and stand in water, so wooden wheels could expand in dry weather and remove the mud in bad weather. If wheels dried out, the spokes loosened, and the iron tyres could fall off.
The market hall in the High Street was built to provide shelter from the elements for merchants and farmers selling goods—the latter-day supermarket. The side walls were open to allow light, and customers, access to the market stalls. The floor of the market hall was made of simple cobbles, now worn smooth by the passage of time and thousands of feet. The panel between the two east gables displays Sir Baptist Hicks' coat of arms. The building is listed Grade I for its historical importance. In the 1940's, the hall was threatened with the sale to an American. So local people raised the money to purchase the property and gave it to the National Trust.
In 1613 Sir Baptist Hicks began work on his house built in the latest fashion with intricate gardens, but thirty years later, the Royalists destroyed it while withdrawing from the town; only the shell remained. Today just a single fragment is left standing. We managed to get a shot of it from over the wall. We couldn't fly our drone due to a temporary exclusion zone for a gliding event. The smaller buildings escaped and are still there, together with the raised walks of the garden. The most prominent is the gateway and east and west banqueting houses.
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Filmed on the 19th June 2021 using iPhone 11pro, Nikon 7200 &7500.
1:26 The gateway
1:36 East banqueting house
1:49 West banqueting house
1:55 The fragment of the old house
2:10 Cart wash
2:35 Almshouses
5:15 The market hall
10:00 The home of Graham Green
10:18 The red telephone box.
11:12 The red telephone box.
13:20 The Woolstaplers
15:06 Ernest Henry (Chinese) Wilson garden
'SF CAFE': Out & About in Monmouth, Tintern & Chipping Sodbury with The Outlaw Bookseller
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0:07 Yate
0:28 Winterbourne
0:46 Chepstow
1:05 University of Exeter
1:26 Easton Street
1:46 The Balmoral Hotel
2:05 Killiechassie House
2:22 King's Cross Station
2:40 Manchester
2:58 The Elephant House Cafe
3:12 Outro
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1 Bibury is a beautiful village in England, in the world as well. It is located in Gloucestershire, in the Cotswold District. Headlined by famous architectural conservation area-- Arlington Row. Famous for its verdancy these seventeenth century stone cottages capped by steeply pitched roofs .
2. Castle Combe
is part of Wiltshire, the villagecontains two parts – one on the narrow valley of By Brook, and the second to the east, on a road that adds Chippenham to Chipping Sodbury. The entire village is primmed with stone cottages creating a medieval ages atmo –a 14th-century market cross, the 13th-century church St. Andrew and a picturesque bridge on Water Street.
3. Lamberhurst
lies in the valley of River Teise , home to the Scotney Castle castles in England.
4. Clovelly
Surrounded by dense woods and water, Clovelly is best known for narrow, cobbled street
5. Mousehole
Mousehole is a tiny fishing village located in West Cornwall..
6. Rye
Medieval Rye is located in Sussex and has quantness in spades .
7. Hawkshead
Hawkshead is in Cumbria a tiny, ancient village with tearooms!
8. Bourton on the Water
is considered the main English villages so much greenery and the River Windrush
9. Cockington
Located in the county of Devon, the village of Cockington Where Agatha Christie frequented ... Cockington Court and perform in plays.
10. Corfe Castle
There is a medieval church that was dedicated to the murdered Kind Edwards.
AMBLE in the Cotswolds AVOIDING the crowds - visiting Chipping Campden, Ebrington and Broad Campden
This circular Cotswold walk is between the beautiful villages of Chipping Campden, Ebrington and Broad Campden in Gloucestershire. Of seven miles in length the walk explores the chocolate box villages with cottages of thatched roofs and honey coloured stone. The rolling meadows are adorned with beautiful hedgerows which are typical of the Cotswold region.
The walk begins in the High Street of Chipping Campden heading in a north easterly direction to Cider Mill Lane. Down this lane we pass some cottages coming to a public footpath which is part of the Heart of England Way, which we then utilise for part of our journey.
Eventually on this path we discover the sign that describes the historical fight of Mickleton Tunnel which is near Mickleton Hills Farm. We continue in our north easterly direction before eventually heading south to the village of Ebrington.
In Ebrington we admire the thatched roofed cottages and discover 'The Millennium Mosaic' before reviewing the Ebrington Arms.
Next we visit Broad Campden and discover another village containing more beautiful cottages with thatched roofs. Here we also discover the delights of the Bakers Arms built in 1724 with a delightful pub garden.
We now return to Chipping Campden passing the church we had spied in the distance.
The walk was seven miles in distance with no steep hills but a gentle rolling countryside with clear paths and reasonable signs. We used the following map:
Around & About - Chipping Campden - The Yellow Walks Maps by yellow publications.
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Castle Combe Englands Prettiest Village
Castle Combe Englands Prettiest Village
We spent a lovely warm Sunday morning exploring one of the top places to visit in England Castle Combe.
It is one of the top places to see in the Cotswolds with it`s beautiful Cotswold stone cottages and charm.
Castle combe is a real must visit in the UK and is widely considered the most beautiful village in England.
Castle combe should be on everyone`s things to see list !!
The Times newspaper named Castle Combe as one of the top 10 places to visit in the world..!!
If you visit England and journey down to the Cotswolds you really must make it one of the top places to see on your trip !!!
In our opinion it is the best village in the Cotswolds that we have seen so far.!!
The Cotswolds in England are one of the Best places to visit in England..!!!
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00:59 Bybrook Bridge in Castle combe
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The Cotswolds, England: A Beautiful Scenery and Quaint English Villages Walking Tour
This is a walking tour through England's Cotswolds, a beautiful area of landscapes, of history, and of georgeous, unspoiled English villages. NEXT VIDEO: Oxford Walking Tour:
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We start our tour with fantastic panoramic views of the area from Broadway Tower followed by two short walks through two popular but very different locations within the Cotswolds. We start in the historic market town of Chipping Campden followed by a lovely stroll through Bourton on the Water.
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DAY 1: Hiking the Cotswold Way (10 mile day)
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Come with us as we spend 9 days hiking 102 miles on the Cotswold Way.
The Cotswold Way is a long distance walking trail that runs between the town of Chipping Campden in the north and the city of Bath in the south.
With over 102 miles (164km) of magnificent views, ancient sites and beautiful villages, this trail offers a unique look at the English countryside!
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Start in Chipping Campden
Lunch in Broadway
End in Stanton
10 miles total
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