Places to Explore In Bath and the Cotswolds

Bath

In Bath, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, you’re surrounded by magnificent 18th-century architecture, a lasting reminder of a vanished world often described by the likes...

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• 8 Hotels
• 29 Things To Do

Bibury

The tiny town of Bibury, with a population of less than 1,000, sits idyllically beside the little River Coln on B4425; it was famed Arts...

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• 1 Hotels
• 2 Things To Do

Bourton-on-the-Water

Off A429 on the eastern edge of the Cotswolds, Bourton-on-the-Water is deservedly famous as a classic Cotswold village. Like many others, it became wealthy in...

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• 1 Hotels
• 3 Things To Do

Broadway

The Cotswold town to end all Cotswold towns, Broadway has become a favorite of day-trippers. William Morris first discovered the delights of this village, and...

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• 4 Hotels
• 3 Things To Do

Burford

Burford's broad main street leads steeply down to a narrow bridge across the River Windrush. The village served as a stagecoach stop for centuries and...

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• 2 Hotels
• 2 Things To Do

Castle Combe

This Wiltshire village lived a sleepy existence until 1962, when it was voted the "prettiest village" in England—without any of its inhabitants knowing that it...

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Cheltenham

Although Cheltenham has acquired a reputation as snooty—the population (around 110,000) is generally well-heeled and conservative—it's also cosmopolitan. The town has excellent restaurants and bars...

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• 4 Hotels
• 10 Things To Do

Chipping Campden

Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful towns in the area, Chipping Campden, with its population of about 2,500, is the Cotswolds in a microcosm. It...

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• 4 Hotels
• 8 Things To Do

Cirencester

A hub of the Cotswolds since Roman times, when it was called Corinium, Cirencester (pronounced siren-sester) was second only to London in importance. Today this...

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• 3 Hotels
• 6 Things To Do

Lacock

Owned by the National Trust, this lovely Wiltshire village is the victim of its own charm, its unspoiled gabled and stone-tile cottages drawing tour buses...

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• 2 Things To Do

Lower Slaughter and Upper Slaughter

To see the quieter, more typical Cotswold villages, seek out the evocatively named Lower Slaughter and Upper Slaughter (the names have nothing to do with...

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• 1 Hotels
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Moreton-in-Marsh

In Moreton-in-Marsh, the houses have been built not around a central square but along a street wide enough to accommodate a market. The village has...

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• 1 Hotels
• 4 Things To Do

Northleach

Just off the Fosse Way (and bypassed by the busy A40), little Northleach—population around 2,000—has remained one of the least spoiled of Cotswold towns. Trim...

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Owlpen

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Painswick

An old Cotswold wool town of around 2,000 inhabitants, Painswick has become a chocolate-box picture of quaintness, attracting day-trippers and tour buses. But come during...

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• 1 Hotels
• 1 Things To Do

Stow-on-the-Wold

At an elevation of 800 feet, Stow is the highest town in the Cotswolds—“Stow-on-the-Wold, where the wind blows cold" is the age-old saying. Built around...

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• 2 Hotels
• 5 Things To Do

Tetbury

With about 5,300 inhabitants, Tetbury claims royal connections. Indeed, the soaring spire of the church that presides over this Elizabethan market town is within sight...

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• 3 Hotels
• 7 Things To Do

Winchcombe

The sleepy, unspoiled village of Winchcombe (population 4,500), once the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, has some attractive half-timber and stone houses, as...

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• 4 Things To Do