Stow on the Wold
Villages: Maugersbury – Upper & Lower Swell – Condicote & Hinchwick – Longborough – Donnington – Upper and Lower Oddington – Adlestrop – Daylesford – Kingham – Icomb – Church Westcote – Nether Westcote – Idbury – Bould – Foscot – Fifield – Cutsdean – Guiting Power – Temple Guiting – Barton – Hawling -Syreford – Turkdean – Hazleton. Stow-on-the-Wold is likely about a millennium old, give or take a year or two. It […]
Moreton-in-Marsh
Villages: Aston Magna – Dorn – Lower Lemington – Draycott; Blockley – Todenham – Batsford – Sezincote – Bourton-on-the-Hill – Stretton-on-Fosse – Evenlode – Broadwell. Moreton-in-Marsh is a market town situated at the crossroads of the Roman Fosseway with the Oxford-Worcester road (A44). A thriving market town (the market still happens every Tuesday come rain or shine) it has a wonderful array […]
Chipping Campden
Ebrington – Paxford; Mickleton – Aston sub Edge – Weston sub Edge – Saintbury -Broad Campden – Hidcote Boyce – Hidcote Bartrim – Charingworth Campden, as it is known locally – as opposed to Chippy, which is very much Chipping Norton – is regularly lauded as one of if not the most beautiful High Streets in all of England. It’s not hard to see why. There […]
Bourton-on-the-Water
Villages: Upper & Lower Slaughter – Great, Little & Wyck Rissington – Upper Rissington – Clapton-on-the-Hill – Cold Aston (Aston Blank) – Notgrove – Sherborne – Northleach Certainly one of, perhaps the best-known of the north Cotswold towns, this little gem on the water is unique in character as its neighbours. There is no denying that it is a favourite with […]
Burford
Villages: Upton – Fulbrook – Signet – Westwell – Holwell – Bradwell Village – Shilton – Swinbrook – Widford – Taynton – Great & Little Barrington – Filkins – Eastleach Burford, on its steep incline, is known as the gateway to the Cotswolds (most towns have a charming-but-spurious intro: Venice of, heart of, jewel of…and so on) and is the smallest of the towns […]
Shipston-on-Stour
Villages: Great & Little Wolford – Long Compton – Little Compton – Ilmington – Barcheston – Willington – Honington – Tredington – Upper & Lower Brailes – Sutton-under-Brailes – Cherington – Stourton – Ascott – Whichford – Burmington – Tidmington – Blackwell – Darlingscott – Compton Scorpion. Shipston-on-Stour really does have the best of both worlds. Unmistakably Warwickshire, with its mixture of predominantly clay and blue lias stone, but cheek-by-jowl up […]
Chipping Norton
Villages: Over Norton – Churchill – Bledington – Kingham – Cornwell – Salford – Old Chalford – Great & Little Rollright – Lyneham – Bruern – Pudlicote – Chadlington – Dean – Lidstone – Charlbury – Cornbury – Enstone – Heathrop – Great & Little Tew – Sandford St Martin – Hook Norton – Swerford – Woodstock – Bladon. There’s no escaping it when talking about Chippy, […]
Broadway
Broadway really was unleashed in its current form when the bypass opened in 1998, immediately transforming a busy High Street on a major trunk road into a no-through road in peaceful slumber – one can only imagine the change (not to mention the value!) that those residents saw overnight. What’s left is possibly the definitive […]
