Plan your perfect Cotswolds getaway with helpful travel tips, suggested itineraries, and essential information. Find everything you need to make the most of your visit to this beautiful region

The Cotswolds is home to some of the most unspoilt, historic and famous towns and villages in England. The honey-coloured stone buildings provide a quintessential English charm found no-where else in the world.

The beautiful cottage garden is a lively mix of architectural features, bright colours and delightful scents. If you would like to explore Snowshill and the surrounding countryside, here is a Snowshill walk and route map

One of the delights of visiting the Cotswolds is exploring the different areas, each with its own identity, yet all with those defining Cotswold features: golden stone and rolling hills, the ‘wolds’.

Kingham is a peaceful and secluded village, once chosen as Country Life's 'England's Favourite Village', yet it has a main line train service to London - only 90 minutes away. The station is about a mile from the village centre.

Created by the Cotswolds National Landscape and local communities you’ll discover hidden corners, epic views, historic sites, and a rich diversity of wildlife. Tetbury’s hotels and restaurants are all within walking distance of the town's market …

Upper Slaughter is equally attractive - and one of only 14 'doubly sainted' villages in England, villages that lost no men during either World War I or II. There is limited parking in the Slaughters, but they are easily reached on foot via a lovely walk from Bourton-on-the-Water.

Explore Cirencester's Heritage & Green Spaces Walking and Cycling Route, one of the Cotswolds National Landscape's Gateway Towns walking or cycling routes. Created by the Cotswolds National Landscape and local communities you’ll discover hidden corners, epic views, historic sites, and a rich diversity of wildlife.

The village of Bampton was a major late Anglo-Saxon centre: the focus of a royal manor, and site of a 'minster' church. At the time of the Norman Conquest, Bampton was a large settlement and in the Domesday Book of 1086 there is already mention of a market in Bampton. The town enjoyed amazing prosperity in the early Middle ages, and much of its wealth was based on wool though ...

Right on the eastern edge of the Cotswolds, just eight miles north west of Oxford, lies the wonderful town of Woodstock. Sadly for them, most visitors to Woodstock never actually see the historic town centre, tucked away off the busy main road, as they’re heading to Woodstock’s grand and glorious neighbour, Blenheim Palace.