Bibury
Tiny riverside village famous for Arlington Row, Rack Isle and Bibury Trout Farm — iconic Cotswold scenery that is best enjoyed outside peak hours.
Your Modern Guide to the Cotswolds
DESTINATIONS
Market towns, tiny villages, Regency streets and quieter bases — find the corner that suits the trip you actually want to take.
FIND YOUR BASE
Each destination guide brings together what to do, where to eat and drink, useful local Places and our take on who the area suits best.
Try “Bourton”, “pub”, “children” or “walk”.
Start with a real trip: family weekends, good pubs, walks, rainy-day ideas and food-led escapes.
Tiny riverside village famous for Arlington Row, Rack Isle and Bibury Trout Farm — iconic Cotswold scenery that is best enjoyed outside peak hours.
Steep lanes, former silk mills and a quieter hillside setting make Blockley one of the north Cotswolds’ best villages for a slower wander.
Riverside village with low stone bridges, family attractions, cafés and easy walks towards the Slaughters — beautiful, but best outside peak day-trip hours.
A polished north Cotswold village for independent shops, restaurants, walking, Arts & Crafts history and one of the region's best viewpoints.
Historic market town with a sweeping honey-stone High Street, independent shopping, pubs and easy access to the eastern Cotswolds.
A famously photogenic but genuinely tiny living village: honey-stone cottages, wooded valley walks and a better atmosphere when visited outside peak daytime hours.
Elegant Regency streets, major festivals, excellent food and drink, green spaces and an easy launch point for exploring the northern and central Cotswolds.
One of the north Cotswolds’ best-preserved towns: historic Market Hall, independent shops, Arts & Crafts heritage and excellent walking straight from the High Street.
Roman history, a busy market-town centre, excellent green spaces and quick access to the Cotswold Lakes make Cirencester one of the region’s easiest all-round bases.
Tiny riverside village with honey-stone cottages, footbridges and an easy countryside walk to Upper Slaughter and Bourton-on-the-Water.
Broad High Street, weekly market, direct rail access and easy trips to Stow, Chipping Campden, gardens and arboreta make Moreton a very practical base.
A compact valley town for independent shops, good food and easy access to Minchinhampton Common and the greener western Cotswolds.
Quiet central Cotswold market town with wool-town history, handsome stone streets and easy access to Bibury, Burford, Bourton and Cirencester.
Quiet historic streets, the famous churchyard yews, Painswick Rococo Garden and immediate access to the Cotswold Way make this a strong walking and couples’ base.
Hilltop market town for antiques, cosy pubs, historic streets and easy walks into the north Cotswold countryside.
Independent shops, market-town energy and the green Five Valleys make Stroud a different — and very useful — Cotswolds base.
A handsome south Cotswold market town for antiques, interiors and independent shops, with Westonbirt Arboretum only a few miles away.
Quieter than Lower Slaughter, with stone cottages, the River Eye and one of the easiest village-to-village walks in the central Cotswolds.
A relaxed historic town with excellent walking from the centre, Sudeley Castle nearby, independent shops and enough pubs and cafés for an easy weekend base.
A lively southern Cotswold market town beneath the escarpment, with independent shops, heritage, walking and easy access to Newark Park and the Tyndale Monument.