Cotswolds flights and travel guide

The Cotswolds region in England personifies country quaintness. With names like Chipping Campden, Moreton-in-Marsh and Stow-on-the-Wold, the Cotswold towns and villages have a fairy-tale-like air, with small bridges over shallow rivers, colourful gardens leading up to thatched cottages and Morris-dancing in the town square. Here, life doesn't seem to change much over the centuries, and the inhabitants of its cottages and manors appear to retain a pastoral naivety. It's hard not to feel the rural tranquillity, and visitors may well feel as though they've stepped into one of Constable's paintings. Due to their proximity to Stratford-Upon-Avon and Oxford, Cotswold Bed-and-Breakfasts are a popular choice with tourists.

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Cotswolds Insider Information

• Walk 72km (45 miles) of the Cotswold Way from thatched Chipping Campden to beautiful Painswick. You pass through essentially “English” countryside. A special planned route is available, which of course you could drive in a car.
• At the top of the Broadway Tower in Broadway on a clear day you can see 12 counties spread out below. Look at the small William Morris exhibition also there, and afterwards call in to the famous Lygon Arms Hotel.
• Visit picturesque Stroud which used to be an important wool centre. Many of the old mill buildings still stand but are now filled with modern industry.

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Cotswolds Airports

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