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Dyrham Park (photo by Sarah Fox)

Dyrham Park (National Trust)

17th century house and garden

Broadway Tower

Broadway Tower

William Morris used this extraordinary folly on the Cotswold Ridge. You too can enjoy its…

Tewkesbury Heritage Centre

Tewkesbury Heritage Centre

This superbly restored 17th century building, once a shop selling hats, is home to our innovative…

Newark Park

Newark Park (National Trust)

Newark Park stands proud on top of the Cotswold Escarpment, looking down into the Ozleworth Valley…

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  1. Add The Wilson - Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum to your Itinerary

    The Wilson - Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum

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    Type:

    Museum

    Cheltenham

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023Various Opening Times

    Cheltenham has an outstanding museum and art gallery with a programme of exciting temporary exhibitions and permanent galleries. Also home to The Wilson Kitchen arts café with its stylish mix of colourful interiors, artwork, music and great food. 

  2. Add Chavenage House to your Itinerary

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    Chavenage House

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    Type:

    Historic House/Palace

    Near Tetbury

    Dates

    From:
    1 May 2024to30 Sept 2024Various Opening Times

    Uniquely interesting Elizabethan manor with Cromwellian associations and adjacent chapel. Furniture, tapestries and relics from 17th century. Medieval barn, ghost stories and legends.

  3. Add Winchcombe Museum to your Itinerary

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    Winchcombe Museum

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    Type:

    Museum

    Winchcombe

    Dates

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    1 Apr 2024to31 Oct 2024Various Opening Times

    A wonderful accredited Community Museum in the heart of Historic Winchcombe reflecting 2,000 years of local history and a fascinating collection of police memorabilia.

  4. Add Cotswold Sculpture Park to your Itinerary

    Cotswold Sculpture Park

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    Type:

    Parkland/Woodland Garden

    Somerford Keynes

    Dates

    From:
    1 Apr 2024to30 Sept 2024

    Cotswold Sculpture Park is an outdoor art gallery which showcases the work of over 200 artists. All sculptures are available to purchase.

  5. Add Parish Church of St Mary to your Itinerary

    Parish Church of St Mary

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    Type:

    Churches and Cathedrals

    Painswick

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    A medieval church with a wonderful two acre churchyard containing a fine collection of 17 and 18C tombs and famous for its avenues of yew trees.

  6. Add Ducklington - St Bartholomew's Church to your Itinerary

    Ducklington - St Bartholomew's Church

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    Type:

    Church/Chapel

    Ducklington

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    The present plan of the church was established during the 12th century (apart from the chancel, which was added a little later). However, changes (particularly to the doors and windows) were made during the 13th century.

  7. Add Broadway Museum and Art Gallery to your Itinerary

    Broadway Museum and Art Gallery

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    Type:

    Museum

    Broadway

    Dates

    From:
    13 Feb 2023to18 Dec 2023Open 10:00 - 04:00

    Step into Broadway’s rich and colourful history housed in a beautiful former coaching inn. Admire our stunning collection of medieval furniture, our delightful cabinet of curiosities and visit Broadway’s fascinating Artists’ Colony.

  8. Add West Tump Long Barrow to your Itinerary

    West Tump Long Barrow

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    Type:

    Free Days Out

    Nr Cranham

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    This barrow is located in the middle of Buckholt Wood, in the parish of Brimpsfield, about one and a half miles south-west of Birdlip.

  9. Add Guiting Power - St Michael's and all Angels to your Itinerary

    Guiting Power - St Michael's and all Angels

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    Type:

    Church/Chapel

    Guiting Power

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    St Michael's and All Angels is primarily a Norman building, with a beautifully carved south door. Indeed, the door is one of the few remaining pieces of Norman architecture, for the church was heavily remodelled in the 13th and 15th centuries.

  10. Add Chipping Norton - St Mary the Virgin Church to your Itinerary

    Chipping Norton - St Mary the Virgin Church

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    Type:

    Church/Chapel

    Chipping Norton

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    A wool church and Grade I listed building, St Mary the Virgin is tucked away near the bottom of the hill on which the town sits. The setting seems incongruous, however it is here in the shadow of the church and what was once the castle, that the…

  11. Add Crickley Hill Country Park to your Itinerary

    Crickley Hill Country Park

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    Type:

    Country/Royal Park

    Gloucester

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023Open 09:00 - 17:00

    One hundred and forty three acres of grassland and beechwoods situated on the Cotswold escarpment.

  12. Add Nature in Art to your Itinerary

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    Nature in Art

    Type

    Type:

    Museums & Galleries

    Gloucester

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023Various Opening Times

    Nature in Art is the world’s first museum and art gallery dedicated to fine, decorative and applied art inspired by nature.

  13. Add Bourton on the Water - St Lawrence to your Itinerary

    Bourton on the Water - St Lawrence

    Type

    Type:

    Churches and Cathedrals

    Bourton on the Water

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    Lying just a short walk from the High Street, the distinctive domed clock tower of St Lawrence's Church invites further investigation. The earliest evidence of a Christian presence on this site goes back as far as the 8th Century when a wooden…

  14. Add Moreton in Marsh - St David's Church to your Itinerary

    Moreton in Marsh - St David's Church

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    Type:

    Churches and Cathedrals

    Moreton in Marsh

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    Saint David's Church began as a chapel of ease for Bourton-on-the-Hill. The early history of the church in Moreton is not clear, but there is a tradition that it was rebuilt and reconsecrated in the middle of the 16th century.

  15. Add North Leigh - St Mary's Church to your Itinerary

    North Leigh - St Mary's Church

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    Type:

    Church/Chapel

    North Leigh

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    An architecturally fascinating church: the church is late Anglo-Saxon in origin with the bell tower probably built in the first half of the 11th century.

  16. Add Oxford Bus Museum to your Itinerary

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    Oxford Bus Museum

    Type

    Type:

    Museum

    Long Hanborough, Witney

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to19 Dec 2023Various Opening Times
    From:
    3 July 2024to29 Aug 2024Various Opening Times

    A museum containing 30 preserved buses dating back to 1913, an 1881 horse drawn tram, the Morris Motors Museum with vehicles from 1925 to 1977 and 45 vintage bicycles dating back to 1817.

  17. Add Cassington - St Peter's Church to your Itinerary

    Cassington - St Peter's Church

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    Type:

    Church/Chapel

    Cassington

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    St Peter's is a fine Norman church with lovely woodwork and glass. It was built in the early years of the 12th century by Geoffrey de Clinton, treasurer to Henry I.

    The church was altered and added to in the 14th century - these changes…

  18. Add Alvescot - St Peter's Church to your Itinerary

    Alvescot - St Peter's Church

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    Type:

    Church/Chapel

    Alvescot

    St Peter’s church celebrated its 900 year centenary in 2010. Although some of the church building is 900 years old the site is likely to have been a place of worship for longer than this.

  19. Add Witney - St Mary's Church to your Itinerary

    Witney - St Mary's Church

    Type

    Type:

    Church/Chapel

    Witney

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    Though with Norman origins, the present building is mostly 13th century and was dedicated in 1243. The 156ft spire is a notable landmark, visible for miles around.

  20. Add Elkstone - St John the Evangelist to your Itinerary

    Elkstone - St John the Evangelist

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    Type:

    Church/Chapel

    Elkstone

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    This is the highest church in the Cotswolds, & is off the beaten track. The village is full of modern cottages, but at its heart is this lovely Norman church, with carved stone heads around the nave, fine wood work, & an unusual first floor dovecote

St Oswald's Church at Widford (photo Helena Sylvester)