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Cotswold Historic Houses & Museums

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Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway

The GWSR is a volunteer run steam and diesel heritage railway in the English Cotswolds.

Blenheim Palace aerial photo

Blenheim Palace

A visit to Blenheim Palace offers an unforgettable experience. It’s a chance to share the…

Newark Park

Newark Park (National Trust)

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

Dyrham Park (photo by Sarah Fox)

Dyrham Park (National Trust)

17th century house and garden

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  1. Add Cirencester Lock Up to your Itinerary

    Cirencester Lock Up

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    Museum

    Cirencester

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023Various Opening Times

    Most towns had lock-ups, which were used to imprison people for short periods of time, often just overnight.

  2. Add Bishop's Palace to your Itinerary

    Bishop's Palace

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    Historic Site

    Church Green, Witney

    The remains of the ‘Bishop’s Palace’ are situated in the grounds of Mount House, just east of St Mary’s Church in Witney. In reality the ‘palace’ was a manor house, one of the earliest and largest of its type, the working centre of the estates owned…

  3. Add Windmill Tump Long Barrow to your Itinerary

    Windmill Tump Long Barrow

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    English Heritage Property

    Cirencester

    Dates

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023Various Opening Times

    The barrow was excavated in the late 19th century, and also in 1939 when 13 skeletons were found as well as leaf-shaped arrowheads.
    When two trees fell down in the great storms of 1987 they revealed a previously unknown chamber situated to the…

  4. Add Cotswold Woollen Weavers to your Itinerary

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    Cotswold Woollen Weavers

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    Shopping

    Lechlade

    Dates

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023Various Opening Times

    Cotswold Woollen Weavers is a destination in its own right: a shop selling all manner of woollen clothes and blankets, a small museum, design studio, sculpture gallery, coffee shop and picnic area, all housed in beautiful old stone buildings. 

  5. Add Cotswold Canals Trust – Visitor Centres to your Itinerary

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    Cotswold Canals Trust – Visitor Centres

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    Canal / Waterway / Marina

    Stroud

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    Stroudwater Navigation from Saul Junction to Stroud. Thames and Severn Canal from Stroud to Lechlade. Canals under restoration, with canal path walks and boat trips.

  6. Add Chavenage House to your Itinerary

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    Chavenage House

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    Historic House/Palace

    Near Tetbury

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    1 May 2023to30 Sept 2023Various 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.

  7. Add Lower Oddington - St Nicholas Church to your Itinerary

    Lower Oddington - St Nicholas Church

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    Church/Chapel

    Oddington

    Dates

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    One of our favourite churches - St Nicholas church in Lower Oddington is hidden at the end of a small lane. Its not the easiest place to find, but the effort is worth it, for St Nicholas's boasts a superb series of medieval wall paintings, including…

  8. Add Shorthampton - All Saints Church to your Itinerary

    Shorthampton - All Saints Church

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    Church/Chapel

    Chipping Norton

    Dates

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    The hamlet of Shorthampton consists of little more than a farm and the church. The church has an usual, boxlike appearance: no tower or spire, shallow roofs and square headed windows. Inside there are a number of unusual features but what…

  9. Add Stow on the Wold - St Edward's Church to your Itinerary

    Stow on the Wold - St Edward's Church

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    Churches and Cathedrals

    Stow on the Wold

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    This beautiful church was built somewhere between the 11th and 15th century. The tower is 88ft high and was completed in 1447. It houses the heaviest peal of eight bells in Gloucestershire. The painting of the crucifixion in the south aisle was…

  10. Add Chastleton - St Mary's Church to your Itinerary

    Chastleton - St Mary's Church

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    Church/Chapel

    Chastleton

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    Built in the 12th century and best know for it's brasses, the church was enlarged and refenestrated in the 14th century and has a south bell tower that was added in 1689 and whose crenellations echo those of Chastleton House.

  11. Add Abbey House Gardens to your Itinerary

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    Abbey House Gardens

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    Garden

    Malmesbury

    Dates

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    21 Mar 2023to31 Oct 2023

    Now Abbey House Gardens is famous worldwide. Alan Titchmarsh was right to say, '' The WOW factor is here in abundance''.

  12. Add Cogges - St Mary's Church to your Itinerary

    Cogges - St Mary's Church

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    Church/Chapel

    Witney

    Dates

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    The church has an unusual tower; positioned in the north west corner of the church it is square at ground stage, octagonal at upper stages with a pyramid roof, and is characteristic of Normandy churches.

  13. Add Court Barn Museum to your Itinerary

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    Court Barn Museum

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    Museum

    Chipping Campden

    Dates

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    1 Oct 2022to31 Mar 2023Various Opening Times
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    1 Apr 2023to30 Sept 2023Various Opening Times

    Court Barn Museum celebrates the talented designers and craftspeople who have worked in Chipping Campden and the North Cotswolds since the beginning of the twentieth century.

  14. Add Heythrop - St Nicholas' Church to your Itinerary

    Heythrop - St Nicholas' Church

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    Church/Chapel

    Chadlington, Chipping Norton

    Dates

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    There has been a church at Heythrop since at least 1086, and today the old church still survives as a small chapel with a fine Norman doorway and interesting external carvings. After the Reformation this remained the main parish church until Albert…

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

    Fairford - St Mary's Church

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    Church/Chapel

    Fairford

    Dates

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    Fairford is an outstanding church because of its fascinating complete set of medieval stained glass windows, the only such set in England. The glass is rare, and is of the highest quality.

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

    Elkstone - St John the Evangelist

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    Church/Chapel

    Elkstone

    Dates

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    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

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

    Moreton in Marsh - St David's Church

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    Churches and Cathedrals

    Moreton in Marsh

    Dates

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    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.

  18. Add Kencot - St George's Church to your Itinerary

    Kencot - St George's Church

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    Church/Chapel

    Kencot

    Dates

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    St George's Church in Kencot is of late 12th century origin and features a tower with a curious side turret with a sloping roof, which was added later and makes it look unfinished.

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

    North Leigh - St Mary's Church

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    Church/Chapel

    North Leigh

    Dates

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    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.

  20. Add Burford Tolsey Museum and Archive to your Itinerary

    Burford Tolsey Museum and Archive

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    Museum

    Burford

    Dates

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    1 Jan 2023to31 Dec 2023

    Exhibits quaintly recall the trades that flourished here - quarrying, bell-founding, rope-making, brewing, farming, leather-working and clarinet-making. There is also a famous doll's house, furnished in style of the Jane Austen period.

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