Find the Cotswolds
that feels like yours.

Low stone bridges arc over the shallow River Windrush in the most photographed village in the region.

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A handsome wool town atop an 800-foot hill, ringed by antique shops, coaching inns and the famous yew-flanked church door.

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An unbroken curve of honey-stone houses on a single high street, and the official starting point of the Cotswold Way.

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A wide, lime-lined high street, once a hub of the Arts and Crafts movement, watched over by the folly of Broadway Tower.

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William Morris's favourite village, famous for the weavers' cottages of Arlington Row and a working trout farm on the Coln.

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No street lamps, no TV aerials, no overhead wires — a tiny tucked-away village that has stood in for Cranford and Downton.

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The King's home town — handsome Georgian streets, two dozen antique dealers and, just outside, Highgrove's Royal Gardens.

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Silver-grey stone (rarer here than honey) and a churchyard of 99 ancient yews, with the Rococo Garden a mile north.

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Once the second-largest city in Roman Britain, today a lively market town with one of the finest 'wool churches' in England.

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A long, sloping high street drops to a triple-arched bridge over the Windrush — a perfect first stop arriving from Oxford.

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A beautiful Cotswolds town on the railway line — wide Fosse Way high street, a weekly market, and easy, onward buses.

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An ancient royal capital tucked beneath the escarpment, with Sudeley Castle on its edge and eight long-distance footpaths meeting in its centre.

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An elegant Regency town at the western foot of the Cotswolds, home to four major festivals and the Gold Cup race meeting.

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A Roman spa, a Georgian crescent and a literary capital — Bath sits where the Cotswolds meet the West Country.

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A tiny village along the River Eye, often called the prettiest in the Cotswolds.

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A 'Doubly Thankful Village' — no losses in either World War — and far less crowded than its twin.

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A small wool-trade market town with one of the great medieval 'wool churches' of England.

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The medieval market town on the River Avon where Shakespeare was born, lived, and is buried.

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A no-nonsense working market town with a famous skyline-dominating tweed mill chimney.

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A small West Oxfordshire village named 'England's favourite' by Country Life — and the rural foodie capital of the Cotswolds.

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A tiny hilltop hamlet of golden stone above the Vale of Evenlode — and the surprise of England's largest lavender field a mile down the lane.

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A single street of perfect 16th- and 17th-century stone houses, kept intact by one careful 20th-century owner.

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A tiny estate village dominated by Stanway House — and its 300-foot gravity-fed fountain, the tallest in Britain.

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A steep, quiet village strung along a fast brook, with twelve silk-mill buildings still standing — and a regular cameo as Father Brown's Kembleford.

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A working market town on the edge of the ancient Wychwood forest, with an unusually good independent restaurant scene and a direct train to London.

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A handsome Georgian market town built up against the gates of Blenheim — Churchill's birthplace and the only non-royal palace in England.

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A small Georgian market town at the highest navigable point of the River Thames — boats, a stone bridge and Shelley's churchyard.

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A quiet Cotswold market town whose church holds the only complete set of medieval stained glass in England.

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A small mill-town in the deep wooded valley below Minchinhampton — independent shops, two Michelin restaurants and the steepest road in England.

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A working town at the meeting point of five steep wooded valleys — host to the best Saturday farmers' market in the country.

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A modest hilltop wool town beside 600 acres of open National Trust common — cattle, kites and Iron Age earthworks.

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A tucked-away market town at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment, with a long high street, three pubs and a famous walkers' refuge.

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A small honey-stone village strung along a lane high above the Windrush valley, set around a Norman church and a working family estate.

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A small honey-stone village clustered around a sloping green, watched over by a Norman church and a famous racing pub — quietly preserved by the trust that owns most of it.

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A small Cotswold village best known as the operational headquarters of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway, with a Victorian Gothic church and a privately owned Gothic Revival manor.

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