Tetbury

• ●Highgrove Garden tours run from late spring through summer and book up months in advance — but the Highgrove official shop in Long Street is open year-round, no booking required.
• ●Visit Westonbirt in late October for the maples at their colour peak.

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   Historic

   Market House

   Built 1655 and still hosting markets on Wednesday and Saturday — open arches, original timber roof above.

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   Gardens

   Highgrove Royal Gardens

   His Majesty's organic gardens: yew hedges, wildflower meadows, the Stumpery. Booked tours only, well in advance.

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   Country house

   Chavenage House

   Elizabethan manor used as Trenwith in Poldark — open Thursdays and Sundays in summer.

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• The Royal Oak

  Smart pub-with-rooms on Cirencester Road; rotating tap of regional beers.

• The Close Hotel

  Restaurant in a 16th-century townhouse; afternoon tea in the walled garden.

• Calcot Manor

  Just outside town — gastro-pub (Gumstool Inn) and full hotel restaurant.

• Hobbs House Bakery

  The local sourdough institution — pastries, bread, hot bacon sandwiches.

• By car

  2h from London via M4 j18 then A46. Pay-and-display car parks behind the Market House.

• By train

  Kemble (5 miles), then taxi or the 882 bus.

October is unmissable for Westonbirt's autumn colour. Mid-week visits avoid the food-and-antiques weekend crowd. The Royal Three Counties Show in June is a country highlight.

• Sat 11 Jul 2026

  Tetfest 2026

  Tetbury's family-friendly summer festival on Worwell Farm — live music across the day, fairground rides, kids' activities and cocktail bars; eight years on, it's the village fête grown up to grander scale.

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• Sun 30 Aug 2026

  Bike Cotswold Sportive 2026

  A scenic bank-holiday-Sunday sportive starting from Westonbirt School — three routes of approximately 30, 47 and 75 miles through the Cotswolds, with feed stations, support and a charity option for Macaroni Wood.

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• 26 Sep – 4 Oct 2026

  Tetbury Music Festival 2026

  Nine days of chamber music in Tetbury's parish church and barn venues — drawing leading international players to a small-town setting.

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• 24 Nov – 23 Dec 2026

  Enchanted Christmas at Westonbirt 2026

  After-dark illuminated walking trail through the National Arboretum at Westonbirt — light installations, a fire garden and a Christmas-cathedral finale among the autumn trees.

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Hotels, B&Bs and self-catering cottages within easy reach of Tetbury — browse availability for your dates on Booking.com.

Within 10 miles, ordered by distance.

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   Gardens · 4.4 mi · 3 miles south of Tetbury, on the A433

   Westonbirt, The National Arboretum

   Six hundred acres of trees gathered from across the world since 1829 — and one of the finest autumn-colour displays in the UK.

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   Walking · 5.3 mi · Minchinhampton

   Minchinhampton Common

   Six hundred acres of free-roaming National Trust grazing land high above the Five Valleys — wildflowers, Iron Age earthworks and views from the Mendips to the Malverns.

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   Food & Drink · 7.7 mi · Stroud

   Stroud Farmers' Market

   The Saturday market on Cornhill that everyone in the southern Cotswolds drives to — three times named the best farmers' market in Britain.

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   Viewpoint · 8.8 mi · Wotton-under-Edge

   Tyndale Monument

   A 111-foot tower on Nibley Knoll, raised in 1866 to commemorate Bible translator William Tyndale — and a Cotswold Way landmark with views to the Severn estuary.

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   Museum · 9.9 mi · Cirencester

   Corinium Museum

   Cirencester was Corinium, the second-largest Roman town in Britain — and this museum holds the mosaics, sculpture, and silver to prove it.

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