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Walking | Historical | Adventure | Food and Drink | Family Activity | Relax and Unwind | Events Welcome ¨ Coln St Aldwyns to ¨ Walk to St Mary Tory Bibury walk Bradford on Avon has a winning Bibury is often considered to be one combination of river, canal and of the most beautiful villages in the fabulous architecture, and no building WALKING area and features the Arlington Row is more beautiful than the chapel of St cottages – the most photographed Mary Tory on the hill. Take a relaxing scene in the Cotswolds. This gentle walk up the hill to see the stunning walk from Coln St Aldwyns offers church and sublime views across the ¨ Painswick Rococo Garden ¨ Cleeve Hill a chance to soak up some stunning Wiltshire countryside. We can’t imagine being anywhere other Cotswold countryside. Even better, www.bradfordonavon.co.uk than the beautiful Cotswolds – it’s 790 Painswick Rococo Garden is the UK’s On a clear day, you can see for miles ¨ Five Valleys Walk it’s a great walk for dog owners. BA15 1NN (St Mary Tory) square miles of wow! Everyone knows only surviving complete rococo garden from Cleeve Hill – it’s the highest The Five Valleys – Chalford Valley, www.escapetothecotswolds.org.uk it’s filled with stunning scenes and and a real hidden gem. Designed in the point on the Cotswold Hills. On the Nailsworth Valley, Ruscombe Valley, GL7 5AN ¨ Winchcombe Walking tantalising tea rooms, but there’s far 1740s as a flamboyant pleasure garden, outskirts of Cheltenham, the hill Slad Valley (of Cider with Rosie fame) you’ll find fanciful garden buildings boasts stunning views and is a great Festival more to the Cotswolds than meets the and Painswick Valley – all converge ¨ Bath Skyline walk eye. As an Area of Outstanding Natural and stunning views of the surrounding place to take those holiday selfies, on Stroud, one of the Cotswolds’ The little Gloucestershire town of Beauty, it stretches a lot further than countryside to while away the hours. but don’t forget to take your scarf quirkiest towns. Every September, The World Heritage City of Bath Winchcombe comes to life every you might realise – from Broadway in www.rococogarden.org.uk and your woolly jumper to fend off people get together to take part in the is beautiful, unique and historic. It May with the three-day Winchcombe the North Cotswolds to Burford in GL6 6TH the wind! 21-mile circular Five Valleys Walk to looks great from the ground, but what Walking Festival. There are a large Oxfordshire, and all the way down to www.cleevecommon.org.uk raise money for Meningitis Now. about viewing it from a completely selection of walks to choose from, Bath and the far reaches of Wiltshire. In ¨ Bourton to Lower GL52 3PW www.meningitisnow.org/ different angle? The picturesque including an early morning dawn fact, there are hundreds of hidden gems Slaughter walk support-us/featured-events/ Bath Skyline walk takes you through chorus walk and a gruelling 21-mile just waiting to be discovered. If long hikes aren’t your thing, the ¨ Broadway Tower five-valleys-walk-2017/ the countryside surrounding Bath, hike. Our favourite is the walk to the That’s why we’re excited to present the Bourton to Lower Slaughter walk The Cotswolds’ highest folly, GL5 1AJ (centre of Stroud) giving you magnificent views of the pub for lunch! definitive Cotswold Bucket List – the should be right up your street at a Broadway Tower was the brainchild city while burning up some serious www.winchcombewelcomeswalkers. top 100 things to see, do and experience leisurely 1.3 miles. The walk takes you of renowned landscape designer ¨ Coaley Peak Picnic Site energy! com/festival www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ GL54 5LJ in the Cotswolds. From the loveliest through beautiful countryside, across Capability Brown. As well as stunning Coaley Peak, on the outskirts of bath-skyline/trails/bath-skyline-walk views and top attractions to the region’s fields, alongside the river and into views, the tower has plenty for history Stroud, offers some of the best views best eateries and secret hideaways, BA2 6EP Lower Slaughter before you know buffs to enjoy, including an RAF in Gloucestershire. If you’re taking a we’ve got it covered. it. Once in Lower Slaughter, you will lookout tower and a nuclear bunker. walk along the Cotswold Way, grab Each entry in The Cotswold Bucket come across Copse Hill Road, named www.broadwaytower.co.uk your picnic basket, fill it with yummy List has been recommended by a local Britain’s most romantic street. WR12 7LB treats and stop off here for views resident, so you can be sure that every www.cotswolds.info/places/ from across the Five Valleys and the new stop on your Cotswold adventure bourton-on-the-water.shtml ¨ Korea Friendship Forest of Dean with some great selfie is well worth the effort. We’ll admit, GL54 2AP Trail opportunities. we’ve used a bit of artistic licence on a The Korea Friendship Trail is a www.gloucestershire.gov.uk few that are located just on the edge of ¨ Leckhampton Hill and circular walk that’s part of the GL10 3TP the region, but they’re so good that we Devil’s Chimney 102-mile-long Cotswold Way. Don’t couldn’t leave them out. All that’s left for On the outskirts of Cheltenham, worry, this one’s nice and easy! It ¨ Dursley Sculpture Trail you to do now is get out there and start Leckhampton Hill offers a gorgeous takes in breathtaking views at the top Sculpted by the local community, ticking things off your list! view of the Cotswolds. It’s also home of Stinchcombe Hill near Dursley, Dursley Sculpture and Play Trail in Charlotte Knowles to the intriguing Devil’s Chimney, and is often called ‘one of the most Twinberrow Woods was created a rock formation that juts out from beautiful meanderings’ on the main by people aged 6 to over 90! The General Manager, The Old Stocks Inn the hill. Legend says the devil lives trail. trail is always evolving, so you’ll find PS: We’d love to see your new-found deep inside the hill and it really is his www.nationaltrail.co.uk/ something new every time you visit. discoveries, so share them with us on chimney – tread carefully! cotswold-way www.valevision.org.uk/projects_ Facebook, Instagram and Twitter by using www.leckhamptonhill.org.uk GL11 4JQ sculpture.htm the hashtag #cotswoldbucketlist GL53 9QQ Off the A4135, on the outskirts of Dursley 02 THE COTSWOLD BUCKET LIST www.OLDSTOCKSINN.COM www.cotswoldbucketlist.com THE COTSWOLD BUCKET LIST 03 Walking | Historical | Adventure | Food and Drink | Family Activity | Relax and Unwind | Events ¨ The Rollright Stones The Rollright Stones is an ancient site on the Oxfordshire/ HISTORICAL Warwickshire border – a place of mysterious beauty and subtle energy. On the solstices, it plays host to local druids, who welcome everyone to ¨ Sudeley Castle come and celebrate the peace and Sudeley Castle & Gardens, situated beauty of the stones. in the town of Winchcombe, has ¨ Blenheim Palace ¨ Chastleton House www.rollrightstones.co.uk played an important role in English The breathtaking Blenheim Palace Chastleton House is like a Cotswolds OX7 5QB history for over 1,000 years. With is a World Heritage Site and the time capsule, remaining unchanged strong Tudor connections, it even birthplace of Winston Churchill. for 400 years. It’s also where croquet ¨ Tewkesbury Medieval boasts a queen buried in its grounds. Step back in time and discover was invented. During the summer, Festival The adventure playground is a must 300 years of history at the palace, a you can enjoy a game on the very Europe’s biggest and best free for little ones, but grown-ups might masterpiece of Baroque architecture. lawns where the rules were first medieval festival takes place in prefer the peace of the gardens. www.blenheimpalace.com established. Just be careful with the historic riverside town of www.sudeleycastle.co.uk OX20 1PP those mallets – they’re heavier than Tewkesbury every year. Stick around GL54 5JD you might think! for the big battle, or stroll around the Photo credit: Kim Gibbon ¨ St Mary’s Church, www.nationaltrust.org.uk/chastleton- camp and sample authentic treats ¨ Kelmscott Manor Painswick house and beers made to the same recipes On the banks of the Thames in the ¨ Gloucester Cathedral ¨ Soldiers of In the heart of beautiful Painswick, GL56 0SU as they were in the 1400s. www.tewkesburymedievalfestival.org picturesque village of Kelmscott A stunning example of medieval Gloucestershire Museum the spire of St Mary’s Church towers GL20 5RZ (Tewkesbury Abbey) is Kelmscott Manor, the Cotswold architecture, Gloucester Cathedral The Soldiers of Gloucestershire above the town. Take the time to ¨ Corsham Court retreat of William Morris, his family is the final resting place of King Museum on Gloucester Docks is count the perfectly trimmed yew Corsham Court in Wiltshire is a and fellow artists. The manor, its Edward II and often imparts a sense dedicated to the memory of all the trees in the churchyard and you’ll privately owned historic house with gardens, barns, dovecote, meadow of peace on its visitors. However, Gloucestershire soldiers who have find that there are 99 of them. one heck of an art collection. The and stream were a constant source of Harry Potter fans might leave the served their country. While you’re Legend says that a 100th tree will collection includes a painting by Sir inspiration to Morris, who was one cathedral with a touch of magic, as it there, you can try on army uniforms never grow, and if it did, the devil Anthony Van Dyck and a portrait of the leading lights of the Victorian was transformed into Hogwarts for and a rifleman’s backpack, and would pull it out! of Queen Elizabeth I, making it a arts and crafts movement.
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