WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF COTSWOLDSTRAVEL
If you would like to see (arguably,) England’s most picturesque landscapes, let John Batchlor at COTSWOLDSTRAVEL take you on a private, bespoke tour around the scenic area he knows so well. You may already know the names of some of the small towns – Burford and Stow-on-the-Wold – and the postcard villages of Bourton-on-the-water, Broadway and Bibury, to name but a few. On a full-day tour you will see many more villages and hamlets as you are driven through a country-side with fields of wheat, barley, maize and/or with sheep and edged by dry-stone walls and past honey-coloured homes with flower bedecked gardens.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF COTSWOLDSTRAVEL
If you would like to see one of England’s most picturesque landscapes, let John Batchlor at COTSWOLDSTRAVEL take you on a private tour around the area where he grew up. You may already know the names of some of the small towns – Burford and Stow-on-the-Wold – and the postcard villages of Bourton-on-the-water, Broadway and Bibury, to name just three. On a full-day tour you could see as many as twenty as you are driven through a country-side of fields of sheep and dry-stone walls and past honey-coloured homes with roses around the door-frames.
The Cotswolds are much larger than most people realise, some 800 square miles. They include parts of Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, and takes its northern boundaries into Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
If you are driving out of London, you will be travelling for about an hour before reaching the Cotswolds. That is one reason why coach tours from the capital have time to do little more than visit Bourton-on-the-Water and Bibury. Many of the lanes we travel on our private, bespoke tours, are simply not accessible to the much larger buses and coaches.
Many of our guests catch an early train from London (Paddington) to either Kingham or Moreton-in-Marsh where we meet them to take them on a circa 6 hour tour of the Cotswolds before returning them to the station at which they arrived for their train journey back to London…………this is ideal if you only have a single day to spare in your busy itinerary but those in the know realise that in order to do justice to the Cotswolds and environs, you really need three or four days so they either base themselves in a suitable spot in the Cotswolds for two/three/four nights or, indeed, spend a couple of nights in the North Cotswolds and two more nights in the South Cotswolds…………………..by doing this, we can take these guests to such fascinating places (outside the Cotswolds) as Stonehenge, Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey), Winchester, Avebury stone circles (near Marlborough), Gloucester, Cheltenham, Oxford, Tewkesbury, Stratford-upon-Avon.
The Cotswolds covers a huge area – over some 800 square miles. It includes parts of Gloucestershire, south into Wiltshire, touches Oxfordshire in the east, and takes its northern boundary into Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
If you are coming out of London, you will be driving for about two hours before you reach the Cotswolds. That is one reason why coach tours from the capital have time to do little more than visit Bourton. Many of the lanes we travel are simply not accessible in coaches.
At the end of our time together, in the past, we have taken our guests to such diverse parts of the UK as Cornwall , Wales and North to the Lake District and even as far as Edinburgh. You can spend a day with us or almost a whole week. There is so much more to England than just London, but we can always finish our tour by taking you into London or Heathrow if you are flying back home.
Arlington Row, Bibury
We can do more than just drive you around the Cotswolds. For example, we can meet you at the UK Port or Airport at which you are arriving and then drive you and your luggage to your accommodation.
Arlington Row, Bibury
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Read some of our recent Cotswolds Travel articles to inspire your trip.
Read some of our recent Cotswolds Travel articles to inspire your trip.