Holiday Cottages Cotswolds

Here's what you can see and do when staying at one of our Cotswold cottages.

The Cotswolds area is one of England's favourite holiday destinations, famous for hundreds of pretty Cotswolds cottages of honey-coloured limestone in beautiful rural settings. Throughout the Cotswolds the stone features in buildings and walls that act as a common thread, seamlessly blending the historic towns and villages with their surrounding landscape of rolling grasslands and beech woods. This is one of the most beautiful areas of England, known and loved by many who enjoy holiday cottages in the Cotswolds. It is the largest Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales, lying mainly within the counties of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, but extends into parts of Wiltshire, Somerset, Worcestershire and Warwickshire.

Many towns in the Cotswolds were important wool towns and the abundance of wealthy wool merchants left a legacy of impressive buildings. Stow-on-the-Wold is a delightful market town and along with Moreton-in-Marsh, perhaps the best known of the small Cotswolds towns. Both stand on the old Roman road the Fosse Way running from Exeter to Lincoln. The vast Market Square testifies to the former importance of Stow-on-the-Wold, whilst the high street in Moreton-in-Marsh has many elegant 18th century inns and houses including the Redesdale Market Hall, a Victorian 'Tudor' building of some distinction.

Cotswold cottages conjure the image of picture-postcard villages, none more so than Bourton-on-the-Water, only 4 miles from Stow-on-the-Wold. It straddles the river Windrush with its series of elegant low bridges beside neat tree-shaded greens and tidy stone banks. Cirencester is known as the capital of the Cotswolds and boasts one of the largest parish churches in England. Of all the UK's holiday cottages Cotswolds properties are perhaps the most quintessentially English. This is an outstanding English landscape - a landscape once experienced, never forgotten.

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