Cotswolds
From Tetbury To Chipping Campden Via The Duntisbournes and Bibury
Mileometer 60 miles
On the clock 3 hours’ driving time
Landscape Classic country lanes
Getting off to a civilised start in prosperous Tetbury, our Cotswolds jaunt is geared towards unhurried exploration, all chocolate-box views and mellow-stone hamlets. There are gastropubs galore along the way and, in terms of impossibly attractive high streets, we’ve saved the best till last.
Need to know
Leave Tetbury (A) on the B4014 north to Avening, and turn right at the bottom of the hill, after three miles. After a mile and a half, turn right at the sign for Minchinhampton, then right again at the…
Worth getting out of the car for
Park up at Bibury and walk past the impossibly pretty cottages of Arlington Row to the village church and back. …
Review
When two retrievers bark in Tetbury, things get a bit rowdy. Apart from such isolated incidents, town centre at busy time is an idyll of contented prosperity. Unhurried people are buying books and plants among the old stone pillars of the 17th-century marketplace; there…
Dates for your diary
March Cheltenham Festival Gold Cup. May Cheltenham Jazz Festival. May/June…
