Cotswolds Road Trip 🚗🌸🏡
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Explore the timeless charm of the Cotswolds — a region of honey-stone villages, rolling hills, and quintessential English countryside.
Cotswolds Road Trip Itinerary Summary
📍 Stanton 🏘️
📍 Broadway 🌿
📍 National Trust – Snowshill Manor and Garden 🌸
📍 Chipping Campden 🏡
📍 Blockley 🌾
📍 Stow-on-the-Wold 🛍️
📍 Lower Slaughter 🌷
📍 Hawkstone Brewery 🍺
📍 Bourton-on-the-Water 🌊
📍 Bibury 🦢
📍 Cirencester 🕍
📍 Westonbirt Arboretum 🍁
📍 Castle Combe 🏰
📍 Lacock 📸 – Not technically in the Cotswolds, but well worth a visit
Bonus Stops:
➕ Burford 🪻
➕ Blenheim Palace 🏛️
Total Distance: 🚗 Approx. 90 miles
📸 Photos & Info are located further down. Keep scrolling to see all these places. ⬇️
This Cotswolds Road Trip offers the perfect blend of history, gardens, charming pubs, and picture-perfect villages — ideal for a classic English countryside getaway. 🌤️🍃🫖
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🚗 Need a car for this road trip?
If you don’t have your own car, I’d really recommend renting one — it gives you the flexibility to stop at each waterfall and explore at your own pace.
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- Their 3rd party insurance is a lot cheaper
- They have a great customer service for claims (though I hope you won’t have to use it!
Additional Information & Highlights
📍 Stanton
📍 Broadway
📍 National Trust – Snowshill Manor and Garden
📍 Chipping Campden
📍 Blockley
📍 Stow-on-the-Wold
📍 Lower Slaughter
📍 Hawkstone Brewery
📍 Bourton-on-the-Water
📍 Bibury
📍 Cirencester
📍 Westonbirt Arboretum
📍 Castle Combe
📍 Lacock
An idyllic National Trust village with Harry Potter filming locations.
🗺️ Things To Do:
– Visiting Lacock Abbey
– Discovering the Harry Potter filming locations (mainly in Lacock Abbey but there are also another couple in the village)
– Visiting Lacock country house (National Trust), once home to William Henry Fox Talbot
