Homegrown Delights

H oney-coloured limestone cottages in picturesque villages and stately country estates with Capability Brown finishing touches fill in the gaps between the rolling hills and babbling brooks of the quintessential green England that is the Cotswolds. No ‘dark satanic mills’ cloud the horizon, but rather within this area of outstanding natural beauty beat the hearts of contented fugitives from the ‘big smoke’ of London, Birmingham and Bristol, revelling in idle hours nursing a ‘jar’ or two in a quaint country pub and spending some quality time with a well-earned break in some of the very finest country house hotels to be found anywhere in this ‘green and pleasant land’. Malmesbury Charlbury CastleCombe Burford Gloucester Bristol Bath Chippenham Broadway Stroud Painswick Mickleton Cotswold Area of outstanding Natural Beauty Cirencester Tewkesbury Lechlade-on-Thames UpperSlaughter Nailsworth Wooton-under-Edge Tetbury ChippingNorton Bourton-on-the-Water ChippingCampden Moreton-in-Marsh Stow-on-the-Wold