One night I went to The Scenic Supper (currently based at Todenham and soon to relocate for the rest of this year outside Stow-on-the-Wold. One of the Scenic Supper dining pods - Credit: Scenic Supper I got lost amidst the cattle grids of Radford and the mill at Kiddington. I particularly loved my drive from Kingham around the arcane glories of Idbury and the rolling sweep that is Little Barrington. Others have geographical features in their names such as under-Hill (Ashton), on-the-Wold (Stow), on-the-Hill (Bourton), on-the-Green (Hinton) in-Marsh (Moreton) and on-the-Water (Bourton).
Some have intriguing names such as Little Rollright, Guiting Power, Lower Slaughter and Gagingwell.
They come also for the market town shops of Burford, Chipping Norton and Woodstock which offer interesting curios, antiques and second-hand books and all are reassuringly familiar of the English country town scene.īut for the secret delights you have to dig and delve deeper.Įveryone will have their favourite village or hamlet as so many are typical of what the Cotswolds represents. Tourists come also to Bourton-on-the-Water which resembles a smaller version of Ghent or Bruges, to Bicester Village for its shopping outlets, and to Blenheim Palace for its sheer opulence and splendour. Only 90 minutes from London are these stunning film-set villages, uniform in their celebrated stone (which gives it an advantage over the Chilterns). It’s bang next door to the long driveway that announces Soho Farmhouse (Part of the members’ club countryside portfolio it complements Babington House in Somerset and here, with its green bikes and light blue shuttle buses, I was welcomed at night by a stunning pit fire. Here was the picture postcard Cotswold village with its beautifully rendered stone respected throughout the walls and houses to give harmony to the green and golden fields. Later, five minutes' drive away, I reached Great Tew with its ironstone cottages in their tranquil setting within a wooded valley beneath a feudal manor.
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