Guiting Power Baptist chapel was built in 1835 and it's a typical Victorian chapel. Outside, round-headed windows and a Venetian window above the entrance can...

There have been people living at Guiting Power since at least Saxon times. Today, Guiting Power is a popular conservation village. At its centre is...

St Michael’s is a fine cruciform church with Norman origins. Exceptional features include a surviving Norman doorway with an ornate carved tympanum and a tiny...

Burial mound or sacrifice site - no one's quite sure what Guiting Power Round Barrow was for, although it's the largest of its kind in...

The Domesday entry for Guiting Power mentions a priest living in this small village, perhaps indicating that this church dates from at least 1086, when...

Established in 1971, the Cotswold Farm Park was the first-ever Rare Breeds Farm to open to the public. With over 50 flocks and herds of...

This pretty church with 12th century origins is the site of an astonishing discovery. A Decalogue of reredos found here had lain hidden and decaying...

Cotswold stone, 14th Century and Grade I listed, Temple Guiting Manor is regarded as one of the finest small Tudor houses in the Cotswolds. Set...

This very pretty church is probably 12th Century in origin, but later additions include the tower, added in the 15th Century and the nave and...

The little village of Naunton has an unusually large Baptist chapel. At capacity, this tall and spacious building can seat up to 150 people. Other...

Naunton's famous local Dovecote is Grade II listed and an Ancient Monument. Like many dovecotes, it is stone built with a four-gabled design. Unlike many...

Hawling Methodist Chapel sites on a hill and has wonderful views of the surrounding Cotswold countryside. Built in 1837, it is a simple square building...

Hawling parish church is mostly 18th Century, but the pretty tower is around 500 years old. Early perpendicular in style, it has embattlements and gargoyles....

Situated a short distance from Cheltenham amongst some charming Gloucestershire countryside, Belas Knap Long Barrow represents a particularly fine exampe of a Neolithic tomb, dated...

The site of St Bartholomew’s Church almost certainly dates back to Roman Britain. A Saxon church once stood here and before that probably a Roman...

Sudeley Castle is nestled in the glorious Cotswold Hills and was once the home of Queen Katerine Parr. With 14 acres of award-winning gardens, a...

Founded in 1246 and once a celebrated pilgrimage site, this Cistercian abbey now lies in ruins due to its demolition in the sixteenth Century under...

St Barnabas was built in the 19th Century, but, as a place of worship, the site dates back to the 5th Century. The churchyard, which...

Snowshill Manor is a Cotswold manor house, containing Charles Paget Wade’s extraordinary collection of craftsmanship and design, including musical instruments, clocks, toys, bicycles, weavers’ and...

This church was for the most part rebuilt in 1867, although the four-windowed northern side remains from the earlier building. This Transitional Norman arcade was...

This unusual sunken church is late Norman in origin. Some features have survived from this period, including the doorway to the tower. The top of...

Winchcombe’s most picturesque terrace was built for Lady Emma Dent of Sudeley Castle. Dent’s Terrace is a row of almshouses with gabled porches and pretty...

With its distinctive Mansard roof, this is a typical Winchcombe house. From its façade it appears to be Georgian but hidden behind is a much...

Beginning in the busy market town of Winchcombe, the Windrush Way winds along the banks of the River Windrush to Bourton-on-the-Water, the Cotswold's most visited...

This fascinating museum houses separate folk and police collections. The folk collection traces Winchcombe’s history from Neolithic times, with exhibits from Belas Knap, Roman Winchcombe,...

St Peter’s is best known for its gargoyles. Around forty grotesque faces stare down from the outside of the church. It’s said that the faces...

Jacobean House is perhaps Winchcombe's most impressive building. Two-gabled and three-floored, it stands tall at the end of Queen Square. Built in 1618, it was...

North Street was once called Horsefair Street and horse-tethering rings can still be seen in the walls here. They were used for the horse markets...

This is a truly interactive railway museum where visitors can actually operate the exhibits, which include simulated signal boxes that can be seen locking as...

Lavender thrives on the free-draining limestone of the Cotswold Hills, and here at Snowshill Lavender there are 53 acres of it - a wonderful site...

Winchcombe Pottery is one of the oldest craft potteries in the UK. Potters and ceramicists have worked here on and off since the early 19th...

The history of St Edward’s Church spans nearly a thousand years. Begun in the 12th Century on the site of an earlier Saxon church, it...

Part medieval and part Victorian, Stow market cross was first put up in the 15th Century to encourage market traders to trade honestly. In 1878,...

Completed in 1878, St Edwards’s Hall is one of the newer buildings in Stow and it dwarfs its older neighbours. Designed by Medland of Gloucester,...

At 330 metres above sea level, Cleeve Common is the highest point in the Cotswolds. Countless footpaths crisscross its 1000 acres and breathtaking views extend...

A simple but large building tucked away down a little alley, Stow Baptist Chapel was built in 1852, although Baptists have been meeting in Stow...

This toy museum in the lively market town of Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds is packed full with an internationally acclaimed collection of Victorian, Edwardian and...

In dramatic contrast to the traditional Cotswold cottages surrounding it, this 19th Century red brick corn mill on the picturesque River Eye is home to...

The restored steam and diesel locomotives of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway pass through some of the best scenery in the Cotswolds. From this station...

This well, and another further down the lane, are where Stow’s water came from until 1871, when a well was bored in the town centre...