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The local community
Things to do in the Cotswolds, include museums, parks & gardens, leisure activities & historic buildings, nightlife & shopping, so much in fact that you will be spoilt for choice.
The Cotswolds boast magnificent gardens like that of Hidcote Manor & grand houses such as Blenheim Palace, home to the Duke of Marlborough. There are also attractions that have an educational element, these include the Oxford University Botanic Gardens, Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre & the many museums dedicated to the history of the Cotswolds. Whatever you decide to do you will be rewarded with a great day out.
The Cotswold Way
The Cotswold Way is a charming walk that meanders along the western edge of the Cotswolds. It starts in Chipping Campden and ends in Bath, and takes in a landscape of sheep pastures, cornfields, woodlands and picturesque villages.
The trail is 102 miles (163km), so not one for the 'strollers'. However, there are many walks around Chipping Campden ideal for strolling.
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Chipping Campden,
One of the loveliest small towns in the Cotswolds and a gilded masterpiece of limestone and craftmanship.The main street curves in a shallow arc lined with a succession of ancient houses each grafted to the next but each with its own distinctive embellishments.
As the name suggests ("Chipping" means market or market place from the old English "Ceping"). Chipping Campden was one of the most important of the medieval wool towns and famous throughout Europe. This legacy of fame and prosperity is everything that give the town its character.
Campden was already established in the 7th century and derives its name from the Saxon "Campa-denu" or "Campadene", meaning a valley with fields or enclosures of cultivated land.
Chipping Campden's church, St. James, at the north end of the town, is perhaps, the finest 'wool' church in the Cotswolds, with a magnificent 120ft (36 metre) tower and a very spacious interior. The church is famed for having one of the oldest altar tapestries (pre-reformation) and largest brass in England.
In 1970 the High Street and much of the rest of the town was officially designated a conservation area to preserve the ancient town for centuries to come.
Visit Stratford-upon-Avon,
A town synonymous with William Shakespeare. Stratford-upon-Avon introduces you to a market town with more than 800 years of history containing not only many buildings that survive to-day and would have been familiar to Shakespeare, but also a thriving community offering a wide variety of leisure and shopping experiences.
Mayhem at Mickleton Hills
In 1851 was the last recorded civil war in England.
The Battle of Mickleton Tunnel took place in the Mickleton Hills in 1851 when Brunel's private army of 3,000 navvies fought the army of a disgruntled contractor who was backed by the forces of the local magistrates and armed police. The contractor, Mudge-Marchant, had stopped work on the tunnel as he was owed £34,000 by the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway (commonly known as “The Old Worse and Worse”).
Brunel, as company engineer, had been instructed to evict Mudge-Marchant and his men who had commandeered the site.
This is thought to have been the last battle fought by private armies on British soil.