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Holidays in Cotswold.

Cotswold is a local government district in Gloucestershire named after The Cotswolds, a range of hills in west-central England.



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Camping & Caravanning Cotswold

 Eurocampings  -  ACSI Camping Guide

Car Hire Southwest England

 Holiday Autos  -  
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

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Holiday Homes / Cottages / Apartments

   -  leading UK provider of self-catered holidays
Availability search [ refining by specifying price, pet, pub nearby, open fire, swimming pool and more possible ], special offers and brochure request.

  -  Holiday Lodges and Holiday Parks Britain
A short break, or weekend, at one of our holiday parks gives you a real getaway, whatever the season. You'll find well-equipped and cosily heated bungalows, lodges, chalets, apartments and caravans in beautiful forest, countryside and coastal surroundings.

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See for more the page Holiday Homes

Hostels / Youth Hostel / B&B

 
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.

 Youth Hostels England

Hotels Southwest of England

 Hotels in Southwest England  -  Hotel Guide Southwest England

 

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

 


Superbreak offer leisure hotel breaks and features 2-5 star hotels, with the majority in the 3-4 star+ rating.

 
Widest choice of self-catering holidays / short breaks throughout Britain, Ireland and Europe
A self-catering holiday in one of Hoseasons' holiday lodges and parks brings a new meaning to the word freedom. From the moment you arrive you can revel in the limitless possibilities offered at every resort centre.
And with late availability and last minute booking facilities, you'll soon be experiencing the holiday of your dreams. Enjoy a weekend or short break in beautiful countryside, at some of Europe's finest beaches or forest surroundings.

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Travel Guides Southwest England / Related books

Travel Guides Southwest England [ Amazon.co.uk ]

Transport / How do I travel to Southwest England

 Birmingham International Airport
 London Heathrow or Gatwick

From London Gatwick Airport you can get train to Reading station and from there a mainline connection to Moreton-in-Marsh in the Cotswolds. Alternatively from Gatwick you can get train to London Victoria Station and then by tube to London Paddington and from here to Moreton-in-Marsh.

  Opodo  -  
Flight tickets Cotswold, Flight tickets Birmingham, Flight tickets London.

 
Book cheap flights to Cotswold at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  Flights to Southwest England

 
thetrainline is the fully impartial rail ticketing website owned by the Virgin Group, Virgin Rail Group and National Express Group, providing the cheaper way to buy train tickets online. thetrainline provides fast, easy and secure access to timetables, tickets and fares for all National Rail journeys across the UK.

  -  Coach Line to Southwest England
You name it, they go there. National Express carries over 16 million passengers a year to 1000 different places in the UK, and thousands of others to destinations across Europe and Ireland. They run more services to and from UK airports than anyone else, and they even lay on special services to festivals like Glastonbury!

 Stagecoach in Devon

 Maps International  -   
Mapsinternational.co.uk is one of the largest map shops online.
 Multimap.com 
Street-level maps, road maps; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information.


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 Travel Insurance  -  online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 Tourism Cotswold District

 Cotswold District Council 
Cotswold stone villages, historic market towns, outstanding countryside, welcoming places to stay and friendly country pubs. Just a few reasons to visit one of the most beautiful areas in England.

 Bourton-on-the-Water  -  Venice of the Cotswold
Bourton-on-the-Water has more than its share of Cotswold houses and cottages, many of them three hundred years old, some dating back to Elizabethan times four hundred years ago. See for more Bourtoninfo.com. 
 Chipping Campden  -  small market town 
Set in the beautiful rural Gloucestershire and Cotswold countryside, it is one of the most beautiful tourist destinations in England, hardly touched by the centuries. Due to its central location with easy road access, it is ideal for a full vacation or just a short break. The central, location in the North Cotswolds makes an ideal base for your accommodation for a touring holiday. The town was a rich wool trading centre in the Middle Ages.
 Cirencester  -  largest town in Cotswold District.
On the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames. The town's origins lie in the Roman period, when as Corinium Dobunnorum, it was one of the regional capitals of Roman Britain.
 Fairford
 Lechdale-on-Thames
 Moreton-in-Marsh
 Northleach
 Stow-on-the-Wold
 Tetbury.

 the Cotswolds

 Corinium Museum, Cirencester  -  Discover the treasures of the Cotswolds
Visitors can trace the story of the Cotswolds from Prehistory to the late 19th Century, with hands-on exhibits, interactive displays and a wealth of precious artefacts. See Cirencester.co.uk.
 Cleeve Hill [ 330 m ]  -  highest point in the Cotswolds range, 4 km to the north of Cheltenham
 Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway  -  the friendly line in the Cotswolds
 Forest of Dean
 St John Baptist, Cirencester  -  'Cathedral of the Cotswolds'
The parish church of St John Baptist dominates the town centre on a scale which supports its title of 'Cathedral of the Cotswolds'. One of the fine Cotswold wool churches, it is a lasting symbol of the town's wealth and influence in medieval England. See Parish of Cirencester.
 Tewkesbury Abbey

Cuisine - Gastronomy

The staple foods of England are meat, fish, potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Many of the English dishes are based on these foods.

Bacon Roly-Poly, Bangers and Mash, Black Pudding, Bubble & Squeak, Cornish Pasties, Cottage Pie, Fish & Chips, Gingerbread, Hot Cross Buns, Hot Pot, Kedgeree new, Ploughman's Lunch, Roast Beef, Roast Chicken, Roast lamb, Shepherd's Pie, Sponge Cake, Toad-in-the-Hole, Tom Collins, Trifle, Yorkshire Pudding

 West Country Restaurants 
Guide to eating out at quality restaurants and pubs.

 Traditional foods in England
The Good Food Guide 2005  - by Andrew Turvil (Editor)
Paperback 784 pages (October 1, 2004)
English Food by Jane Grigson, Gillian Zeiner (Illustrator), Sophie Grigson
Paperback 400 pages; Penguin Books Ltd; ISBN: 0140273247
Favourite Pudding Recipes: Traditional Ways to a Man's Heart - Birkett Foster
Paperback 48 pages; Publisher: J Salmon; ISBN: 1898435685

History Cotswold / Gloucestershire

 History of Cotswold / Gloucestershire  -  see Wikipedia

 

 English Heritage
 National Trust

Music, Art & Culture, Events & Entertainment

 Cotswold Olimpicks
Each year, on the traditional date of Friday after Spring Bank Holiday the hill echoes with the shouts and cheers of competitors and spectators as Robert Dover's Cotswold 'Olimpick' Games (not Olympic Games) are celebrated. Peculiar to the games is the sport of shin-kicking.

 English folk and traditional music
Guide to Internet resources relating to English folk music
 Traditional music & Folk related links  -  by area

Web Portals / Search Engines / Directory

 The-cotswolds.org
Popular with both the English themselves and visitors from all over the world,the Cotswolds are well-known for gentle hillsides ('wolds'), sleepy villages and for being so 'typically English'.
There are famous cities such as Bath, well-known beautiful towns like Cheltenham and hundreds of delightful villages such as Burford and Castle Combe.
 Cotswolds.info 

 The Castles of England  -  Information Castles
 UK Bus Journey Planner

 MSN UK 

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