** This tour does not include lunch
** This tour includes lunch at a traditional English pub.
Tour Highlights:
In depth look at the Cotswolds
Visit several picture postcard villages
Lunch in a beautiful Cotswold village (Tour 16BL)
Delicious Cotwolds cream tea.
Days of Operation: April 2008 to March 2009 - Wed, Fri & Sun
This tour starts at 08:45am and finishes at approximately 6:00pm Please note that from 01 November 08 until 31 March 09, afternoon cream tea will be included in this tour.
The Cotswolds
Steeped in history, rich in heritage and awash with natural beauty, the area of England known as the Cotswolds is a charming blend of bustling market towns, sleepy villages, and breathtaking natural scenery. This tour gives you an in depth look at the Cotswolds as we visit several picturesque villages.
Wood stock
The pretty village of Woodstock boasts many charming streets, inns, and tea shops and is most famous for close proximity to the ancestral home of the Churchill family, Blenheim Palace.
Lunch in Burford
This thriving old wool town is built along a steep high street which leads down to a medieval bridge spanning the River Windrush. Burford is full of crooked little Cotswold stone houses, leaning walls and gabled cottages. We will stop for lunch in a traditional English pub in the village.
Bourton on the Water
Often called the “Venice of the Cotswolds”, this village is one of the most photographed in the region, with its traditional Cotswold villages, elegant low bridges, and picturesque Main Street.
Stow-On-The-Wold
We will drive through the highest town in the Cotswolds, whose market square testifies to its former importance. At one end stands the ancient cross, and at the other the town stocks, surrounded by elegant Cotswold houses.
Lechlade – Cotswold Cream Tea
The small Cotswold market town of Lechlade is situated at the southern borders of the Cotswolds where Rivers Coln and Leach join the Thames. We will have a Cotswold cream tea overlooking the River Thames, with a lovely view of the natural wildlife and the moored boats used on the river.
