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Cotswold driver guide tours, personalised  by Tim Harrison
 
 

 

My tours are individually tailored to suit your interests. Many of my clients leave the itinerary of the Cotswold tours totally up to me, some prefer to suggest a couple of "must see’s" and I then arrange their tours around this. Others particularly, if we are touring for several days, suggest several places of interest. For example, Blenheim Palace, Oxford, Bath, Stonehenge, Hidcote Manor Gardens, etc. and I will then "jigsaw" the best scenic routes around these attractions incorporating Cotswold Villages and other interesting places into each days tour.

The Cotswold Villages, both well known and many little known, but nevertheless just as attractive with their honey coloured Cotswold stone cottages, and interesting Churches are plentiful, therefore the combinations are huge.

On a full days tour, usually 8 hours or more, we stop for lunch and or a "Cotswold- Tea", at one of the many pubs, hotels, and tea rooms which I know have high standards, I usually join my clients for lunch etc. (unless they prefer me not to).
 

 A TYPICAL DAY

 

A typical day’s 9 hour Cotswold tour would incorporate at least one “attraction”... to name a few...One or more of the numerous National Trust Properties that abound in the Cotswolds, Sudely Castle, Blenheim Palace, Broadway Tower, Buscot Park, Kelmscote Manor (William Morris's home) and many more as well as a multitude of beautiful Cotswold Gardens that abound in this area. If gardens are your forte, we may be able to fit in 2 or even 3 gardens into a day. (see my "links" page for webs to some of the places of interest in the North Cotswolds)

 

Your guided tour would maybe start with a 09-00 or 09-30am pick-up from your accommodation. We would then tour numerous villages, discussing their history, stopping in some, whatever you preference. We would visit “an attraction”, have a pub lunch, visit more Cotswold villages, perhaps take afternoon tea, and visit a Cotswold garden.

 

Always remember...this is your day,... you set the pace not me...nothing is set....some people prefer "slow travel" others enjoy a stronger pace I am very flexable and adaptable. Sometimes during conversation additional hobbies and the interests of my guests are revealed and I can often slightly re-route to accomodate some of their particular passions.....

 

If you are travelling with children, I have many ideas for keeping them happy, The Cotswold Farm Park, playing “Pooh sticks” at Lower Slaughter (an absolute must and great fun), climbing Broadway Tower (The Cotswolds highest little Castle), finding "The Mouseman's" hidden mice in Ilmington Church, and many other ideas for both adults and children to enjoy.

 

A bespoke printed itinerary of your guided tour with all the important facts and photos will be given to you as a keepsake to remind you of your Cotswold visit.

 

 Some of the Cotswold Villages that we may visit on our Tours,

......there are a great number more...!


Snowshill, Broadway, Stanton, Stanway, Didbrook, Buckland, Wood Stanway, Guiting Power, Temple Guiting Naunton, Naunton, Kineton, Upper Slaughter, Lower Slaughter, Upper Swell, Lower Swell, Stow on the Wold, Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Batsford, Blockley, Ebrington, Charingworth, Ilmington, Shipston, Stretton on the Fosse, Chipping Campden, Hidcote Bartrim, Hidcote Boyce, Mickleton, Bourton-on-the-Water, Sherbourne, Clapton-on-the-Hill, Windrush, Burford, Swinbrook, Turkdean, Notgrove, Salperton, Halling, Compton Abdale, Yanworth, Fosse Bridge, Northleach, Chedworth, Winson, Great Barrington, Coln Roger, Bibury, Barnsley, Farmington, Filkins, Kencot, Painswick, Slad, Sheepscombe. To name but a few.

Other Towns and attractions further a field, but all doable in a day.

Stratford on Avon, Warwick, Woodstock, Blenheim Castle, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Tetbury, Stroud, Castle Combe, Bath, Oxford, Windsor Castle, Avebury, Malmesbury, Malborough, Gloucester Docks, Gloucester Cathedral, Tewkesbury Abbey, Ross-on-Wye, Symmonds Yat, Ledbury, The Royal Forest of Dean, East Wales, Tintern Abbey, Chepstow Castle, Hay on Wye, Goodrich Castle, Hereford, Worcester, Stonehenge, Laycock Abbey and Village, and many more.

 
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