The Cotswolds City Guides deal with the questions every visitor here runs into: which honey-stone villages to see straight after breakfast, before the coaches roll in, which country pubs deserve a detour for Sunday lunch, where children can feed trout, watch owls fly or paddle at a lake beach, and how to enjoy the best of the hills without paying at every gate. Each guide is a short, honest list that tells you why a place is worth the trip, what to order or see and one tip that saves you time, and it opens in your browser the moment you have paid.
About the Cotswolds City Guides
- 102 places
- 5 guides
- 8 languages
- Works offline
- Print or PDF
- Instant access
- Free updates
The five Cotswolds guides
Food guide
18 places
Old stone pubs with log fires, dining inns worth booking ahead, tea rooms with proper scones and the farm shops locals stock up at.
Things to do guide
20 places
Wool villages and hilltop views, Arts and Crafts houses and gardens, Roman mosaics in Cirencester and Chedworth, and a stone circle you can walk into.
Family guide
24 places
Birds of prey and a trout farm, a sandy lake beach, a hedge maze, a heritage steam railway, Roman villas for wet days and pubs that welcome muddy boots.
Day trips guide
20 places
Bibury and the Slaughters, Stow, Chipping Campden and Broadway, Cirencester, Tetbury and Castle Combe, then castles, palaces and cities just beyond the hills.
Budget guide
20 places
Free wool churches and market halls, free hilltop walks and Roman remains, small museums with low entry fees and cheap places to eat.
Why an interactive guide beats a list
Tick places off
Mark each place as done and watch your progress, so you always know what is left.
Your own notes
Write notes on any place and add your own finds. They stay on your phone.
One tap to Maps
Every place opens in Google Maps, and the day route puts your picks in a sensible order.
Open now, near me
Filter by what is open right now or what is closest to you.
Works offline
Open the guide once with a connection and it keeps working without data.
Print it or save as PDF
On a computer, print any guide or save it as a PDF to take with you.
Three places from the guides
The Mount Inn Stanton
Stanton, 10 min south of Broadway
A Donnington brewery pub at the top end of a picture-book village, with a terrace that looks across the Vale of Evesham as far as the Malvern Hills. Order the chicken, leek and mushroom pie or the fish and chips. From the food guide.
The Rollright Stones
Near Chipping Norton, 15 min drive east of Stow-on-the-Wold
A stone circle, a lone standing stone and a burial chamber raised in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, parts of them older than Stonehenge. No rope keeps you back: you walk right among the stones and pay at an honesty box. From the things to do guide.
Cotswold Falconry Centre
Batsford, 5 min from Moreton-in-Marsh
Owls, hawks, eagles and vultures in a calm, compact setting, with flying displays through the day that send the birds skimming low over the spectators. Best from about age four; plan on two hours. From the family guide.
Plan your days in the Cotswolds
Day one, the north: be in Bourton-on-the-Water by 9:00, take the field path to Lower Slaughter, find the yew-framed door of St Edward’s Church in Stow-on-the-Wold, then drive up to Broadway Tower for the view and finish with a pub supper in Stanton. Day two, the south: see Arlington Row in Bibury before the crowds, spend the middle of the day with the mosaics of the Corinium Museum in Cirencester, and reach Castle Combe in the late afternoon, once the day visitors have gone. For a rainy or slow day, ride the steam railway from Toddington, lose an hour among the cabinets of Snowshill Manor and settle into a long Sunday lunch by an open fire.
Questions about the Cotswolds guides
What do the Cotswolds City Guides include?
Five guides covering 102 places: food, things to do, family, villages and day trips, and budget. Each entry explains why it is worth going, where it is, opening notes and one tip you can use.
How do I receive the guides once I have paid?
The links show up on your order confirmation page and in the email that follows. They open in the browser of any phone, tablet or laptop, with no app to install and no account to create.
Can I use the Cotswolds guides without internet?
Yes. Load each guide once while connected and it will work offline from then on, ticks and notes included. Opening a place in maps needs mobile data, which is handy to know because signal in the villages can be weak.
Which languages are the Cotswolds guides available in?
The guides open in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese and Japanese. You can switch the language inside the guide at any time.
How much do the guides cost?
One guide is £4.49, two are £7.99, four are £13.99 and the full set of five is £16.99.
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