Cotswolds · Things to do

The 'Queen of the Cotswolds', with 99 clipped yews in the churchyard and the Rococo Garden just outside the village.

Upper and Lower Slaughter, joined by a mile of riverside path from Bourton. No shops, no coach park, and much quieter for it.

Cirencester was Corinium, the second-largest town in Roman Britain. The museum holds the mosaics dug out from under the modern streets.

Two villages on the escarpment north of Broadway that the coaches skip. Snowshill Manor, near Broadway in Gloucestershire, is a Cotswold manor packed with one eccentric collector's hoard.

A working town rather than a showpiece, on the Cotswold Way, with Sudeley Castle and a preserved steam railway on the doorstep.