The Rough Guide to the Cotswolds: Includes Oxford and Stratford-Upon-Avon.
Matthew Teller
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN: 1848366043
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"The Rough Guide to the Cotswolds" is your definitive handbook to one of the most beautiful and diverse holiday destinations in the UK. From stately homes and wildlife parks to modern art galleries, country walks and adventure sports, the full-colour section introduces all of the regions' highlights. For every town and village, there are comprehensive and opinionated reviews of all the best places to eat, drink and stay to suit every budget. It brings the Cotswolds bang up-to-date; out go musty tearooms and chintzy B&Bs and in come the best of the area's new contemporary restaurants, boutique-styled hotels and top-rated country pubs. There's plenty of practical advice and a special focus on the region's gastronomy with features on specialist farmers' markets, local farm shops, gastro-pubs and country restaurants. The guide also comes complete with easy-to-use maps for every area making sure you don't miss the unmissable. Make the most of your time on Earth with "The Rough Guide to the Cotswolds".
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk. The mighty rotunda of the Radcliffe Camera, built between 1737 and 1748 by James Gibbs, architect of London’s St Martin-in-the-Fields church, displays no false modesty. Dr John Radcliffe, royal physician (to William III), was, according to a contemporary diarist, “very ambitious of glory”: when he died in 1714 he bequeathed a mountain of money for the construction of a library. Gibbs was one of the few British architects of the period to have been trained in Rome and his
of the Oxford Union (see oxfordunion.org for access info), the university debating society, where scores of budding politicians have flexed their oratorical muscles, while directly opposite on the corner of Ship Street is a splendid old wood-framed building, probably fifteenth-century; once the Ship Inn it is now occupied by ordinary shops. The top of Cornmarket is central Oxford’s busiest corner, crowded with buses and shoppers. To the east is Broad Street, a short walk north is St Giles,
en-suite rooms – though bear in mind they will be booked during the Cheltenham races. Food served Mon–Thurs 12.15–2.15pm & 6–9.15pm, Fri–Sun noon–9.15pm. �80 < Back to The central Cotswolds Stow-on-the-Wold When outsiders want to poke fun at the Cotswolds, they invariably aim first at STOW-ON-THE-WOLD. Over the last ten or fifteen years, a succession of metropolitan journalists from the London papers – visiting chiefly to review one or other of the restaurants – have taken delight in tearing
People don’t come to Stow to be thrilled, challenged or intrigued. It’s a historic Cotswold market town, gentrified but largely unprettified: people come to have a stroll around the old square, a browse in the shops and a nice meal. The town delivers on all fronts. To some, that makes the place infuriating, a parody of itself. But frankly, Stow doesn’t give a damn. The market square Perched at 700ft above sea level, Stow is the highest town in the Cotswolds. It sucks in a disproportionate
beer, good service and a pleasant, chatty atmosphere. Food is a level above standard pub grub (mains roughly �9–11). Mon–Sat 11am–11pm, Sun noon–10.30pm. Talbot The Square 01451 870934, thetalbot.net. Ex-coaching inn on the main square, now a genial middle-of-the-road pub – great for a sociable drink or an uncomplicated meal, with options enhanced unusually by Mediterranean dishes such as grilled halloumi or shell-on prawns from a long menu of tapas. Mains �10–15; tapas �3–5. Mon–Sat noon–2.30pm