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Postlip Stables,
Winchcombe,
Gloucestershire,
GL54 5AQ
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Attractions
Interesting things to see and do whilst staying at Muir Cottage and The Bothy.
Sudeley Castle
The history of Sudeley Castle and its award-winning gardens spans over a thousand years and contains many varied tales of royal associations, wars and periods of neglect and subsequent restoration.
Website: www.sudeleycastle.co.uk/
Location: About 2.6 miles west of Postlip
Postcode: GL54 5JD
Telephone: 01242 602308
Snowshill Manor
The home of thousands of fascinating treasures collected entirely by architect and craftsman, Charles Paget Wade. Arts & Crafts-style garden. National Trust. Charges apply.
Location: About 10.5 miles north east of Postlip
Postcode: WR12 7JU
Telephone: 01386 852410
Hidcote Manor Garden
Hidcote is one of England's great gardens. Designed and created by the horticulturist Major Lawrence Johnston in the Arts & Crafts style, it is made up of exquisite garden rooms, each possessing its own special character.
Website: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Location: About 17.5 miles north east of Postlip
Postcode:GL55 6LR
Telephone: 01386 438333
Stanway House
Stanway is an outstandingly beautiful example of a Jacobean manor house, owned by Tewkesbury Abbey for 800 years then for 500 years by the Tracy family and their descendants, the Earls of Wemyss.
Website:http://www.stanwayfountain.co.uk
Location: About 6 miles north east of Postlip
Postcode: GL54 5PQ
Telephone: 01386 584469
The Cotswold Way
Just over 100 miles of quintessentially English countryside. Follow the Cotswolds escarpment with its stunning views and charming villages from the beautiful Cotswold market town of Chipping Campden in the north to the World Heritage City of Bath in the south.
Website: http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/Cotswold/.
More attractions
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Museums
American Museum | Cotswold Motoring Museum and Toy Collection | Keith Harding’s World of Mechanical Music | Winchcombe Folk and Police Museum | Winchcombe Railway Museum and Garden
Historic Houses
Broadway Tower | Chavenage House | Hailes Abbey | Kelmscott Manor | Owlpen Manor | Prinknash Abbey | Rodmarton Manor | Sezincote House and Gardens | Stanway House | Sudeley Castle
Sites with Link in the Cotswolds
English Heritage | The National Trust | Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
Prehistoric sites
Belas Knap | Cleeve Common | Hetty Pegler’s Tump | Notgrove Long Barrow | Old Sodbury Hill Fort
Gardens
Abbey House Gardens | Batsford Arboretum | Bourton House Gardens | Broadway Tower and Country Park | Cerney House Gardens | Claverton Manor Gardens | Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens | Dragonfly Maze | Hidcote Manor Garden | Kiftsgate Court Garden | Matara Centre Garden | Mill Dene Garden | Misarden Park Gardens | Owlpen Manor Gardens | Painswick Rococo Garden | Prinknash Bird and Deer Park | Rodmarton Manor Garden | Sezincote House Garden | Sherborne Estate | Snowshill Lavender Farm | Stanway House and Fountain | Sudeley Castle Gardens | Westonbirt Arboretum | Woodchester Park
Other
Barn Owl Centre | Bibury Trout Farm | Birdland Park and Gardens | Bourton Model Railway | Cotswold Falconry Centre | Cotswold Farm Park | Cotswold Wildlife Park |