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CLASSIC COTSWOLDS CHARM
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THE ACCOMMODATIONS: High Street Cottage offers history, cozy comfort, and superb location. Some portions of this lovely cottage date from 150 year ago and have been beautifully redone to provide all the modern conveniences while maintaining the history of the cottage. Located in a residential area of the town’s main street, this cottage is comfortable accommodation on three floors. The cottage sleeps 4-5 persons in two bedrooms on the second and third floors, where there is also a full bathroom (with tub/shower). One bedroom has a king bed and a single bed. The other has a double bed. The ground floor features a living and kitchen/dining area with authentic open beams, stone walls, color TV, video player, CD & DVD players, and radio. Steps at the rear of the cottage lead up to a gravel path, which winds through the backyard. At the top of the yard is a patio area furnished with wooden chairs and a table where you can sit and relax in an ideal setting for families with children.

THE SETTING: High Street Cottage is along the residential end of High Street in Chipping Campden, without question one of the most charming of northern Cotswold towns. Chipping Campden’s High Street has been called the most perfect high street ("main street" in U.S. parlance) in England. Although all the shopping and restaurants you will need are but a short walking distance from High Street Cottage, you will need a car (free on-street parking) for touring throughout the Cotswolds.

WALKING PRETTY
COTSWOLDS TRAILS.
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THE LOCATION: Chipping Campden is ideally situated for touring throughout Cotswolds—from Georgian/Roman Bath to scholarly Oxford to Shakespeare’s Stratford-on-Avon, and all the romantically classical English villages for which the region is best known. Day-trips outside the region are also quite manageable, to destinations as varied and attractive as Salisbury and Stonehenge, Tintern Abbey, Warwick Castle, the Welsh borders, and even London.
        For many, the region known as the Cotswolds represents the best of traditional England. Chipping Campden is in the northern—and best-known—part of the Cotswolds, famed for its numerous villages and towns of multiple hyphens — Stow-on-the-Wold, Moreton-in-Marsh, Bourton-on-the-Hill — and many others without hyphens: Broadway, Chipping Norton, Upper and Lower Slaughter, Winchcombe, to name but a few. Using frequent rail services from nearby Moreton-in-

                                 Marsh, Central London may be reached in about 90 minutes.
 

TOURING, ATTRACTIONS & ACTIVITIES POSSIBLE:
        Chipping Campden offers a wide variety of activities, especially touring and walking. In town there is an excellent range of interesting small shops and a large choice of good restaurants, hotels and pubs offering both traditional English and international cuisine.
        Numerous other inviting villages and towns are scattered among the hills and valleys of the Cotswolds. Open-air markets and antique shops are plentiful throughout this historic region. Many castles, manors, historic churches, formal gardens, and grand estates are open to the public.
        Day trippers will want to explore great little Cotswolds towns including: Bourton-on-the-Water, Burford, Broad Campden, Cirencester, Tetbury, Lower Slaughter, Moreton-in-Marsh, Snowshill, Stow-on-the-Wold, Stanton, Stanway, and Lower and Upper Swell. There are noted castles (Warwick,

CHIPPING CAMPDEN CHURCH.
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Sudeley, Broughton, and Blenheim Palace) and manor houses
to explore, gardens to visit, theaters to attend, and a fine steam tourist short line to ride (Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway).
        Walking paths, including the long distance Cotswolds Way—which can be accessed right in town—crisscross the region. Other outdoor pursuits include horse riding, fishing, golf, sketching, and sightseeing. Cycling in the region includes on and off-road routes, and short and long-distance trips on dedicated mapped and marked bike paths.

Get more information about HOME AT FIRST's travel program to: THE COTSWOLDS