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TRADITIONAL
COMFORT PLUS A SUPERB LOCATION,
A HALF BLOCK OFF HIGH STREET, CHIPPING
CAMPDEN, SURROUNDED BY BEAUTY & HISTORY.
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GARDEN ENTRANCE
TO THE MEWS COTTAGE |
THE ACCOMMODATIONS: Mews
Cottage offers history, comfort, and tranquility, all in a superb location. One of several
converted stables that served the High Street shops and residences, the Mews Cottage is a
spacious, comfortable two-storey lodging. The ground floor features an exposed-beam living
room with a fireplace of golden Cotswolds stone, and a kitchen of rich oak wood with
dining area, dishwasher and washer/dryer. There is also a powder room on the ground floor.
The
cottage sleeps 4-5 persons in three
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bedrooms on the second
floor: one with double bed
and its own
bathroom (shower, no tub); a
second with twin beds, and a third single bedroom. There is a second
full bathroom with tub on the same floor.
THE
SETTING: Mews Cottage is one of several
cottages tucked away on a private walk behind the main street of the
town. The lane directly outside the cottage is pedestrian only (cars permitted only for loading and
unloading), and leads through a stone archway to Chipping Campden’s famed High
Street. The archway opens onto High Street between a bakery and a quality fruit and
vegetable market.
Click on image to see a
large-format floor plan of the
Mews Cottage, Chipping Campden, Northern
Cotswolds, England. |
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HIGH STREET, CHIPPING CAMPDEN
FRAMED IN AN ARCH OF THE
HISTORIC MARKET HALL |
Chipping Campden is one of the great small
market towns of the Cotswolds. It was principally built by medieval wool merchants who
became wealthy selling Cotswolds wool to the Continent. Chipping Campden is well known as
one of the most charming of the northern Cotswold towns. It is often described as having
the most perfect High Street in England, with its beautiful honey colored stone and
thatched buildings dating from the 14th to the 17th centuries.
The Market Hall (now in the care of the British
National Trust) is an imposing open sided stone arched building, erected in 1627 to
provide shelter for the local produce market. Visitors are
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Silk Mill and the workshop of Harts (Gold and Silversmiths), descendants
of C R Ashbee’s Guild. Many interesting small shops, as well as several
restaurants, hotels, and pubs offering traditional English and
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THE
LOCATION: Chipping Campden’s
location is ideally situated for touring the Cotswolds from Oxford to Stratford-upon-Avon
to Bath. Longer day-trips outside the region are also quite manageable, to destinations as
varied and attractive as
Salisbury and Stonehenge, Tintern
Abbey and the Welsh borders, and even to London.
For many, the region known as the Cotswolds
represents the best of traditional England. Chipping Campden
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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 regular rail services from nearby
Moreton-in-Marsh, London may be reached in about 90
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UNIVERSITY |
TOURING, ATTRACTIONS, AND 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, Snowshill, Stow-on-the-Wold, Stanton, Stanway, and
Lower and Upper Swell. There are noted castles (Warwick, Sudeley,
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and Blenheim Palace) and manor houses to explore, gardens to visit, theaters to attend, and a fine steam tourist short
line to ride (the 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. |
QUALITY FURNISHINGS
APPOINT THE
MEWS COTTAGE |
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AVAILABILITY: For current availability information,
call HOME AT FIRST at
(800) 523-5842,
or contact us by e-mail at:
info@homeatfirst.com.
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