Welcome to the world of Cotswold Travels and me, John Batchlor, a mature Englishman who has spent my entire working career in the Travel Industry. I now specialise in the Cotswolds, the  most beautiful and historic area in England, so please join me for an unforgettable, bespoke and private hire tour. 

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You can email me at  john@cotswoldstravel.co.uk  or why not call me on +44(0)7458311903 ?

Where the river Thames begins and history is woven in wool, the Cotswolds is one of the most gentle and picturesque of English landscapes.  No area of comparable size in Britain has more enchanting small towns and villages than the Cotswolds. Little appears to have changed – the Roman roads still run as straight as ever, the magnificent churches, built with the wealth of the mediaeval wool trade, still dominate the countryside; picture-book villages, framed in the local honey-coloured limestone, shelter unobtrusively in peaceful valleys made by crystal-clear streams.

In this remote, rural backwater and across the rolling hills, fields edged by warm dry-stone walls become a sea of corn in summer when the village gardens abound in fragrant honeysuckle, rambling rose, towering hollyhock, delicate clematis and the ever-present wisteria. Life is still lived at a gentle, unhurried pace.  Here you can discover little market towns that were once important Roman cities and sleepy villages that were once alive with the cottage weaving industry based on the Fleece. It is hard to imagine a place more tranquil than the Cotswolds.