A small village close to Burford, just over a mile further up the Windrush Valley. The village was renowned in earlier times for its stone…
The name of Salford originates from a crossing in the London turnpike road and an old salt track from the Midlands salt mines. Salford is a small…
Known across the world for blanket making, especially in North America where the Witney Point Blanket was traded in exchange for furs, the town owes…
The hamlet of Cote is set amidst farming land and several 17C/18C farm houses survive. Particulary noteworthy, though, is the 18C Baptist chapel, a…
The centre of this small village is its traditional green (one of two in the village) lined by attractive old cottages, the pub and the primary…
Historically Wootton was the main settlement between two small rivers, the Glyme and the Dorn, which flow into the lake in Blenheim Park. Over time…
A short distance from Burford, the village overlooks the Windrush valley. The parish church is Norman, showing traces of earlier Saxon work. There…
A long village divided into five 'ends', some of which are almost separate hamlets, it spreads itself out looking across the river Evenlode towards…
Tucked away close to the Oxford Canal, the River Cherwell and north east of Woodstock, this character village has many stone buildings and its…
The ancient market town of Bampton lies in the south of the area, not far from the River Thames. Until about 1850 it stood in the centre of a large…
Close to the River Windrush just south of Witney and now by-passed, the village focal point is its beautiful pond on the green. The church tithe…
A beautiful and peaceful stone village on the north-east edge of the Cotswolds. Ramsden, meaning 'wild garlic valley', is another ideal base for…
For a small village, Asthall is rich in history: a former Roman settlement on Akeman Street, which linked Cirencester with St Albans; the village…
Best known for the 4th century Roman villa site alongside the River Evenlode, North Leigh sits halfway between Witney and Woodstock. The village is…
An Abbey is recorded at Bruern as early as 1147. The monastery was small and disreputable even compared to others in the Cotswolds, with a racy…
Freeland's name derives from the Old English word, fyrth, meaning a wood and the village developed as a ribbon community along the old road between…
Just to the north of Chipping Norton, a pretty hamlet on the edge of a fine wooded park. Its little green has an unusual Victorian memorial…
This pretty village of Cotswold stone and thatched roofs is romantically positioned on the River Windrush. Reputedly the region’s most haunted…
An attractive village with two village greens in the broad acres of the Thames Valley, east of Lechlade set amidst good farming country, with a…
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