Holiday Cottages In Cotswolds
Cotswolds, located in Warwickshire has 9 self catering properties listed.
Enjoy beautiful views and a quiet location at Fir Tree Cottage, yet there’s easy access to many Cotswold villages.
The Croft is a delightful single-storey cottage with a garden, perfect for a romantic getaway, in the picturesque village of Oxhill, Warwickshire. Hook Norton 10.2 miles; Stratford-upon-Avon 10.4 miles; Banbury 12.1 miles.
Daisy Cottage, Oxhill near Tysoe, Warwickshire, sleeps four guests.
Lavander Cottage, Oxhill near Tysoe, Warwickshire, sleeps four guests.
This is an ideal location for discovering and exploring the Cotswolds with pretty market towns and villages, National Trust properties and more.
One super king-size double (zip/link beds, can be made into twins on request) with an en-suite shower, basin and WC. Cloakroom with basin and WC. Kitchen/diner. Sitting room with sofa bed and woodburning stove. Utility.
One double bedroom with en-suite walk-in shower, basin and WC. Cloakroom with basin and WC. Kitchen/diner. Utility. Sitting room with woodburning stove
Two bedrooms: 1 x king-size double, 1 x twin. Bathroom with bath, shower over, basin and WC. Open plan living area with kitchen, dining area and sitting area with electric fire
* Wifi info not available. Please check when booking.
The Bakery is a charming character cottage, beautifully refurbished to provide comfortable living space, whilst retaining delightful original features including an original bread oven after which the property is named.
About Cotswolds
The Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is where the southernmost of Warwickshire's holiday cottages sit. It is the largest AONB in England and Wales, a landscape of honey-coloured limestone hills, old wool towns and dry-stone walls. Designated in 1966 and covering about 2,038 square kilometres, it holds around 49 of the self-catering cottages in the county.
The Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Designated in 1966 and now branded as the Cotswolds National Landscape, this is the largest protected landscape of its kind in England and Wales, covering about 2,038 square kilometres across several counties; the part on this page lies in Warwickshire. The bedrock is oolitic limestone, the same honey-coloured stone used to build the famous villages, and the wealth that built them came from medieval wool. Only the southern tip of Warwickshire reaches into the hills, where the northern edge of the Cotswolds rises along the Ilmington and Brailes ridges above the Stour and the Vale of the Red Horse. It stays a working landscape of farmland, sheep and quiet stone villages, looked after by the Cotswolds Conservation Board.
Where to stay in the Cotswolds AONB
Warwickshire holds only a small slice of the Cotswolds, in the hills at the very south of the county, and a handful of villages sit inside the AONB:
- Ilmington: the highest village in Warwickshire, of golden stone below the Ilmington Downs
- Long Compton: a long village of thatch and stone on the old road south, near the Rollright Stones
- Upper Brailes: a quiet village below the green dome of Brailes Hill, one of the highest points in the county
Landscape and landmarks
This corner is all about the high ground where the Cotswolds begin. Above Ilmington, the Ilmington Downs rise to about 261 metres at Ebrington Hill, the highest point in Warwickshire, with long views north over the Vale of the Red Horse towards Stratford. To the east, near Long Compton on the Oxfordshire border, stand the Rollright Stones, a prehistoric group of three monuments: the King's Men stone circle, the single King Stone, and the Whispering Knights, the remains of an even older burial chamber. South of Brailes, Brailes Hill is another of the county's high points, capped with a small beech clump that is a landmark for miles.
Walking the Cotswolds
The Cotswold Way national trail runs along the western escarpment from Chipping Campden to Bath, just over the boundary in Gloucestershire, an easy drive from these northern hills. Closer to hand, the Macmillan Way crosses this part of the Cotswolds on its long course from Lincolnshire to Dorset, and a network of field paths climbs the Ilmington Downs and the ridges around Brailes. This is high, open walking country at the northern start of the Cotswolds, with wide views back over the Warwickshire plain.