Bourton-on-the-Hill
Bourton-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) west of Moreton-in-Marsh.
Bourton-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) west of Moreton-in-Marsh. In 2010 it had an estimated population of 288. The village overlooks the surrounding hills of the Cotswolds and lies on the Heart of England Way, which heads southwards to Bourton-on-the-Water and northwards to Cannock Chase. The village is also connected by a footpath to the Cotswold Way, via Blockley and Chipping Campden.
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Worth seeing in and around Bourton-on-the-Hill
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Sezincote House
Sezincote House is the centre of a country estate in the civil parish of Sezincote, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The house was designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, built in 1805, and is a notable example of Neo-Mughal architecture, a 19th-century reinterpretation of 16th and 17th-century architecture from the Mughal Empire.
300 m · Grade I listed country house in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Lawrence
The Anglican Church of St Lawrence at Bourton-on-the-Hill in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.
1.2 km · church in Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Batsford Arboretum
Batsford Arboretum is a 55-acre arboretum and botanical garden near Batsford in Gloucestershire, England, about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh, at grid reference SP187339. It is owned and run by the Batsford Foundation, a registered charity, and is open to the public daily throughout most of the year.
2.9 km · garden near Batsford in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St James' Church, Longborough
St James' Church is the Church of England parish church of Longborough, Gloucestershire, England. It is in the deanery of Stow, the archdeaconry of Cheltenham and the diocese of Gloucester.
1.7 km · church in Longborough, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Peter and St Paul, Blockley
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Blockley, Gloucestershire, England. The church is a Grade II* listed building.
3.7 km · church in Blockley, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Redesdale Hall (Town Hall)
Redesdale Hall, also referred to as Moreton-in-Marsh Town Hall, is a municipal building in the High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England. The building, which is used as an events venue, is a Grade II listed building.
3.4 km · building in Moreton-in-Marsh, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford War Memorial
Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford War Memorial stands in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England, and is a memorial to those of Moreton and Batsford killed in the First and Second World Wars. The erection of the memorial on the High Street began in November 1920.
3.4 km · war memorial in Moreton-in-Marsh, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bourton-on-the-Hill
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 53 km · Bristol (BRS), 94 km · London Luton (LTN), 95 km
- Stations
- Moreton-in-Marsh railway station, 3.7 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Bourton-on-the-Hill55 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £6–8
- London → Bourton-on-the-Hill125 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £13–17
- Bristol → Bourton-on-the-Hill83 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–13
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bourton-on-the-Hill
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bourton-on-the-Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPrivate chartered coach trips are run by a lot of companies from most major cities, including London, Birmingham, and other nearby tourist hotspots such as Stratford-upon-Avon.
- Get inYou can hitchhike from the B4632 or A44 roads.
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Next door to Bourton-on-the-Hill
Bourton-on-the-Hill is 50 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Batsfordvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.9 km
- Sezincotesettlement and civil parish in Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England500 m
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