Lower Swell
Lower Swell is a village in the civil parish of Swell, in the Cotswold district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England.
Lower Swell is a village in the civil parish of Swell, in the Cotswold district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is located at the River Dikler, one mile from Stow-on-the-Wold. The village has "finest countryside, a tranquil village green and plenty of mellow stone cottages". The village church is dedicated to St. Mary.
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Worth seeing in and around Lower Swell
4 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.
- 01St Edward's Church
St Edward's Church is a medieval-built Church of England parish church, serving Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. A tourist attraction, it is among 98 Grade I listed buildings in Cotswold, a mainly rural district having about one third of the total of Grade I listed buildings in Gloucestershire.
1.8 km · church in Stow-on-the-Wold, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary, Swell
The Church of St Mary is an Anglican church in Upper Swell in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England. It was built in the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building.
1.4 km · church in Swell Cotswold District Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Lower Swell War Memorial
Lower Swell War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the centre of the village of Lower Swell in Gloucestershire in south-western England. The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was unveiled in 1921 and is today a grade II listed building.
100 m · war memorial in Swell, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Abbotswood
Abbotswood is a country house and estate near Lower Swell in Gloucestershire, England. It is a grade II listed building and estate, of medieval origins and with remodelling and garden work to the designs of Sir Edwin Lutyens from 1901 onwards.
1.2 km · country house in Swell, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lower Swell
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 59 km · Bristol (BRS), 90 km · London Luton (LTN), 95 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Lower Swell62 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £8–11
- London → Lower Swell121 km · quickest by road, 3h · £12–16
- Bristol → Lower Swell79 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–11
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lower Swell
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 Lower Swell. 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 Lower Swell
Lower Swell is 56 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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