Stow on the Wold
Stow-on-the-Wold is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, on top of an 800-foot hill at the junction of main roads through the Cotswolds, including the Fosse Way (A429), which is of Roman origin.
Stow-on-the-Wold is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, on top of an 800-foot hill at the junction of main roads through the Cotswolds, including the Fosse Way (A429), which is of Roman origin. The town was founded by Norman lords to absorb trade from the roads converging there. Fairs have been held by royal charter since 1330; a horse fair is still held on the edge of town nearest to Oddington in May and October each year.
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Worth seeing in and around Stow on the Wold
10 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.
5.7 km · Grade I listed country house in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Birdland Park and Gardens
Birdland Park and Gardens, often called Birdland, is a wildlife park in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. First opened in 1957, the park moved to its current site in 1989.
5.9 km · zoo in Bourton-on-the-Water · Wikipedia - 03St 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.
100 m · church in Stow-on-the-Wold, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Cotswold Motoring Museum
The Cotswold Motoring Museum is a museum in the Cotswolds village of Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. It features motoring history of the 20th century.
5.6 km · museum in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St 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.
4.2 km · church in Longborough, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Peter
The Anglican Church of St Peter at Daylesford in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was rebuilt in 1860. It is a grade I listed building.
5.1 km · church in Daylesford, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church 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.
1.8 km · church in Swell Cotswold District Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Lower 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.
1.8 km · war memorial in Swell, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Abbotswood
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 - 10Icomb Place
Icomb Place is a medieval manor house on the edge of the village of Icomb, near Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire. The word "place" in this context is thought to be a precursor of "palace".
3.8 km · Grade I listed English country house in Cotswold, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01St Edward's Church
Medieval church with interesting doorway.
- 02Fosse Art Gallery
The Manor House, The Square, Stow-on-the-Wold GL54 1AF, mail@fossegallery.com.
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Things to do
- 01Foxholes
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Where to eat
- 01Cotswold Baguettes
- 02The Kings Arms
- 03The Hive
- 04Prince of India
- 05Old Butchers
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Getting to Stow on the Wold
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 58 km · Bristol (BRS), 92 km · London Luton (LTN), 93 km
- Stations
- Adlestrop railway station, 4.4 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Stow on the Wold62 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £8–11
- London → Stow on the Wold120 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £12–16
- Bristol → Stow on the Wold80 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stow on the Wold
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 Stow on the Wold. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Stow on the Wold is 55 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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