TweetAnother year, another visit to Robert Dover’s Cotswold Olimpicks. This year, the event took place on Friday 31 May – as usual at the National Trust-owned Dover’s Hill, overlooking Chipping Campden. More low-key than last year – when the 400th … Continue reading
TweetIn this year of Olympic-mania in Britain, it’s worth remembering that in the Cotswolds, the Olimpicks (sic) have a long history – and contain some games that are, quite frankly, far more fun than those that will be on display … Continue reading
TweetCharles Paget Wade was a somewhat eccentric man – one who bought a manor house, then chose to live in a small house in its garden; a trained architect who was, by modern standards, a hoarder of artefacts; the owner … Continue reading
Tweet“The Cotswolds’ best kept secret” is actually Bourton House‘s own description of itself. It may well be true – partly because the house isn’t open to the public, and the garden, although open, is only open on certain days, and … Continue reading
TweetIf you didn’t catch the BBC4 programme on Hidcote Manor Garden and its designer, Lawrence Johnston, which was shown on Wednesday evening, you can catch up with it on iPlayer here. There are also several videos of the garden on … Continue reading
TweetTo mark World Heritage Day this weekend, I thought it would be opportune to write about one of my favourite local sites – Chedworth Roman Villa. Hidden in woodland just outside the estate village of Yanworth, near Fossebridge and transport … Continue reading
TweetIn 1824, a local landowner, who owned Campden Ashes, Upton Wold, and Spring Hill farms, between Broadway and Bourton-on-the-Hill, decided to sell off his farming stock – or, as the local paper put it, his “farming stock, implements, corn, hay, … Continue reading
