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Stow-on-the-Wold
The highest Cotswold town, famed for its ancient market square and the yew-flanked north door of St Edward's Church.
2 km · about 5 min drive
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Donnington
England, United Kingdom · Europe
About Donnington
Donnington works well as a base: 10 minutes from Moreton in Marsh, 16km from Sudeley Castle.
Donnington is in England, United Kingdom, with about 4,500 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Moreton in Marsh, about 4 km away.
Donnington is a small village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, near the Roman Fosse Way in the Cotswold District Council area of south west England. It is situated on a hill a mile and a half north of Stow-on-the-Wold, of which until 1894 it formed a detached hamlet, so that the north transept in the parish churchRead more
was reserved for the parish. There are fine views over the Evenlode valley.
It is notable for its Cotswold stone houses. They include Donnington mill, on a medieval site, where the river Dikler emerges to form an artificial lake and mill pond of nearly five acres, which became Richard Arkell's Donnington Brewery in 1865; Little Barrow, a late Arts and Crafts movement country house on a medieval site remodelled and extended from a house of about 1800 in Cotswold manorial style with gardens by the distinguished Sussex architect Walter Godfrey in the 1930s; and Donnington Manor, just north of the village, which dates to the 18th century, when it may have been rebuilt on the site of an earlier house. Crawthorne Wood of over 50 a. is the only large area of woodland.
On 21 March 1646 the Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold, the last pitched battle of the English Civil War, is believed to have taken place in the parish, when Lord Astley and 3,000 Royalists were defeated by Parliamentarian forces.
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What is there to see near Donnington?
Within an hour or so of Donnington: Stow-on-the-Wold (2 km), Upper and Lower Slaughter (6 km), Bourton-on-the-Water (8 km), Broadway Tower (11 km).
Are there any good drives near Donnington?
The nearest famous roads are A466 Wye Valley (Chepstow to Monmouth), Gospel Pass and Cheddar Gorge Road (B3135).
Where is Donnington?
Donnington is in England, United Kingdom, about 4 km from Moreton in Marsh.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 4,477
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Region
- England
- Timezone
- Europe/London
- Coordinates
- 51.9513, -1.7214
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112 also works. NHS non-emergency medical advice: 111. National Highways breakdown assistance on motorways: 0300 123 5000.
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Worth the detour from Donnington
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Upper and Lower Slaughter
Two exceptionally unspoilt Cotswold villages linked by a mile-long riverside path along the River Eye.
6 km · about 10 min drive
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Bourton-on-the-Water
Picturesque Cotswolds village known as the 'Venice of the Cotswolds' for its elegant low bridges spanning the River Windrush.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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Broadway Tower
A folly castle crowning the Cotswold escarpment at 1,024 feet, with views across 16 counties from the second-highest point.
11 km · about 20 min drive
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Snowshill
A timeless hilltop hamlet famed for its lavender fields and the eccentric manor of collector Charles Wade.
11 km · about 20 min drive
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Cotswold Lavender
A working lavender farm on the hills above Snowshill, with striped fields open to visitors when the crop is in flower.
11 km · about 20 min drive
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Chipping Campden
A wool-trade gem with a curving High Street of golden terraces and the arched 17th-century Market Hall.
12 km · about 20 min drive
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Sudeley Castle
A Tudor castle near Winchcombe, the only private home where a queen of England, Katherine Parr, lies buried.
16 km · about 20 min drive
Driving roads near Donnington
17 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 20 kmCleeve HillThe highest point of the Cotswolds at 330 m, an open common above Cheltenham with views to the Malverns and Wales.
Driving in United Kingdom
- Drives on
- the left
- Petrol
- ~€1.73/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
When to drive here
April to October
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