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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.
0 km · about 5 min drive
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Stow on the Wold
England, United Kingdom · Europe
About Stow on the Wold
Stow on the Wold works well as a base: 10 minutes from Bourton on the Water, 12km from Cotswold Lavender.
Stow on the Wold is in England, United Kingdom, with about 2,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Bourton on the Water, about 5 km away.
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What is there to see near Stow on the Wold?
Within an hour or so of Stow on the Wold: Stow-on-the-Wold (0 km), Upper and Lower Slaughter (4 km), Bourton-on-the-Water (5 km), Snowshill (12 km).
Are there any good drives near Stow on the Wold?
The nearest famous roads are A466 Wye Valley (Chepstow to Monmouth), Gospel Pass and Cheddar Gorge Road (B3135).
Where is Stow on the Wold?
Stow on the Wold is in England, United Kingdom, about 5 km from Bourton on the Water.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 2,042
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Region
- England
- Timezone
- Europe/London
- Coordinates
- 51.9301, -1.7238
Emergency & Services
Essential numbers in United Kingdom
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 Stow on the Wold
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.
4 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.
5 km · about 10 min drive
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Snowshill
A timeless hilltop hamlet famed for its lavender fields and the eccentric manor of collector Charles Wade.
12 km · about 25 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.
12 km · about 20 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.
13 km · about 25 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.
14 km · about 25 min drive
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Burford
A Cotswold wool town whose broad high street drops steeply to a medieval bridge over the Windrush.
15 km · about 30 min drive
Driving roads near Stow on the Wold
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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