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Staying at Shipston on Stour for a few days, any recommendations on places to visit (not shopping) for a few hours a day, would you recommend going anywhere by bus instead of driving? THanks all
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.You could nip into Stratford and do a tour of the new RSC theatre - very interesting :
http:// www.rsc .org.uk /visit- us/thea tre-tou rs.aspx
Buses tend to be a bit hit and miss (often just 'miss') - I'd take the car personally.
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Buses tend to be a bit hit and miss (often just 'miss') - I'd take the car personally.
Stretch your legs up here if able, the view is fabulous and you may get 'buzzed' by a jet or two - they love to scare the bejabbers out of tourists.
http:// www.bro adwayto wer.co. uk/
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Broadway is the 'chocolate box' village - nice for a wander.
Great Tew has a fascinating history and is 'one of the prettiest villages in England'
http:// www.gre attewes tate.co .uk/
Great Tew has a fascinating history and is 'one of the prettiest villages in England'
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The villages of Naunton, and the Slaughters, are in my opinion the best. Though Broadway is ok, but a bit twee.
Winchcombe is very interesting for museums.
Gloucestershire buses are quite good, as a matter of fact. And it depends what you are after but for rural scenery and variety it offers both the Cotswolds and the Forest of Dean.
Having said that I probably wouldn't recommend bussing it to Naunton ...
Winchcombe is very interesting for museums.
Gloucestershire buses are quite good, as a matter of fact. And it depends what you are after but for rural scenery and variety it offers both the Cotswolds and the Forest of Dean.
Having said that I probably wouldn't recommend bussing it to Naunton ...
A lot - in fact nearly all - of the places mentioned are just not practical by bus from Shipston
It's got a decent service to Stratford on Avon, with a less decent service to Banbury, Chipping Norton or Moreton in Marsh
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It's got a decent service to Stratford on Avon, with a less decent service to Banbury, Chipping Norton or Moreton in Marsh
That's it
You can access all the timetables on
http://
(If it doesn't work leave out wmtis onwards)
Moreton-in-Marsh has a very popular market every Tuesday. Stow-on-the-Wold has a lovely square with lots of shops and a set of stocks. Bourton-on-the-Water is very pretty with a river running through it and loads of things to do like the model railway exhibition, a car museum (with Brum in it), a model village of Bourton itself, with of course a model village in it, birdland and the dragonfly maze which I love. You have to follow the clues to find the whereabouts of the dragonfly. Oh, and Shipston is not in Gloucestershire, but in Warwickshire, so if you need to check bus timetables you may be looking in the wrong place, but to be honest I wouldn't bother with buses (my in-laws live in the Cotswolds, and the public transport is pretty poor).
I have always enjoyed my visits to this place :::
http:// www.nat ionaltr ust.org .uk/sno wshill- manor/
And I know its a bit corny but Bourton-on-the-Water takes some beating The Motor Museum there is fascinating.
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And I know its a bit corny but Bourton-on-the-Water takes some beating The Motor Museum there is fascinating.
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