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Downton Abbey fans – hog the attention of your historian guide all the way, but keep your eyes peeled for the sights of the Cotswolds, an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Sheep-studded hills, rural farmsteads, blues skies.
Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey, the Grantham family home) only available certain times of the year. After enjoying the castle take a moment in the traditional tearoom before we continue the tour).
Alternatively enjoy a sumptuous tea in a quaint Cotswold Village of your choice.
Downton devotes will find ye ancient market town of Bampton familiar – Downton Church, Downton Cottage Hospital, Grantham Arms pub. Peek into every alley in this charming hamlet.
Daydream awhile over lunch at the riverside Swan Inn in Swinbrook village. Next stop is Cogges and its historic manor house (Downton Abbey’s Yew Tree Farm). Linger at Shilton’s 18th-century humped-back bridge next to a bubbling brook.
We can pre-book skip-the-line Castle tickets for you when available.
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: London, United Kingdom
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Downton Abbey fans – hog the attention of your historian guide all the way, but keep your eyes peeled for the sights of the Cotswolds, an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Sheep-studded hills, rural farmsteads, blues skies.
Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey, the Grantham family home) only available certain times of the year. After enjoying the castle take a moment in the traditional tearoom before we continue the tour).
Alternatively enjoy a sumptuous tea in a quaint Cotswold Village of your choice.
Downton devotes will find ye ancient market town of Bampton familiar – Downton Church, Downton Cottage Hospital, Grantham Arms pub. Peek into every alley in this charming hamlet.
Daydream awhile over lunch at the riverside Swan Inn in Swinbrook village. Next stop is Cogges and its historic manor house (Downton Abbey’s Yew Tree Farm). Linger at Shilton’s 18th-century humped-back bridge next to a bubbling brook.
We can pre-book skip-the-line Castle tickets for you when available.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Bampton, Bampton, Oxfordshire, England
Charming Cotswolds village which doubles up as the fictional Yorkshire village of Downton.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: St Mary’s Church, Church Place, Bampton OX18 2LY England
Discover where Lady Edith was jilted at the altar!
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Bampton Library Old Grammar School Church View, Bampton OX18 2NE England
Guided walking of Downton Abbey movie site locations tour starts and finishes here.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Swinbrook, Swinbrook, Burford, Cotswolds, England
Picturesque Cotswolds village where Lady Sybil and Branson planned their elopement in an idyllic Cotswolds pub.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Cogges Manor Farm, Church Lane, Witney OX28 3LA England
Important heritage site with 13th-century manor house and historic farm buildings – used as Downton Abbey’s Yew Tree Farm where Lady Edith’d illegitimate daughter Marigold was brought up.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Shilton, UK
Cotswolds village with a particularly tranquil setting where a ford crosses a bubbling brook – and where the Old Forge building was transformed into the Red Lion pub where Mr. Bates found work after leaving Downton Abbey.
Duration: 30 minutes
Pass By: Cotswolds, Cotswolds, England
Area of Outstanding Natural Beuaty – its stunning!
Pass By: Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England
West Oxfordshire in the Cotswolds has some of the most picturesque sightseeing in England – undulating hills, rural agriculture, quaint villages and hamlets, honey-coloured limestone cottages, thatched roofing and dry stone walls – it’s beautiful!
Pass By: Burford, Burford, Cotswolds, England
Historical market town referred to as the ‘Gateway to the Cotswolds’.
