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Gloucestershire holidays

March 2024

  • Wild daffodils under trees in sunshine

    Car-free UK
    Riding the Daffodil Line around England’s ‘golden triangle’

    The Herefordshire-Gloucestershire border is famous for its spring flower displays, and a new community-run bus service is the perfect way to explore

February 2024

  • Danny Shmulevitch’s Walking Your Promise retreat in Gloucester, May Hill 12

    “My mind, usually a torrent of work stress, has fallen silent”: how I found peace on a woodland retreat

    I arrived feeling soul sick and lost, but the simple acts of putting away my phone and sitting in the woods for a few days turned into something profoundly transformational

December 2023

  • Lochview House on the banks of Loch Lochy

    Waterfront wonders: 10 glorious lakeside winter stays around the UK

    From romantic hideaways to fun-filled activity centres, a few days by the water is the perfect seasonal tonic

April 2023

  • An explosion of blooms, being watered by a woman gardener in a hat, frame the manor house at Hidcote

    Walking through beauty in Hidcote’s hidden gardens

    Hidcote’s astonishing maze of garden ‘rooms’ is just as magical today as when it first opened 75 years ago

April 2022

  • Teachign guests under Severn Bridge photo credit Tom Damsell

    Severn steps to foraging heaven: a guided tour of the estuary’s edible plants

    The convergence of sea and river habitats offers rich pickings, even with a motorway overhead. Our writer joins an expert forager

July 2021

  • Chipping Campden church with sheep in foreground<br>Cotswold sheep near Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire with Church in background at sunrise.

    Plenty of options all in one place: walking the Cotswolds from our village base

    Walkers are Welcome is a network of towns and villages that make excellent holiday hubs. Winchcombe, with ‘an appealing amount of Cotswoldiness’ is a perfect example

June 2021

  • The Gallows, near Dymock, Gloucestershire, where Robert Frost and family stayed in 1914.

    Roads taken: the Gloucestershire footpaths that were the making of Robert Frost

    We follow the trails trodden a century ago by a band of revolutionary poets who fell for this corner of rural England

December 2020

  • Cotswold swan winter at cabin

    Serene and secluded: a log cabin stay in the Cotswolds lakeland

    Inspired by Canada, made in Finland and close to the source of the Thames, these cabins offer an escape into nature

September 2019

  • Small Wild Boar piglet in the Forest of Dean<br>J252KR Small Wild Boar piglet in the Forest of Dean

    We’re going on a boar hunt: into the Forest of Dean

    With its kingfishers and wild pigs, this Gloucestershire forest is perfect for a family nature safari

December 2017

  • Exterior of the Bull Hotel, Fairford, at night with lights on inside and out.

    British boltholes
    The Bull Hotel, Fairford, the Cotswolds: review

    A pair of 15th-century coaching inns has been knocked together and renovated to offer romantic dining, traditional boozing and serenely cosy bedrooms

August 2016

  • The plush double room, known as the Toadsmoor, at the Painswick Hotel and Restaurant in the Cotswolds village of Painswick, Gloucestershire.

    British boltholes
    The Painswick Hotel and Restaurant, the Cotswolds: review

    This new Cotswolds bolthole hits all the right notes, in terms of both food and accommodation. Just don’t shout about it when you’re in the village

March 2016

  • Children on a bridge at Puzzlewood

    Take the kids to …
    Take the kids to … Puzzlewood, Forest of Dean

    An enchanted, mystical wood makes for contented kids and adults on a day out where smart technology meets traditional fun

September 2015

  • Members of the Tonga rugby team play a game with pupils from the All Saints School Cheltenham

    Tonga comes to Gloucester as Rugby World Cup spreads fun across Britain

    Away from Twickenham, excitement is building as Britain’s provinces welcome Rugby World Cup giants

June 2015

  • Tudor House Hotel, Clearwell, Gloucestershire.ClearwellTudor House Hotelgloucestershirehotel

    British boltholes
    Tudor Farmhouse, Clearwell, Forest of Dean: hotel review

    In a remote gem of a village, this hotel offers fine food, luxury and history, with plenty of walks on the doorstep

May 2015

  • Hanging lamps and tables and chairs at Wild Garlic in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

    Jay Rayner on restaurants
    Wild Garlic: restaurant review

    A good restaurant not only serves good food, it makes the world a better place – and that’s what Jay Rayner needed

February 2015

  • Peter Tiley, landlord of the Salutation Inn in Ham, Gloucestershire, holding up a pint of beer behind the bar

    Camra crowns Gloucestershire pub best in Britain

    The Salutation Inn wins top prize, less than two years after landlord Peter Tiley, a former business analyst, pulled his first pint

November 2014

  • YHA Stratford upon Avon

    YHA voted best UK hotel

    En suite bathrooms, Wi-Fi and cool decor are no longer strangers to youth hostels, but despite the revamp, holidaying with the YHA still offers its traditional camaraderie
  • YHA St Briavels Castle, Gloucestershire

    Five of the best British youth hostels

    The YHA’s finest, from a 19th-century shooting lodge to a Norman castle and a solar-powered mountain hut
  • A room at the Kings Head Hotel, Cirencester

    British boltholes
    The Kings Head, Cirencester, Cotswolds: hotel review

    This Cotswolds coaching inn has a history dating back to the civil war and beyond, but an extensive six-year refurb has given it a decor and facilities that are very much 21st century

October 2014

  • Gloucester Services’ Sarah Dunning.

    Observer Food Monthly Awards 2014
    OFM awards 2014 best newcomer: Gloucester Services

    Farewell to soggy sandwiches – this motorway stop alongside the M5 sells the finest locally sourced food and supports the community, writes Jay Rayner
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