# The prettiest villages in the Cotswolds

Honey-coloured stone cottages, rivers and country pubs: the Cotswold villages that tourism guides and UK travel bloggers love most.

- 1434 votes · 12 items
- Mar 29, 2026 · Archie G.
- https://even.best/en/l/364/the-prettiest-villages-in-the-cotswolds

## Top 10

1. **Bibury** (171 · ▲180 ▼9) — Home of Arlington Row, 17th-century weavers' cottages beside the River Coln.
2. **Castle Combe** (137 · ▲147 ▼10) — Often called England's prettiest village, with its old market cross and bridge view.
3. **Bourton-on-the-Water** (100 · ▲118 ▼18) — The 'Venice of the Cotswolds', with low stone bridges over the River Windrush.
4. **Chipping Campden** (98 · ▲111 ▼13) — Market town with a 17th-century Market Hall and a golden High Street.
5. **Upper and Lower Slaughter** (94 · ▲109 ▼15) — Twin villages on the River Eye with a working watermill.
6. **Broadway** (85 · ▲101 ▼16) — Wide High Street of honey stone and Broadway Tower on the hill above.
7. **Painswick** (77 · ▲96 ▼19) — The 'Queen of the Cotswolds', with 99 clipped yew trees in its churchyard.
8. **Snowshill** (68 · ▲89 ▼21) — Hilltop hamlet with lavender fields nearby and the National Trust's Snowshill Manor.
9. **Stow-on-the-Wold** (50 · ▲74 ▼24) — Hilltop market town with the yew-framed door of St Edward's Church.
10. **Burford** (44 · ▲65 ▼21) — Steep High Street sloping down to a medieval bridge over the Windrush.
11. **Bisley** (37 · ▲66 ▼29) — Quiet village of stone cottages and wells, off the tourist trail.
12. **Lacock** (33 · ▲58 ▼25) — National Trust village with Lacock Abbey, used as a Harry Potter filming location.

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