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The Slaughters

On our travels around the Cotswolds we visited Bourton-on-the-water,  sorry Bourton but you have been truly ruined, far to many tourist type things of the very worst kind. (enough said). However the twin villages of Upper and lower Slaughter are just a mile away. The name comes from old English 'Slohtre', which has nothing to do with killing things and means, simply, 'Muddy place'. We saw no mud just truly unspoilt beauty.  The two villages have remained utterly unchanged for more than a century with no building work taking place at all since 1906.

Chastleton House

A rare gem of a jacobean country house, Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612 by a prosperous wool merchant as an impressive statement of wealth and power. Owned by the same increasingly impoverished family until 1991, the house remained essentially unchanged for nearly 400 years as the interiors and contents gradually succumbed to the ravages of time.

Broadway

Broadway is one of the most beautiful Cotswold villages, situated at the Gateway to the Cotswolds  It has a wide high street lined with horse chestnut trees,  contains a mixture of period houses and picturesque honey coloured Cotswold stone cottages which have lured visitors for centuries. The street through Broadway was an ancient 'ridgeway' and and the main road from Worcester to London. It remains a wide street or 'broad way' hence the name.