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Moreton-in-Marsh Railway Station - 4 miles Birminham Airport - 36 miles Access - M5 junction 9 Access from London - M40 junction 9
Stow-on-the-Wold is a delightful market town and along with Moreton in Marsh, perhaps the best known of the small Cotswolds towns.

Stow-on the-Wold stands exposed on a 700 feet high hill at a junction of seven major roads, including the Roman Fosse Way.

At the height of the Cotswold wool industry the town was famous for it's huge annual fairs where as many as 20,000 sheep were sold at one time.

The vast Market Square testifies to the towns former importance. At one end stands the ancient cross, and at the other the town stocks, shaded between an old elm tree. Around the square the visitor is faced with an elegant array of Cotswold town houses.

Stow is an important shopping centre and has many fine Antique shops, Art galleries, Gifts and Crafts and is a centre for Walking the Cotswolds countryside.

Read about the last battle of the English Civil War at Stow-on-the-Wold in 1646.

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DRIVE TIMES -

Moreton in Marsh - 15 minutes
Broadway - 15 minutes
Chipping Campden - 25 minutes
Bourton on the Water - 15 minutes
Upper and Lower Slaughter - 10 minutes
Bibury - 30 minutes
Burford - 20 minutes
Cotswolds Farm Park - 15 minutes
Chastleton House - 10 minutes

The Cotswold Market Town of Stow
 
The Market square of Stow
 
The Green in the centre of Stow

Interesting Fact

William Smith - known as the father of English Geology.

Born in 1769, he first learned land surveying as a young man in
Stow-on-the-Wold, a place where he became aware of contrasting
rock formation with that of his native Oxfordshire.

For more information see - Radstock Museum.


Visiting Famous Gardens

There are several famous gardens within 20 minutes car journey of Stow-on-the-Wold including Hidcote Manor, Snowshill Manor, Bourton House, Sezincote, Hidcote Manor, Kiftsgate Court and Batdford Arboretum. See - Cotswold Gardens and North Cotswold Gardens Map and Driving Directions.


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The Market Town of Stow-on-the-Wold