Malt Cottage

31/10/2025

A new place to try for breakfast..

21/06/2025

Clarkson’s Farm Inspired Road Trip 🚜🍺

A). Start in Chipping Norton 📍
Kick off your journey in Chipping Norton, the closest town to Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm. Grab breakfast at a local café and explore the historic market town before heading to the farm shop.

B). Visit Diddly Squat Farm Shop 📍
Drive to Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington, where you can browse farm produce, Clarkson-branded goods, and maybe even spot some familiar faces from the show. Be prepared for queues, but it’s worth the experience!

C). Stop at The Farmer’s Dog Pub 📍
Skip the farm shop crowds and head straight to The Farmer’s Dog pub in Burford, owned by Clarkson. It offers a relaxed atmosphere, great food, and a dedicated shop selling all the same products as Diddly Squat.

D). Explore Burford 📍
Since you’re already in Burford, take time to wander through this picturesque town. It’s known as the "Gateway to the Cotswolds" and has stunning medieval architecture.

Discover Hidden Cotswolds Villages 📍
E). Bibury famous for its Arlington Row cottages
F). Lower Slaughter
G). Snowshill offers breathtaking countryside views.

H). End in Stow-on-the-Wold 📍
Wrap up your trip in Stow-on-the-Wold, a historic market town with cozy pubs, antique shops, and a relaxed atmosphere.

Full itinerary and access to the map in the comments below 👇

10/11/2024

Upper Slaughter is one of some 53 settlements in the UK whose members of the armed forces survived the mass slaughter of the First World War, from 1914–1918. All Upper Slaughter residents who served in the conflict returned home safely – remarkable given the Great War cost the lives of around 886,000 UK military personnel (6% of the adult male population, according to UK Parliament data).

These settlements were retrospectively dubbed ‘thankful villages’ (also known as ‘blessed villages’) by the writer Arthur Mee in a series of guides to the English counties published in the 1930s, collectively known as The King’s England. There’s not a single such village in Scotland or Ireland; the latter was still part of the United Kingdom until its partition in 1922.

“It is incredibly rare to find a village that has no war memorial,” says Fred Mawer, a Blue Badge tour guide in the south west of England. “But in Somerset there are nine thankful villages, more than any other English county.

Taken from BBC Country File magazine

25/10/2024

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12/06/2024

A lovely review from our guest.

20/01/2024

The best pubs in the Cotswolds that you should visit in 2024

14/07/2023

16/01/2022

What is there to do with Children in the local area….

12/01/2022

06/12/2021

The Christmas Tree is up!! 🎄🎅

28/10/2021

Why not try one of our lovely local walks…
We have availability for mid - late November..