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It’s fair to say that there are many pretenders to the Cotswolds’ crown. In fact, it feels like every year, another part of the English countryside is anointed as the ‘new Cotswolds’. But while there’s no denying the bucolic charms of Norfolk, Suffolk, Somerset or West Sussex, each with their own version of a rural idyll; for me, the OG Cotswolds still has the edge.
The reason? Well, if there’s another region in the land with such a high concentration of top-notch country house hotels, many of them tooled specifically for weekends up from London, then I’m yet to find it.