It’s the honey-stone cottages, winding lanes and slow-moving streams with chimney smoke puffing into the evening air that pull us back to the Cotswolds the moment the temperature drops. Add to that the irresistible lure of its ever-growing collection of sceney pubs-with-rooms, all flickering fires, dogs-on-rugs and timeworn beams, and you’ve got winter escapism at its finest.
In grander country piles, guests curl up on deep sofas for tea by the fire or steam away the chill in outdoor hot tubs beneath crisp, starlit skies. From time-capsule inns with outstanding food to market-town hideaways and modern country classics, these are the cosiest hotels in the Cotswolds to book now
