Overview

• New travel features published today promote Winchcombe as a quiet, picturesque choice for an autumn break.
• The Gloucestershire market town sits above the River Isbourne near the Cotswold Way, about seven miles from Cheltenham in the Borough of Tewkesbury.
• Medieval streets feature black-and-white half-timbered houses and several 15th-century coaching inns now operating as restaurants.
• Local draws include Sudeley Castle with a millennium of royal history and gardens, plus a parish church noted for an altar cloth attributed to Catherine of Aragon and 40 15th-century grotesques.
• Branded as ‘Walkers are Welcome,’ the town offers routes through an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to a Roman villa, a Neolithic burial site and viewpoints on the Cotswold Scarp.