Property News · April 1, 2016

Let’s move to Winchcombe, Gloucestershire


It’s at the quieter end of the Cotswolds, far from the madding Camerons and ClarksonsWhat’s going for it? If I were a country casuals kind of guy, which I’m not, Winchcombe is where I’d lay my Hunters, if I had any. It is at the quieter end of the Cotswolds, far from the madding Camerons and Clarksons. It could host A-list soirees, but it chooses not to. It could grace chocolate boxes, but prefers not to. It seems quite happy keeping to itself, under the radar, high on the escarpment overlooking the Severn Valley with a nice pint of Hook Norton in its grasp. It has seen the high life, and I don’t mean when Liz Hurley got married at Sudeley Castle, but rather when newly remarried (and pregnant) Catherine Parr moved there after Henry VIII died. She survived only a year. Or when Winchcombe was capital of the kingdom of Mercia some time in the ancient era of Game of Thrones. You can still get a hint of a time when the Cotswolds were remote, wild and rugged by walking up to Belas Knap long barrow, made 5,000 years ago, before posh boys and Chinese coach parties moved in and Barbours began roaming the Earth.The case against Like much of the Cotswolds, it ain’t cheap. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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