National Trust & English Heritage places in Gloucestershire

A magnificent 15th-century tithe barn beside the River Severn in Gloucestershire.

A Cotswold village with the iconic Arlington Row weavers' cottages, called 'the most beautiful village in England'.

A Cotswold escarpment spur near Cheltenham with an Iron Age hillfort, flower-rich grassland and wide views over the Severn Vale, shared with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.

A natural amphitheatre on the Cotswold edge above Chipping Campden, home of the Cotswold Olimpicks since 1612, with wide views over the Vale of Evesham.

Ruins of a 13th-century Cistercian abbey near Winchcombe, once a major pilgrimage site.

A dramatic Cotswold viewpoint with Iron Age hill fort and panoramic Severn Vale views.

England's oldest surviving deer-coursing grandstand set in rolling Cotswold parkland and ancient woodland.

A 1627 market hall built by Sir Baptist Hicks on Chipping Campden's High Street, saved from sale by local people in the 1940s and given to the Trust.

A hilltop crowned by jubilee pines with panoramic views across the Severn Vale and Forest of Dean.

Limestone commons above the Stroud valleys, rich in wildflowers and grazed by free-roaming cattle.

Cotswold manor housing an eccentric collection of 22,000+ objects from toys to Samurai armour, with Arts and Crafts gardens.

Rare late 17th-century Dutch water garden with formal canals, clipped hedges and a period walled garden.

Hidden Cotswold valley with five lakes, ancient woodland and an unfinished Victorian Gothic mansion.

A restored Neolithic long barrow on the Cotswold Way with a false entrance and side chambers, reached by a steep half-mile climb from a small lay-by.

The grassed earthworks of one of Britain's largest Roman amphitheatres, built for Corinium and later fortified, free to explore on Cirencester's edge.

A chapel built in 1056, rediscovered after centuries hidden inside a farmhouse.

A wooded section of Offa's border earthwork, with the Devil's Pulpit viewpoint above Tintern Abbey.

Thomas Telford's broad single-arch Severn bridge, now used by pedestrians and cyclists.

Edward I's twin-towered gatehouse guards this royal Forest of Dean castle, now a YHA hostel; the exterior, moat and usually the inner grounds are open to visitors.

A small Norman church near Kempley with remarkably complete early 12th-century wall paintings and England's oldest timber roof.

A 37-metre Neolithic chambered long barrow above the Severn Valley, known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, that you can crawl inside with a torch.

An early Neolithic long barrow near Rodmarton with an enigmatic blocked false entrance, reached by a short field-edge walk from a lane-side layby.