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You can choose between two tours:
Both tours have a 5-hour duration covering just over 54 miles.

Both depart from Moreton-in-Marsh and conclude at Great Tew.


Monsters & Heroes Tour

Departs from Moreton-in-Marsh @ 9am


Exploring Batsford, Blockley, Chipping Campden, Snowshill, Long Compton, Great Rollright, Hook Norton, Great Tew 


Duration: 5 hours (approx.) Distance of 54 miles.

Departs from: The Swan Inn, High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0LL.
Concludes at: The Falkland Arms, Great Tew, OX7 4DB

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    Winston Churchill goes ballistic about a genius hero of D-Day

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    World-famous Overlord Embroidery was conceived in Batsford

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    Little Compton hideaway for a traitor king and his American lover

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    Hollywood makes July snowfall in Snowshill

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    Sinister Nazi friends of British Royals

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    Vladimir Putin’s gratitude to the “best spy we ever had”, Great Rollright

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    ‘Blood and Guts’ Patton’s secret visit to Blockley, 1944

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    U.S. 6th Armored Division, Operation Overlord training, Moreton-in-Marsh

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    Chastleton House, scene of a great escape

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    Chipping Campden’s Market Hall

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    Americans heading for Utah Beach from Moreton-in-Marsh

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    Hook Norton Brewery dray horses still haul beer

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    Hero soldiers of the Red Ball Express

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    Hagrid and Harry Potter’s motorbike and sidecar at Northwick Park

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    Oppenheimer’s deadly stolen secret, Great Rollright

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    Durham Light Infantry, ‘Dirty Little Imps’, from Long Compton into blitzkrieg

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    Mystery crash of Flying Fortress at Great Rollright

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We visit Batsford, where the world-famous Overlord Embroidery was conceived.  Once home to Hitler’s British girlfriend and where General ‘Blood and Guts’ Patton paid a secret, surprise visit in 1944.  Then to beautiful Chipping Campden and the home of an unsung hero genius of D-Day. 


We’ll visit Little Compton, the weekend getaway of an English traitor king and his American lover.  You’ll explore Great Rollright, where Oppenheimer’s deadly secret was stolen and rewarded by Vladimir Putin.  We go shopping in Hook Norton for fantastic Cotswold gifts and souvenirs.  Then onto the inclusive lunch at the Falkland Arms, Great Tew.

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Secrets & Mysteries Tour

Departs from Moreton-in-Marsh @ 12.30pm


Exploring Moreton-in-Marsh, Stow-on-the-Wold, The Slaughters, Wyck Rissington, Adlestrop, Rollright Stones, Chipping Norton, Great Tew


Duration: 5 hours (approx.). Distance of 54 miles.

Departs from: The Swan Inn, High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0LL.
Concludes at:
The Falkland Arms, Great Tew, OX7 4DB

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    A Royal bus stop

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    Remember Adlestrop

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    Anglo-Saxon pond in Wyck Rissington

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    Battle of Agincourt hero’s tomb, Icomb 

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    Lift-off for Rocket Man Elton John in Moreton-in-Marsh

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    Execution of King Charles set in motion after the Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold

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    Genesis of QI, Falkland Arms, Great Tew

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    Forgotten massacre, Wereth Eleven, Over Norton to Belgium 1944

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    The Fosse Way, once the frontier of the Roman Empire

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    Upper Slaughter, once home to U.S. 6th Armored medics

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    Doors of Durin, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Stow-on-the-Wold

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    Punishment by stocks is still legal in Moreton-in-Marsh

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    Secret lost paradise, Donnington

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    Spitfire legacy, Lower Slaughter

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    Rollright Stones Saxon lady

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    Upper Slaughter bombed by the Luftwaffe

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    Where the Battle of Waterloo was won

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Beginning in Moreton-in-Marsh, where Rocket Man Elton John achieved lift-off.  We travel down the Fosse Way, once the frontier of the Roman Empire.  We explore the world of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings in Stow-on-the-Wold and where the execution of King Charles was set in motion.


We’ll visit the Slaughters and learn important facts omitted from guidebooks.  There's a literary tragedy in the famous village of Adlestrop, which was also the holiday retreat of Jane Austen.  Then there's a hero of the Battle of Agincourt and the gory story of Tom, Dick and Harry, all in the tiny village of Icomb.


We then invite you for your free dinner in the once ‘lost’ village of Great Tew, Oxfordshire.

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Our tours include:


  • Your free morning tea or coffee on arrival in Moreton-in-Marsh
  • A truly scrumptious lunch, or evening dinner + drinks
  • Our famous Dogs Dinner(s)
  • Admission to all monuments and car parking


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£56 per person (12 years and over)

£31 per person (5 -11 years old)


Children under 5 years old come free.


Dogs are welcome and get a free Dogs Dinner


Cotswold Expedition prices are delightfully simple and transparent, with no hidden extras.

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