Room rates are subject to VAT at 20% and include complimentary full English breakfast and are per room per night.

The Holt Hotel is a fifteenth century tastefully refurbished coaching inn with 86 ensuite bedrooms, award winning restaurant and relaxing bar, nine acres of grounds and extensive free car parking and is just under eleven miles easy drive to The Mill Arts Centre. Please click here for our location details.

In May, The Mill Arts Centre presents the following live performances and events: Rory Mcleod, An Evening of Dirty Dancing, Steve Gibbons Band, Pigbag, Kieran Goss- Live And Solo, Bluebeard, Whodunnit, Les Miserables, Barnstormers Comedy Club and The Wind In The Willows.         

To find out more about The Mill Arts Centre’s performances and events, please click here. To book performances and events at The Mill Arts Centre, please click here or call 01295 279002. To learn more about The Mill Arts Centre, please click here.

To book your accommodation at The Holt Hotel and learn more about our great hotel, please click here. Please mention ‘Mill Arts Centre’ to be entitled to the guaranteed rates.

Room rates are subject to VAT at the prevailing rate and include complimentary full English breakfast and are per room per night.

The Holt Hotel is a fifteenth century tastefully refurbished coaching inn with 86 ensuite bedrooms, award winning restaurant and relaxing bar, nine acres of grounds and extensive free car parking and is just under ten miles easy drive to The Riverside Festival. Please click here for our location details.

For location of The Riverside Festival, please click here.

To find out more about The Riverside Festival line up, please click here.

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Room rates are subject to VAT at 20% and include complimentary full English breakfast and are per room per night.

During May 2013, The Theatre Chipping Norton features The Mikado, Moby Dick, Abba Revival, Gypsy Fire Quartet, Romeo & Juliet, 1984, That Is All You Need To Know, This House (theatrical screening), An Evening of Wine, Shout – The Rhythm & Blues Choir, Moonstruck, The Trench, George Egg, Josh Widdicombe, Fairport Convention, Hats Off To Led Zeppelin, Entertaining Angels, Circus Workshop, Magic Workshop and Ballet Central.

The Owen Mumford Gallery will feature the North Oxfordshire Artweeks Taster Exhibition and Oxfordshire Artweeks.

The Holt Hotel is a fifteenth century tastefully refurbished coaching inn with 86 ensuite bedrooms, award winning restaurant and relaxing bar, nine acres of grounds and extensive free car parking and is just under twelve miles easy drive to The Theatre. Please click here for our location details.

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Special Events at Stowe House

Twilight Tour: Festivity and revelry – Royal visits to Stowe House

Sunday 19^th May         7.30pm-9.00pm

In the wake of a very royal 2012 Stowe House is conjuring the magic of the royal festivities of last year by hosting a thoroughly Royal twilight tour on Sunday 19^th May. Come and enjoy one of our series of evening tours of Stowe House with our one of our knowledgeable Tour Guides. Experience the state rooms in the early evening and lose yourself in the Georgian atmosphere. The tour is a delicious romp through historic Royal visits to Stowe, including the most infamous visit, that of Queen Victoria and Price Albert in 1848. Come and find out what is involved in hosting a member of the Royal family in your Country House and discover why the Queen so despised the Temple Grenville family. The tour will include a rare access to the most beautiful but intimate of all our rooms; Sir John Soane’s Gothic Library.

Tickets: £10 including wine and canapés. Pre-booking essential. Limited ticket numbers available. See www.stowehouse.org for more information or telephone 01280 818002 to book tickets. All tour information is subject to change. Tickets are non-refundable.

Twilight Tour: Art & Architecture in the Country House

Sunday 16^th June         7.00pm-8.30pm

Come and explore Stowe House in the early evening with one of our knowledgeable tour guides and discover the art and architecture housed in one of the most remarkable buildings of the 18th century. The fine neo-classical architecture of Stowe House provides a stunning backdrop to the history of the people responsible for its creation. Our tour will introduce you to these larger than life characters through the paintings on display; there will be stories of extravagance, scandal, intrigue and the exotic to whet your appetite.

Tickets: £10 including wine and canapés. Pre-booking essential. Limited ticket numbers available. See www.stowehouse.org for more information or telephone 01280 818002 to book tickets. All tour information is subject to change. Tickets are non-refundable.

The Holt Hotel is offers Stowe House visitors the following guaranteed accommodation rates:

Room rates are subject to VAT at 20%, and include complimentary full English breakfast and are per room per night.

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Stowe is set in the beautiful countryside of North Buckinghamshire, three miles outside the old county town of Buckingham. All visitors to Stowe House enter through the National Trust Stowe Gardens visitor entrance, New Inn. Please note that the Gardens at Stowe are owned by the National Trust and a separate admission charge is in place for these. Please allow ample time for your visit to Stowe and enjoy your Garden visit while making your way to the House. To arrange House only entry,

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please telephone Visitor Services ahead of visiting on 01280 818002

Top five House highlights!

Scandal

• discover the scandal of the Duke who amassed the greatest debts in the world

Delight

• be enchanted by the delightful scenes of nature in our State Music Room

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Childhood• see inside the school where Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh spent his childhood

Celebrity

• find out why Queen Victoria thought this palace was too luxurious

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even for royalty

Excess

• marvel at our amazing domed ceiling inspired by the ancient Pantheon in Rome

Discover the hidden secrets inside!

If you had power and riches, how would you use them?

In the 18th century, the powerful Temple-Grenville family chose to create an idyllic landscape filled with temples. Amidst these enchanting gardens, they built the most lavish temple of all, Stowe House. This temple was so grand that even Queen Victoria was bewildered by its interiors. Filled with astonishing rooms imitating ancient worlds

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and classical ruins, the House reflects the flamboyant and colourful characters of its creators. Ceilings and walls decorated with hidden messages and mythology hint at the family’s former power and glory.

But wealth and power do not last forever. Excessive spending led to bankruptcy. Extravagant parties, royal visits and Italian Grand Tours gave way to scandal, intrigue and eventually abandonment. The richest family in England became the greatest debtors in the world.

In 1922, in the face of demolition, Stowe School saved the building from certain destruction. Unlike the loss and decline of many English country houses, Stowe House found a new and revived use for the 20th and 21st centuries as a school for

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boys and girls.

Stowe House Preservation Trust was established in 1997 to restore the House and share this special place with the world. We work in collaboration with the National Trust and Stowe School to open Stowe to you as a complete estate. Come inside the House to see the results of one of the most pioneering restoration projects of the 21st century and glimpse inside one of the most

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excessive homes in England!

“One of Britain’s finest eighteenth-century houses…” His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

To learn more about Stowe House, please click here. To check opening times, please click here. For a ‘taste’ of Stowe House, please click here.

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The Holt Hotel is a fifteenth century tastefully refurbished coaching inn with 86 ensuite bedrooms, award winning restaurant and relaxing bar, nine acres of grounds and extensive free cctv monitored car parking and is just under twenty one miles easy drive to Stowe House.

To book your accommodation at The Holt Hotel and learn more about our great hotel, please click here.

Room rates are subject to VAT at 20% and include complimentary full English breakfast and are per room per night.

The Holt Hotel is a fifteenth century tastefully refurbished coaching inn with 86 ensuite bedrooms, award winning restaurant and relaxing bar, nine acres of grounds and extensive free cctv monitored car parking and is just under one mile easy walk or drive to Barton Abbey. Please click here for our location details.

Admission is £4.00 and children’s admission is free: to learn more about Barton Abbey’s gardens, please click here.

To book your accommodation at The Holt Hotel and learn more about our great hotel, please click here.

1. Simply stroll down a Cotswolds high street

Chipping Campden is one of the most charming and unspoilt of all Cotswold towns, and is a Mecca for visitors, who flock to see the High Street.

Filled with beautiful honey-coloured stone buildings from the 14th to 17th centuries, it has previously been described as the most perfect high street in England.

In the space of 100-metres or so, you’ll find excellent examples of Elizabethan, Georgian, Jacobean, Regency and Victorian architecture.

The famous Market Hall stands in the High Street too; its picture sent around the world via postcards and calendars.

2. Keep calm and tour The Cotswolds

If you’re taking a group trip to The Cotswolds, you can now take a retro-route in search of the finest unspoilt countryside, timeless market towns and vintage shops in Britain.

The brand new Cotswolds Vintage & Modern Trail illustrates this perfectly by highlighting why the Cotswolds landscape is ideally suited to a trail of this nature. Consisting of four separate circuits available in both leaflet (vintage) form, and online (modern) style, it is aimed squarely at capitalising on the growing trend for all things ‘retro’.

Turning a tour around some of the lesser-known areas of The Cotswolds into a ‘pleasurable pursuit with a purpose’, the routes take all of the hard work away for anyone keen to uncover all of the retro gems in one of the best-loved regions of Britain.

3. Gloucester Folk Museum

Gloucester Folk Museum is reportedly one from the reconstructed Victorian classroom to the original pin factory, all of Gloucestershire and The Cotswolds’ local history can be found here.

Set in Tudor timber-framed buildings, the Folk Museum is a complex of rooms on different levels. Behind its chocolate-box facade is a museum which is both larger than seems possible, and constantly surprising.

A wide range of exhibitions, hands-on activities, events, demonstrations and role play sessions are held throughout the year. There is also an attractive cottage garden and a courtyard area for events, often with live animals, and outside games.

4. Cotswolds Water Park

The Cotswolds Water Park is promoted as Britain’s largest water park.

A wonderful wetland of 150 lakes created through gravel extraction, it boasts excellent bird watching sites with winter water birds, waders, nightingales, grebe, hobbies and more.

It offers activities from angling to archery, cycling to climbing, sailing to snorkelling, walking to wakeboarding; as well as the chance to see resident wildlife from otters and water voles to bats and beavers.

5. Tetbury Police Museum

Dedicated to the Gloucestershire Constabulary, and fast becoming one of the main attractions in the lovely Cotswolds town of Tetbury, the Tetbury Police Museum is housed in the original Police office and (extremely secure) cells.

Visit the first floor courtroom for a 1940s court case, or enjoy the records, helmets, uniforms, handcuffs, early lamps, bicycles and an early identi-kit – just don’t fiddle with the two and a half turn locks!

A new addition is the Alex Nichols collection of Restraint Equipment, a large collection of handcuffs and restraints from the UK, America and all around the world.

Room rates are subject to VAT at 20% and include complimentary full English breakfast and are per room per night.

The Holt Hotel is a fifteenth century tastefully refurbished coaching inn with 86 ensuite bedrooms, award winning restaurant and relaxing bar, nine acres of grounds and extensive free cctv monitored car parking and is less than one and a half miles easy walk or drive to Steeple Aston. Please click here for our location details.

Combined admission tickets are £5.00 and children’s admission is free. The gardens included are The Pound House, Canterbury House,  The Longbyre, Kralingen, Payne’s Hill House, Acacia Cottage, Primrose Cottage and Touchwood.

To book your accommodation at The Holt Hotel and learn more about our great hotel, please click here. Why not try our Highwayman’s Bar for lunch or tea?