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Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards 2025

Nominations are open for the 2025 Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards!
Yes, it’s that time again… the Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards are back, and we want YOU to nominate

Homes & Gardens

Residence on Cheltenham’s exclusive Battledown Estate on the market at £7.5m
A prestigious gated setting on Cheltenham’s exclusive Battledown Estate with far-reaching views and complete privacy

Edwardian detached stone house set on a quiet residential road, featuring a gated driveway, double garage, and mature landscaped garden at the rear.

Edwardian detached stone house set on a quiet residential road, featuring a gated driveway, double garage, and mature landscaped garden at the rear.

Edwardian home in Tetbury on the market at £1.1m

Relocating to the Cotswolds

Relocating to the Cotswolds

The Buyer’s Agents: Relocating to the Cotswolds

Goldfinches on seedheads, illustration by Anna Platts.

Goldfinches on seedheads, illustration by Anna Platts.

Attracting goldfinches into your garden this autumn

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Things to do

The Sixteen will open Cirencester History Festival with a candlelit choral concert at St John Baptist, marking Palestrina’s 500th birthday

The Sixteen will open Cirencester History Festival with a candlelit choral concert at St John Baptist, marking Palestrina’s 500th birthday

Cirencester church to host candlelit choral concert for history festival

The manor house is an important backdrop to the garden.

The manor house is an important backdrop to the garden.

2025 Heritage Open Days: top events in the Cotswolds

FREE: National Trust will open The Firs for free entry between 1

FREE: National Trust will open The Firs for free entry between 1

Free entry to National Trust site and birthplace of famous composer

Saxophonist Jess Gillam is the youngest ever soloist to perform at the Last Night of the Proms

Saxophonist Jess Gillam is the youngest ever soloist to perform at the Last Night of the Proms

Superstar saxophonist to kick off Music at Stow Festival

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Travel

The Grade II* Listed Great House in Burford which was built for John Castle (1655-1727), a prominent local physician (author – Motacilla).

Things to see on a drive between from Oxford to Gloucester on the A40
Stephen Roberts is casting his expert motoring eye over the A40, the road that belts across10 the Cotswolds between Oxford and Gloucester

Bliss Mill, Chipping Norton, an old tweed mill. This picture was taken from the A44. Photo: Jim Monk/Adobe Stock

Bliss Mill, Chipping Norton, an old tweed mill. This picture was taken from the A44. Photo: Jim Monk/Adobe Stock

Things to see on a drive between from Oxford to Evesham on the A44

The Peacock Suite

The Peacock Suite

New Cotswolds retreat for women aims to help them slow down

Father Brown will return to the BBC for series 13 next year.

Father Brown will return to the BBC for series 13 next year.

First look at Father Brown series 13 shows Dame Maureen Lipman in guest role

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Food and Drink

Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards 2025

Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards 2025

Nominations are open for the 2025 Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards!

Milly with her lamb shepherd's pie

Milly with her lamb shepherd's pie

Milly Fyfe's recipe for Lamb Shepherd’s Pie

Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards 2025

Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards 2025

Meet the Judges on the Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards 2025

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People

Alan Evans working on St Paul's Cathedral's Treasury Gates

Alan Evans working on St Paul's Cathedral's Treasury Gates

Iron man's inspiring legacy lives on

John Buchan, c.1910-15 (author – Bain News Service, source – US Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Division).

John Buchan, c.1910-15 (author – Bain News Service, source – US Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Division).

The Oxfordshire home of the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps

Hannah making her point credit Tim Flach

Hannah making her point credit Tim Flach

Hannah Bourne-Taylor on her campaigning to help British birds

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Lifestyle

Footballers from Bourton Rovers create a splash as they fight for the ball during the annual traditional River Windrush football match, which has been taking place for over 100 years, in the Cotswolds.

Footballers from Bourton Rovers create a splash as they fight for the ball during the annual traditional River Windrush football match, which has been taking place for over 100 years, in the Cotswolds.

Football match played in Cotswolds river as part of 100-year-old tradition

The Peacock Suite

The Peacock Suite

New Cotswolds retreat for women aims to help them slow down

The best of boarding in the Cotswolds

The best of boarding in the Cotswolds

The best of boarding in the Cotswolds

Volunteers at work during an excavation near a Cotswolds village.

Volunteers at work during an excavation near a Cotswolds village.

Iron Age Roman settlement uncovered after rare sword find

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