The Cotswolds region covers an area of 790 square miles in the upper part of southwest England and is the country's largest officially designated 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty'. Popular with both the British and international visitors from all over the world, the area is well known for gentle hillsides outstanding countryside with river valleys, water meadows and woods, sleepy ancient limestone villages, historic market towns. It is typically English where time has stood still for over 300 years.

Throughout the Cotswolds stone features in buildings and stone walls act as a common thread seamlessly blending the historic towns & villages with their surrounding landscape.
Broadway Golf Club is situated between Broadway Village and Chipping Campden two of the most outstanding towns in the Cotswolds and also close to Snowshill, Stanton, and Shakespear's Stratford upon Avon.

 

Broadway

The Cotswolds village of Broadway is often referred to as the 'Jewel of the Cotswolds' and the 'Show Village of England' because of it's sheer beauty. The 'broad way' leads from the foot of the western Cotwolds escarpement with a wide grass-fringed street lined with ancient honey coloured limestone buildings dating back to the 16th century. It is one of the longest High Streets in England.

 

Chipping Campden

Chipping Campden is one of the loveliest small towns in the Cotswolds and a gilded masterpiece of limestone and craftmanship. The main street curves in a shallow arc lined with a succession of ancient houses each grafted to the next but each with its own distinctive character.

"Chipping" means market or market place from the old English "Ceping". Chipping Campden was one of the most important medieval wool towns and famous throughout Europe.

Campden was already established in the 7th century and derives its name from the Saxon "Campa-denu" or "Campadene", meaning a valley with fields or enclosures of cultivated land.

Chipping Campden's church, St. James, at the north end of the town, is perhaps, the finest 'wool' church in the Cotswolds, with a magnificent 120ft (36 metre) tower and a very spacious interior. The church is famed for having one of the oldest altar tapestries and largest brass in England.
In 1970 the High Street and much of the rest of the town was officially designated a conservation area to preserve the ancient town for centuries to come.

 

 

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