The Windrush Valley

The Windrush is the largest and longest of the Cotswold rivers, running for about forty miles through parts of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. It is the waterway that turned Bourton-on-the-Water into an inland resort, flowing adjacent to the major tourist venue of Burford, running alongside historic Witney and close to the picturesque Slaughters. This book offers a description of the river, of its past uses and the countryside through which it passes and then goes on to describe all thirty-six towns and villages along its course, giving descriptions of the history and architecture of every place. Locations covered are: Snowshill, Taddington, Cutsdean, Ford, Temple Guiting, Kineton, Barton, Guiting Power, Naunton, Upper Slaughter, Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water, Wyck Rissington, Upper Rissington, Little Rissington, Great Rissington, Clapton-on-the-Hill, Sherborne, Great Barrington, Windrush, Little Barrington, Taynton, Upton, Burford, Fulbrook, Widford, Swindbrook, Asthall, Minster Lovell, Crawley, Witney, Cogges, Ducklington, Hardwick, Stanton Harcourt and Standlake. Illustrated throughout with the author's own photographs this is an invaluable guide to a beautiful area of England.