Absolute Touring

The River Windrush and Paynes Bridge

• One of the prettiest larger villages – but also one of the most commercialized, and a honeypot for visitors
• River Windrush runs right through the village, next to the Green, and there are several small footbridges over it.
• Other attractions include Birdland - an ornithological theme park; the Model Village – an excellent miniature of Bourton using authentic building materials depicting Bourton-on-the-Water as it was in 1937 at 1/9th scale; the Cotswolds Motor Musem; and the Dragonfly Maze
• Close to the Fosse Way – a Roman road which originally stretched from Exeter in the south-west to Lincoln to the northeast, a distance of around 250 miles. It takes its name from fossa, Latin for ditch: for 182 miles south from Lincoln it is never more than six miles off a straight line
• When busy, this is a place to pass through, and head just up the road to The Slaughters, which are even prettier but much quieter

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Approx 1 hour west of Oxford