Experience the beautiful, world-famous Cotswolds as never before.

Guided tours, reinvented and reimagined

From Winston Churchill to British and American war heroes, traitor kings, witchcraft and murder to Harry Potter. 


Behind the world-famous beauty of the English Cotswolds are found dark secrets and mysterious, untold stories. 


All this is waiting to be explored on our unique Cotswold Historical Guided Tours.


Choose between two tours:

Monsters & Heroes Tour

MORNING TOUR departs 9am from Moreton-in-Marsh


Batsford, Blockley, Chipping Campden, Snowshill, Long Compton, Great Rollright, Hook Norton, Great Tew


“A wonderful 5-star experience”. This historical guided tour combines a great day out in the beautiful English Cotswolds with the dark shadows of monster dictators who once set Europe ablaze and still might again.
We’ll meet the heroes who saved us and those who chose betrayal.

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  • Winston Churchill

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    Winston Churchill went ballistic about a genius hero of D-Day, Chipping Campden

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    World-famous Overlord Embroidery, conceived in Batsford

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    Little Compton hideaway for a traitor king and his American lover

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    Hollywood makes snowfall in July, Snowshill

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    Sinister Nazi friends of British Royals, Little Compton

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    Vladimir Putin’s gratitude to "the best spy we ever had”, Great Rollright

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    ‘Blood and Guts’ Patton’s secret visit to Blockley, 1944

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    U.S. 6th Armored Division, Operation Overlord training, Moreton-in-Marsh

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    Chastleton House, scene of a great escape

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    Chipping Campden’s Market Hall

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    Lavender used in Roman soldiers' First Aid kits, near Broadway Tower

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    Americans heading for Utah Beach from Moreton-in-Marsh

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    Hook Norton Brewery dray horses still haul beer 

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    Hero soldiers of the Red Ball Express, Sezincote

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    Hagrid and Harry Potter’s motorbike and sidecar, Northwick Park

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    Oppenheimer’s deadly stolen secret, Great Rollright

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    Durham Light Infantry, ‘Dirty Little Imps’, Long Compton into blitzkrieg

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    Mystery crash of Flying Fortress, Great Rollright

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    A Royal bus stop

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    Remember Adlestrop

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    Anglo-Saxon pond in Wyck Rissington

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    Battle of Agincourt hero’s tomb, Icomb 

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    Elton John ‘Rocket Man’ lifts-off, Moreton-in-Marsh

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    Execution of King Charles set in motion after the Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold

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    Genesis of QI, Falkland Arms, Great Tew

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     Forgotten massacre, Wereth Eleven, Over Norton to Belgium 1944

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    The Fosse Way, once the frontier of the Roman Empire

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    Upper Slaughter, once home to U.S. 6th Armored medics

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    Doors of Durin, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Stow-on-the-Wold

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    Punishment by stocks is still legal,  Moreton-in-Marsh

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    Secret lost paradise, Donnington

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    Spitfire legacy, Lower Slaughter

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    Rollright Stones Saxon lady

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    Upper Slaughter bombed by the Luftwaffe

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    Where the Battle of Waterloo was won

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Secrets & Mysteries Tour

AFTERNOON TOUR departs Moreton-in-Marsh 12.30pm


Moreton-in-Marsh, Stow-on-the-Wold, The Slaughters, Wyck Rissington, Adlestrop, Rollright Stones, Chipping Norton, Great Tew


“Michael did a wonderful job of showing us unique places and filling us in on the history”. 


This guided tour explores the myths, legends and secrets of the Cotswolds. Who was the witch of Rollright? Why is this landscape actually Middle Earth from Lord of the Rings?


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"A wonderful 5-star experience, thank you Michael!"

Molly Lee and Terrence McCal, Auburn, Alabama, U.S.A 

“Michael did a wonderful job of showing us unique places and filling us in on the history as well. He also took great care to cater for the special needs of the group! This was really an amazing day to treasure”.

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We promise an unforgettable day out for all the family

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