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Broadway Tower is an 18th century Capability Brown Folly Tower open to visitors. It is one of
England’s outstanding viewpoints and at 1024 feet (312m) above sea level, it is the second
highest point on the Cotswold escarpment with views of a 62 mile radius and as many as 16
counties. Morris & Brown Café serves drinks, cakes, lunches and teas all year round. There are
also a number of walks in and around the 50 acre park and woodland. You can even visit a fully-
restored underground bunker, a relic from the Cold War, designed to withstand a nuclear attack.

Moreton-in-Marsh.

The Cotswold Falconry Centre Get a greater understanding of some of the basics of falconry.
Find out about different birds used, methods of training, equipment, history and husbandry.
Especially, get the opportunity to handle and walk with a variety of birds of prey.

Home to around 60 species and 130 birds of prey – many of which can be seen in free-flying
demonstrations each day. The Falconry Centre is open from mid-February to mid-November.

Learn about how the different species hunt and catch their prey and the skill sets they possess to
make them successful predators. Then go out into the field to fly a bird and experience the magic
of such a noble creature returning to your gloved hand.

Batsford Arboretum Home to the country’s largest private collection of trees and shrubs. A 55-acre
arboretum and botanical garden open to the public daily throughout most of the year. The
arboretum contains around 2,900 trees, with a large collection of Japanese maples, magnolias
and pines. It maintains the national collection of Prunus (sato-sakura Group) — Japanese
Flowering Cherry — under the NCCPG National Plant Collection scheme run by the National
Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens.

The Slaughters

Lower Slaughter and Upper Slaughter are set on the banks
of, and joined by, the River Eye. They are possibly two of the
prettiest villages in the Cotswolds.

Contrary to popular belief the word ‘Slaughter ‘ is derived
from the old English word ‘Slohtre’ and means muddy place,
no connection with the traditional meaning of the word
slaughter.

These two rambling villages are quintessentially all that both
typifies both the mellow stone of the Cotswolds and middle
England. The Slaughters are mentioned in the Domesday Lower Slaughter
Book.

Bourton-on-the-Water has been described as the ‘Little Venice’ of the Cotswolds. It straddles the
river Windrush with its series of elegant low bridges beside neat tree-shaded greens and tidy
stone banks. Standing back from the river are traditional Cotswolds buildings, many of which are
now tourist shops for the day-trippers and visitors.

Things to see and do in Bourton-on-the-Water:

The Model Village – a one ninth scale model of the village as it was in 1937.

Model Railway Exhibition – on the High Street with some of the finest operating indoor model
railway layouts in the country, covering over 500 feet of track.