Hotels in Chipping Norton

Chipping Norton makes a good base for exploring the northern Cotswolds without the crowds that gather in villages such as Bourton-on-the-Water or Castle Combe further south. Hotels here tend to be smaller and more personal than the grand country-house properties elsewhere in the region, ranging from traditional coaching inns with rooms above the bar on the High Street to farmhouse and boutique stays scattered through the surrounding villages of Kingham, Chadlington and Great Rollright. Staying in the town itself puts you within walking distance of the Theatre, the market square and the town's pubs, while a short drive in any direction opens up the wider Cotswolds, the Rollright Stones and the Evenlode valley.

Prices are generally more forgiving than in the Cotswolds' better-known southern villages, and rooms book up fastest around the Theatre's pantomime season in winter and through the summer months when the surrounding countryside is at its best. Whether you want a simple room above a good pub or something quieter in a village setting nearby, Chipping Norton and its surrounds offer a solid, unpretentious range of places to stay for a Cotswolds break.