Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(grid ref: 067341) into the heart of lovely
Stanton
(accommodation, re-
freshments).
STANTON
Stanton has been called 'the perfect Cotswold village', and not without good reason.
The mellow, honey-coloured stone, the sometimes uneven gabled roofs of its cottages,
the walls overhung with flowering plants, the lovely Church of St Michael with its
slender spire, and the medieval market cross - all these, and more, lend the village
an air almost of unreality.
Stanton was originally little more than a group of 16th-century cottages and farm-
houses built from local stone, but in such a sympathetic manner that they seem now
to have grown straight out of the ground. When Sir Philip Stott came to Stanton Court
in 1906, however, he found the village rather neglected, and from then until his death
in 1937 he spent much money and architectural talent on restoring it to the splendour
we see today. It is one of the glories of the Cotswold Way.
Stanton, the perfect Cotswold village
