Places to explore in GloucestershireEngland · South West England

Great Norman-and-Gothic cathedral with a soaring tower and a fan-vaulted cloister filmed for Harry Potter.

A limestone bluff 120 metres above the Wye's great loop, with peregrines nesting in the cliffs below the viewpoint most springs since 1982.

Weavers' cottages Morris called England's loveliest.

Gloucestershire

Ancient ridge rising abruptly above the Severn plain.

7.5 km²

Windrush-side village where low stone bridges step across the river through a long green, earning it the tag 'Venice of the Cotswolds'.

Gloucestershire

Fourteen acres of moss-grown scowles — ancient iron workings — threaded with boardwalks; film crews from Doctor Who to Star Wars treat it as off-the-shelf fairyland.

Pair of tranquil forest ponds in the heart of the Forest of Dean, ringed by an easy walk.

A Grade II-listed 1935 lido with a heated 50 m pool and fountain in gardens on the edge of Cheltenham's centre.

Tidal wave that sweeps upriver against the current on the Severn, ridden by surfers on the biggest tides.

Restored Victorian dock basin of tall brick warehouses, now museums, shops and a waterside brewery.

Iron Age hillfort and golf-course common above Painswick, with wide views across the Severn Vale.

Family maze and gardens above the Wye at Symonds Yat West, with a butterfly house alongside.