Buses in Cotswolds

This website has lots of information about getting around the Cotswolds without a car. You need to scroll down and there is lots of bus information. https://explorethecotswolds.com/cotswolds-by-public-transport/.

There's also the odd local volunteer buses, such as this one:

https://hedgehogbus.org/

It can be done, just not as conveniently as with a car. Summer timetables can be different to to those during the school year. If you want to see most of it without too much time spent on the road, you'll need to change locations one or two times.

No, there are not designated buses for touring around the Cotswolds similar to the Hadrian's Wall Bus AD122.
I wish there were!

I can recommend the Go Cotswolds minibus tour, which goes to many of the towns and villages.
This is not a public bus company, but it's a good way to tour the Cotswolds without a car.
You are given time (and a map) in each place to walk around, have lunch, or shop.

You can take the train early morning from London (or Oxford) to Moreton-In-Marsh and be picked up by this tour.
This is much easier than trying to catch a public bus from one town to another in the Cotswolds.
https://www.gocotswolds.co.uk/product/cotswolds-in-a-day/
They give an excellent tour of the Cotswolds.
Check days and times on their website and make reservations.

It's the next best thing to having a Hadrians Wall type public bus, in my opinion.

Thank you, Nancy I had found this and had as of yet, read over thoroughly. Rebecca, I had found this and thought it looks like a great tour. I just thought I'd ask if there was a designated bus. Exploring my options. :)

Go Cotswolds is a good tour, but keep in mind a couple of their stops you only have 20 minutes, that isn’t long enough to see Bourton-on-the-Water.

Robin is right. If you want to spend any length of time in each place you visit, you're back to taking the town-to-town buses again.
Some towns are so close you could walk the Cotswold Way trail between towns or your could take a taxi.
https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/cotswold-way/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotswold_Way

Shelley, we too were poised to use buses there, but due to the imminent sale of the Johnson Excel Line company (see 'mass chaos'), opted to instead fork out for cabs.

Gundersen, we were this close to taking some Hedgehog bus rides from Chipping Campden this past summer, but never got around to it. It pays to study their schedules closely coz their routes are different day-by-day. One particularly useful one was their twice-weekly run from CC up to Stratford Upon Avon.
Their vehicles are green 'shortbuses', like the kind used for transporting children with special needs. The drivers are apparently all volunteers. According to one professional taxi driver whom we met a number of times, locals sometimes veer off the road when they see Hedgehogs coming towards them, due to the unpredictable nature of those Hedgehog drivers, most of whom are seniors.

Btw, we got a wonderful photo in CC showing one such Hedgehog trying to get through. Their way was being blocked by the marriage party then exiting the Catholic Church at the western edge of town. The bride and/or the groom must've been wealthy--there were gift-wrapped Lamborginis, Ferraris and a nice Rolls-Royce all parked out front!
Quite the juxtaposition, the folksy Hedgehog forced to wait and abandon any hope of maintaining its ETA versus the uber-posh lot spilling out of the church!

I am done. the end

The Hedgehog Bus is based in Mickleton
The services are based on trips for shopping and for example the route to Stratford upon Avon which runs via Chipping Campden operates four days a week with the return journey after 2 Hours there.
Stagecoach operate a more regular service 1 and 2 between Chipping Campden and Stratford and this was the service operated by Johnsons and the Diamond before Stagecoach took over referred to above
As a former volunteer driver of mini buses with another provider i take objection to a taxi driver criticising their drivers. They hardly have the best reputation for considerate driving

Just a word of warning. Stagecoach, like First Bus further to the south, are experiencing a severe shortage of drivers at present. This has led to many cancellations of services, both permanent and on individual days. It would be unwise to plan on the basis that because a particular service runs now, or has in the past, that it will still be running in nine months time. Rural routes are the most heavily affected by this.

According to one professional taxi driver whom we met a number of times, locals sometimes veer off the road when they see Hedgehogs coming towards them, due to the unpredictable nature of those Hedgehog drivers, most of whom are seniors.

Doesn't sound very professional to me. Has to make up stories to keep his own business??

I have been driving the Cotswolds for several decades and I haven't seen a profusion of cars which have veered off the roads for any vehicle let alone a volunteer driven shopper bus. What a cheek. A few in hedges after a Saturday night, but you get those anywhere.

Why should a shopper bus driver drive unpredictably, let alone many of them? And where does "senior" come into it? Guff.

If that had really happened their operating licence would be in jeopardy.

Update: We did book a tour with Cotswolds Tours. They are family run and the girl I was in contact was very helpful. I did book for a Saturday but upon more research I found that buses don't run much on Sunday's. So I may switch our tour to a Sunday and do our own touring about by bus on the Saturday. I'm kind of wishing I could spend 1 extra day in Cotswold's but... that's the way it goes sometimes. I appreciate all that have advised us. I've read through.

that's a good decision Shelley