Still trying to navigate this itinerary without a car. Considering flight into Bristol orBirmingham as we are interested in Northern Cotswolds. Has anyone taken a train from Edinburg to Moreton in Marsh if so what train line did you take. If we are able to travel to one of these airports is there relatively easy train travel to Moreton in Marsh? Chipping Campden Walks is a tour group that will arrange lodging and drop off and pick up daily from various villages in the Cotswolds with home base in Chippen Campden that seems appealing vs packing and unpacking daily-any reviews?.
Thank you
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Northamptonshire, England
32740 posts
Stephanie
You probably haven't had many responses to your previous versions of this question because you didn't reply to the narrowing questions from the volunteer helpers here, particularly Ken's.
The other may be that having a detour to Chipping Campden for an unknown number of nights from Edinburgh and returning all the way back north afterwards seems so much work for such a small reward - and so costly unless you have a helicopter. That's not a joke.
I love the Cotswolds, don't get me wrong, I grew up there, but there are so many other alternatives to the Cotswolds for beautiful villages and hills, much much closer to Edinburgh.
A train to Moreton-in-Marsh where presumably you will use a local taxi for the journey to Chipping Campden is 7 hours plus or minus, changing a couple of times, probably Birmingham New Street and Worcester Shrub Hill but other connections are possible.
This journey, if you pardon the parallel, is like taking a vacation from the northwest to San Francisco and throwing in a weekend at the Grand Canyon and then having to go back to San Francisco.
It is not practical.
Neither is flying from Edinburgh to Bristol or Birmingham. An hour to the airport, 2 hours for check-in, an hour or so in the air, 30 minutes out of the airport, and you still have the same train to get onto that you would have been on in the first place.
Is there a reason you are so fixated on Chipping Campden?
You do know that you are considering traveling 3/4 of the way across England and going from east to west into a very rural area not served well by public transport?
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Brisbane, Australia
7175 posts
Direct train (14 stops) departs Edinburgh 11:06, arrives Cheltenham 16:51. (5hr 45min)
Other similar departures throughout the day.
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Vashon Island, WA
126 posts
thanks for the replies we are going to fly fromEdinburgh to Birmingham then will be picked up by company and driven to Cotwolds.
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Troy, Oh, USA
2775 posts
Fly into Heathrow, take taxi to Slough (15 ride) train station. Take train to Moreton-in-Marsh a 1hr 30min ride. Then taxi to Chipping Campden. There isn't any need to pay someone to book rooms at B&Bs, when you can do it yourself. Also, you can contact The Volunteer Inn, speak to Peter, for his company to transfers your bags from B&Bs. We used Peter when we walked the Cotswolds Way and it did a fantastic job. It was £6.00 per bag per day, the lest expensive transfers company. I booked all of our B&Bs myself, they all were great. My friend and I (our husbands thought we were crazy, we were 65 & 70), started our walk in Chipping Campden and ended in Bath. We walked 10 days, stayed in 10 different lovely B&Bs. We saw such beautiful views that you can only see if you are on the Cotswolds Way.
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I'm with Nigel: Cotswolds are for London vacationers to get some pretty countryside into their trip. Definitely they are not a good follow up to Scotland scenery.