{"id":512697,"date":"2026-04-04T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512697\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:58:22","slug":"this-british-village-is-one-of-the-most-beautiful-in-the-world-according-to-a-posh-travel-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512697\/","title":{"rendered":"This British Village Is One of the Most Beautiful in the World, According to a Posh Travel Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through the Castle Combe is genuinely like stepping back in time \u2013 not a single new house has\u00a0been built\u00a0in the Cotswolds parish\u00a0since the 1600s. Combine the honey-hued stone cottages with the pretty stream that runs through the village and the rich surrounding woodland, and you have yourself one of the most picture-perfect places in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now,\u00a0Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveller\u00a0(CNT)\u00a0has gone one step further and declared Castle Combe one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cntraveller.com\/gallery\/the-most-beautiful-small-towns-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">53 most beautiful small towns in the entire world<\/a>. The dinky villages sits among the likes of bright blue Chefchaouen in Morocco, flower-filled Biei in Japan and fairytale Bled in Slovenia. With a population of just 356, it\u2019s the second smallest place on the list (after\u00a0Japan\u2019s mountain village of Gokayama, which has less that 100 residents).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It takes just 10 minutes to walk from one end of Castle Combe to the other.\u00a0CNT\u00a0recommends stopping in for afternoon tea at The Old Rectory Pop-Up Tearoom and booking a night at the luxurious\u00a0five-star hotel\u00a0Manor House, which is set in a fourteenth century mansion and is home to\u00a0Michelin-starred restaurant The Bybrook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"f4dde457-1c3d-0a93-0bb2-e50171f252b9\" class=\"photo lazy inline\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"lazy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775314702_127_image.webp.webp\" alt=\"Castle Combe, Wiltshire\" data-caption=\"\" data-credit=\"Photograph: Shutterstock\" data-width-class=\"\" data-image-id=\"106391191\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nPhotograph: Shutterstock&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Castle Combe is well used to the recognition. The tiny village has been cited as one of Britain\u2019s best-looking places over and over again and, as a result, often gets packed with tourists during peak season. Alongside Bibury (which\u00a0was last year also been crowned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/news\/its-official-the-most-beautiful-village-in-the-world-is-in-britain-090925\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of the most beautiful villages in the world<\/a>), it\u2019s one of the most popular spots in the Cotswolds.<\/p>\n<p>But the region is home to plenty of other gorgeous\u00a0places that have\u00a0the same chocolate box homes and pastoral charm but are far less crowded. Some of Time Out\u2019s favourite alternatives include\u00a0Upper and Lower Slaughter, Chipping Campden and Charlbury. You can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/news\/we-went-to-britains-most-beautiful-village-in-the-world-here-are-6-better-places-to-go-in-the-cotswolds-instead-091225\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">read about all of our alternative Cotswolds recommendations here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ICYMI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/news\/the-worlds-fourth-most-beautiful-scenic-railway-is-in-the-uk-033026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of the world\u2019s most beautiful scenic railways is in the UK<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stay in the loop:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/newsletter?cid=uk~editorial~acquisition~newsletter~contentlink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign up to our free Time Out UK newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the latest UK news and the best stuff happening across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walking through the Castle Combe is genuinely like stepping back in time \u2013 not a single new house&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1422,59,57,58,50,1423,1420,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-512697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-categories-things-to-do","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-news-city-life","14":"tag-things-to-do","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}