Once the jewel of the English countryside, the Cotswolds has become a victim of its own success.
Drawn by social media and millions of visitors each year, the honey-coloured villages that once felt like hidden gems are now among Britain’s busiest tourist destinations.
Nowhere is this more obvious than Bourton-on-the-Water. Once a sleepy riverside village, it has become synonymous with packed streets, traffic jams and crowds of selfie-takers during the peak summer months.
The issue isn’t that people are visiting the Cotswolds: it’s the sheer scale of tourism.
Some of the region’s most famous villages have become overcrowded, more expensive and increasingly difficult to
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