If you love a royal connection then you'll love Tetbury – it's the family home of King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla. It is also one of the largest towns in the Cotswolds.

During the Middle Ages, Tetbury was a hub of  yarn and wool production. The site is where an Anglo-Saxon monastery once stood. Preceding the construction of that in 681, there was an ancient hill fort.

Numerous former wool merchants’ homes in Tetbury remain much as they were during the 1500s and 1600s. 

Visitors to Tetbury are often first introduced to the term ‘chipping’ here, which means market. You can still climb the old, cobbled steps that lead to what has since been turned into a car park.

The stores here are also a draw, and include the shop at nearby Highgrove as well as the antiques dealers, boutiques, interiors and vintage retailers in town.