Go shopping for retro clothes on a Cotswolds vintage tour

Who would have thought that the Cotswolds had a hidden world of vintage and retro fashion waiting to be unearthed?

As these mini-tours prove, you can easily mix sightseeing with a splash of inspirational shopping in this part of England, whether you want to browse a family-run bookstore in Tewkesbury, rummage around a car boot sale in Cheltenham or pick up some shrubs from Rococo gardens – and it can all be done in a day.

You could even make a night of it by staying at a Jacobean manor house on the edge of Bibury, a village that William Morris called “most beautiful” in the country, before continuing your treasure hunt the next day.