A morning in Painswick: the Rococo Garden in October, the yews and lychgate at St Mary's, and the stone-cottage doors dressed for Halloween.

A June afternoon in Woodstock in Oxfordshire: the honey-stone town outside Blenheim's gate, its two pub streets, a queen held prisoner, a glove trade that paid for the stone, and how to see the park for free.

The library that played the cottage hospital, the church that hosted every wedding, and a thousand years of Oxfordshire market town that the series never mentions.

Three Cotswolds villages, one spring - Castle Combe's honey-stone cottages, Winchcombe's proper bakery, and Minchinhampton's roses and grazing cows.

A honey-stone market town in the Cotswolds where wool merchants once built fortunes, antiques dealers now build reputations, and the King lives just down the road.

Up on its windy hilltop, the highest town in the Cotswolds turns gold and crimson every October — I went looking for its wool-trade history, its 1646 battle, and the church door that may or may not have inspired Tolkien.

A wander through Winchcombe's working high street, blossom-framed old police station, Easter door wreaths, a 1967 bakery, and the town's whimsically named cottages — a proper, unpolished Cotswolds day trip.

A quiet Cotswold market town near Stroud with a bakehouse café on Market Square, roses spilling over an old school house, a postbox with a painted cow, and a famous common where cattle graze freely among the golfers.

A crisp spring morning in the Wiltshire village that wool money built and Hollywood keeps borrowing — the Bybrook, the packhorse bridge, and why it's worth arriving before the day-trippers.

Autumn in the Cotswolds, village by village: fallen leaves in Bourton-on-the-Water, crimson creeper on the Wheatsheaf at Northleach, the Swan at Bibury in evening light, both Slaughters, the Manor House at Castle Combe, and when the colour actually peaks.

Two days based at the Hare and Hounds in Westonbirt: the National Arboretum, Tetbury's Chipping Steps, the hamlet of Box, and Winstones ice cream among the cattle on Minchinhampton Common.