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Welcome to Pre-War
Cotswolds 2025
Friday 5th to Sunday 7th Septemer 2025
Download your
entry form here.
Download your Vintage Picnic order form
here.
Come and enjoy a fantastic weekend
of rallying, touring and socializing
among old friends and new in the
glorious Cotswolds! As this is our Register's Silver Jubilee year, we will
be taking a trip down memory lane, visiting many of the very best locations that
we have visited on our Cotswolds rallies since 2003.
Entry to all
of the weekend's activities is open to all veteran, Edwardian, vintage
and pre-war cars, plus some 'square-rigged'
post-war cars,
such as M.G. TD, TF, Morgan, Alvis TA21, Triumph Roadster, etc. If
in doubt, please
contact the VMR.
Below we hope
you will find all the Rally information you need to make your weekend a
most enjoyable one.
If you have
any questions, or need any further information or help in booking accommodation,
or if you
would like to learn more about how your Club or Register can get involved,
simply e-mail
us.
The Itinerary
Friday Evening
The Saturday
Tour
We will kick off the
weekend by enjoying a
relaxed day of touring and socializing, starting at
Ye Olde Hobnails
Inn, Little
Washbourne (OS 150 991332), where optional breakfasts and refreshments will be
available for us. The route will take in many of the very best locations that we
have visited over the years, climbing the Cotswolds escarpment to Snowshill and
Broadway Tower, to lunch at the splendid Victorian
Hook Norton brewery, as we
did in 2019.
In the afternoon we will amble back to
The Plough Inn, Ford (OS 163 088292),
where many of our early rallies concluded. If you would like to book a table for
dinner, please call 01386/584215.
Every entrant
will receive a complementary Tour Handbook at the start, providing explicit
route details and informative background information relating to the places of interest that
we will be visiting along the route.
Sunday
The Cotswolds Navigation Rally and Scenic Tour
The Navigation Rally and
parallel Scenic Tour will also start with optional breakfast and refreshments at
to plot the route., Little Washbourne.
Entrants may elect to compete in the Navigation Rally or simply take
a relaxing Scenic Tour of approximately 60 miles,
wending its way
down hidden byways, through sleepy hamlets and visiting a number of places of
interest, ranging from the grand to the quaint and quirky. The Navigation
Rallyists will be provided with their clue cards and answer cards at the start
and will need OS Landranger maps 149, 150 and 163 in order to plot the route.
Meanwhile, the Scenic Tourists will
be provided with an informative Tour Handbook which will contain explicit and
easy-to-follow route directions
as well as a wealth of informative
information describing the various points of interest along the route.
At lunchtime, we will hold a
Vintage Picnic on the lawns of the magnificent
Colesbourne Park, as we did
in 2022 and we will conclude the day at
Stanway House where there will
be cream teas, results, awards and a private demonstration of the magnificent
Stanway 300 ft gravity fountain.
The weekend will conclude on Sunday
evening at The
Shutters at Gotherington (OS150 297959). If you would like to book a
table for dinner, please call 01242/300100.
Accommodation
If you are planning to attend, be
sure to book your accommodation at your earliest convenience.
At 1,024 feet AMSL, Broadway Tower,
at the summit of the Cotswolds, looks out over the escarpment to sixteen
counties. It was the brainchild of the great 18th Century landscape
gardener 'Capability' Brown. We will be visiting the Tower on Sunday.
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