Great Tew
The glamorous one.
Honey-coloured cottages, sweeping parkland, a famously photogenic pub and the 3,500-acre estate behind it all. The show-off of the family, and it knows it.
Places · The Tews
The Tews: Great Tew, Little Tew & Duns Tew
If someone designed a corner of Oxfordshire specifically for Sunday newspapers, muddy Labradors and people who own more than one Barbour, it might look suspiciously like The Tews. Great Tew is the show-off of the family: honey-coloured cottages, sweeping parkland, a famously photogenic pub and the 3,500-acre Great Tew Estate. Little Tew is its quieter sibling, while Duns Tew sits a little further east with proper village life and another excellent old pub.
Together they are the sort of place where you can walk across beautiful countryside, have lunch somewhere involving flagstone floors and a fire, and spend the journey home wondering whether moving to the Cotswolds is financially irresponsible or simply inevitable. Our advice: visit all three. Just don’t start looking at house prices.
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Three villages, three personalities
Little Tew
The quiet one.
Barely any commerce and that is entirely the point. A handful of houses, a church and the sort of hush you drive out here for.
Duns Tew
The one that still feels like someone's actually allowed to live there.
A little further east, with proper village life, an excellent old pub, a village hall that gets used and a few local businesses doing genuinely interesting things.
Eat, drink & stay
The Falkland Arms
The anchor of Great Tew: flagstone floors, oak beams, an inglenook fire, proper food and seven rooms upstairs
Great Tew
Quince and Clover at Great Tew
Café in the Old Post Office doing breakfast, brunch, lunch, homemade cakes and its own ice cream
Great Tew
White Horse Inn
Traditional village pub and restaurant in a 17th-century coaching inn
Daisy Hill, Duns Tew
Local makers & businesses
Cocoon Raincoats
Independent designer rainwear and clothing label — exactly the sort of quietly brilliant local company you would never find by accident
Lower Farm, Duns Tew
Smiths Duns Tew
Long-established local quarry and aggregates business — not a day out, but useful if you live here
Duns Tew
Featured partner
OXDO
Household decluttering and organising across Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds — sponsor of our village guides
Estate, community & sport
Great Tew Estate
The 3,500-acre estate wrapped around the village: farming, parkland and public walking routes
Great Tew
Great and Little Tew Cricket Club
Village cricket in one of the prettiest settings in Oxfordshire — worth a Saturday afternoon
Great Tew
Duns Tew Village Hall
Community hall for village events, classes and private hire
Duns Tew
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