Find a Guide
All of our guides are qualified to give tours of the area, although clicking on a subject below will show you guides with specific interest or knowledge in that subject.
You can then either phone them directly, or click on the 'Email' button under each profile, taking you to a form that will gather your requirements.
(Click 'Show all guides' to see whole guide list.)
Guide's Specialist Subject Areas
- Agriculture & land use
- Arts & crafts
- Bird watching
- Cotswold Churches & monasteries
- Castles
- Country walking
- Film locations
- Folklore
- Gardens
- Ghosts
- Gloucestershire aviation history
- Industrial archaeology
- Literary Gloucestershire
- Local food & wine
- Manor Houses
- Roman Cotswolds
- Sports
- Vernacular Architecture
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Kay Thorpe
After a career in teaching Modern Languages, Kay found the ideal way to combine her love of the English countryside and enthusiasm for its historical buildings, towns and landscapes in tour guiding.
Specialist subject areas:
Agriculture & land use, Arts & crafts, Castles, Cotswold Churches and monasteries, Folklore, Gardens, Industrial archaeology, Literary Gloucestershire, Local food & wine, Manor Houses, Roman Cotswolds, Vernacular Architecture
Languages: German, French
Phone number(s): 01788 811713, 07976 627356
Pam Clarke
Qualified as a Green Badge guide in 1997 and specialises in Walking Tours of Cheltenham and Tewkesbury.
Specialist subject areas:
Country walking
Phone number(s): 01242 581340
Jane Handoll
Jane has lived in the Heart of England for over 35 years and knows Gloucestershire, Herefordshire & Worcestershire well. She feels privileged to live in this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is keen to share her passion for the landscape of the Cotswolds, the Wye Valley, the Forest of Dean and the Severn Vale with visitors to this beautiful part of England, which is steeped in history and boasts dozens of lovely mellow villages, small towns and magnificent churches, with Cheltenham, that most complete of Regency Spa Towns, at its centre.
Whether it's rural countryside and pretty villages that you want, or historic and elegant towns; whether you are interested in social, ecclesiastical or political history, or whether you simply want to know where to shop or to eat, Jane can introduce you to the area she loves.
Specialist subject areas:
Arts & crafts, Castles, Cotswold Churches and monasteries, Country walking, Gardens, Industrial archaeology, Literary Gloucestershire, Manor Houses, Roman Cotswolds, Vernacular Architecture
Phone number(s): 01453 511945, 07984 290516
Ingrid Lechner-Hare
"You only see what you know." Coming from a History of Art background, I became a Blue Badge Guide in 2001 because I enjoy helping people to understand and absorb more fully the beauties of the landscape and the sites of historical and architectural interest on each tour. I specialise in guiding in various areas of the South West: throughout the beautiful Cotswolds, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bath, Bristol, Wells, Glastonbury, Cheddar and Salisbury, guiding both adults and school groups as required.
As a native speaker of German, I have been living in the South West for over 20 years, and take a particular pleasure in working with German groups, showing and explaining the many fascinating aspects of British life and culture, by guiding walks and coach tours, in cathedrals, great houses, country estates or museums. I enjoy working with people of all ages and am very happy to adapt tours to the specific needs and interests of the groups concerned.
Specialist subject areas:
Cotswold Churches & monasteries, Country walking, Manor Houses, Arts & crafts, Gardens,
Vernacular Architecture, Roman Cotswolds
Languages: German
Phone number(s): 0117 942 1428, 07989 884 052
Mary Moxham
Guiding since 1997, leading coach tours of Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds & walking tours of Cheltenham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Cirencester, Chipping Campden, Broadway and Burford, & country walks. Has undertaken promotional work for Gloucestershire Tourism, and has appeared on Central News "Out and About" featuring Cheltenham TIC scenic coach tours of the Cotswolds. Formerly a college lecturer, now enjoys communicating enthusiasm for our beautiful region.
Specialist subject areas:
Agriculture & land use, Arts & crafts, Cotswold Churches and monasteries, Country walking, Film locations, Folklore, Industrial archaeology, Literary Gloucestershire, Manor Houses, Roman Cotswolds, Vernacular Architecture
Phone number(s): 01242 510590, 07919 444387
Mary Badger
Mary, a Registered Blue Badge Guide for many years, covers all areas mentioned on our web site. Coach & Walking tours in all Cotswold towns plus Bath, oxford & Stratford upon Avon. Cotswold hill walks also a speciality.
Specialist subject areas:
Agriculture & land use, Arts & crafts, Castles, Cotswold Churches and monasteries, Country walking, Film locations, Folklore, Gardens, Ghosts, Industrial archaeology, Literary Gloucestershire, Manor Houses, Roman Cotswolds, Vernacular Architecture
Phone number(s): 01386 584 256, 07711 936976
Chris Moxham
Chris has been guiding since 1997, - town and Cotswold village walks, coach tours and country walks. Educated in the U.S. he spent 11 years in New York. and California. No dry history here. Chris believes in being entertaining. Specializes in birdwatching walks, and country walks with pub lunches.
Specialist subject areas:
Bird watching, Cotswold Churches and monasteries, Country walking, Folklore, Gloucestershire Real Ales, Industrial archaeology, Roman Cotswolds, Sports, Vernacular Architecture
Phone number(s): 01242 510590
Hazel Butler
Hazel can offer a variety of town and country walks plus two Ghost Walk routes.
Specialist subject areas:
Country walking, Ghosts, Literary Gloucestershire
Phone number(s): 01242 529664