Now the National Trust is wrecking the Cotswolds

Gawping at the famous sights of the Cotswolds has been a popular pastime for centuries. So too is writing about the huge numbers of people gawping at the famous sights of the Cotswolds. The Times, Telegraph, Express and the BBC have all covered the explosion of mass-tourism since the pandemic, which is driven mainly by social media algorithms bombarding the globe with irresistible Cotswolds images. You can now tour the Cotswolds to gawp at the sight of thousands of other people gawping, or buy a paper and gawp at a professional gawper gawping at gawpers. 

A good start on this gawping tour is to drop in to Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm, where parking supervisors will usher you into the Jeremy’s enlarged car-park but you will then have to queue for two hours even to get inside the farm shop.