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Relaxing breaks in the Cotswolds

The first thing that strikes visitors on arrival at Edgehill Shooting Ground is the sheer beauty of the place.

Situated on the northernmost edge of the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the venue’s gentle slopes and wide sight lines peer out over the Warwickshire countryside to induce a feeling of calmness, despite the crack of shotgun shells and whizz of clays flying overhead.

Perhaps it was this sense of calm that attracted owner and general manager Tim Spencer to the ground almost 25 years

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