Handmade In Painswick Home & Gifts

The high street in Painswick has a few proper treasures tucked away, and this independent gallery-cum-shop is one of them. Handmade In Painswick stocks local craft work, jewellery, ceramics and home goods - the kind of place where you'll actually find something you want to buy rather than another mass-produced tea towel. The stock rotates, which means regulars have a reason to pop back in.

It's the sort of stop that works brilliantly if you're based at one of the nearby glamping sites - Painswick Glamping is barely a stroll away, and Cherry Tree Glamping only a ten-minute walk - and you fancy a proper mooch around the village. The owners clearly care about what they're stocking, so it doesn't have that tired, tourist-trap feel you get in too many country towns near Stroud.

Give it twenty minutes unless you're the type who gets lost in craft galleries for hours. The village itself is worth lingering over anyway - the churchyard is exceptional if you're into old gravestones and yew trees. Painswick can easily fill a morning or afternoon as part of a broader Cotswolds loop, especially if you're planning walks in the Slad Valley or exploring nearby Symonds Yat. Free to browse, obviously, and you'll only spend money if something genuinely catches your eye.