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This year marks Cotswolds Designer Outlet's first Christmas, just down the M5 from Birmingham .

The new-for-2025 shopping destination, less than an hour from Birmingham, is home to 45 stores, as well as restaurants in which to refuel ahead of more Christmas shopping.

Given it's big enough to make a full day of it, we've been looking at little pretty villages nearby that might turn that shopping day into a cute countryside weekend adventure.

The Cotswolds Designer Outlet might be this side of the motorway, but the green space surrounding it will make you feel a million miles from the hustle and bustle of the city.

If you follow the River Severn and the River Avon south, they meet in Twyning. That's what the Old English name means - meeting.

The riverside village is h

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