cotswoldoutdoor.com

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cotswoldoutdoor.com

Outdoor Clothing & Equipment | Cotswold OutdoorFind the best range of Outdoor Clothing and Footwear, Climbing, Camping Equipment and more. Price Match Promise guaranteed.

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Truth score

Truth score 75 out of 100, Mixed truth signals. Held at Mixed: Companies House records show the company has a history of insolvency. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied

75/ 100

Mixed truth signals

Held at Mixed: Companies House records show the company has a history of insolvency.

Business details

Category: Outdoor and camping gear
Years in business: 29 years
Founded: 1974
Places to visit: 19 storesGuildford, Bury St Edmunds, Brighton, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and more
Sells: Physical goods
Kind of seller: Sells its own goods or services
Licensed trade: No licence normally needed
Domain age: 26 years
Address: 1 Newbridge Square, Swindon, SN1 1HN, United Kingdom
Email address: enquiries@cotswoldoutdoor.com
Phone number: +44 1666 818159
Contact page: Not found
Website: cotswoldoutdoor.com
Social media: Not found

Do the sources agree?

Address: 1 Newbridge Square, Swindon, SN1 1HN, United Kingdom Its website agrees Companies House agrees OpenStreetMap not found Web Data Commons not found
Company name: COTSWOLD OUTDOOR GROUP LTD Companies House agrees Its website differs
Sources give different names · Its website has Cotswold Outdoor

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

SiteReviewsRating

SmartCustomer· Read 12 November 2026· 4 reviews· 2.5 out of 5 stars

Reviews.io· Read 12 November 2026· 95 reviews· 2.7 out of 5 stars

Total992.7 out of 5 stars

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a Trustpilot page, which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

Customer satisfactionMostly dissatisfied· Medium confidence· From 99 reviews on 2 independent review sites

App experienceInsufficient evidence· No app ratings found

Summary

Is cotswoldoutdoor.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 75 out of 100, held at mixed truth signals. Be cautious: Companies House records show the company has a history of insolvency. 6 public checks clear, 2 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: mixed. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied, medium confidence.

cotswoldoutdoor.com is run by Cotswold Outdoor Group LTD, an active UK company registered at Companies House 29 years ago, and was founded in 1974. Its website address was registered 26 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: Companies House records show a history of insolvency. Its 95 reviews on Reviews.io average only 2.7 stars out of 5. Its 4 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.5 stars out of 5. We could not find social media profiles.

Positives

An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 29 years ago.
Its website address was registered 26 years ago.
The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House.
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Be cautious

Companies House records show the company has a history of insolvency.
A low number of independent reviews (95 on Reviews.io), but it falls short with only 2.7 stars out of 5.
A low number of independent reviews (4 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.5 stars out of 5.

Not found

Social presence information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

What they offer

Find the best range of Outdoor Clothing and Footwear, Climbing, Camping Equipment and more. Price Match Promise guaranteed.

— Cotswold Outdoor, in their own words

Where to find them

Places: 19 stores · busiest 12 of 15 towns below · 4 with no town given

Guildford1
Bury St Edmunds1
Brighton1
Newcastle upon Tyne1

Edinburgh1
Cambridge1
St Albans1
Leeds1

Chertsey1
Manchester1
Biggleswade1
Beverley1

About them

What makes them different: “We’ve explored new trails, pursued the first light of day and braved the elements.”

SourcesOpenStreetMap Its homepage Its about page

How to check if cotswoldoutdoor.com is legit

To check if cotswoldoutdoor.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about cotswoldoutdoor.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsCompanies House records show the company has a history of insolvency

An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 29 years ago
Its registered office at Companies House is 1 Newbridge Square, Swindon, SN1 1HN, United Kingdom
Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 31 December 2025
It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months

Country

Where the company is based: UK
Why we believe that: it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses, the site's structured data states its country, its legal pages give an address in England and Wales, its VAT number starts GB, its phone number starts +44, its postcode is a UK postcode
Which countries the company serves: UK, Ireland
Why we believe that: £ prices on its homepage, it publishes pages for 2 countries (hreflang)

Registration

Companies House registration: Registered as COTSWOLD OUTDOOR GROUP LTD
VAT number: GB771695393

Companies House register

Company found in official company register: Yes
Registered company name: COTSWOLD OUTDOOR GROUP LTD
Company status: active
Company age: 29 years
Registered address: 1 Newbridge Square, Swindon, SN1 1HN, United Kingdom
Accounts overdue: No
Confirmation statement overdue: No
Insolvency history: insolvency case: corporate voluntary arrangement, 2019
Registered office in dispute: No
Filing history consistent: Yes
Registered to do: 47640 Retail sale of sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats, bicycles
Previous names: OUTDOOR AND CYCLE CONCEPTS LTD (30 Oct 2015 to 19 Mar 2025)
COTSWOLD OUTDOOR LIMITED (11 Jul 1997 to 30 Oct 2015)
OVAL (1200) LIMITED (6 Jun 1997 to 11 Jul 1997)
Company type: Private limited company

Size and borrowing

Accounts filed: Full accountsThe most detailed kind a company files.
Secured loans (charges): 0No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.

From Wikipedia

Industry: retail
Founded: 1974

SourcesCompanies House Wikipedia

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 26 years ago

Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 26 years
Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

SourcesICANN Lookup

Website detailsWe read its about page

Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +44 1666 818159
Contact page linked: Yes
Sources agreeing on postcode: 2
Hosting company: Amazon Technologies Inc.

What its pages say

In their own words: “With 50 years of experience, our mission remains to help you enjoy the outdoors. Every piece of advice and kit recommendation is rooted in personal experience – countless walks, daring climbs and stories shared around campfires. We’ve explored new trails, pursued the first light of day and braved the elements.”

SourcesHomepage About page

Search engines and AILets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by defaultGooglebot
Bing: Allowed by defaultBingbot

AI training

All allowed

OpenAI: Allowed by defaultGPTBot
Anthropic: Allowed by defaultClaudeBot
Google AI: Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
Apple AI: Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl: Allowed by defaultCCBot
Meta: Allowed by defaultmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by defaultBytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT: Allowed by defaultChatGPT-User
Claude search: Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
Claude: Allowed by defaultClaude-User
Perplexity: Allowed by defaultPerplexityBot

Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints99 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 2.5 to 2.7 out of 5

Platform	Rating	Reviews
Trustpilot	Unknown	Unknown
SmartCustomer	2.5 out of 5 stars	4
Reviews.io	2.7 out of 5 stars	95
Total	2.7 out of 5 stars	99

Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
It is among the 200,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 100,000 sites
First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24
Traffic pattern: sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months: none
Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 200,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up cotswoldoutdoor.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

Over 50%
5 to 50%
1 to 5%
0.2 to 1%
Under 0.2%
None seen

1United Kingdom47.1%
2Singapore25.5%
3United States11.8%
4Austria2.0%
5Germany2.0%
6Finland2.0%
7France2.0%
8India2.0%
9Jordan2.0%
10Japan2.0%

Top 10 of 11 countries.

SourcesChrome UX Report Cloudflare Radar

Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 25 years ago

Website archive history: 25 years

SourcesFirst archived copy

Social presenceWe could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

What data this site collects about you

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.

SourceIts homepage

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

SourcesGoogle Web Risk

Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

SourcesHave I Been Pwned

Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name goes to spam

MX records: Yes
SPF record: Yes
DKIM key: Yes
DMARC record: Yes
DMARC policy: quarantine

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No
Certificate issuer: Amazon
Certificate type: DV
Certificate expires: 17 Mar 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: ns-1229.awsdns-25.org
ns-1986.awsdns-56.co.uk
ns-319.awsdns-39.com
ns-541.awsdns-03.net
Address: 13.224.95.30
13.224.95.69
13.224.95.76
13.224.95.91

SourcesIts DNS records

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points: 0 of 3 added

Sourcecotswoldoutdoor.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points: 0 of 1 added

SourceTruth Signal's own records

Run cotswoldoutdoor.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website

Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points: 0 of 1 added

Sourcecotswoldoutdoor.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score0 of 5

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