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The Cotswolds take in parts of the english counties of Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire; an area once given over entirely to sheep-farming. Many of the fine churches and manor houses owe their existence to the generosity of the wealthy medieval yeoman farmers and wool merchants. The dignified villages owe much of their charm from the use of the warm, honey-coloured limestone which was locally quarried by hand and used alike for humble weavers cottages, mansions, and churches. Never far from sight, numerous streams wind through the valleys and chatter alongside main streets.

The famous cotswold sheep

The demise, and now the good fortune, of the Cotswolds was due to the increasing manufacture of cloth in the 16th and 17th centuries leading to a forgotten wool industry and a forgotten Cotswolds. Hence the villages have undertaken no change for 300 years and are now to be marvelled at for their perfect preservation and beauty that only exists in this most unique of regions in the United Kingdom.

honey coloured cotswold stone

This guide will take you on a tour of some of the most beautiful areas and places to be found and to vacation, from the northern Cotswolds gate post of Broadway to the magnificent roman town and now Georgian city of Bath on the southern fringes. It will include Shakespeare's Stratford upon Avon, the king maker's castle of Warwick, and Winston Churchhill's childhood home, Blenheim Palace.

Blenheim Palace at Woodstock near Oxford

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Tour the Cotswolds - Centred on the gentle slopes of the Cotswold Hills this area, officially designated 'an area of outstanding natural beauty', is famous for the tranquility and timelessness of it's villages and market towns. Many have scarcely altered since they grew up on the prosperity of the medieval wool trade in the 14th and 15th centuries. This now makes the Cotswolds region one of the most treasured, toured, and vacationed in the United Kingdom for nowhere else will you see such uniformity and heart warming preservation on such a scale.

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Places to Tour and Visit in the Cotswolds

Towns and Villages to Visit in the Cotswolds

Cotswolds Tourist Information - Towns and Villages in the English Counties of Oxfordshire Gloucestershire Warwickshire Wiltshire Worcestershire and Somerset making up the Cotswolds region:-   Places to Visit Home

Ablington, Amberley, Armscote, Banbury, Bath, Batsford, Bladon, Bibury, Bisley, Blockley, Bledington, Bourton-on-the-Water, Broadway, Broadwell, Broad Campden, Buckland, Burford, Castle Combe, Charlbury, Cheltenham, Chipping Campden, Chipping Sodbury, Cirencester, Duntisbourne Leer, Eastleach Martin, Evesham, Fairford, Gloucester, Great Tew, Greenfield Village, Guiting Power, Hidcote Bartrim, Laverton, Lechlade, Little Barrington, Little Faringdon, Longborough, Long Compton, Lower Slaughter, Mickleton, Minster Lovell, Moreton in Marsh, Minchinhampton, Nailsworth, Naunton, North Cerney, Northleach, Oxford, Painswick, Shipston on Stour, Snowshill, Shipton under Wychwood, Stanton, Stow on the Wold, Stratford upon Avon, Stroud, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Upper Quinton, Upper Slaughter, Upper Swell, Willersey,Winchcombe, Windrush, Woodstock, Worcester, Wotton under Edge, Wyck Rissington

Places to Stay in the Cotswolds

Places to Stay Hotels Bed and Breakfast (B&B's) Guest Houses Inns Pubs Self-Catering Cottages in the Cotswolds:-     Places to Stay Home

Armscote, Banbury, Barringtons, Bath, Bibury, Bledington, Blockley, Bourton on the Water, Broadway, Burford, Cheltenham, Chipping Campden, Chipping Norton, Cirencester, Darlingscott, Evesham, Fairford, Gloucester, Guiting Power, Mickleton, Moreton in Marsh, Minchinhampton, Oxford, Nailsworth, Northleach, Painswick, Shipston on Stour, Snowshill, Stow on the Wold, Stratford upon Avon, Stroud, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Willersey, Winchcombe, Witney, Woodstock, Worcester, Wotton under Edge.