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valley but the stone much more golden in colour. During the eighteenth century when
the wool industry was in decline Blockley turned to silk production. By 1884 six silk
mills powered by the fast-flowing Blockley brook provided work for about 600 people
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This small centre of industry began to decline after 1860 when the levy on imported
silk was removed. The village of Blockley is a unique collection of buildings reflecting
it's past glory of mills and silk production and is quite different in character to
other north Cotswolds villages.
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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
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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.
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Explore Blockley and nearbyNearby: Chipping Campden (3 miles), Moreton-in-Marsh (3 miles), Snowshill (4 miles), Broadway (5 miles), Ilmington (6 miles), Stanton (6 miles) |