Cotswolds, Gloucestershire travel information
Cotswolds Gloucestershire England
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From the Dorset coast to Yorkshire lies a belt of oolitic limestone. At the widest part where the land has been tilted up on its western side to form an escarpment is the area known as the Cotswolds. Lying mainly in Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds have a mystical charm about them, and with superbly maintained towns, with names such as "Moreton In Marsh" and "Stow on the Wold", not to mention the famous if slightly forbidding "Upper and Lower Slaughter" it is still possible to get a feel for what was once a very harsh landscape. Covering some 600 square miles and with fantastically picturesque villages like "Broadway", "Bourton on the Water" and the almost impossibly quaint " Bibury". The Cotswolds is a great place to visit, walk, admire some magnificent scenery and get a glimpse of British life over the last few millennia. Try a walk along the Cotswold Way, from Bath in the South to Chipping Campden in the North. The Cotswolds are an enduring microcosm of Britains past, reaching back to the roman times and beyond.
