For a lot of people, the Cotswolds, with their rich and varied landscape sprinkled with golden coloured churches, grand houses, villages and towns, are often considered to represent the very core of England.
Here are rolling green hills, honey-hued limestone walls, rose-covered cottages and babbling streams. Described in 1933 by J B Priestley as ‘the most English and least spoiled of all our countrysides’, this is a region for which the word ‘peaceful’ seems specially suited. Over it, as a whole, quietness reigns.
Creamy limestone is what makes the Cotswolds. Warmer toned in the north, pearly in the central areas and light grey in the south, the stone seems to glow with absorbed sunlight. Hamlets, villages, churches and towns grow out of the landscape in such a pleasing way just because this local stone has a warm and enduring quality. Read the rest of this entry »
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