Cotswold villages are located between Oxford and Gloucester in rural England.

• Chipppin Campden
• Coln St Aldwyn
• Coln St Dennis
• Hinton in the Hedges
• Stow on the Wold

All of the villages are in close proximity to one another.

• Wool merchant guilds before Norman conquest (1066)
• Wool merchant housing 14th and 16th century

Bibury

• Arlington Row - stone built cottages used to be housing for weavers

• 17th century mill- display of arts and crafts, furniture and working machinery

Burford noted for churchyard tombs in the shape of wool bales

Cirencester - Medieval town, capital of the Cotswold area. Once an important town in Roman days.

Attractions:

• St Johns Baptist church
• Corinium Museum - focus on Roman Cirencester
• Village Churches
  • Daglingworth Church - noted for Saxon sculptures
  • Elkstone Church - noted for Norman Arches

Malmesbury - attraction: Abbey converted into a weaving shed

Tetbury - attraction: 17th century market hall that was used to trading wool

Filkins Museum- Cotswold woolen weavers - 18th century woolen mill permanent exhibition.

Lechlade on the upper Thames River

• St John's bridge
• 13th century trout inn
• cabin cruisers
• trout fishing

Kelmscott Manor - once owned by William Mores who was a utopian craftsman

• typical manor home
• Cotswold stone built home
• split stones used for roofing resembling fish scales

Great Coxwell

• tithe barn
• built by 13th century monks from beaulieu abbey, Hampshire
• incorporated great oaks timbers to support the roof

Fairford-

• St Mary's church with 15th century stain glass windows are the work of Henry the 8ths masterglass painter

Chedworth cottages - 6 and half acres

• best preserved Roman villa in UK
• AD 180
• Roman baths
• Romans mosaics

Northleach

• church tower built by wool merchants of 15th and 16th centuries whose names are engraved in memorial brasses
• Cotswold countryside collection museum of wagons and farm tools

Chalford -

• golden valley
• round house conical roof and gothic windows

Cheltenham- Spa

• mineral spring discovered 1780
• Lord Byron (poet) once visited

Gloucester- is a Roman and medieval town, Cathedral is the top attraction.

Attractions:

• National waterways museum
• museum of advertising and packaging
• folk museum
• city museum and art gallery
• tailor of Gloucester museum
• Gloucester Cathedral
  • Norman Nave
  • 14th century stain glass
  • tomb of Edward 2nd
  • monks lavatory

Gloucester history

• Edward 2nd murdered at Berkley castle
• Henry 1st died in Gloucester
• Henry 3rd was crowned here
• Charles 2nd ordered the town walls demolished for vengeance for his father's (Charles 1) execution