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in the Cotswolds are very useful for those staying in the Cotswolds. Wait a 61
second minute, I wrote this on New Year 2009, that is why I saird that. The Cotswolds,
is a place with many hotels in it, and many people like to stay here on a vacation
or a holiday. The Cotswolds is a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes
called the "Heart of England", an area 25 miles (40 km) across and 90
miles (145 km) long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty. The highest point in the Cotswolds range is Cleeve Hill at 1,083
ft (330 m), 2.5 miles (4 km) to the north of Cheltenham. Location The Cotswolds
lie mainly within the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire,
but extend into parts of Wiltshire, Somerset, Worcestershire and Warwickshire.
Description The spine of the Cotswolds runs south west to north east through six
counties, particularly Gloucestershire, west Oxfordshire, and south western Warwickshire.
The northern and western edges of the Cotswolds are marked by steep escarpments
down to the Severn valley and the Warwickshire Avon. This escarpment or scarp
feature, sometimes called the Cotswold Edge, is a result of the uplifting (tilting)
of the limestone layer, exposing its broken edge. This is a cuesta, in geological
terms. The dip slope is to the south east. On the eastern boundary lies the city
of Oxford and on the west is Stroud. To the south-east the upper reaches of the
Thames Valley and towns such as Lechlade, Tetbury and Fairford are often considered
to mark the limit of this region. To the south the Cotswolds, with the characteristic
uplift of the Cotswold Edge, reach as far south as Bath and towns such as Chipping
Sodbury and Marshfield share elements of Cotswold character. Corsham in the south
western Cotswolds The area is characterised by attractive small towns and villages
built of the underlying Cotswold stone (a yellow oolitic limestone). This limestone
is rich in fossils, in particular fossilised sea urchins. In the Middle Ages,
the wool trade made the Cotswolds prosperous; hence the Speaker of the British
House of Lords sits on the Woolsack showing where the Medieval wealth of the country
came from. Some of this money was put into the building of churches so the area
has a number of large, handsome Cotswold stone "wool churches". The
area remains affluent and has attracted wealthy people who own second homes in
the area or have chosen to retire to the Cotswolds. Cotswold towns include Bourton-on-the-Water,
Broadway, Burford, Chipping Norton, Cirencester, Moreton-in-Marsh, Stow-on-the-Wold
and Winchcombe. The town of Chipping Campden is notable for being the home of
the Arts and Crafts movement, founded by William Morris at the end of the 19th
and beginning of the 20th centuries. William Morris lived occasionally in Broadway
Tower a folly now part of a country park. Chipping Campden is also known for the
annual Cotswold Games, a celebration of sports and games dating back to the early
17th century. The Cotswolds were designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
(AONB) in 1966, with an expansion on 21 December 1990 to 1,990 square kilometres
(768 sq mi). In 1991 all AONBs were measured again using modern methods. The official
area of the Cotswolds AONB increased to 2,038 square kilometres (787 sq mi). In
2000 the government confirmed that AONBs had the same landscape quality and status
as National Parks. The largest of 40 AONBs in England and Wales, the Cotswolds
AONB stretches from the border regions of South Warwickshire and Worcestershire,
through West Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire and takes in parts of West Wiltshire,
and Bath and North East Somerset in the South. Gloucestershire County Council
is responsible for 63 per cent of the AONB. ? The Cotswolds Conservation Board
is the organisation that exists to conserve and enhance the AONB. Established
in 2004 the board carries out a range of work from securing funding for 'on the
ground' conservation projects to providing a strategic overview of the area for
key decision makers, such as planning officials. The board is an independent organisation
funded by Natural England and the 17 local authorities that sit within the AONB.
The Cotswold Voluntary Wardens Service, now part of the Cotswolds Conservation
Board, was established in 1968 to help conserve and enhance the area. There are
now over 300 Wardens. In 2007 they gave over 41,000 hours of their time. The Cotswold
Way is a long-distance footpath, approximately 103 miles (166 km) long, running
the length of the AONB, mainly on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment with views
over the Severn Valley and the Vale of Evesham.
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