WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THE COTSWOLDS?
You mean apart from the rolling green hills, honey-hued limestone walls, rose-covered cottages and babbling streams? The Cotswolds, a region stretching roughly from Chipping Campden in the north to Bath in the south, and covering the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire, has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. However, things have moved on since 1933 when J B Priestley described the Cotswolds as “the most English and the least spoiled of all our countrysides”. The scenery may still be more quintessentially English than a box of Quality Street, but if you know where to look, there are plenty of other attractions to tempt you, from hi-tech museums to some of the hippest hotels in the country. There are practical reasons, too, why the Cotswolds is such a popular area. Unlike other English holiday-destination favourites, such as Devon, Cornwall and the Lake District, it’s fairly centrally located. What’s more, the region is also surr
