Cottages in the Cotswalds, Heart of England. We list a range of holiday properties in the Cotswalds on these pages. For neighbouring regions, try: the Forest of Dean, Warwickshire and Shakespeare Country, Shropshire, plus Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and the Midlands. From Holidaycottages.cc.
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Holiday cottages in the Cotswolds
If
you are looking for a quintessentially English holiday cottage then
look no further than the Cotswolds. It is a beautiful area of rolling
hills, country villages and small market towns. Do the Cotswolds have
the prettiest of English villages? Many would say so, because the honey-coloured
Cotswold stone, rough slate roofs and pretty cottage gardens combine
with a higgledy-piggledy layout to make everyone's idea of the perfect
English country scene.
The Cotswolds region
The
area known as the Cotswolds is not a county but a region, technically
following the line of an escarpment that forms the eastern edge the
Severn River valley, the Cotswolds are generally considered to cover
an area from Worcester in the north to Bath in the south. Gloucester
and Cheltenham roughly mark the the Western edge and in the East the
region stretches as far as Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon.
Typical Cotswold holiday cottages
A typical Cotswold holiday cottage might be an old character cottage
built of Cotswold stone and with a thick slate roof, don't expect too
many straight lines in a place like this, but cottages will have been
refurbished and upgraded so you can usually expect all mod cons. As
the Cotswolds is a farming area, long famous for its sheep, there are
plenty of old farm buildings converted to holiday cottages; also look
for timber framed cottages and thatched roofs, particularly towards
the eastern part of the region.
As the Cotswolds are designated as an Area
of Outstanding Natural Beauty, new developments are strictly
controlled so even new holiday properties will generally be built of
local stone and will blend with older cottages in style.
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Cotswold cottages:
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