Rick Steves' Europe: Cotswold Villages, England

The storybook countryside of hedgerows, grazing sheep, thatched-roof cottages and stately homes harks back to the days of the medieval wool trade

  • By Rick Steves
  • Smithsonian.com, May 01, 2010
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Thatched cottage Chipping Campden Gloucestershire England

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Chipping Camden, with its thatched-roof cottages, is one of the region's coziest towns.

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