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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Stow on the Wold England Donnington Brewery Snowshill Gloucestershire England Thatched cottage Chipping Campden Gloucestershire England Snowshill Manor Cotswolds England map
Cotswolds England map

(Guilbert Gates)


Towns are so small you feel immersed in nature wherever you stay. For the British, the Cotswolds region is prime walking country.

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