TOUR 6: THE COTSWOLDS (9 HOURS)
The most picturesque of all… charming villages with thatched cottages, coaching inns, and delightful teashops. Among the many towns and villages, which grew up from the wool trade in the Middle Ages, are Broadway, Snowshill, Burford, Bourton-on-the-Water, the Slaughters, and Stow-on-the-Wold, which is famous for its antique shops. Close by is Chipping Norton and the Rollright Stones from the Bronze Age.
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The most picturesque of all… the charming villages with thatched cottages, coaching inns and delightful tea shops. Among the many towns and villages which grew up as a result of the wool trade in the Middle Ages are Broadway, Snowshill, Burford, Bourton-on-the-Water, the Slaughters and Stow-on-the-Wold which is famous for its antique shops.
Close by is Chipping Norton and the Rollright Stones from the Bronze Age.
The Cotswolds, The first Neolithic visitors came to the Cotswolds in about 3500BC. There are great monuments to the way of life over the area and these consist mainly of the many long barrows, the burial tombs of which there is evidence of about seventy in Gloucestershire.
Rollright Stones, The name of a complex of megalithic monuments near the villages of Long Compton, Great Rollright and Right Rollright in England, lying across the present county border between the counties of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.
Chipping Norton, ‘Chipping’ is derived from ceapen, an old English word meaning market. Alternatively the meaning comes from the medieval word Chepynge meaning long Market Square as will also be found at Chipping Campden and Chipping Sodbury. There has been a market here since the 13th century and was a major wool-trading town in the 15th century; the great ‘wool’ church of St Mary, built in perpendicular style, testifies to its prosperity.
