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8 unusual facts about Cotswolds


Cuda

Cuda (goddess), Celtic/Brythonic goddess residing in what is now the Cotswolds

Derek Humphry

His first wife, Jean Humphry, ended her life on 29 March 1975, in The Cotswolds with her husband at her side, with an intentional overdose of medication; she was suffering from terminal breast cancer.

Greenfingers

It is loosely based on a true story about the award-winning prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds, England.

Lanning Roper

He was commissioned as Prince Charles' landscape gardener in 1981 to do the grounds at Highgrove House in the Cotswolds.

Nancy Atherton

The primary setting is the fictitious village of Finch in the Cotswolds of England and include most of the population in supporting roles, but several books are set in other locales in the United Kingdom or abroad.

National Hunt racing

The capital of National Hunt racing in the UK is Cheltenham Racecourse, in the Cotswolds, which hosts the Cheltenham Festival in the third week of March each year, as well as other important fixtures during the NH calendar.

R. Harold Zook

He is known for the "Cotswold style cottages" he designed which use details from Tudor architecture including timber framing, exposed beams, diamond-shaped window panes, and intricate brick or stonework.

Wessex Regionalist Party

These place the heart of Wessex, Hampshire, including its traditional capital, Winchester, in the separate South East region, as well as bisect the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.


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Borchester

As the Archers is usually taken to "exist" in a region centred on Evesham and somewhere not too far from the Malvern Hills and the edge of the Cotswolds, Borchester could be connected to Broadway, Tewkesbury or Pershore.

Dowdeswell

Gloucestershire: the Cotswolds, David Verey, Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England, Penguin, 1970, ISBN 0-14-071040-X.

Little Sodbury

David Verey, Gloucestershire: the Cotswolds, The Buildings of England edited by Nikolaus Pevsner, 2nd ed.

Minchinhampton

There are good views from the Common, west over the Severn estuary into Wales, and east to the Golden Valley and further into the Cotswolds.

New Park Quarry

This site is in the north Cotswolds, near Longborough, and contains the well-preserved remains (disarticulated) of Crocodiles and Dinosaurs.

Pat Smythe

It was not until Pat's relocation to the Cotswolds that her first taste of showjumping came with Finality.

Stanton, Gloucestershire

Pevsner calls it 'architecturally, the most distinguished of the smaller villages in the North Cotswolds'.

Tina Hobley

On 22 April 2006, her boyfriend Oliver (Oli) Wheeler, at that time a director of Freud Communications, and now Head of Communications at ticket marketplace viagogo.com, proposed to Tina at their Cotswolds cottage.


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