Stow-on-the-Wold is a small, but well-known, market town set in the Cotswold Hills and near the north-east corner of the English county of Gloucestershire. Set on a hill top, it stands beside the Roman Fosse Way at its junction with six other roads, and where a settlement has existed since the Iron Age. Like many of the Cotswold towns and villages, the houses were built with the very distinctive honey colored Cotswold stone from the local quarries. Many of the buildings date back to the 16th century. Once famous for its sheep market, now famous for its antiques trade. A major battle of the English Civil War was fought here in March 1646. And since medieval times, the stocks on the green are still used for village wrong doers as we shall see.
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