A Cotswold vocabulary

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Today can be summarised with a list of words and phrases familiar from nursery rhymes and novels: hedgerows, meadows, stiles, thatched cottages, bridle ways, rambling, cobblestones, churchyards, village green, hollyhocks, cowslips, old mill, old schoolhouse, Bakewell tart, light ale, Eton mess.

We hired a car in Oxford and spent the day driving and walking among the evocatively-named pretty villages of Chipping Norten, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-water and the Slaughters (Upper and Lower). Highlights were the gorgeous cottages decorated with overflowing hanging baskets,the extraordinary ornate Bliss Mill from the industrial revolution, the ramble from Bourton to the Slaughters across a field of black-faced sheep and along Wardens Way and eating our picnic lunch overlooking the little river next to the Old Mill in Lower Slaughter watching local riders take their horses swimming. We finished the day with a excellent pub meal in Eversham.

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Comments

[Fairyg]

Lovely words
How nice to read your lovely words after the ugliness of the news and emails filled with despair at a world filled with hate and bigotry. To retreat into Enid Blyton territory for a while must be bliss. Thanks for sharing and please send love to Millie Molly Mandie in the second thatched roof cottage on the left! xxxxxxxxx

[Fairyg]

Lovely words
How nice to read your lovely words after the ugliness of the news and emails filled with despair at a world filled with hate and bigotry. To retreat into Enid Blyton territory for a while must be bliss. Thanks for sharing and please send love to Millie Molly Mandie in the second thatched roof cottage on the left! xxxxxxxxx

[PurpleDeborah]

Message from MMM
Milly Molly Mandy sends her love too and hopes you are all jolly well in the Antipodes though she wonders if it mustn't be awfully tiring to be walking about upside down.

[PurpleDeborah]

Message from MMM
Milly Molly Mandy sends her love too and hopes you are all jolly well in the Antipodes though she wonders if it mustn't be awfully tiring to be walking about upside down.

[Vin Est - Independent Wine Merchants in the Cotswolds]

Don't miss out these in the Cotswolds as well!
Lower Slaughter is a lovely part of the Cotswolds but seeing as we're a wine merchant in Lechlade on Thames we thought you might want to add the following locations you won't want to miss: Southrop - a small village just north of Lechlade, with a wonderful foodie pub "The Swan at Southrop" Castle Combe - further south but not one to be missed, an absolutely stunning Cotswold Village with The Manor House Hotel nearby perfect for afternoon teas Kelmscott - a small, remote village East of Lechlade-on-Thames, William Morris called it "a heaven on Earth" Chedworth Villa - one of the largest Roman villas in England! Guiting Power - stunning Cotswold village with honey coloured stone cottages to die for..., definitely worth a visit, also pop into the Hollow Bottom pub too.