Gloucestershire
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Introduction
Goucestershire is the most northerly part of the South-west England region. In more normal parlance it would be considered West rather than south-west but lines have to be drawn somewhere.
Geography
The Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, at present highly popular with American tourists, is in Gloucestershire.
On the west of the area lies the Forest of Dean
Cities, towns and villages
- Gloucester
- Bibury
- Bourton on the Water
- Cheltenham
- Chipping Campden
- Cirencester
- Dursley
- Moreton in Marsh
- Painswick
- Stow on the Wold
- Stroud
- Tetbury
- Tewkesbury - a town of upwards of 10,000 that provides a particularly good place off the motorway for a break for those travelling on the M5. Its abbey is a wonderful Norman building. The Abbey Mill is sometimes called Abel Fletcher's Mill - from the novel John Halifax, Gentleman. It is now converted to flats but still worth a look. There are numerous old houses.
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