206 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
“Ordnance Survey Office, 
23 Westfield Park, 
Redland, Bristol, 1 Aug., 1901. 
“The Secretary of the Cotswold Club. 
“I beg to state that the name of the district known 
as the ‘Cotswold Hills’ was not shown on the original 
Ordnance Survey Maps of the County of Gloucester. 
“ As the maps are now undergoing revision, I should be 
glad to know if you would kindly show their extent by a 
red line on the One Inch Maps of the County, if forwarded 
to you.” 
To this letter I made reply that the question was one 
which could not be answered off-hand; that it was neces- 
sary to collect local information as to precise limits, which 
I would do so far as possible ; but that in my opinion the 
following was somewhat the definition of the term. 
THE COTTESWOLD HILLS.—High ground stretching 
in a general N.E. direction from Lansdown Hill, near 
Bath, to Ebrington Hill, near Chipping Campden. Bounded 
on the S. by the Avon Valley, on S.W. by Vale of Berkeley, 
on W. by Vale of Gloucester, on N.W. by Vale of Evesham, 
on N.E. by valley of R. Stour, the Moreton Vale, and part 
of valley of R. Evenlode. On E., no physical feature— 
perhaps arbitrary line. The Vale of White Horse (Crick- 
lade part), forms the S.E. boundary. The west edge very 
defined and abrupt, indented by Dursley Valley, Stroud 
Valley (upper part, Golden Valley, lateral branches— 
valleys of Painswick, Slad, Nailsworth), Chelt Valley. 
Out of this came, later, a request from the Ordnance 
Survey for definitions of the valleys and vales mentioned, 
if I considered them of sufficient importance to appear on 
maps. Certainly I did and do think them of sufficient 
importance—names that are in everyday use among the 
inhabitants of a district ought to be found on maps for the 
guidance of the stranger. 
