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that there are eight Months Summer, and Warm Weather 
all the rest of the Year. (pp. 31, 32.) 
Ben Johnson. [1709-1784.] 
“ The Cotswold with the Olympic vies 
In manly games and goodly exercise.” (B) 
1764. ‘England illustrated, or a Compendium of the 
Natural History, Geography, Topography, etc.,’ London. 
“The eastern part of the county, bordering upon 
Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, and. Berkshire, is called 
Coteswould; the middle part, the Vale of Glocester.” 
(p. 246.) 
“ Of Coteswould it is commonly said eight months in 
the year are winter, and the other four too cold for 
summer.” (p. 247-) 
Here is given the proverb ‘‘ as long a coming as Coteswould Barley.” 
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Marked in the County Map as “‘ Vale of Evesham,” is an area south 
of the Avon from the river bend N.E. of Bredon Hill to S.E.. of 
Evesham. 
1779. 8. Rudder. “A New History of Gloucester- 
shire’ “A vast range of hills, covered with wood in 
many parts on the north-west side adjoining the Vale, 
reaches from Campden to Lansdown, near Bath, and runs 
through the county lengthwise, a little obliquely with the 
course of the Severn; dividing, not very unequally the 
vale and the Forest part of the County from the Cotes- 
wold....... ‘ 
“Under the denomination of the Coteswold I now include 
all that high country on the south-east side of the before- 
mentioned range of hills. It was antiently much overrun 
with woods, whence I conjecture it obtained its double 
name, for Coed in the British language, and Weo/d in the 
Saxon, both signify @ wood....... And with great deference 
to Mr Camden, it seems probable that all those that have 
Cot, or Cotes in their composition, are derived from the 
beforementioned British word; and the present woody 
state of such places serves to strengthen that opinion.” 
(p. 21.) 
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