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_ VOL. XIV. (3) THE COTTESWOLD HILLS 221 
Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Tewkesbury...... whilst the 
lower is the Vale of Berkeley,...... reaching from Aust 
Cliff [?]......to Robin’s Wood Hill [?]......The Vale of 
Gloucester is a continuation of the Vale of Evesham.” 
Vol. viii., p. 216d, spelt “ Cotswold,” and alluded to as 
watershed between Thames and Severn. 
There are several inaccuracies here, and the spelling Coteswold, 
carrying out Camden’s old mistaken derivation. The height of Cleeve 
Hill is 1083 feet. Nothing is known locally about the terms South 
Wolds or Stroudwater Hills. They seem to have been taken without 
verification from Marshall’s work ; his authority for them is doubtful, 
and so is the propriety of placing them in an encyclopedia, intended 
to be a work of exact reference. 
1880. John Bellows. ‘Etymology of the word Cottes- 
wod.’ Proc. Cotteswold Naturalists’ Club, Vol. vii, p. 
113. See below, p. 237 
1887. W.H. Hudleston, F.R.S. ‘Gasteropoda of the 
Inf. Oolite,’ (Pal. Soc.). 
“No. 2. The Cotteswold District extending from the 
neighbourhood of the Mendips to a line across the centre 
of England approximately indicated by the London and 
North Western Railway” (p. 23). As. regards the 
name of the second district, it certainly includes more 
both to the north and to the south than the actual 
Cotteswold Hills,” (pp. 23-24). 
“In a sense strictly topographical the country between 
Frome and Bath can scarcely be regarded as forming part 
of the Cotteswold Hills, though to a certain extent a 
physical continuation of that range” (p. 54). 
“The range of the Cotteswolds may be said to com- 
mence north of the deep valley of the Avon” (p. 56.) 
1890. Robertson. ‘A Glossary of Dialect and Archaic 
Words used in the County of Gloucester,’ collected and 
compiled by J. Drummond Robertson, M.A. Edited by 
Lord Moreton. English Dialect Society, No. 61. 
There is no area given as Cotteswolds in this work 
because it was necessary to sub-divide the district ; but 
there are the following definitions by the Editor. 
