224 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
Local newspapers have for a long time used such 
phrases as Cotswolds, Vale of Gloucester, Vale of Evesham, 
in the arrangement of news. But their definitions are 
hardly to be trusted, for they have mentioned such places, 
among others, as Kempsford, Lechlade, Winchcombe, 
Bishops Cleeve, as being on the Cotswolds. Advertise- 
ments in newspapers sometimes speak of Churchdown 
Hill (Chosen) as a spur of the Cotswolds—but it is quite 
isolated. 
There are numerous references to the Cotteswolds 
throughout the ‘ Proceedings of the Cotteswold Club, and 
the ‘Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire 
Archeological Society, as well as special papers on their 
various features. Much attention has been given to the 
geology of the Cotteswolds in the ‘Quart. Journ. Geol. 
Society. It does not seem necessary to notice all these 
papers, only those which have some special bearing on the 
subject of the present enquiry. Similarly it is hardly 
necessary to cite the various works which mention the 
Cotteswold Hills, unless they contain geographical or 
etymological remarks. That I have been successful in 
obtaining all the references to the Cotteswolds and adjacent 
districts, which fulfil these requirements, I cannot expect. 
For further, and particularly for any early references 
concerning the Cotteswolds, I shall be grateful. 
6. PRESENT DAY OPINIONS. 
The result of many enquiries and a very considerable 
correspondence may now be given in the words of my 
various kind informants. 
The Rev H. H. Winwood, F.G.S., sent this opinion :— 
“The Ordnance Survey questions are difficult to answer 
Nk hy So far as the district south of Bath or ‘below’ Bath, 
I have never heard any suggestion that such a name has 
