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been or can be applied to it. Even the word Cotteswold 
is never used for the Lansdown outlier in this district... 
,».. Phe Avon here is certainly a dividing line...... of the 
Cotteswold range from the southern side.” 
The following information is from the Postmaster of 
Burford, Mr R. G. Foster :— 
“Our Road Surveyor, Mr J. Banbury (80 years old), is 
of opinion that all the places mentioned, with the exception 
of Chipping Norton, might be considered as the border 
line of Cotteswold district.” 
Dr F. T. Bond, F.R.S.E., sent the following remarks : 
““My impression is that the so-called ‘ Cottswold Hills’ 
(the spelling of which certainly varies), are more frequently 
referred to as ‘the Cottswolds,’ than by the above name, 
which can scarcely suggest itself to a resident on the 
Cottswold A/ateau as an appropriate one. 
“Robin’s Wood Hill is, of course, considered as an 
outlier, and therefore as part of the Cottswold system, by 
geologists, but I doubt whether ordinary persons so regard 
it. I have never heard any such person suggest that it 
was a Cottswodd hill...... 
“By the Vale of Berkeley is generally understood so 
much of the Severn Valley as extends from Stonehouse 
on the north to Mangotsfield on the south, but it has no 
precise boundaries. | 
“Vale of Gloucester from Stonehouse to Cheltenham.” 
Rev W. Butt wrote from Arle Court :— 
“I can’t help you about the Cotteswolds. Personally 
we, and it applies to our forefathers, always speak of 
Chosen and Robins Wood as being of the Cotteswolds. 
But I never heard of Bredon being put with them—though 
I have had ample opportunity of hearing about the views 
of the Bredonians in this connexion,...... I know the 
country round Limpley Stoke, Freshford, Bradford-on- 
Avon, and the Great and Little Solsbury’s; but I never 
heard or thought of them as Cotteswold. 
