226 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
“Would not the limit of the arable cultivation—stone 
walls if you like—mark the boundary Malmesbury, Chippen- 
ham way ? 2.e., about where the rock dips under the clay ? 
and the pasture begins. 
“It is very difficult to tell all along the dip slope where ~ 
Cotteswold ends and begins. Speaking of just my own 
old neighbourhood [Minety], I should put Kemble, Poole 
Keynes, Crudwell, Brokenborough, Easton Grey, in 
Cotteswold; but not Somerford Keynes, Oaksey, East- 
court, Hankerton, Charlton, 707 Malmesbury. The latter 
may be disputable, for the stone walls come right up to 
the town on the Tetbury side, and it is on the rock.” 
This definition of the south-east border fully meets my views. 
Lord Moreton writes from Oxfordshire as follows :— 
“One thing I am absolutely certain about is that I have 
never heard the term Oxford Downs applied to any part 
of the County. Of course it is, as you will be aware, the 
name by which the local sheep are known. In this case 
it simply means the sheep of Oxfordshire of a down 
characters... I have enquired of two people here and 
they agree with me that the term Oxford Down is un- 
known to them as a geographical expression. 
‘““T have never heard the natives here speak of this part 
as Cotteswolds. But I have never heard them call it by 
any name. 
‘“T asked Mr Carnegie, the agent here, who knows the 
neighbourhood very well, if in his opinion the Evenlode 
could be taken as the limit. He is decidedly of opinion 
that it could, and thinks the Leafield people consider that 
they are dwellers on Cotteswold. 
‘Personally, I think I should have given the Windrush 
the preference. Once across that stream and you at once 
come on villages which are typical of the Cotteswold 
country. 
“Dialect does not afford any assistance, as one would 
have to go several miles over any border to find anything 
