228 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
“T have no doubt that the Evenlode valley is the vea/ 
boundary of the characteristic uplands which we call Cots- 
wolds: but I take it you are asking for local usages of the 
name, and not for physical differentiz.” 
From the north of the Cotteswolds this reply was 
received—from the Postmaster at Chipping Campden, 
Mr G. Haines :— 
“All the information I can give you is that the Cots- 
wolds are supposed to end at Wolds End Farm, Gampden.” 
The Postmaster of Witney writes as follows :— 
“Witney is not considered as part of the Cotteswolds.” 
The Headmaster of the Leafield National School, Mr 
George Gordon, was handed the circular by the Post- 
master, and he sent the following remarks :— 
“We hardly consider ourselves as included in the 
Cotswold district, which we consider to end in the locality 
of Stow. In this village we are on an outlier of the 
Oxford clay, containing quartzites in one particular place 
(Barrow Hill), 600 feet. Wychwood Forest (as a forest) 
is now shrunk to about 2000 acres.” 
A further communication from Mr Warde Fowler said:— 
“An old postman who for nearly half a century walked 
the district between Chipping Norton and Fyfield-Idbury- 
Westcott, told me just now that the Fyfield people do zot 
consider themselves in the Cotswolds...... The postman 
says that he thinks the Cotswolds begin about Idbury and 
Westcott. On the whole I should guess that on this side 
the Gloucestershire people use the name, and the Oxford- 
shire people do not as a rule: and that the term Oxford 
downs is used instead, though the hills are practically the 
same in every way up to Leafield. From the Windrush 
valley south and west it must be different...... and indeed 
I never had any doubt myself that Burford was a Cotswold 
town.” 
Mr Wm. Thompson writes :— 
