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and the Evenlode. Here it is necessary to take an arbi- 
trary line to the head of the Evenlode and proceed down 
the right bank of that river on the 400 foot contour again. 
This line, of course, runs about the middle of the Vale 
of Moreton. But that vale must be regarded as a high 
level vale—much of it is above 400 feet—parting the 
Cotteswolds from the high ground around Chipping 
Norton and Rollright, which seems to have no name. 
The 500 foot contour line from Aston Magna to Fifield, 
would be about the western delimitation of the Vale of 
Moreton, and the Vale must be considered to belong partly 
to the Cotteswolds in a sense, and partly to the hills of 
Oxfordshire. 
We now follow along the Evenlode, around Wychwood 
Forest, to Wilcote. 
It does not seem possible to part the high ground of 
Wychwood and Leafield from the Cotteswold range. It 
is connected with the ridge of Barrington and Rissington 
by ground over 500 feet high; and as Burford, with the 
country round it, is considered Cotteswold, the best physical 
boundary on the north-east side is the Evenlode: that of 
necessity makes the area of Wychwood Forest an eastern 
extension of the Cotteswolds. 
It would be difficult to take the Windrush as the 
boundary as has been suggested. That would cut off the 
Barrington and Rissington country. And if the Windrush 
were followed further up it would cut off most of the 
North Cotteswolds—the very area of the classic Cottes- 
wold games. It certainly seems that the valleys of the 
Stour and the Evenlode form the best physical parting 
between the Cotteswolds and the high ground of Oxford- 
shire and Warwickshire. 
For the south-eastern boundary from Witney I have 
taken roughly the limit of the Cornbrash, where it dips 
under Oxford Clay. This forms a slight feature, it enables 
