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us to include in the Cotteswold area the typical arable 
stonewall country; it runs between the 300 and 400 foot 
contour-lines, though there is some variation. By this 
line we include in Cotteswolds, Brize Norton, Broughton, 
Fairford, Siddington, Crudwell. 
This line I keep as near as possible to Easton Grey. 
There the Cornbrash area is so merged into the grass land 
of the Vale of Chippenham,* that it cannot be taken as a 
limit. So I have taken two rivers, the Sherston branch 
of the Avon, up nearly to Acton Turville, then an arbitrary 
line to Burton, and thence down the By Brook to Bath.’ 
COUNTIES IN WHICH ‘ THE COTTESWOLDS”’ LIE. 
Gazetteers, and similar books, generally state that the 
Cotteswolds are wholly confined to Gloucestershire. I 
have noted above several inaccuracies in such works of 
reference, therefore, it is not advisable to place much faith 
in their statements. It can easily be seen that the asser- 
tion as to the Cotteswolds being limited to Gloucestershire 
is incorrect. In Oxfordshire is a typical Cotteswold town, 
Burford, admitted as belonging to the Cotteswolds by 
many writers, and by natives. Ilmington, by general 
consent, one of the northern points of the range, is in 
Warwickshire. Worcestershire nearly cuts the North 
Cotteswolds into two, just south of Chipping Campden ; 
and there is a detached portion of this county on the high 
part of the hills at Cutsdean, above Stanway. Lansdown 
Hill, often mentioned as the southern extremity of the 
range, is in Somerset. 
As now defined, there is a large area of the eastern part 
of the Cotteswolds in Oxfordshire, mixed up with detached 
pieces of Worcestershire. An old map marks as a piece 
1 I donot know if local usage justifies this name, and my enquiries of local residents 
have failed to find any appellation. 
2 For confirmative evidence found after this decision had been adopted, see above, p. 210. 
