236 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
of Berkshire an area near Great Barrington. Poulton used 
to be in Wiltshire; but then much of the south-east part 
of the Cotteswolds is in Wiltshire, there is testimony to 
that being the case 250 years ago. See above, p. 210 
The Geological Survey Map, sheet 44, revised up to 
1879, shows an area around Shilton, south of Burford, as 
“Part of Berkshire,” and a detached part of Gloucester- 
shire at Widford, east of Burford. Of course there has 
been much re-arrangment of county boundaries of late. 
Now, we should have to make the following statement 
about the Cotteswolds :—The greater part of this range 
lies in the eastern part of Gloucestershire, but the southern 
extremity penetrates Somerset; on the north-east certain 
portions belong to the counties of Worcester and War- 
wick, on the east is a large tract in Oxfordshire, much of 
the south-eastern border lies in Wiltshire; so that five 
counties now instead of six can claim a share of the 
Cotteswolds. By general consent Cirencester is con- 
sidered the chief town of the Cotteswolds, ‘the metropolis 
of the Cotteswolds’ it is often termed. As the Caer Cori 
of the British, the Corinum or Corinium of the Romans, 
the Cirenceaster of the Saxons, the Cirecestre of the 
Normans (Domsday Book), and rightly the Cisiter of the 
moderns,’ it can point to a long and eventful history. 
ETYMOLOGY OF ‘COTTESWOLD.’ 
When the results of the investigation had been com- 
municated to the Ordnance Survey there came a further 
enquiry—whether the spelling should be “ Cotteswold,” 
or “ Cotswold, Hills,” on the maps. 
This is an intricate question, depending on the derivation 
and history of the word, which again is necessarily some- 
what conjectural. My answer was in favour of the form 
r On the pronounciation of the name see Rev G. H. Moberley, ‘Local Names,’ 
Bristol and Glouc. Arch. Soc,, Vol. ii., p. 123. 
