PROCEEDINGS OV THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 87 



In his Annual Address to the Cotteswold Club just 

 twenty years ago, Sir William Guise said : " The fact 

 " forces itself upon us more and more every year, that we 

 " are gradually ransacking every cranny and corner of the 

 " district which is within our reach by road or rail withm 

 " the compass of a day's journey. It becomes, therefore, 

 " increasingly difficult to arouse interest in mere locality, 

 " and we must rely more and more upon the efforts of 

 " members to work out minute facts of scientific interest 

 " in their different localities."* 



It is in the spirit which ought to prompt a response to 

 the appeal of our departed President that I venture to 

 offer these notes " On the pre-Saxon occupation of the 

 Middle Cotteswolds." In the same spirit, may I ask for 

 the co-operation of members of the Club in an endeavour 

 to make a complete map of the old by-roads of the 

 county, many of which w^ere in constant use by drovers 

 before the abolition of turnpikes, and are now practically 

 discarded. 



Cottes. Club Proc, Vol. vi., p^ 269. 



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