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Minchinhampton

2:45pm Thursday 23rd November 2006

Minchinhampton is one of the Cotswold's lesser-known gems. Partially surrounded by some of the most beautiful common land in England, cows and horses roam free, and wild orchids and cowslips still flourish.

Stonehouse

2:42pm Thursday 23rd November 2006

Stonehouse must have been a fair sight when William the Conqueror's Domesday Book was written in 1086. For there, surrounded by lovely countryside, was a manor house built in stone - quite different from the many wattle and daub buildings that were normally found.

Painswick

2:42pm Thursday 23rd November 2006

Painswick's churchyard is one of the most beautiful in England, famed for its yew trees which date back over 200 years. Indeed some were planted as long ago as 1714.

Stroud

2:39pm Thursday 23rd November 2006

When Laurie Lee wrote of his childhood in the Slad Valley, just outside Stroud, he immortalised this corner of England, and brought it to the attention of the wider world. People have continued to flock here ever since.

Stroud

12:43pm Friday 28th April 2006

When Laurie Lee wrote of his childhood in the Slad Valley, just outside Stroud, he immortalised this corner of England, and brought it to the attention of the wider world. People have continued to flock here ever since.

Stonehouse

12:39pm Friday 28th April 2006

Stonehouse must have been a fair sight when William the Conqueror's Domesday Book was written in 1086. For there, surrounded by lovely countryside, was a manor house built in stone - quite different from the many wattle and daub buildings that were normally found. And so the area was named "Stanhus" in the great book. Today, that name has little changed: from Stanhus to Stonehouse.

Painswick

12:37pm Friday 28th April 2006

Painswick's churchyard is one of the most beautiful in England, famed for its yew trees which date back over 200 years. Indeed some were planted as long ago as 1714.

Nailsworth

12:34pm Friday 28th April 2006

The old woollen merchants who left their mark on so much of the Cotswolds, must surely haunt Nailsworth as almost no other town. It was an important centre for clothiers, and many mills line the waterway that runs through it. Hopefully, they would be reassured bythe good use their factories have been put to.