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Cotswolds

[ kots-wohldz, -wuhldz ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)
  1. a range of hills in SW England, in Gloucestershire.


Cotswolds

/ ˈkɒtsˌwəʊldz; -wəldz /

plural noun

  1. a range of low hills in SW England, mainly in Gloucestershire: formerly a centre of the wool industry


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Chris Lawson, the managing director at UK-based design firm CK Architectural says that the firm has worked in the Cotswolds area, which is filled with towns that can source their own building materials.

Merchants like the Celys shipped enormous consignments of wool from the Cotswolds to the Continent.

The property of the Selwyns lay in the picturesque district of the Northern Cotswolds.

Early in May I walked up from the valley to the extreme rim of the Cotswolds, just above our house.

In this district (the Cotswolds) we generally suppose the derivation to be from the rake being an ell in width.

The Thames flows on after its junction with the Churn, and receives other pretty streams, all coming out of the Cotswolds.

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