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The Rough Guide to the Cotswolds is your definitive handbook to one of the most beautiful and diverse holiday destinations in the UK. From stately homes and wildlife parks to modern art galleries, country walks and adventure sports, the full-colour section introduces all of the regions' highlights. For every town and village, there are comprehensive and opinionated reviews of all the best places to eat, drink and stay to suit every budget. It brings the Cotswolds bang up-to-date; out go musty tearooms and chintzy B&Bs and in come the best of the area's new contemporary restaurants, boutique-styled hotels and top-rated country pubs. There's plenty of practical advice and a special focus on the region's gastronomy with features on specialist farmers' markets, local farm shops, gastro-pubs and country restaurants. The guide also comes complete with easy-to-use maps for every area making sure you don't miss the unmissable.
Make the most of your time on Earth with The Rough Guide to the Cotswolds.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The poor Cotswolds. This is a region of England forever being misrepresented. It's either portrayed as a posh, honey-coloured hideaway for harangued celebs and upper middle class mums on yoga retreats, or packaged up like a quaint Richard Curtis style film set for twee-seeking foreign tourists. There's *some* truth in both these clichés of course, as there always is, but you rarely get to see or read anything that presents the Cotswolds in any more depth, especially in a guide book. This book, however, is very different.
What Matthew Teller does really well in this new Rough Guide, is not to dispel these stereotypes as myths - because they're not, entirely - but to place them in their rightful context and then move on. The Cotswolds is an astoundingly pretty corner of the country, it's true, but that fact in itself betrays nothing of its heart and guts. This is an ancient patchwork of proud market towns and dyed-in-the-wool rural communities, working hard to overcome the realities of an economic situation which makes it almost impossible to maintain the agricultural way of life it's relied upon for centuries.
Where this book really succeeds is in bringing to light how this has affected the region, by revealing the reality of the Cotswolds today: a world of ancient or obsolete traditions revived in the spirit of "diversifying" (and because tourists love all that stuff), the localisation of the food chain and a subsequent glut of farmer's markets, and an astonishing gastronomic scene that's sprung up in the wake of all this. Add to this the region's plethora of oddball events and attractions, not to mention its serenity and obscenely beautiful views, and there you have it. A bucolic, distinctive, sometimes quirky, and above all - as Matthew writes himself - special destination. Who gives a toss if Jeremy Clarkson lives there or not? Buy this book, because you won't find a better - or truer - one out there, and you'll be led to a Cotswolds the hordes rarely see.
What Matthew Teller does really well in this new Rough Guide, is not to dispel these stereotypes as myths - because they're not, entirely - but to place them in their rightful context and then move on. The Cotswolds is an astoundingly pretty corner of the country, it's true, but that fact in itself betrays nothing of its heart and guts. This is an ancient patchwork of proud market towns and dyed-in-the-wool rural communities, working hard to overcome the realities of an economic situation which makes it almost impossible to maintain the agricultural way of life it's relied upon for centuries.
Where this book really succeeds is in bringing to light how this has affected the region, by revealing the reality of the Cotswolds today: a world of ancient or obsolete traditions revived in the spirit of "diversifying" (and because tourists love all that stuff), the localisation of the food chain and a subsequent glut of farmer's markets, and an astonishing gastronomic scene that's sprung up in the wake of all this. Add to this the region's plethora of oddball events and attractions, not to mention its serenity and obscenely beautiful views, and there you have it. A bucolic, distinctive, sometimes quirky, and above all - as Matthew writes himself - special destination. Who gives a toss if Jeremy Clarkson lives there or not? Buy this book, because you won't find a better - or truer - one out there, and you'll be led to a Cotswolds the hordes rarely see.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you live in the Cotswolds or are visiting, you will find something new in this book - it is easy to read and clear to navigate your way around.
There is never enough time on day trips or short stays to see all that an area has to offer but this book really helps you make the best of your trip - great ideas and clever facts!
We used it for a family day out and it was the perfect companion...
There is never enough time on day trips or short stays to see all that an area has to offer but this book really helps you make the best of your trip - great ideas and clever facts!
We used it for a family day out and it was the perfect companion...
Format:Paperback
An excellent little book, with good illustrations, which I didn't expect in a rough guide. This could well be the best value for money guide to a popular destination.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great book, not just for tourists.
I've always liked the rough guide books, having used them a lot while travelling 15 years ago. We've just recently moved to Oxfordshire and I was pleased to find a rough guide to... Read more
Published 10 months ago by N. Maeder
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A good read for someone wanting to know detail about an area we plan to spend an extended holiday in. I have it by my bed constatnyl!
Published 11 months ago by Pfeiff
Very helpful book
This is an excellent quide book to the Cotswolds. It tells you clearly what you need to know to spend a day or a holiday in the various villages. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mrs. M. Gilliland
Good work
Matthew Teller has written a good new guide to the Cotswolds. It's a hard job to summarise the Cotswolds: it's an area of Britain that, rather than hitting you between the eyes... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Deechris
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