Holiday cottages in the Cotswolds - Cotswold cottage holidays
Cottages updated today Thursday 17 May 2012
Lots of people book holiday cottages in the Cotswolds without even giving it a second thought, because it is such a well loved destination for holidays in the UK. The Cotswolds is sometimes know as the Heart of England and is found in a long range of hills in western and central England. With good reason, the Cotswolds is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (an AONB).
When you start your cottage holiday search you will find a wealth of self catering options in the Cotswolds, because tourism is such an important part of the fabric of the area. It's the place that William Morris in Chipping Camden founded the Arts and Crafts movement. You will find an abundance of cottages to let, because the area is within the counties of Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire and even the glorious county of Somerset.
West Cotswolds is bounded the Warwickshire Avon and the Severn Valley and this is a very popular destination for holidaymakers, and running the length of the area is the Cotswold Way, a footpath that lets you enjoy some of the finest scenery and beautiful views in this great country.
There are several very important cities and towns where you can spend your holiday including Stroud, Broadway, Chipping Sodbury, Lechlade, Shipston on Stour , Cirencester, Chipping Norton, Chipping Campden , Bourton-on-the-Water, Winchcombe, Fairford, Oxford, Moreton-in-Marsh , Tetbury, Burford , Marshfield, Cheltenham and Stow on the Wold.
When you are thinking about booking a holiday cottage in the Cotswolds it's really worth knowing about Corsham which is the South West of the area. When people picture a typical village or small Cotswold town they immediately think of Cotswold stone, which is made formed from natural yellow oolitic limestone, and this is the first thing you notice about Corsham, the beauty of the houses and cottages, and it's why so many people book holiday cottages here, and so many people have a retirement home or second holiday home here.