cotswold

Everyday

1. (a name, a place) The Cotswolds are a range of gentle hills and pretty villages in south-central England, famous for honey-coloured stone houses and sheep. tree →
2. (adjective, «Cotswold») From the Cotswolds: Cotswold stone, Cotswold sheep, Cotswold villages. tree →

In the lessons

Met in geography lessons on England, holiday talk and stories set in the English countryside. In the Middle Ages the Cotswolds grew rich on wool from Cotswold sheep, and the wool money built big churches. The area is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (now called a National Landscape).

Examples

• We went walking in the Cotswolds in the summer. tree →
• The cottages are built of golden Cotswold stone. tree →
• Cotswold sheep have long curly wool. tree →
• Medieval wool merchants grew rich in the Cotswolds. tree →
• The Cotswold villages have dry-stone walls and old churches. tree →
• Our class looked at the Cotswolds on the map of England. tree →

Note

A proper noun: always with a capital C. The hills are «the Cotswolds» (plural). «Wold» is an old word for open hilly country.