by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
At different times over the centuries, other commodities contributed to the landscape, even if all that remains of them is a name on a signpost or on a map. The earliest commodity to leave its mark is salt, which, for its various uses – from the setting of dyes in...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
Leonard Stanley is not a nineteen fifties comedian, but a village in the Stroud Valley, just south of Stonehouse, in the lee of the Cotswold escarpment. It is a village that you could easily pass through and think little of or, more likely, bypass altogether. Yet,...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
It goes without saying that a church is a place of worship. But the fact is that today, when religion is no longer universally followed, churches can have a supplementary role in our lives, as three-dimensional representations of our history. In fact, in England,...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds, Walking
From Stanway, it is a forty-minute walk along the Cotswold Way, which passes through the Stanway estate, to the neighboring village of Stanton, a handsome village much used for film because of its perfect state of preservation. The Mount Inn, which dispenses local...
