Cotswolds – area of outstanding national beauty | United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is home to some of the most beautiful and famous countryside and landscapes in the world, and none more so than the Cotswolds. With 80% of the Cotswolds classed as farmland, you can imagine how well kept and beautiful the countryside is there. So much so that in 1966, the Cotswolds was designated an ‘area of outstanding national beauty’, a sentence that doesn’t even begin to do it justice.
The East Banqueting House at Old Campden House and St. James Church (a Wool Church), Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, UK by Saffron Blaze
Covering 790 square miles of stunning countryside over 6 counties, the Cotswolds wears its badge with pride. Home to Bath, one of the UK’s most picturesque cities and Britain’s only world heritage site, the Cotswolds is also home to various villages and towns that have made their mark on British history. The most famous example of this is Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace and now resting place of a certain British playwright know as William Shakespeare. You may have heard of him. The RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) Theatre in Stratford has been home to some of the best known adaptations of his work, with some of the UK’s best acting talent performing the likes of King Lear, Hamlet and Macbeth, from Patrick Stewart, Simon Callow and many others. When not watching his plays, tourists flood to the local Church. This is where Shakespeare’s grave is situated, and it is now one of the biggest tourist attractions in the UK, with tourists coming from all over the world to pay their respects to the Bard.
Author Bio: Daley works with Cotswold Journeys and has a great love for the countryside and the tourism of the UK. He loves to get out and enjoy the great outdoors, and then write about it.
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