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The Best Cotswold Guide on the Market  ISBN:  9781874192787 Amazon Link https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cotswolds-Town-Village-Guide-Definitive/dp/1874192782/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=cotswold+town+and+Village+guide&qid=1591055347&sr=8-1   "The Cotswold Town and Village Guide":  Video The latest fully updated edition of the "Definitive Guide to Places of Interest in the Cotswolds" as the author says this is the result of my continuing love affair with the Cotswolds, an area that I have known for most of my life and one that I have been visiting with my camera and notebook for well over fifty years.  A glance at the maps contained in this book will soon reveal that the area covered extends well beyond the classic Cotswolds, but it never strays far from true limestone country with its typically lovely stone towns and villages.  These are enfolded by rolling hills and quiet wooded valleys through which clea...

Crime and Punishment By Nicholas Reardon ISBN-13 :  9781874192749 Crime and Punishment in and about the Cotswold Hills This fully illustrated colour book shows the reader in Photographs and Sketches old time punishments such as stocks, whipping posts and lock-ups along with stories of murdered Kings and Court Jesters, Highwaymen and War Crimes committed long ago, when the Cotswold hills were not so peaceful. Having lived in the Cotswolds all my life, and with a keen interest in history, I would like to share my love of this area with you by pointing out some of the hidden features to be found in this unique part of the English countryside. Over the years my father, the well-known Cotswold artist Peter Reardon, had drawn a number of little sketches showing stocks, whipping posts and old town lock-ups. These illustrated the historic types of punishment served up to those who broke the law in and around these lovely and now peaceful hills. ...