Cotswolds
A few kilometres north of Bath the Cotswold Hills begin.
The Aquae Sulis staff recommended the village of Castle Combe as the best of the Cotswold villages.
So we drove there and spent a while walking around the village.
We recognised that we had seen it as the setting for historic events in films and TV.
In the centre of the village is an ancient pub, and a more recent church, all carefully preserved. The photo above is of cottages right opposite the pub.
We realised also that we had a jig-saw puzzle at home which showed this part of Castle Combe from a different angle, and had often admired the scene!
Then we set off northwards towards Gloucester,
in search of the locality where the Gaze family lived and farmed in the 17th and 18th centuries, before they moved to Bristol in 1800 and then to London in 1807.
Hucclecote it is called, and is now a nondescript part of Gloucester City. Perhaps some day we may be able to visit again and learn a bit more about this locality.
So we turned around and headed south towards Hampshire, where we had friends who were expecting us.
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