Welcome to the Cotswolds
 An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

The Cotswolds is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) which means it is recognised as being some of our finest countryside and is protected as a special landscape, of national importance.

          A Special Place
  • The Cotswolds AONB covers 2.038 sq kms (790 sq miles)
  • People have lived here for more than 6,000 years
  • Today most of the area Is farmland
  • More than half of the country's flower-rich Jurassic limestone grassland is in the Cotswolds
  • There are Internationally important beech and yew woods
  • Cotswold stone buildings are known alt over the world
  • Dry stone watts cover more than 6,000 kms (4,000 miles)

 


Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership
The Old Police Station, Cotswold Heritage Centre, Northleach, Gloucestershire GL54 3JH
Tel: 01451 862000. Fax: 01451 862001,
email: aonb@cotswold.gov.uk
www.cotswoldsaonb.com
 

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