Gloucestershire

Cotswolds home county

Gloucestershire is a county in southwestern England, bordering Wales and encompassing parts of the Cotswolds and the Forest of Dean.

The name is pronounced with the middle syllables collapsed: GLOSS-ter-shur.

We drove through Gloucestershire on our way to Bristol.

geography

Cotswolds

Hilly English countryside region

SevernBritain's longest watercourse
ThamesLondon's river
AvonEnglish river or cosmetics company

escarpment · valleys · countryside · meadows · farmland · orchards · pastoral · bucolic · waterways

towns

Cheltenham

Gloucestershire spa town

Dursley

agriculture

sheep

Woolly farm animal

orchardsFruit tree plantations
arableFit for cultivation
livestockDomesticated farm animals

farmland · grazing · husbandry · harvest

culture

cider

Pressed apple beverage

wassailingFestive door-to-door singing

heritage

medieval

Of the Middle Ages

TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
VictorianOf a prim era
timberedContaining trees or beams

manors · abbey · archaeology · monuments

Categories

British PlacesBuckingham Palace, England, Tower of London, London, Big Ben
CountiesCork, Dublin, Kerry, Galway, Mayo
UK PlacesLondon, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bath
English countiesBerkshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devon
English ShiresBedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire
Southwest EnglandCornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire

Opposites

administrative geography type

GloucestershireLondon

England's capital city

Greater Manchester · City of London · Birmingham · Manchester · city-state

geographic location within England

GloucestershireNorthumberland

English county bordering Scotland

North Yorkshire · Norfolk · Kent

Family

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