"Cotswold hills" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Stuarts. Cheltenham is now a greater city than any which the kingdom contained in the seventeenth century, London alone excepted. But in the seventeenth century, and at the beginning of the eighteenth, Cheltenham was mentioned by local historians merely as a rural parish lying under the Cotswold Hills, and affording good ground both for tillage and pasture. Corn grew and cattle browsed over the space now covered by that long succession of streets and villas. [98] Brighton was described as a place which ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay |
