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The Market Squuare in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire

Stow-on-the-Wold

Stow-on-the-Wold is a beautiful market town in the heart of the Cotswold Hills in eastern Gloucestershire, built of the gorgeous honey-coloured stone typifying the Cotswolds.

The town, standing high up on a hill, prospered from the Middel Ages as a wool town, which prosperity shows in its buildings. Today it provides the focus for local shopping and cultural activities and is busy as a tourist destination with its picturesque market square, upmarket shopping and extensive collection of antiques shops. (Read more)