It’s a story of ____ and ____, and then boom again. Because of its ____, the region prospered. ____ wool merchants built fine homes of the honey-colored local ____. Thankful to God for the ____ their sheep brought, they built oversized churches nicknamed “wool cathedrals.” But with the rise of ____ and the Industrial Revolution, the region’s wool industry ____. The fine Cotswold towns fell into a depressed time warp, becoming sleeping beauties. Because of that, the region has a ____ charm. And that’s the basis of today’s new prosperity. Its residents are ____ to lots of tourists, and the Cotswolds have become a popular escape for Londoners — people who can ____ thatched mansions like these. In England, “Main Street” is called “the high street” — and in Cotswold ____ towns ____ high street was built wide — designed to ____ thousands of sheep on market days. The handsome market town of Chipping Campden has a ____ Street that’s changed ____ over the centuries. Everything you see was made of the same finely worked Cotswold stone — the only stone allowed today. ____ still use the traditional stone ____. To make the weight easier to bear, smaller and lighter slabs are higher up. A 17th-century market hall — with its original ____ from top to bottom ____ — marks the town center. Hikers admire the surviving medieval ____. You can imagine centuries of wheelings and ____ that took place under these very ____.

HA The Cotswolds

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