A region in southwestern England known for rolling hills and sheep farming, or relating to the Cotswold region, its people, or Cotswold sheep (a breed).
From Old English 'cotes' (shelters for sheep or birds) + 'weald' or 'wold' (an open hilly area). Named for its sheep pens in the elevated landscape.
The Cotswolds reveals how landscape names encode history—'cots' for shelters tells us medieval people saw the hills as sheep country, and those hills are still famous for Cotswold wool, a fiber that built medieval fortunes.
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