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It's thanks to the limestone hills of west Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire that the historic Cotswold villages are distinctively mellow and golden. Painswick, for example, with buildings clinging to its hilly streets, is a fascinating village off the beaten track. Here you'll enjoy Britain's only Rococo-style garden originally designed in the mid 1700s with, bizarrely, a vegetable patch as its centrepiece.
Between Painswick and Cheltenham is Coopers Hill, site of the traditional cheese-rolling competition every May. The cheeses are made by Diana Smart on her farm in Churcham and she is the only person in the county making Double Gloucester by hand by traditional means.
You'll probably want to take in Bath on your holiday and when you've marvelled at the Georgian streets, you'll find the Herschel Museum of Astronomy a real find. It's dedicated to William Herschel who discovered Uranus in 1781.
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