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'Stow-on-the-Wold, where the wind blows cold…' runs the ancient rhyme. The highest town in the Cotswolds can certainly be windswept, particularly in the winter.

Stow-on-the-Wold is the junction of eight major roads, including the Roman Fosse Way, and has always attracted travellers from far and wide.

Stowe is of European importance in the history of landscape gardening.

The two main crossings were here, at Stow Bardolph, and at nearby Magdalen bridge: these were droving roads used by cattle traders, and there was formerly a major cattle fair here at Stow.

Built by Lord Cobham of Stowe in 1748 to help regain the assizes for Buckingham, and extended in 1839, the castellated Gothic building has been superbly restored as a fascinating museum

The English Civil War ended at Stow-on-the-Wold when the parliamentarian Sir William Brereton defeated the aged royalist Sir Jacob Astley in 1646.

This Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary stands on Stow Hill on the site of an earlier, smaller, edifice.

The dock was recently restored by the National Trust and the Stow River Trust.

Polperro's cottages, many slate-hung and with outside stone staircases, seem to grow out of the very rock, and the town has been poetically described as 'a human bees' nest stowed away in a cranny of the

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow 'one of the fair inns' of Southwark.

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow ‘one of the fair inns’ of Southwark. In 1720 it was described as ‘well built, handsome, and enjoying a good trade’.

The industrial complex is the tannery of Edward Stow, established in Milton Road from 1896 to 1904. There are maltings against the skyline to the right.

Situated on the Wye just above its junction with the Severn, Chepstow derives its name from Chepe-stow, meaning market town.

Stow's ancient cross in the Square served as a reminder to market traders in medieval times that they should not try to pull the wool over their customers' eyes.

This Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary stands on Stow Hill on the site of an earlier, smaller, edifice.

Daniel Defoe records in his 'Tour of Britain' that 20,000 sheep were sold at Stow-on-the-Wold market in the year prior to his visit.

How different this quiet little place might have been had the potential been developed from the chalybeate spring, discovered in 1807 where the road leads out of the village to Stow, as inscribed on

The Stow was to be the New Town's first major shopping centre. The design is Z-shaped, running from north to south to catch as much sunlight as possible, with a square at each end.

'Chepe' and 'stowe' combine to mean 'market place', which indicates the early origins of this town.

Over the next three decades it bought out other brewers in Nailsworth, Stow-on-the-Wold, Northleach, Gloucester, Wickwar and Evesham.

Cannings (left) are first mentioned in 1930, when a Miss Canning had a haberdashery store; Stow's Stores (right) is still in the same place.

Cannings (left) are first mentioned in 1930, when a Miss Canning had a haberdashery store; Stow's Stores (right) is still in the same place.

But their attempt to burgle Tangley Manor between Stow and Burford went less well. The household had been tipped off, and laid a trap.

Middlesex University, the whole has taken on a care-worn air, which even extends to the early 18th-century garden statues by John van Nost, which were brought to the house by Sir Philip Sassoon from Stowe