We got a chance last weekend to take a day trip outside London to the Cotswolds, an area so quintessentially English, you get an accent just by passing through it. Heck, most of the town and village names either sound like they're straight out of Middle Earth or else follow that unique "Name-Preposition-Geographic Feature" style that so stiff upper lipped-cool: Bourton-on-the-Water, Moreton-in-Marsh, Wotton-under-Edge, Stow-on-the-Wold, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Scotch-on-the-Rocks, Home-on-the-Range, Lovers-in-Paris, LLDD-Hyphen-L...
OK, I made some of those up.
Anyway, here's a sampling. The full gallery can be seen at free-account-upon-the-flickr
The sign on the left reads "Historic Church & Toilets". Umm, I'm up for visiting a historic church, but that other one...
Bourton-on-the-Water
Stow-on-the-Wold
The local council did not take kindly to all my preposition-hyphen town name jokes
Broadway
Cotswolds, you're beautiful, but your tourism authority really needs to rethink its souvenirs.
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