Welcome to the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
The Cotswolds is one of the most beautiful areas of England, known and loved by people across the world. It is the largest of 40 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales: an area of warmth and clarity with stone walls and buildings, open skies, rolling grasslands, beech woods and captivating villages, which make it an outstanding English landscape - a landscape once experienced, never forgotten.
Conserving and Enhancing
Understanding and Enjoying
Supporting your AONB
The large majority of pictures on this site are either copyright Natural England. Photographer Nick Turner or copyright Nick Turner. Images depicting children at walking events copyright Paul Felix