Sir – I always expect accuracy and honesty from local papers. I was drawn to an article in your recent edition of In Business (June 20) which referred to “Cotswold Hotel” only to find it was about “Faringdon based Sudbury House Hotel.”
Faringdon is not the Cotswolds.
This claim is either down to a very poor geographic knowledge or a breach of trade descriptions. The closest point of the Cotswolds to Faringdon is Fairford, on the opposite side of the Thames Valley.
In the main, the most characteristic Cotswold country is in Gloucestershire, incorporating the area north of Wotton under Edge, Birdlip Hill and Cheltenham in the West, Burford and Fairford on the eastern side, and Chipping Campden in the North.
This is an area approximately 45 miles in length and 20 miles wide. Faringdon is on the borders of the Thames Valley and Vale of White Horse. The Cotswolds it most certainly is not, and any tourist seeking to stay in the Cotswolds, finding themselves based in Faringdon, should be most disappointed.
Keith Messenger, Northleach
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