Painswick in the Cotswolds


Painswick is quite often referred to as the Queen of the Cotswolds due to it's fine buildings of pale grey limestone. These are a reflection of the town's former prosperity during 300 years of activity in the cloth industry. Painswick is a town that contains many notable houses built in the prosperous seventeenth century and has lots of little streets to explore and quaint shops to discover.


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Location: Painswick, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © David Jones / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: church, cloth, cotswold, countryside, england, gloucestershire, grey, hill, industry, limestone, painswick, town, travel