Discover our romantic hotels in the Cotswolds’ best-loved towns and cities. The Cotswolds is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and it’s easy to see why: Honey-hued limestone villages built from mellow Cotswold stone, picture-postcard market towns awash with local character, historic cities punctuated by towering spires and sleepy wolds with drystone walls, make the Cotswolds a quintessentially English rural landscape.