Big Gay World Travellers

If you were to ask anyone in the know to point at the Cotswolds on a map of the UK, chances are their finger would fall somewhere in the region of Cirencester. The small but perfectly formed market-town in the very centre of the Cotswold hills, and as a former important Roman city, is where most of the main roads end - still following the 2,000 year old road plan till today.  It's from here you can follow any of these ancient Roman Roads in every direction, westwards on Ermin Street to Gloucester, eastwards on Akeman Street to London (roughly back in the direction you have be travelling from if you've been following Part 1 and Part 2 from Oxford), or North and South along the Fosse Way to either Bath or towards Leicester.  The absolute best of the Cotswolds lays along this ancient road northwards through the central Cotswolds, past wool towns and ancient villages that sprang up along the Fosse Way in the middle-ages using the long standing road as a super-highway to markets ...