Wotton-under-Edge
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Template:GBdot Wotton-under-Edge is a town located near the southern end of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England.
Wotton was traditionally associated with the wool trade and it is thought that the town's name is derived from 'Wool Town'.
It is an attractive town on the edge of the Cotswolds, with the Cotswold Way passing through the town.
Overlooking the town on the top of Wotton Hill are a collection of tress planted in the 19th centuary to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. These are situated on the site that housed one of the early warning beacons used to warn of the approach of the Spanish Armarda in 1588.
A famous past resident is Sir Issac Pittman, who invented phonography.
Wotton is also home to the engineering company Renishaw, whose business is about a mile from the town centre, on a tributary of the Little Avon River.
The town has no railway station, though the former station Charfield, on the Birmingham-Bristol main line is about 1 mile away, and has recently been considered for reopening.
Wotton is about 5 miles from junction 14 of the M5 Motorway.
External links
- Wotton-under-Edge town council (http://wotton-under-edge.com/)
- Wotton-under-Edge.org (http://wotton-under-edge.org/)