r/CozyPlaces Oct 02 '22

COTTAGE 1st of October down the village.

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u/mama_emily Oct 03 '22

Do people really live in places like this?!

Looks straight out of a fairytale

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u/BassBanjo Oct 03 '22

Somehow yes aha

I lived near a village called Downham, it's a beautiful little place very similar to this, there are no visible telephone poles or street lamps (other than a few) etc as they want to keep it as traditional as possible if that's the best way to put it

https://maps.app.goo.gl/c9wcahh5hrc4sUwF7

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u/mama_emily Oct 03 '22

Would you like to become great friends and invite me to visit sometime?

I’ll find my own lodging of course, would never put you out….good friend.

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u/shuttheshadshackdown Oct 03 '22

Glad to see you two are hitting it off, as the mutual friend I’m glad to be around as a travel companion.

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u/CocoaMotive Oct 03 '22

My parents live near Downham, used to go and feed the ducks there as a kid. Do you still have to apply to the Earl to live there?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '22

It's a fairytale fucking town, isn't it? How can a fairytale town not be somebody's fucking thing? How can all those canals and bridges and cobbled streets and those churches, all that beautiful fucking fairytale stuff, how can that not be somebody's fucking thing, eh?

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u/Honey-Badger Oct 03 '22

Yeah theres a few villages like this around the UK. This village 'Castle Combe' is very pretty and there a fair few others in the area known as The Cotswolds

The wider area of that part of the UK is called The West Country and if you're a fan of cozy places the West Country has you more than covered

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u/haybayley Oct 03 '22

Only some of the Cotswolds is in the West Country (the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire bits). The rest is in the West Midlands (Warwickshire/Worcestershire) and the Home Counties (Oxfordshire). They all have an abundance of cosy and pretty villages, albeit perhaps as iconically idyllic as the Cotswolds!

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u/dean_c Oct 03 '22

Yes and no. There are residents but make no mistake - this whole village is a tourist attraction. It’s tiny and there is a big car park at the top of the hill next to it that coach loads of people arrive to every day. If you arrive there early on a quiet weekday you might have a chance to get a shot like this - but most of the time it’s over run with tourists.

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u/pwlife Oct 03 '22

Yes! I spent the summer in a cottage in the area (The Cotswods), one of the best vacations my family has ever taken. Picture perfect villages, amazing walks and wonderful people. Missing it right about now.

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u/Furaskjoldr Oct 03 '22

Yeah there's hundreds of places up and down the UK that look like this

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u/FlumpSpoon Oct 03 '22

My grannie and Grampa's house was on the village green in Biddestone, the house just next to the big one. I spent every holiday there as a child and it was magical. The Grn https://maps.app.goo.gl/sSdidTtkQMHhN2USA

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u/toronado Oct 03 '22

Yes and they're usually really pricey