The Cotswolds   There is nowhere more quintessentially English than the Cotswolds. A region of one sleepy village after another where tiny, mellow stone cottages huddle together in the shadow of unspoiled manor houses and churches. Even before Shakespeare's day, this was 'sheep country', the centre of England's wool trade, but around 1830, the time that the building that is now Hotel on the Park was built, the area was starting to decline because Australia and New Zealand had usurped the wool trade. Thus the area went into hibernation, bypassed by the Industrial Revolution's introduction of factories and the cities that grew up around them.   As a direct consequence and luckily for us, most of these villages remain to this day as they were in the middle centuries and most are within a 30 to 45 minute drive of the Hotel are the "must-sees" of Stratford upon Avon (Shakespere country), Warwick Castle - said to be the most perfectly preserved medieval castle in the land, and the University of Oxford.