Cutsdean is a rural village in the Cotswolds and smaller than average sized parish, a few miles east north-east of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and the same distance south-southeast of Evesham.

It can get so windy in the village that the locals call it “two coats Cutsdean”.

The key estates of this 1,560-acre (6.3 km2) chapelry of Bredon parish,[2] can be traced a generation or more further than typical, back to Anglo-Saxon England charters.

[3] Its main estate and church were long possessions of the Worcester Priory,[4] and were part of Worcestershire until 1931, when the detached part (exclave) status was resolved, and it was moved to Gloucestershire.

It has been briefly dammed, creating a tree-lined head of water, assisting the flow below in dry weather, also allowing for some algae which help to feed fish and de-nitrify the river in its rural, relatively headwater stage.