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JD Vance’s English Countryside Vacation: Rolling Hills, Armored SUVs and Cranky Locals

Vice president is latest American visitor to the Cotswolds, an idyll locals say is being disrupted by too many Yanks

Protester holding a sign reading "Cotswold Childless Cat Ladies Say Go Home" speaks to a reporter.
Sue Moon, of Chipping Norton, England, held a placard referencing previous remarks by JD Vance. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images

CHARLBURY, England—People in this bucolic corner of England were already a bit testy about hordes of visiting Americans in recent years.

Then the most high-profile one so far arrived for a family holiday: Vice President JD Vance.

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