Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean and its companion, Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds, provide a lively and uniquely comprehensive guide to the architecture of Gloucestershire. Alan Brooks's extensively revised and expanded editions of David Verey's original volumes bring together the latest research on a county unusually rich in attractive and interesting buildings. The area covered lies on both sides of the River Severn, rising from flat alluvial lands to the lower slopes of the Cotswold Escarpment on the east and the rough wooded hills of the Forest of Dean on the Welsh border, with its distinctive industrial inheritance. Architecture is generally more varied and unpredictable than in the Cotswolds: stone, timber, brick and stucco all have local strongholds. The Vale is most famous for its two great churches, Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey, both Norman buildings with brilliantly inventive late medieval modifications. The other major settlement is the spa town of Cheltenham, with its fine parades of Regency terraces. Country houses include Thornbury Castle, greatest of Early Tudor private houses, timber-framed manors such as Preston Court, and the extravagantly Neo-Gothic Toddington; churches range from the enigmatic Anglo-Saxon pair at Deerhurst to Randall Wells's Arts-and-Crafts experiment at Kempley. Amongst the memorable post-war landmarks are the suspension bridges and nuclear power stations on the banks of the Severn, and Aztec West, one of the best British business parks, on the northern fringes of Bristol. Visitors and residents alike will find their understanding and enjoyment of west Gloucestershire transformed by this book.
Roman Gloucestershire
The Gloucestershire Way: "forest and Vale and High Blue Hill"
The story of the English Reformation from the viewpoint of ordinary people and their parishes.
Anthony Bridgeman of Mitcheldean , Gloucestershire , wrote to Queen Elizabeth with a list of puritan - inspired reforms , ranging from the restraint of minstrelsy and bearbaiting on the sabbath , to the restriction of clerics to a ...
On Monday 23 July , electricity supplies to around 350,000 homes were endangered as the Castlemeads and Walham substations in Gloucester had been surrounded by water threatening to overwhelm them . The county held its breath that night ...
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum 2. Sergeant Yarnall and heliograph detachment, 2nd Gloucesters. Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum 3. Pagan with the winners of the inter-company shooting shield, 1907. 4. Regimental dinner, post Boer ...
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
The Anglo-Saxon landscape of north Gloucestershire. The Seventh Deerhurst Lecture. Deerhurst, Glos: The Friends of Deerhurst Church. Hudson, J. 1994. Land, Law and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England. Oxford. Jones, G.R.S. 1976.
... axes are known from Hayward'sLane in CheltenhamandCleeve Hill (Campbell Smith 1972, 409–10). 43 Piecharts showing: (Left) the proportion of flint to stone axes found in Gloucestershire, and (Right) the proportion of stone axes from ...
Like most county boundaries, those of Gloucestershire have seen many changes since Brunel's time. For the purposes of this book Gloucestershire isdefinedbythecounty map as presented the Encyclopedia by the ninth edition of Britannica, ...