Oakridge is a village in
Gloucestershire, England. The parish church is St. Bartholomew's Church. It is just on the outskirts of
Stroud, Gloucestershire
Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town's population was 13,500 in 2021.
Below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the Five Va ...
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Oakridge consists of five hamlets; Oakridge Lynch, Far Oakridge, Waterlane, Bournes Green, and Tunley. Within Oakridge Lynch can be found the
parish church of St. Bartholomew's, the nearby Oakridge Parochial School primary, the village Shop and Post Office, The Butchers Arms pub, and the Village Hall. The Butchers Arms is an 18th-century building with stone walls and oak beamed ceilings.
The Annual Oakridge Village Show is held on the first Saturday in September at the local recreation ground.
Notable residents
Charles Mason, one of the surveyors of America's Mason–Dixon line, (the other being Jeremiah Dixon), was born in Oakridge Lynch in 1728. The architect
Alfred Hoare Powell bought and restored Gurners Farm in Oakridge Lynch around 1902.
[Pat Carrick, Kay Rhodes and Juliet Shipman, ''Oakridge, A History'', 2005] Gurners Farm was rented from Alfred Powell by the writer and drama producer
Mabel Dearmer for some months in 1914. From 1913 to 1920 Sir
William Rothenstein, artist and some time Principal of the Royal College of Art, lived at Iles Farm in Far Oakridge, which he restored and furnished with the help of members of the
Arts and Crafts movement based at
Sapperton.
[William Rothenstein, ''Men and Memories'', 1932] Notable persons who visited Rothenstein in Oakridge included
Rabindranath Tagore,
W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
,
A. E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by pub ...
,
Augustus John.
John Drinkwater and
André Gide.
Max Beerbohm spent the years of
the Great War at Winston Cottage as William Rothenstein's guest.
Dame
Margaret Weston, director of the Science Museum, grew up in the village
and also lived there in retirement.
References
External links
Stroud Voices (Oakridge filter) - oral history site
Villages in Gloucestershire
Stroud District
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