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Dursley
Dursley is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire, England. It lies between the cities of Bristol and Gloucester. It is under the northeast flank of Stinchcombe#Stinchcombe Hill, Stinchcombe Hill, and about southeast of the River Severn. The town is adjacent to the village of Cam, Gloucestershire, Cam. The population of Dursley was 7,463 at the 2021 Census. History Ancient historical sites in the vicinity give evidence of earlier occupation. Uley Bury is an Iron Age hill fort dating from around 300 BC. The area also has neolithic long barrows; one called "Uley Long Barrow, Hetty Pegler's Tump" can be entered. Roman remains exist at Frocester, West Hill near Uley, Woodchester and Calcot Manor. Dursley once had a castle, built by Roger de Berkeley in 1153. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dursley Town Hall
Dursley Town Hall, also known as Dursley Market Hall, is a municipal building in the Market Place, Dursley, Gloucestershire, England. The structure, which is mainly used for markets and community events, is a Grade II* listed building. History The right to hold markets in Dursley was granted by King Henry VIII to the lord of the manor, Nickolas Wykes, in November 1528. For many centuries the market took the form of a series of stalls erected in the Market Place until the 1730s when the then lord of the manor, Thomas Estcourt, decided to erect a combined market hall and town hall. The new building was designed in the neoclassical style, built with a roughcast surface and stone dressings and was completed in 1738. It was arcaded on the ground floor, so that markets could be held, with an assembly hall for civic meetings on the first floor. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto the south side of the Market Place: on the first floor there was an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cam, Gloucestershire
Cam is a large village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, situated on the edge of the Cotswolds and contiguous with the town of Dursley, north of Bristol and south of Gloucester. The Cotswold Way runs less than a mile from the village. Cam had 8,160 residents with 3,575 households in the 2011 census. Its population is actually larger than neighbouring Dursley, which is a town. The population is planned to grow, with new developments near the railway station increasing the number of households by about 12%. Facilities The village has an identifiable centre, with several shops including a pharmacy, a florist, a hardware store and funeral directors, three takeaways, a restaurant, a beauty salon, a combined Post Office and card shop, parish council offices, two pubs including the Berkeley Arms and The Railway Inn and a supermarket clustered loosely around St Bartholemew's Church. South of the village centre sits the medieval Grade I listed Parish Church of St Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wotton-under-Edge
Wotton-under-Edge is a market town and civil parish in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England. Near the southern fringe of the Cotswolds The Cotswolds ( ) is a region of central South West England, along a range of rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper River Thames to an escarpment above the Severn Valley and the Vale of Evesham. The area is defined by the bedroc ..., the Cotswold Way long-distance footpath passes through the town. History The first record of the town is in an Anglo-Saxon Royal Charter of Edmund I of England, King Edmund I, who in AD 940 leased Hide (unit), four hides of land in ''Wudetun'' to Eadric. The name ''Wudetun'' means the enclosure, homestead or village (''tun'') in or near the wood (''wude''). The "Edge" refers to the limestone escarpment of the Cotswold Edge which includes the hills of Wotton Hill and Tor Hill that flank the town. In the 1086 Domesday Book listing, Wotton was in the Hundred (county division), hundred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stroud (UK Parliament Constituency)
Stroud is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It is held by Simon Opher of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, who won the seat from Siobhan Baillie of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives in 2024. History The seat's parliamentary borough forerunner was created by the First Reform Act for the 1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 general election. It elected two MPs using the Plurality-at-large voting, bloc vote until transformed in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for that year's 1885 United Kingdom general election, general election, the name being transferred to a single-seat county division which covered a wider zone. This was abolished at the 1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 general election, chiefly replaced with a new seat, Stroud and Thornbury. That was in turn abolished at the 1955 United Kingdom general election, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Potter (character)
Harry James Potter is the titular character of the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. The plot of the seven-book series chronicles seven years in the life of the orphan Harry, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. He attends Hogwarts, a school of magic, where he receives guidance from the headmaster Albus Dumbledore and becomes friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry learns that during his infancy, the Dark wizard Lord Voldemort murdered his parents but was unable to kill him as well. The plot of the series revolves around Harry's struggle to adapt to the wizarding world and defeat Voldemort. Harry is regarded as a fictional icon and has been described by critics and publications as one of the greatest characters of all time. He is portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe in all eight ''Harry Potter'' films, and Dominic McLaughlin in the upcoming television series. Harry also appears in the play '' Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stroud (district)
Stroud District is a non-metropolitan district, local government district in Gloucestershire, England. The district is named after its largest town of Stroud. The council is based at Ebley Mill in the district of Cainscross, west of central Stroud. The district also includes the towns of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Berkeley, Dursley, Nailsworth, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, Stonehouse and Wotton-under-Edge, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. Over half of the district lies within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The neighbouring districts are Forest of Dean District, Forest of Dean, Borough of Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Cotswold District, Cotswold and South Gloucestershire. History The area is rich in Iron Age and Ancient Rome, Roman remnants and is of particular interest to archaeologists for its Neolithic burial grounds, of which there are over a hundred. Much of its wealth was built on the cloth industry during the Victorian era ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uley
Uley is a village and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Elcombe and Shadwell and Bencombe, all to the south of the village of Uley, and the hamlet of Crawley to the north. The village is situated in a wooded valley in the Cotswold escarpment, on the B4066 road between Dursley and Stroud. In 2011 the population of the civil parish was 1,151, but was much greater during the early years of the industrial revolution, when the village was renowned for producing blue cloth. The placename (recorded as ''Euuelege'' in the Domesday Book) probably signifies 'clearing in a yew wood'. History The Romans built a temple at West Hill, near Uley, on the site of an earlier prehistoric shrine. Following the laying of a water main pipe there in 1976, many discoveries were made including numerous Roman writing tablets or lead curse tablets from the temple area. These writing tablets appear often to relate to theft, and here the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stroud District
Stroud District is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England. The district is named after its largest town of Stroud. The council is based at Ebley Mill in the district of Cainscross, west of central Stroud. The district also includes the towns of Berkeley, Dursley, Nailsworth, Stonehouse and Wotton-under-Edge, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. Over half of the district lies within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The neighbouring districts are Forest of Dean, Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Cotswold and South Gloucestershire. History The area is rich in Iron Age and Roman remnants and is of particular interest to archaeologists for its Neolithic burial grounds, of which there are over a hundred. Much of its wealth was built on the cloth industry during the Victorian era, and its many mills, most of which are now listed buildings, survive as testament to this. Much of the landscape in this area is designated a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stinchcombe
Stinchcombe is a small village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England on the B4060 road between Dursley and North Nibley. The church is called St Cyr's and its churchyard contains 40–60 gravestones. The population taken at the 2011 census was 480. It gives its name to the nearby Stinchcombe Hill () which is a , a nearly detached part of the Cotswold Edge, which was notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1966. Stinchcombe Hill Stinchcombe Hill lies west of Dursley and forms part of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owlpen
Owlpen is a small village and civil parish in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England, set in a valley in the Cotswold hills. It is about east of Uley, and east of Dursley. The Owlpen valley is set around the settlement like an amphitheatre of wooded hills open to the west. The landscape falls within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, so designated in 1966. The population of the parish in mid-2010 was 29 (est.), the smallest in Gloucestershire. A key feature of the village is a Tudor manor house, Owlpen Manor, of the Mander family. The main economic activities in the village are agriculture, forestry and tourism. Name Owlpen (pronounced locally "Ole-pen") derives its name, it is thought, from the Saxon thegn, Olla, who first set up his ''pen'', or enclosure, by the springs that rise under the foundations of the manor, about the 9th century. Archaeology There are several signs of early settlement in the area. Round barrows and standing stones are with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset to the south-west, and the Wales, Welsh county of Monmouthshire to the west. The city of Gloucester is the largest settlement and the county town. The county is predominantly rural, with an area of and a population of 916,212. After Gloucester (118,555) the largest distinct settlements are Cheltenham (115,940), Stroud (26,080), and Yate (28,350). In the south of the county, the areas around Filton and Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, Kingswood are densely populated and part of Bristol Built-up Area, Bristol built-up area. For Local government in England, local government purposes Gloucestershire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with six districts, and the Unitary authorities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coaley
Coaley is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire roughly 4 miles from the town of Dursley, and 5 miles from the town of Stroud. The village drops from the edge of the Cotswold Hills, overlooked by Frocester Hill and Coaley Peak picnic site, towards the River Cam at Cam and Cambridge and the Severn Estuary beyond. It has a population of around 770. Coaley has many amenities, including a 300-year-old pub, the Old Fox (was The Fox and Hounds until November 2018 ), awarded the Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards Pub of The Year 2022, the Coaley C of E Primary School, a church, a village hall, and a community shop, recently re-opened in a new building, with coffee shop facilities. Cam and Dursley railway station (near the former Coaley Junction station) was reopened in 1994 (the original closed in 1965) and is situated on the South-Western border of the village. Coaley used to have a football team, Coaley Rovers, who were also known as Coaley Crows. They competed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
