by Daniel Knowles | Oct 30, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
At the end of Park Street you cannot help but notice a very tall hedge, the tallest yew hedge in the world. This marks the beginning of the precincts of the Bathurst estate, or Cirencester Park, which, unusually, when most similar places tend to sit in splendid...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 30, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
The Abbey of St. Mary was the biggest of the five Augustinian houses founded by Henry I, and the wealthiest. The building began in 1117, on the land, now a park, immediately behind the present-day Parish Church. All that remains of the abbey church are the stumps of a...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 30, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
The Cotswolds is home to 85000 people and has one of the lowest population densities in England with less than 300 residents in over half its parishes. The Arts Apart from William Morris (whose ‘Arts & Crafts Movement is described above): One of...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 30, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
The train service between Cheltenham Racecourse and Winchcombe (and Broadway) is not part of the official national railway network, but a resurrection by dedicated enthusiasts of part of the old line that once connected Cheltenham with the delicious-sounding...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 30, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
Widford Whatever you do, you will have to walk to the little church of St. Oswald’s at Widford, as it sits alone in a meadow where crop marks show the outline of former village buildings. This, along with the nearby 16th-century manor house, is all that remains...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 30, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
Berkeley was first recorded in 824 as Berclea, from the Old English for “birch-tree wood or clearing”. It was a significant place in the Middle Ages, as a port, market town, and the meeting place of the hundred of Berkeley [a hundred was a subdivision of a...
