by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
The Woodchester Estate was inherited by Leigh’s son, also called William, or Willie. He was eager to complete the house but was advised that it would be more cost-effective to build a new house in the park for his own family, whilst Benjamin Bucknall pointed out that...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
Covered Market The famous Wool Market or Market Hall stands on the High Street. In many ways, this stone building with its arches and its timbered roof, sums up the Cotswolds, whose history encompasses sheep, wool, and oolitic limestone. The Market Hall was built in...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
The manor of Fairford was held by a succession of eminent Norman and Anglo-Norman families throughout the medieval period, including the de Clares, of whom the last male heir was killed at Bannockburn; the Despensers, whose fine chantry chapel is in Tewkesbury Abbey; ...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
Although Stroud’s mills are mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book, the earliest reference to fulling cloth is in the late 13th century, in the area of Minchinhampton and Rodborough. Fulling is the cleansing of cloth, usually wool, to eliminate oils and dirt, and...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
ChippingCampden is the finest of all Cotswold villages. This is incontrovertible. The long, gently curving parabola that is the main street is flanked on both sides by unbroken terraces of handsome buildings of every style from the 14th to the 17th centuries, each...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
A Roman fort was established at Corinium, in the territory of the Dobunni tribe, about a year after the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD. When the fort became of less strategic value after about 70 AD, the town continued to flourish. Over the next twenty years, a...
