by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
The great English historian (c.1090-c.1143) was born somewhere in Wiltshire. Later he became a monk at the abbey, where his scholarly endeavours led him to be considered England’s greatest medieval historian after Bede. Although best known in his own time, as...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
The Cotswold Olimpick Games is an annual celebration of games and sports held on the Friday after the Spring Bank Holiday (the last Monday in May), on Dover’s Hill (once known as Kingcombe Plain), just outside the village, in a wonderful, panoramic location at...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
Gloucestershire, the county which is at the heart of the Cotswolds, is almost unique in its rich and varied farming heritage with agricultural practices slowly evolving over the centuries. West Gloucestershire was characterized by forestry and small mixed farms. The...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds, Church, Churches
This is a building that is not particularly beautiful but is of quite spectacular interest. Close to the castle, it sits in a churchyard filled with ancient, tumbledown graves, with the bell tower on one side (apparently to prevent its use as a means of attacking the...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
Ablington, Arlington and Bibury Ablington, which is a near neighbour of Bibury, is mentioned here only in passing, partly because it is another pretty village (albeit one with a fine, ancient double barn) but also because it is associated with a minor classic work of...
by Daniel Knowles | Oct 3, 2023 | Guide to The Cotswolds
A particularly fine example of a wholly perpendicular style, the parish church of St. Lawrence is also a minor ‘wool’ church, to some extent rebuilt in the late 15th century out of the prosperous medieval Cotswold wool trade. It consists of a nave with...
