Gloucestershire

Author : David Verey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300097337
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gloucestershire written by David Verey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean and its companion, Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds, provide a lively and uniquely comprehensive guide to the architecture of Gloucestershire. Alan Brooks's extensively revised and expanded editions of David Verey's original volumes bring together the latest research on a county unusually rich in attractive and interesting buildings. The area covered lies on both sides of the River Severn, rising from flat alluvial lands to the lower slopes of the Cotswold Escarpment on the east and the rough wooded hills of the Forest of Dean on the Welsh border, with its distinctive industrial inheritance. Architecture is generally more varied and unpredictable than in the Cotswolds: stone, timber, brick and stucco all have local strongholds. The Vale is most famous for its two great churches, Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey, both Norman buildings with brilliantly inventive late medieval modifications. The other major settlement is the spa town of Cheltenham, with its fine parades of Regency terraces. Country houses include Thornbury Castle, greatest of Early Tudor private houses, timber-framed manors such as Preston Court, and the extravagantly Neo-Gothic Toddington; churches range from the enigmatic Anglo-Saxon pair at Deerhurst to Randall Wells's Arts-and-Crafts experiment at Kempley. Amongst the memorable post-war landmarks are the suspension bridges and nuclear power stations on the banks of the Severn, and Aztec West, one of the best British business parks, on the northern fringes of Bristol. Visitors and residents alike will find their understanding and enjoyment of west Gloucestershire transformed by this book.

Author : Herbert A. Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107697395
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gloucestershire written by Herbert A. Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to Gloucestershire by Herbert A. Evans was first published in 1909 and reissued as this second edition in 1914.

Author : Mike Osborne
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defending Gloucestershire and Bristol written by Mike Osborne and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloucestershire's strategic location straddling the Severn is reinforced by Bristol's importance as a port. The Forest of Dean and the Cotswolds are densely populated by prehistoric hillforts and Gloucester, Cirencester and Winchcombe were important throughout the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The Normans built substantial castles at Bristol, Gloucester and Berkeley, scene of Edward II's murder, with many more of earth and timber. Many figured in the conflicts between rival factions culminating in the Battle of Tewkesbury. In the Civil War, Bristol underwent two sieges and Gloucester another and one of the last battles, at Stow, followed continuous skirmishing. The next centuries saw volunteer forces established, formalised by the State by the end of Victoria's reign, to counter threats external and internal. A nascent aircraft industry would develop into aircraft factories and airfields in the First World War with further development of training and aircraft storage facilities for the newly formed RAF during the inter-War period. Anti-invasion defences were constructed in the Second World War, but the primary effort was in logistics: bases for arriving US troops; RAF and USAAF training airfields and depots; and communications facilities. This last aspect, along with intelligence gathering, continued into the Cold War and beyond.

Author : Timothy Darvill
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445619946
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Gloucestershire written by Timothy Darvill and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the story of Gloucestershire's landscape and its inhabitants over a period spanning more than half a million years.

Author : Carol Curt Enos
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1627877029
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Gloucestershire Connections written by Carol Curt Enos and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeares -- and Guillims -- in Gloucestershire? That is the question. This search for Shakespeare connections with Gloucestershire grew out of the 1581 will of Alexander Houghton of Houghton Tower, Lancashire, that named two men, Fulke Guillim and William Shakeshafte, who were probably members of Houghton's private acting group. It seemed probable that identifying Fulke Guillim could help determine if William Shakeshafte was actually William Shakespeare, as proposed by E.A.J. Honigmann and many subsequent authors. Might Guillim be related to John Guillim, the herald, of Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, author of The Display of Heraldry of 1610? Upon learning that John Guillim was descended from a Hathaway family in Minsterworth, the question became more compelling. The search eventually uncovered numerous ties between William Shakespeare and Gloucestershire through his mother's Arden relatives, through neighbors in Stratford such as the Lucys and the Grevilles, and through Shakespeare's friends, such as Thomas Russell, overseer of Shakespeare's will, all of whom had extensive and long-standing family histories in Gloucestershire. In addition, branches of the Shakespeare family were established in Gloucestershire, particularly in Dursley, and Tewkesbury before, during, and after Shakespeare's time. Dursley is about twelve miles from Minsterworth, and Tewkesbury is about twenty-eight miles south of Stratford and about fifteen miles north of Minsterworth, so the Gloucestershire Shakespeares very possibly knew the Guillim family. While this search did not reveal any relationship between Shakespeare and John Guillim, the herald, it did uncover important connections many families had with Gloucestershire and with Shakespeare, ties that often lead to the Guillims: Hathaway, Throckmorton, Catesby, Russell, Denys, Wriothesley, Greville, Lucy, Winter, Berkeley, and others.

Author : Anthony Nanson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752477951
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gloucestershire Folk Tales written by Anthony Nanson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloucestershire’s stories go back to the days of Sabrina, spirit of the Severn, and the Nine Hags of Gloucester. Tales tell of sky-ships over Bristol, the silk-caped wraith of Dover’s Hill, snow foresters on the Cotswolds, and Cirencester’s dark-age drama of snake and nipple. They uncover the tragic secrets of Berkeley Castle and the Gaunts’ Chapel, a lonely ghost haunting an ancient inn, and twenty-first-century beasts in the Forest of Dean. From the intrigue and romance of town and abbey to the faery magic of the wild, here are thirty of the county’s most enchanting tales, brought imaginatively to life by a dynamic local storyteller.

Author : Geoff Sandles
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445655527
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brewing in Gloucestershire written by Geoff Sandles and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoff Sandles provides an illustrated history on the history of brewing in Gloucestershire.

Author : Audrey W. Douglas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802056696
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cumberland, Westmorland, Gloucestershire written by Audrey W. Douglas and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Records of Early English Drama volumes make available historical transcripts that provide evidence of early English drama, music, ceremonial dance, and other forms of communal public entertainment in Britain from the Middle Ages to 1642, when the Puritans closed the London theatres.

Author : Francis Adams Hyett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The bibliographer's manual of Gloucestershire literature, by F.A. Hyett and W. Bazeley written by Francis Adams Hyett and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Sawyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Gloucestershire written by John Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: