Edward Thomas and Adlestrop
Story · History · 8 minute read
The express that stopped at Adlestrop in June 1914, the poem Edward Thomas made of it, the station that closed in 1966, and the sign and bench in the village bus shelter today.
History: stories from the Cotswolds
11 stories from the Cotswolds: Edward Thomas and Adlestrop, Famous people with Cotswold connections, Gustav Holst and the Cotswolds.
11 stories
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Famous people with Cotswold connections
Story · History · 10 minute read
The writers, composers, scientists, queens and prime ministers whose lives are tied to Cotswold places, from Tyndale and Katherine Parr to Laurie Lee, Holst and Edward Thomas, and where to find their traces.
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Gustav Holst and the Cotswolds
Story · History · 8 minute read
The composer of The Planets was born in Cheltenham, was organist at Wyck Rissington as a teenager and wrote a symphony called The Cotswolds: where to see and hear his Cotswold years.
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Laurie Lee and Slad
Story · History · 9 minute read
Laurie Lee's life and the Slad valley he wrote into Cider with Rosie: the cottage, the Woolpack, his grave at Holy Trinity, the Sheepscombe cricket field and the Wildlife Way.
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The Arts and Crafts movement in the Cotswolds
Story · History · 10 minute read
How Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft, Gimson and the Barnsleys, Rodmarton Manor, Gordon Russell and the gardens at Hidcote made the Cotswolds a home of Arts and Crafts, and where to see it now.
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The Civil War in the Cotswolds
Story · History · 9 minute read
The storming of Cirencester and the battle of Lansdown in 1643, Sudeley Castle besieged and slighted, Campden House burned, the last battle of the first war at Stow in 1646, the Levellers at Burford and Chastleton's hidden Royalist, with where to see each.
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The Cotswold wool trade
Story · History · 9 minute read
How the Cotswold sheep made the hills rich: the medieval export of raw wool through the Staple at Calais, the woolmen of Campden, Northleach and Fairford, the cloth mills of the Stroud valleys, the decline, and where to see it all today.
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The Fosse Way through the Cotswolds
Story · History · 8 minute read
The Roman road from Exeter to Lincoln through the Cotswolds: its line by Cirencester, Northleach, Stow, Moreton and Stretton-on-Fosse, where it is the A429 and where a green lane, the Saltway and the roads that cross it, the towns it made, and walks on it.
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The Mitford sisters in the Cotswolds
Story · History · 8 minute read
Where the six Mitford sisters grew up in the Cotswolds, from Batsford to Asthall Manor and Swinbrook, the graves of Nancy, Pamela, Diana and Unity at St Mary's, the Swan, and the politics that divided the family, told plainly.
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Why Cotswold stone is golden
Story · History · 9 minute read
The Jurassic limestone that built the Cotswolds, the iron that colours it honey in the north and grey in the south, the quarries at Taynton, Barrington, Guiting and Painswick, the stone slate roofs and the dry-stone walls, and where to see each.
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William Morris and the Cotswolds
Story · History · 9 minute read
William Morris's Cotswold life: Kelmscott Manor, his heaven on earth by the upper Thames, his grave at Kelmscott, the churches at Inglesham and Burford he fought for, and the Bibury line he may never have said.
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