humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Feb 15, 8:24 pm, Lyra wrote:

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> > Here is some background reading -
> > this is ongoing research for me,
> > as I started within the hour.

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Tetbury, on the Tetbury Avon, is 18 miles from Cheltenham.

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Tetbury


Tetbury (Gloucestershire)


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Tetbury shown within Gloucestershire
Population 5,250 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference ST890930
District Cotswold
Shire county Gloucestershire
Region South West

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Tetbury is a town and civil parish within the Cotswold district of
Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill fort,
on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, probably by Ine of
Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in the 2001
census.

In the Middle Ages, Tetbury became an important market for Cotswold
wool and yarn. At this time the Tetbury Woolsack Races, in which
competitors must carry a 60 pound sack of wool up a steep hill, were
founded and are still contested annually.

Notable buildings in the town include the Market House, built in 1655
and the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St
Mary the Virgin and much of the rest of the town centre, dating from
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine
example of a Cotswold pillared market house and is still in use as a
meeting place and market. Other attractions include the Police Bygones
Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum lie
just outside the town.

Events include Woolsack Day, famous for the races and for the fair. A
Flower Show is held at the Recreation Ground, with classes ranging
from children's "Make your own paper plate gardens" to adults "Best
Flower" and "Best Knitting".

Geography
A map of Tetbury from 1946
A map of Tetbury from 1946

Tetbury is situated in a landscape of gently rolling hills primarily
used for farmland, including grazing of sheep and grain production.
Its location is associated with proximity to a major east-west trade
or drovers trail, which would account for its early importance as a
wool trade center. Nearby to the west are Owlpen Manor, Beverston
Castle and Calcot Manor, which early structures were constructed from
a similar bluish limestone.[1]

Nearby places

* Avening - three miles north
* Nailsworth - five miles northwest
* Kemble - six miles northeast
* Aston Down - six miles north
* Malmesbury - five miles southeast
* Stroud - eight miles northwest

* Cirencester - 10 miles north-east

* Chippenham - 13 miles south
* Gloucester - 15 miles north
* Swindon - 17 miles southeast

* Cheltenham - 18 miles north

* Bristol - 20 miles southwest
* Birmingham - 60 miles north
* London - 90 miles east

Governance

Most of Tetbury falls in the Tetbury parish, although some of the
northern parts of the town are officially in Tetbury Upton.

Tetbury is in the Cotswold district, and amentities are run by
Cotswold District Council. Gloucestershire County Council is also
responsible for parts of the town.





The centre of Tetbury

Tetbury is renowned for its antique shops, mostly found on and near
Long Street, making it a stop-off for coach tours through the
Cotswolds.

The town has pubs and hotels, including The Royal Oak Inn, which was
featured in the film Dulcimer with John Mills, The Priory Inn, The
Crown Inn,The Close Hotel, The Greyhound Inn, The Ormond at Tetbury,
and The Snooty Fox. The award-winning Trouble House is immediately
outside the town. Between 1959 and 1964, the latter was served by
Trouble House Halt, the only railway station in England built
specifically to serve a pub.



Education

The town has two schools, St Mary's Primary School and Sir William
Romney's School, a secondary school which specialises in creative
arts. Sir William Romney's recently announced that it would be closing
its Sixth Form centre, meaning students wishing to sit A-Levels now
travel to Cirencester or Stroud or even Filton College in Bristol.

Some Tetbury children travel further afield, with students at the two
grammar schools, Marling School for boys and Stroud High School for
girls, both in Stroud, and some at the comprehensive Deer Park School
in Cirencester.



Tetbury Market House


Tetbury has bus services which serve local towns. The nearest train
station is at Kemble, while the nearest major airport is at Bristol.
General aviation uses Kemble Airfield at Kemble. The former airfield
at Long Newnton (one mile southeast of Tetbury) was originally the
home of the Cotswold Gliding Club, which has since moved some six
miles to the north to Aston Down.



Notable people

Present

* HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, lives at Highgrove,
Doughton, near Tetbury
* Anne Hooper, journalist, author and counsellor
* Jake Meyer, youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest
* Jet Black, drummer and founder member of rock band The
Stranglers.

Past

* Brian Trubshaw, first British test-pilot of Concorde, died 2001
* Laurens van der Post, owned a nearby farm in the 1930s, died
1996
* Cecil "Sam" Cook, Gloucestershire cricketer and umpire, died
1996
* Robert Crowley, stationer, poet and Protestant clergyman in the
16th century

References

1. ^ C. Michael Hogan and Amy Gregory, History and Architecture of
Calcot Manor, Lumina Technologies Inc., prepared for Calcot Manor,
July 5, 2006

* Tetbury Online
* Tetbury Guide
* Town Council
* A Tetbury Community Youth Project
* Woolsack Races
* Images of the church
* Tetbury Upton

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetbury"


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> St Mary's is a lovely old church in the centre of
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> Charlton Kings village,
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> on the outskirts of Cheltenham.
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> Its history stretches back over 800 years. Tour the church on the
> website, or better still, come and visit us! Click here for directions
> to find us.
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> http://www.stmarysck.org.uk/
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> > History of St. Mary with St. Matthew, Cheltenham
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> > A church synod in 803 referred to a priory in Cheltenham, and another
> > one held in Gloucester in 1086 mentions "a church with its chapels"
> > here. Domesday Book (1086) tells us that the church at Cheltenham was
> > held by Reinbald, Dean of the Canons of Cirencester Abbey. He was a
> > great man of the time and had been Chancellor to Edward the Confessor.
> > He held at least sixteen other churches elsewhere in the country.
>
> > In 1133 Henry I formally granted to Cirencester Abbey "the church of
> > Cheltenham, with the land thereof, and the mill, and the chapels, and
> > all other appurtenances to the said church belonging". The Augustinian
> > canons of Cirencester were great church builders and they began to
> > build the present church soon after that date. By 1190 it was
> > important enough for the nearby churches of Charlton Kings and
> > Leckhampton to be "made subject to the mother church of Cheltenham"
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> > by Bishop William de Vere of Hereford.
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> > It remained subject to Cirencester Abbey until the Dissolution of the
> > Monasteries in 1539 when the Crown confiscated all the Abbey's
> > properties. Cheltenham Church and its lands were then leased to a
> > succession of laymen, who were responsible for employing curates to
> > serve the Church and parish, while they themselves enjoyed the profits
> > of the church land and properties.
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> > The most famous of these laymen was Francis Bacon (1561-1626) to whom
> > the Church, and the Chapel at CharIton Kings, were leased in 1598.
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> > From 1619 to 1626 there was a very long and complicated law-suit about
> > the stipend paid to the Curate of Cheltenham as a result of which it
> > was increased from =C2=A310 to =C2=A340 a year.
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> >http://www.stmattschelt.org.uk/history.htm
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> > Graveyard Humour
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> > The following three graveyard inscriptions can be found in the grounds
> > of St. Mary's church.
> > "To the memory of John Higgs, died 1825.
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> > Here lies John Higgs,
> > A famous man for killing pigs,
> > For killing pigs was his delight
> > Both morning, afternoon and night
> > Both heats and cold he did endure,
> > Which no physician could e'er cure;
> > His knife is laid, his work is done,
> > I hope to heaven his soul is gone."
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> > John Higg's grave stone and epitaph
> > Click on the picture to enlarge it.
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> > "To the memory of John Paine, blacksmith, died 1796.
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> > My sledge and hammer lies reclined,
> > My bellows pipe have lost its wind,
> > My fire's extinct, my forge decayed,
> > And in the dust my vice is laid,
> > My coal is spent, my iron's gone,
> > My nails are drove, my work is done."
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> > "To the memory of Isaac Ballinger, died 1721.
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> > Reader! pray covet not this world,
> > Out of it you may soon be hurled,
> > For as a wheel it turns about,
> > And it was a wheel that turned me out."
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