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A little like Adlestrop (with apologies to Edward thomas)
"The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Peenemunde—only the name
Looking for all the world like a railway station sign, but this is the village sign for Adlestrop, Cotswolds.
Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
Adlestrop , Edward Thomas
Chancel rebuilt c1700 along with the nave and transepts , and rebuilt again almost entirely at the expense of the lord of the manor in 1765, because the earlier work was so bad. It was altered in 1824 and restored in 1860 with the rest of the building - Church of St Mary Magdalen, Adlestrop Gloucestershire
I quote this line from Edward Thomas’ poem of 1914, ‘Adlestrop’, written after his train made a brief stop at a quiet rural station. “Yes, I remember Adlestrop,” Thomas’ elegiac poem began…and yes, I remember Valley Road, the most rural station on the entire MBTA network, and one with the lowest daily ridership level.
Valley Road is one of the stops on the Ashmont-Mattapan High-Speed Line. Although operated by 1940s-vintage PCC streetcars, officially this 2.54 mile (4.09km) branch is an adjunct to the MBTA Subway Red Line. The route reminds me too of another Red Line, in this case the London Underground Central Line. Until 1994, the Central line had a similar rural offshoot, the Epping-Ongar branch. An intermediate station at Blake Hall was similarly “Adlestropian”.
The War Memorials and Rolls of Honour I'm researching in Gloucestershire, and surrounding counties.
Only a few are currently available for access.
Please note:
When I have visited a village or town war memorial, the link below is to the photograph of that memorial.
Where I have not yet been able to visit a war memorial, then I have provided a link to the page of the Gloucestershire Book of Remembrance if I have been fortunate enough to find it on display.
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Acton Turville (B. of R. p1)
Adlestrop (B. of R. p1)
Alderley (B. of R. p1)
Alderton (B of R. p1)
Aldsworth (B. of R. p2)
Almondsbury (B. of R. p2)
Alveston (B. of R. p4)
Alvington (B. of R. p4)
Ampney Crucis (B. of R. p5)
Ampney St Mary (B. of R. p5)
Ampney St Peter (B. of R. p5)
Arlingham (B. of R. p6)
Ashchurch (B. of R. p6)
Ashleworth (B. of R. p7)
Ashley (B. of R. p7)
Ashton-under-Hill (Worcestershire)
Aston Bank (B. of R. p7)
Aston Subedge (B. of R. p7)
Aust (B. of R. p7)
Avening (B. of R. p8)
Awre (B.of R. p9)
Aylburton
…
Barnwood (B. of R. p12)
Barrington (B. of R. p12)
Batsford (B. of R. p13)
Berkeley (B. of R. p13)
Bitton (B. of R. p19)
Blaisdon (B. of R. p20)
Bledington (B. of R. p20)
Blockley (B. of R. p20)
Bourton-on-the-Hill (B. of R. p22)
Bourton-on-the-Water (B. of R. p22)
Boxwell-with-Leighterton (B. of R. p22)
Brampton Abbotts (Herefordshire)
Brimpsfield (B. of R. p24)
Broadwell (B. of R. p24)
Brockworth and Witcombe (B. of R. p24)
…
Catsdean (B. of R. p77)
Charlton Abbots
Cheltenham -------------------------------------
Coln St Aldwyns (B. of R. p77)
Cranham (B. of R. p76)
Cromhall (B. of R. p76)
Croome D'Abitot (Worcestershire)
…
Daglingworth (B. of R. p77)
Deerhurst (B. of R. p77)
Dowdeswell
Drybrook
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…
…
Gloucester ------------------------------------
Great Western Railway & Midland Railway (no memorials exist)
Gloucester Rugby Football Club
Mariner's Church, Gloucester Docks
Voluntary Training Corps / Battalion
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Great Comberton (Worcestershire)
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Hanley Castle (Worcestershire)
Hawling (B. of R. p126)
Hempsted (B. of R. p126)
Hewelsfield (B. of R. p127)
Highnam, Linton and Over (B. of R. p127)
Hill (B. of R. p127)
Hill Croome (Worcestershire)
Horsley (B. of R. p128)
Horton (B. of R. p128)
Hucclecote (B. of R. p129)
Huntley (B. of R. p129)
…
Icomb (B. of R. p130)
Iron Acton (B. of R. p130)
...
Kemble (B. of R. p130)
Kempley (B. of R. p131)
Kingscote (B. of R. p131)
Kingswood, Bristol
Kingswood, Wotton-under-Edge (B. of R. p136)
…
Lassington (N W R)
Lechlade (B. of R. p136)
Leckhampton - St Philip & St James (B. of R. p136)
Leighterton (Australian Flying Corps)
Leonard Stanley (B. of R. p138)
Littledean (B. of R. p139)
Little Rissington (B. of R. p139)
Longborough (B. of R. p140)
Longford (B. of R. p140)
Longhope (B. of R. p140)
Longlevens (B. of R. p141)
Long Newton (B. of R. p142)
Longney (B. of R. p142)
Lydbrook (B. of R. p143)
Lydney (B. of R. p143)
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Maisemore (B. of R. p145)
Maiseyhampton (B. of R. p145)
Mangotsfield (B. of R. p145)
Marshfield (B. of R. p146)
Maugersbury (B. of R. p147)
Mickleton (B. of R. p147)
Minchinhampton (B. of R. p148)
Minsterworth (B. of R. p149)
Miserden (B. of R. p150)
Mitcheldean (B. of R. p150)
Moreton-in-Marsh (B. of R. p151)
Moreton Valence (N W R)
Much Marcle and Yatton (Herefordshire)
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Nailsworth (B. of R. p152)
Naunton (B. of R. p154)
Newent (B. of R. p154)
Newland (B. of R. p155)
Newnham on Severn (B. of R. p157)
North Cerney (B. of R. pp157/8)
Northleach & Eastington (B. of R. p158)
North Nibley (B. of R. p158)
Norton (B. of R. p159)
Notgrove (B. of R. p159)
Nympsfield (B. of R. p159)
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…
…
…
Randwick (B. of R. p163)
Rangeworthy (B. of R. p163)
Redmarley d’Abitot (B. of R. p163)
Redwick and Northwick (B. of R. p164)
Rendcombe (B. of R. p164)
Ruardean
Rudford
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Sevenhampton
Siddington (B. of R. p176)
Siston (B. of R. p176)
Lower Slaughter (B. of R. 177)
Upper Slaughter (N W R)
Stroud ------------------------------------
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Storridge (Herefordshire)
Upper Swell
Swindon village, Cheltenham
Syde (N W R)
...
Tewkesbury (B. of R. 196)
The Leigh (B. of R. p138)
Thrupp (B. of R. p202)
Tibberton (B. of R. 203)
Tidenham (B. of R. p203)
Tirley (B. of R. p204)
Toddington (B. of R. p.204)
Todenham (B. of R. p204))
Tormarton (B. of R. p205))
Tortworth (B. of R. p205))
Turkdean (B. of R. p205))
Twigworth (B. of R. p205)
Twyning (B. of R. p206)
Tytherington (B. of R. p206)
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Uckington and Elmstone (B. of R. 207)
Uley (B. of R. p207)
Up Hatherley (B. of R. p207)
Upton St. Leonards (B. of R. p208)
Upton-upon-Severn (Worcestershire)
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Westbury-on-Severn (B. of R. 209)
Westcote (B. or R. 210)
Westdean ( B. of R. 210</a)
Westerleigh (B. of R. 211)
Westonbirt (B. of R. 211)
Weston under Penyard (Herefordshire)
Weston-sub-Edge (B.of R. 211)
Whiteshill (B. of R. 212)
Whitminster (B. of R. 213)
Whittington (B. of R. 213)
Wick and Abson (B. of R. 213)
Wickwar, South Gloucestershire (B. of R. 213)
Willersey (B. of R. 214)
Winchcomb (B. of R. 215)
Windrush B. of R. 216
Winstone (B. of R. 217)
Winterbourne (B. of R. 217)
(Great) Witcombe (B. of R. 218)
Withington (B. of R. 218)
Woodchester (B. of R. 219)
Woodmancote (B. of R. 219)
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Key:
B. of. R. …………. Book of Remembrance at Gloucester Cathedral
NWR …………….. No War Memorial
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Photograph: Great War plot at Gloucester Old Cemetery
A view of the plot from another angle
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Yes, I remember Adlestrop -
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed, someone cleared his throat,
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform, what I saw
Was Adlestrop - only the name.
And willows, willow-herb and grass
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Edward Thomas 1878-1917
A GWR bench and running-in board from the former Adlestrop station, now preserved in a shelter in the village.
The plaque on the bench commemorates Edward Thomas's poem "Adlestrop":
Yes, I remember Adlestrop --
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop -- only the name
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Edward Thomas 1878-1913.
Adlestrop, Gloucestershire, 27th July 2017.
I worked so hard to try to get the correct faces on this Eric Ravilious base, but it just wouldn't happen, so here we have Fern and Kitty in their senior years, returning home to rolling hills, and hollyhock and rose filled gardens...
RD16369. Adlestrop, the recreation of a Great Western Railway type of country halt at the Didcot Railway Centre.
The real Adlestrop near Moreton-in-Marsh on what is now called the Cotswold Line was a much more substantial affair, but it was closed by British Railways in 1966. Its claim to fame came in 1914 when the poet Edward Thomas was on a train that stopped there and was moved to write a poem of that name.
A running-in board from the station was preserved and displayed in the village bus shelter.
Easter Sunday, 1st April, 2018. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Looking east past the 15c font, down the aisleless nave and chancel with north and south transepts , all rebuilt c 1700 but the workmanship was so bad that the work had to be done again, almost entirely at the expense of the lord of the manor in 1765.
The chancel was restored in 1824 followed by the whole building in 1860.
- Church of St Mary Magdalen, Adlestrop Gloucestershire
Not Adlestrop, no - besides, the name
hardly matters. Nor did I languish in June heat.
Simply, I stood, too early, on the empty platform,
and the wrong train came in slowly, surprised, stopped.
Directly facing me, from a window,
a very, very pretty girl leaned out.
When I, all instinct,
stared at her, she, all instinct, inclined her head away
as if she'd divined the much married life in me,
or as if she might spot, up platform,
some unlikely familiar.
For my part, under the clock, I continued
my scrutiny with unmitigated pleasure.
And she knew it, she certainly knew it, and would
not glance at me in the silence of not Adlestrop.
Only when the train heaved noisily, only
when it jolted, when it slid away, only then,
daring and secure, she smiled back at my smile,
and I, daring and secure, waved back at her waving.
And so it was, all the way down the hurrying platform
as the train gathered atrocious speed
towards Oxfordshire or Gloucestershire.
Church of St Leonard, Bledington Gloucestershire
The 1086 Domesday Survey records that the manor of
'Bladintun' was among the gifts of Coenwulf of Mercia to the abbey of Winchcombe, and consisted of 7 hides. The presence of a church was confirmed in a record of 1175, when the Pope confirmed all the possessions of the abbey who held it until its mid 16c Dissolution.
This early church consisted of a nave and chancel, the only survivors being the font & bellcote which was moved from the west end to its present position when the tower was built.
c1220 The south aisle was added possibly at the same time as the chancel was restored / rebuilt, followed by the south porch later in the century.
Late 14c / early 15c the nave was heightened with clerestory windows & the two stage tower built.
The 15c stained glass is particularly fine with kneeling donors in the north wall windows in the nave www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/aYa5sA & also in the 1490 Chantry chapel between the chancel and south aisle built by "Nicholas Hobbes & Agnes his wife" ,
During the reign of protestant Edward Vl in 1551 the incumbent, John Cooke, was found " wanting in doctrine", and was enjoined to desist from 'superstition'. The vicarage had been vacant for more than a year in 1563 and the church was served by a curate, though in 1566 the churchwardens claimed that there was never a curate there, which suggests that he was not resident. Towards the end of the 16c complaint was made that the chancel was not paved, there had been no sermon for 15 years, and the catechism was not taught.
The tower has 6 bells , one of 1639 by James Keane of Woodstock inscribed "And Charles he is our king" stands on the floor of the chantry chapel www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/374Md6
Winchcombe abbey held the manor until its mid 16c dissolution after which it was given in 1553 to Sir Thomas Leigh, later Lord Mayor of London, and passed from him to his eldest son Rowland and his descendants, the Leigh family of Adlestrop.
The church was restored by John Edward Knight Cutts in 1881 and by Frank Ernest Howard c1923.
Church of St James, Longborough Gloucestershire - Begun in 12c with aisleless nave and chancel of which the original chancel arch (reset over the organ chamber) and south entrance survive. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/22053Q
The west tower built in 13c was originally topped by a pyramidal stone tiled roof which was replaced with battlements in 15c.
The first recorded rector was William of Luton in 1264.
The south porch was also added in 13c with stone benches and statue niche over the door.
The chancel was refurbished in 14c with (the guide says) a curiously small and austere east window with single plain statue bracket on the left hand side.
The more richly ornamented south transept chantry chapel was also built in 14c with 4 huge traceried windows in which fragments of medieval stained glass survive. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7H72Ai
The village takes its name from a Long Barrow built 5000 years ago before the Romano British village came
The 1086 Domesday Survey records 3 manors here, the largest belonging to the king, which later passed to the Mortimer family. In 1256 two of the manors were given to Richard Earl of Cornwall whose son Edmund later gave the land to Hailes Abbey who threatened to dispossess the villagers in favour of sheep. The smaller manor (Banks Fee) was given to the Le Blanck family in return for knight service.
After the 16c Dissolution of Hailes, the main manor was granted to Thomas Leigh, a former Lord Mayor of London whose grandson William lies in an elaborate monument in the south transept - Royalists during the Civil War, wife Elizabeth provided shelter for followers of the king and lit bonfires to celebrate their victories. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/pXTC69
The south transept also has the 13c effigy of an unknown knight who may represent Richard le Blanck possibly brought from their private chantry chapel of St Edmund at Banks Fee after it was demolished in 16c . www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/A5h7G7
Thomas Barker of Adlestrop left 10s per annum to the poor of Longborough at Christmas from the income of certain lands called The Caswells in 1703 Also Mrs Elizabeth Scott of Banksfee House in 1838 bequeathed £166.13s.4d three per cent Consols, the interest thereof to be applied to the instruction of 6 poor girls www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/60855z
Most of the land was enclosed by the end of the 18c and Banks Fee was bought by John Scott www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3e136p who built the present house in 1753 surrounding it with a park and pleasure gardens
In 1822 the Cockerell / Rushout family were granted the right to build a family chapel here after their own church in Sezincote had been "suffered to be demolished" . The Cockerells built their chapel over a burial vault in the north transept, which is now reached by wooden stairs from the nave. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/nK389G
The main manor remained in the possession of the Leigh family until 1921 when it was sold.
because the day after our wedding, 53 years ago, we drove West from Cambridge heading towards Ireland, and encountered Adlestrop in the way. My new husband was not aware of the significance of Adlestrop, but he had the grace to say that travelling with me would be instructive.
I loved the poem when I read it at school, not for the First World War associations, but because it perfectly evoked memories of just such rustic stops on the railway in Hertfordshire when I was a small child.
Yes. I remember Adlestrop
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat, the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Edward Thomas
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Church of St Paul, Broadwell, Gloucestershire Throughout the middle ages, the manor estates of Broadwell belonged to the Benedictine monks of Evesham Abbey, who were responsible for appointing the rector.
There seems to have been a church here before the 1066 Norman Conquest, one of the stones preserved in the porch has saxon decoration. The 1086 Domesday Survey recorded there were 48 inhabitants of whom one was a priest. It later had a chapel of ease at Adlestrop .
Nothing is known about this saxon church or where exactly it was built. It was replaced c1150 with a building consisting of a chancel and nave built from stone from the local limestone quarry.
The original walls of the chancel survive up to the stringcourse when it was rebuilt in 13c when the nave was enlarged with an arcade of round pillars which allowed the south aisle to be added. After the Reformation it became a private chapel for the Hodges family who are buried in it and lived in the manor house and had a low wall separating it from the nave . Their house and this chapel were inherited by marriage by the Leighs. The wall was removed in 19c.
The building of the south aisle meant that a new door had to be provided - the porch that shelters it is however 17c.
The 3 stage tower centred on the axis of the nave, was built in 15c with diagonal buttresses at the corners which are characteristic of Cotswold towers of that date.
The monument to Robert Hunckes 1585 has had his original epitaph defaced, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/RJ6602 the guide says this was because he was the great uncle of the officer who presided over the execution of Charles l, - I would welcome suggestions who that might have been .
Herbert Weston 1635 kneels with his wife and young son at the west end of the south aisle. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/qcj2y3
The church was restored during the 52 years incumbency of Rev Henry Pitt Cholmondeley d1905 , www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/02iy8d third son of Thomas Baron Delamere of Vale Royal, when the nave north wall was rebuilt with new windows and door.
In the churchyard below the east end of the chancel is a group of 10 'woolpack' bale altar-tombs of the early 17c. Nearly all bear the arms (a fess dancetty) of the prosperous landowning Chadwell family (One has 4 kneeling figures on either side) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9mvf89
Yes, I remember Adlestrop --
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop -- only the name
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Adlestrop
Edward Thomas
Yes. I remember Adlestrop –
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop – only the name
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Church of St Leonard, Bledington Gloucestershire
The 1086 Domesday Survey records that the manor of
'Bladintun' was among the gifts of Coenwulf of Mercia to the abbey of Winchcombe, and consisted of 7 hides. The presence of a church was confirmed in a record of 1175, when the Pope confirmed all the possessions of the abbey who held it until its mid 16c Dissolution.
This early church consisted of a nave and chancel, the only survivors being the font & bellcote which was moved from the west end to its present position when the tower was built.
c1220 The south aisle was added possibly at the same time as the chancel was restored / rebuilt, followed by the south porch later in the century.
Late 14c / early 15c the nave was heightened with clerestory windows & the two stage tower built.
The 15c stained glass is particularly fine with kneeling donors in the north wall windows in the nave www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/aYa5sA & also in the 1490 Chantry chapel between the chancel and south aisle built by "Nicholas Hobbes & Agnes his wife" ,
During the reign of protestant Edward Vl in 1551 the incumbent, John Cooke, was found " wanting in doctrine", and was enjoined to desist from 'superstition'. The vicarage had been vacant for more than a year in 1563 and the church was served by a curate, though in 1566 the churchwardens claimed that there was never a curate there, which suggests that he was not resident. Towards the end of the 16c complaint was made that the chancel was not paved, there had been no sermon for 15 years, and the catechism was not taught.
The tower has 6 bells , one of 1639 by James Keane of Woodstock inscribed "And Charles he is our king" stands on the floor of the chantry chapel www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/374Md6
Winchcombe abbey held the manor until its mid 16c dissolution after which it was given in 1553 to Sir Thomas Leigh, later Lord Mayor of London, and passed from him to his eldest son Rowland and his descendants, the Leigh family of Adlestrop.
The church was restored by John Edward Knight Cutts in 1881 and by Frank Ernest Howard c1923.
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Yes, I remember Adlestrop –
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop – only the name.
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Edward Thomas
Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Located off the main road between Adlestrop and Moreton-in-Marsh, this peaceful bluebell wood is the essence of English spring.
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Looking west through the 13c arch to the 15c tower serving as the entrance porch. The font is 15c - Church of St Mary Magdalen, Adlestrop Gloucestershire
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The War Memorials and Rolls of Honour I'm researching in Gloucestershire (and neighbouring counties)
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Alvington
Aylburton
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Barnwood
Brampton Abbotts (Herefordshire)
Bredon's Norton (Worcestershire)
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Chastleton (Oxfordshire)
Cheltenham -------------------------------------
Christ Church
St. Gregory's
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Croome D'Abitot (Worcestershire)
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Drybrook
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…
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Gloucester ------------------------------------
Christ Church
Great Western Railway & Midland Railway (no memorials exist)
Gloucester Rugby Football Club
Mariner's Church, Gloucester Docks
St. Catharine's
St. James's
Voluntary Training Corps / Battalion
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…
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Lassington (Only the church tower remains. See Note 1 at the foot of this page)
Leighterton
Longney
Lydbrook
…
Much Marcle and Yatton (Herefordshire)
…
…
…
…
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Ruardean
Rudford
…
Syde (See Note 1 below)
...
Tidenham
…
Upton-upon-Severn (Worcestershire)
…
…
Weston under Penyard (Herefordshire)
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Photograph: Great War plot at Gloucester Old Cemetery
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Note 1.
As yet, I have been unable to discover whether there was ever a memorial plaque inside the now demolished St. Oswald's church in Lassington. Nor have I been able to determine whether any resident of Lassington actually served during the Great War. Consequently, it is not possible to say whether it was a 'blessed village'.
There was no memorial inside the St Mary's in Syde and I couldn't find a memorial outside either. So again there is no way of knowing whether it too was a 'blessed village'.
Neither place is on the Thankful Villages list of such places.
Note 2.
Apart from Lassington and Syde, all the villages listed above which have no link (i.e. they're displayed in black) are places which I visited but I could not find a war memorial and couldn't get access to the church to see if there was a memorial inside. Will try again sometime.
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Damp and wintry not really much of an echo of Edward Thomas' poem but still a charming and evocative place.
Adlestrop
Yes, I remember Adlestrop --
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop -- only the name
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Edward Thomas
Church of St Mary Magdalen, Adlestrop Gloucestershire
Of the earlier church mentioned in the 12c when it was endowed with half a hide and 29 sheaves a year., only the 13c chancel arch , 14c west arch to the three stage 15c tower & 15c font survive. The lower stage of the tower serves as the entrance porch.
The church was always a chapelry of Broadwell until 1937, when it became part of the parish of Oddington. The rectors of Broadwell appointed chaplains to Adlestrop, and in 1535 the chaplain received £5 6s. 8d. a year from the rector.
The inhabitants are said to have been buried at Broadwell, until one of the Leigh family donated more land for the present churchyard in 1590, but there is evidence that burials took place from 1516 onwards, and there is a register of burials, with baptisms and marriages, from 1538.
The nave, chancel and transepts were completely rebuilt c1700 but the workmanship was so bad that all had to be built again in 1765, funded almost entirely at the expense of the lord of the manor
The chancel was restored in 1824 followed by the whole building in 1860 when all the windows appear to have been renewed in late 13c style..
The tower has 5 bells , four of 1711 by Abraham Rudhall and one of 1838 by T. Mears. (there were 2 or more bells in 1516)
The tower clock commemorating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria has only 2 faces on the north and east wall , as these are the only sides visible from the village. The entrance gates celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Some of the Leigh family lie buried in a vault below the south transept. Novelist Jane Austen whose mother Cassandra was a Leigh, visited her uncle Rev Thomas Leigh at the rectory across the road from the church on at least 3 occasions - in 1794, 1799, and 1806, and whilst there would have worshipped in this church. It has been suggested that in Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), improvements suggested for Thornton Lacey were based on what was done at Adlestrop House.
www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol6/pp8-16
www.english-church-architecture.net/gloucestershire/adles...
Elaborate monument to Sir William Leigh 1631 & wife Elizabeth Whorwood 1664/5 erected by their younger surviving son George
"Sacred to the memory of William Leigh Knight and also Elizabeth his wife. He came from both the lines of Leigh and Berkeley, enriched with noble blood, and ornamented each family with his virtues; as a youth he devoted himself not unhappily to work of scholarship at Oxford; of full age, having entered into matrimony, it was his custom to give his wealth in alms compassionately and liberally, not without loss; the office of justice of the peace he executed for many years with the greatest impartiality not just the letter of the law; attacked at length by consumption, he changed this life for a better, in the month of November, in the year of the Christian era 1631, aged 46.
And four sons and as many daughters the issue of his marriage, of these three, namely, Isabel, Elizabeth and Anne, survive both parents. Two of the sons, namely William and George, the father left still living; the mother only the elder.
She was the daughter of William Whorwood, Knight, of Stafford. Bereaved of her husband, for 34 years of uninterrupted widowhood she drew out a truly religious life; her house always offered a refuge to the poor of the neighbourhood, and an asylum to faithful subjects of the king (in most difficult times). This not unseemly monument to the best of husbands and to herself was set up with a generous endowment from the liberal hand of the younger son while he lived; at length she acquired immortality by a perfect death on the 23rd March in the Christian year 1664 / 5 aged 83 "
Sir William was the son & heir of Sir Rowland Leigh of Longborrow & Catherine daughter of Sir Richard Berkeley of Stoke Gifford Gloc by Elizabeth daughter of William Rede
He was the grandson of Sir Thomas Leigh 1571, Lord Mayor of London (who had been granted the manor after the the Dissolution of Hailes Abbey) & Alice daughter of John Barker of Haughmond, whose other grandchildren were Joan Bond wife of Leonard Darre / Dare c1554-1615 at South Pool flic.kr/p/uR6Ynm & Dionysia Bond Winston at LongBurton flic.kr/p/5Z7TQS )
His brother Thomas of Stoneleigh m Catherine daughter of Sir John Spencer of Wormleighton 1586 & Katherine Kitson / Kytson flic.kr/p/bV2tf8
He m Elizabeth daughter of Sir William Whorwood 1614 of Stafford , West Bromwich & Sandwell by Ann daughter of John Field / Feild ,heiress niece of Henry Field 1584 of Kings Norton at Queenhill Worc www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8x2L39
Children - 4 son & 4 daughters
1. William d1690 of Adlestrop m Margaret daughter of Sir William Guise of Elmore m2 ……. Sanders of Warwick m3 Joan daughter of Thomas Pury of Gloucester & Mary Alye )
2. George 1656 of Frogmill (a royalist captain in the civil war, who erected the monument ) m (2nd husband) Susannah widow of Robert Heydon 1647 of Frogmill & Shipton Solers ; who m3 William Stratford 1685 ) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9y53Yi
3. ……… died an infant www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/1q0T5u
4. Thomas died young www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/40m7fV
1. Catherine died young died young www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Tg5670
2. Isabel / Isabella m1 Gervase Warmstrey of Worcester, gent, m2 Sir John Covert of Slaugham 1679 son of Walter Covert by 2nd cousin Anne daughter of John Covert
3. Elizabeth b1611 m 1632 John Chamberlaine / Chamberlayne of Maugersbury Gloc son of Edmund Chamberlayne 1634 & Grace Strangways / Strangeways daughter of John Strangways 1548 - 1593 m Dorothy Thynne; Grand daughter of Joan Wadham www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/38V2w9R9i3
4. Anne m1 William Hodges of Broadwell 1644 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/454LX0 son of Anthony Hodges & Merriell Child m2 Roger Waterworth 1651 m3 John son of Sir Herbert Croft MP ) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/H60M05
At the top of the monument are figures of Chastity carrying a palm; Fortitude wearing a lion's skin, carrying the club of Hercules; and Justice carrying a balance .
Other simple Leigh monuments lie on the floor nearby in memory of their children "What early hopes were given; Death soon ript their tender buds and snatch'd them ripe for heav'n"
During the Civil War Elizabeth provided shelter for Royalists in the Civil War and lit bonfires to celebrate their victories.
The main manor remained in the possession of the Leigh family until 1921 when it was sold.
books.google.co.uk/books?id=DuwDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA441&...
Picture with thanks - copyright Mike Searle CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3939341
soundimageplus.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-remember-adlestrop-...
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Jane Austen visited Adelstrop House, formerly the rectory, at least three times between 1794 and 1806 when the occupant was Rev. Thomas Leigh, cousin of Jane Austen's mother.
The Leighs could trace their history in this village back to Tudor times.
Jane is thought to have drawn inspiration from the village and its surroundings for her novel Mansfield Park.
Whilst Jane and her mother and sister were staying here in 1806, Thomas Leigh heard about his inheritance of Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire and the whole party including Jane decamped to the Abbey.