Little Fleece Bookshop, a traditional 17th-century building Cotswold house (originally part of a former inn) in the beautiful Cotswold village of Painswick. Read more…
Bathurst Pool is a 38 metre outdoor pool in the Forest of Dean, run by volunteers and open weather permitting for at least ten weeks during the summer. Read more…
Dominican ‘black friars’ friary, later converted into a Tudor house and cloth factory. Notable features include the church and the fine scissor-braced dormitory roof. Read more…
Stratford Park Outdoor Pool is a spring water-filled outdoor pool, which first opened in 1936. The pool is open during the summer months as an alternative to the indoor pool at the Stratford Park Leisure Centre. Read more…
Nympsfield Long Barrow is the remains of a Neolithic burial site or barrow. It lies at the edge of a woods, and is now the location of a picnic site. Nympsfield is one of the earliest examples of a barrow with separate chambers, constructed around 2800 BCE. Read more…
St Briavels Castle is a moated Norman castle, built between 1075 and 1129 and is noted for its huge Edwardian gatehouse that guards the entrance. St Briavels Castle is now a Grade I isted building and a Youth Hostel, open to the public. Read more…
All that survives of Kingswood Abbey today is the 16th century Abbey gatehouse. The abbey was founded in the year 1169 by William of Berkeley and colonised from the Cistercian house at Tintern. Read more…
Woodchester Park, a secluded wooded valley with a ‘lost garden’. Chain of five lakes thread through this delightful 18th and 19th-century landscape park with waymarked trails. Read more…
Westbury Court Garden was created between 1696 and 1705, and is the only restored Dutch style water garden in the country. A visit will include exploring the canals, fine hedges and working 17th-century vegetable plots and discover many old varieties of fruit trees. Read more…
Painswick Rococo Gardens were designed in the mid-1700s by Benjamin Hyett after he purchased the house in the 1730s. Rococo describes a period of art fashionable in Europe in the 1700s, identifiable particularly in furniture and architecture and the gardens at Painswick just outside Stroud in Gloucestershire are one of the only surviving examples open to the public. The gardens Read more…
