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 Amberley, the Village 1901 (ref. 47357) | Amberley straddles high ground to the south of Stroud, amid glorious Cotswold scenery. This old settlement achieved popularity during Victorian times as the setting for the then popular novel 'John Halifax, Gentleman'. Its author, Mrs Craik, lived at Rose Cottage. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Bibury, Arlington Mill c1955 (ref. B530025) | Though the present building is mostly 17th-century, a mill has existed on this site since Domesday. Arlington Mill served the locality as both a corn and cloth mill and has most recently been a countryside museum, with an excellent display about the life and works of William Morris. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bibury, Arlington Row c1960 (ref. B530002) | This fine row of early 17th-century weavers' cottages is now owned by the National Trust. Bibury itself is an amalgamation of several earlier hamlets, which have all merged together to make the glorious architectural composition we see today. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bishops Cleeve, the Church c1955 (ref. B531030) | Bishop's Cleeve has now become something of a small town, a dormitory for nearby Cheltenham, but it still has an attractive setting under the slopes of Cleeve Hill. Its fine church was mostly built in the 17th century, though some Norman features remain. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bisley, High Street 1910 (ref. 62697) | Bisley stands high on a hillside to the north of the River Frome; it has a wonderful assortment of winding streets and rooftops at different levels, as though the village has grown out of the landscape. It is a place to linger and explore, with every turn of a street revealing new delights. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bisley, the Church 1910 (ref. 62694) | The fine lines of Bisley Church show that this is another village that earned its wealth from the wool trade, its magnificent spire declaring to the neighbourhood the pride of its benefactors - the wool merchants. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bisley, the Seven Springs 1910 (ref. 62696) | Below the village, seven springs spout a plentiful supply of water. These wells must have been used by locals for generations. The inscription above the springs reads 'Bless Ye The Lord, Praise Him, And Magnify'. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bourton-On-The-Water, the Model Village c1955 (ref. B392051) | Rather like Gulliver in Lilliput, the visitor finds an exact likeness of Bourton-on-the-Water in its famous model village. The model village itself has a replica model village and that model village a smaller model village… and so on and so on. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bourton-On-The-Water, the Studio Café c1955 (ref. B392054) | Traditional English teashops reached their zenith in the peaceful days of the 1950s, having made a comeback after the restrictions and rationing of the Second World War. The neat layout, the ornaments and the rack of postcards—some, perhaps, are Friths—set a standard common to the Cotswolds even up to the present day. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bourton-On-The-Water, the Footbridge 1948 (ref. B392035) | Bourton-on-the-Water is probably the most popular tourist haunt in the Cotswolds. It deserves its popularity. This stretch of the pretty little River Windrush, the collection of low stone bridges, and a fine village of Cotswold stone, all combine to make a memorable day out. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bourton-On-The-Water, the Village c1950 (ref. B392038) | Its accessibility from the towns and cities of the Midlands has made Bourton a favourite day out. The village scarcely seems despoiled by having so many admirers. It is still possible to find a quiet corner to feed the ducks, a pleasant shop to browse in, and an ancient inn to enjoy a lunchtime meal. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bussage, the Village c1955 (ref. B259026) | Hidden in woodland near Stroud, Bussage acquired fame in the 20th century as the home and workshop of the renowned glass engraver and stained glass artist Michael Dinkel. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Chalford, the Church 1900 (ref. 45588) | Not far from Stroud, the village of Chalford clings to the steep wooded hillside of the Golden Valley. Many of Chalford's streets are too narrow and steep to allow cars and are best explored on foot, much as the master-weavers of the cloth trade would have known them. Chalford shows a degree of industrialisation at odds with the rest of the Cotswolds, and its hillsides are crammed with the workplaces and residences of mill workers. Most of the mills are now silent, dedicated to other uses, but the atmosphere of an industrial town persists. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Chalford, 1900 (ref. 45587) | The mechanisation of the traditional cloth industry created the Chalford we see today. But other nearby Cotswold villages suffered as traditional methods were abandoned, making them unable to compete with newer technology. This may be why so many neighbouring villages appear to be frozen in time—there was little need and no money to construct new buildings. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cheltenham, Devil's Chimney 1901 (ref. 47256) | This tall limestone pillar stands above the quarries on Leckhampton Hill, not far from Cheltenham. Much of the stone for the spa town came from this area, and the Devil's Chimney is probably a result of quarrying as well as erosion. There are wonderful views from here across the plain of the River Severn. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cheltenham, High Street 1901 (ref. 47265) | Not every visitor was impressed by the elegance of Cheltenham Spa. William Cobbett described the town in 'Rural Rides' as 'a nasty ill-looking place', full of “East India plunderers, West Indian floggers, English tax-gorgers… gluttons, drunkards and debauchers of all descriptions, female as well as male'. It was certainly true that fashionable resorts did attract the disreputable in this way. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cheltenham, London Road 1906 (ref. 54321) | Cheltenham quickly became a retirement home for officers and colonial administrators, who occupied its Regency terraces and purpose-built villas. In more recent years Cheltenham has established an enviable reputation for fashion and design, for music and literature festivals, and for National Hunt racing on the nearby racecourse. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cheltenham, Promenade 1931 (ref. 83808) | Near to the Promenade is Pittville Park, where Joseph Pitt established a classically-designed pump room in the 19th century—the last to be built in the spa town. Visitors can still take the waters within, while admiring the fine collection of Regency costumes on display. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cheltenham, the Centre c1960 (ref. C75129) | By the 1960s, chain stores had become established, even in fashionable Cheltenham. Happily, many individual shops of fine character selling a wide variety of goods have survived. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cheltenham, the College 1901 (ref. 47270) | Cheltenham has become a byword for public school education in England. Its College for boys, situated on the road to Bath, was built in the 1840s in the popular Gothic revival style. The nearby Cheltenham Ladies' College was founded by the formidable Victorian educationalist Miss Beale. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
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