Places
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- Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire
- Bourton, Avon
- Bourton, Dorset
- Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire
- Bourton, Buckinghamshire
- Bourton, Wiltshire
- Bourton, Shropshire
- Bourton, Oxfordshire
- West Bourton, Dorset
- Little Bourton, Oxfordshire
- Flax Bourton, Avon
- Great Bourton, Oxfordshire
- Black Bourton, Oxfordshire
- Bourton Westwood, Shropshire
- Bourton on Dunsmore, Warwickshire
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The Old Thatch
Ah, The Old Thatch. I remember it well, for this is where I grew up from the early 1940s until 1956. By today's standards it was grim: no heating, no running water, no flush loo - nothing. Yet it was a wonderful place in which to ...Read more
A memory of Nether Wallop in 1940 by
A Long Time Ago
I lived in Codsall Wood between 1944 and 1952. I attended Albrighton Infants School between 1950 and 1952, I still have my school cap, the only names I can remember was the dinner lady a Mrs Orange and 2 other pupils Darryl Massey ...Read more
A memory of Albrighton in 1951 by
Our Camelot...
Our little family of Mom, Dad, (Nan and Tom Mackie) my four year old sister Dorothy and myself seven years older, moved from the North to U Slaughter where my Dad and Mom were hired as butler/valet to Major Witts (Dad) and cook ...Read more
A memory of Upper Slaughter in 1948 by
Critchlows Corner My Home
The image that we are looking at is now my home. It is a beautiful home now. My grandad as a young lad used to deliver papers for the old shop Critchlows Corner. Reading the comments make me think that my home is part of Blurton history.
A memory of Blurton by
White Rock
As a child living in Blurton up until the age of about 12, I remember playing with my friends at the "White Rock" Yet cannot find any other reference to this on maps etc. Does Anyone know what happened to this landmark?
A memory of Blurton by
Brings Back Memories Of My Childhool.
I lived in Blurton from 1964 to 1983. My memories of Critchelow's Corner, called so because of the Critchelow sisters who ran the Post Office, is of walking past this corner to get to Gom's Mill and then walk on ...Read more
A memory of Blurton in 1974
Zeals School 1958 63
I attended Zeals C of E Primary school between 1958 and 1963. We actually lived over the border in Bourton (next to the White Lion pub) but the school was nearer than Bourton school. "Pop" Winter and his wife were the full time ...Read more
A memory of Zeals in 1958 by
Pineapple Cottages Lower Swell
My gran's name was Lily Illes and she lived in one of Pineapple Cottages at Lower Swell as a child. She left home at 15 to go and work in London and then moved to Scotland with my grandpa. I have visted and stayed in ...Read more
A memory of Lower Swell by
Evacuee
I was evacuated to Daglingworth in 1941 from London and was billeted at Warrens Gorse Cottages just outside the village with my younger brother and sister. We attended the village school which was run by Miss Bacon (a bit of a tartar) and ...Read more
A memory of Daglingworth in 1940 by
A Short But Happy Time
Although I only lived in Woodford for a couple of years at most I was happy there. We lived at 17 High St, which I suppose might be called a cottage these days. It was a 2 up 2 down place with a strange sort of tiny ...Read more
A memory of Woodford Halse in 1960 by
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In various travel guides, Bourton is billed as either 'the Queen of the Cotswolds', 'the jewel in the Cotswolds' crown', or 'the Venice of the Cotswolds'.
This one-ninth scale reproduction of Bourton opened for public viewing on the same day that George VI was crowned king in 1937.
Rather like Gulliver in Lilliput, the visitor finds an exact likeness of Bourton-on-the-Water in its famous model village.
Bourton-on-the-Water is probably the most popular tourist haunt in the Cotswolds. It deserves its popularity.
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.
Five bridges step over the Windrush in Bourton before it flows on downstream to the village that bears its name, and then to Barrington, Burford and Witney to join the Thames.
According to the guide- book of your choice, Bourton is billed 'Queen of the Cotswolds','the Venice of the Cotswolds', or 'the jewel in the Cotswolds' crown'.
Bourton's oldest bridge dates from 1754, and stands in front of the old Corn Mill, which opened in 1978 as the Cotswold Motor Museum.
'At weekends in summer and on Bank Holidays, Bourton on the Water has to suffer the invasions which have resulted from the discovery of its beauty, but at other times its charms are unobscured and can
A settlement since the Iron Age, with the Romans and Anglo-Saxons leaving artefacts as evidence of their time at Bourton, the village uses its river as a focal point for such activities as setting the
The River Eye flows through the village on its way to join the River Dickler, which in turn feeds the Windrush to the south of Bourton-on-the-Water.
The River Windrush threads through Bourton, carpeted on either bank by broad greens.
Modelled on Rome's Fontana di Trevi and carved from Portland stone by the local firm of R L Boulton, this first gushed on 30 October 1893.
A member of the Lunar Society (other members included the likes of Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, James Watt and Joseph Priestley - all great scientific names of 18th
