Notgrove…
A large Neolithic burial mound with spectacular vistas over the Severn Valley. Its…
Odda’s Chapel is a surviving Saxon church, built by Earl Odda for the benefit of the soul of his brother Aelfric, who died on 22 December 1053. It was consecrated by Bishop Ealdred: an inscription dates the dedication to 12 April 1056. It was being…
Offa’s Dyke (Welsh: Clawdd Offa) is a massive linear earthwork, roughly following some of the current border between England and Wales. In places, it is up to 65 feet (20 m) wide (including its flanking ditch) and 8 feet (2.5 m) high. In the 8th century it formed some kind of delineation between the Anglian kingdom of Mercia and the Welsh kingdom of Powys. It has been the subject…
Over Bridge is a single span stone arch bridge spanning the West Channel of the River Severn near Gloucester. It links Over to Alney Island. Built by Thomas Telford between 1825 and 1828, it remained in use for traffic until 1975. The arch spans 150 feet (46 m), and was based on Jean-Rodolphe Perronet’s 1774 design for a bridge over the River Seine at Neuilly. It combines both an elliptical profile over most of the soffit with a segmental profile…
St Briavels Castle is a…
The church of St Mary’s has “the most complete set of Romanesque frescos in northern Europe” in its chancel which includes the Christ in Majesty painting created in about 1120, also a fresco of a wheel of life, showing the life cycle of man, painted on the walls of the nave. St Mary’s Church (Location: 51.9787°N 2.4823°W) is…
Uley Bury is the long, flat-topped hill just outside Uley, Gloucestershire, England. It is an impressive multi-vallate, scarp-edge Iron Age hill fort dating from around 300 B.C. Standing some 750 feet (235…
A Neolithic…
Bishop’s Waltham Palace is a moated Bishop’s…
