Gloucestershire Pictures

The Westonbirt Arboretum

Original colour images by John Wilkes

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Acer Palmatum at Westonbirt Arboretum

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Autumnal splendour in 'Acer Glade', Westonbirt

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'Prinknash Abbey'

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Interior of 'Prinknash Abbey' Church

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'St. Catherine's' Church, Leigh

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The Abbey of 'St. Mary the Virgin', Tewkesbury

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A drawing of Tewkesbury Abbey

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'St. John the Baptist's' Church, Oxenton

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The Church of 'St. Martin of Tours', Woolstone

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'Christchurch', Gretton

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'St. Mary's' Church, Hartpury

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'St. Mary's' Church, Dymock

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'St. Mary's' Church, Newent

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'St. John's' Church, Huntley

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'St. Mary the Virgin's' Church, Rudford

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'The Holy Trinity' Church, Tibberton

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'St. Andrew's' Church, Churcham

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'St. Mary's' Church, Prestbury

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'St. George's' Church, Didbrook

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Jacobean gatehouse at Stanway

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'St. James' Church, Cutsdean

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'St. Lawrence's' Church, Bourton-on-the-Water

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'St. Bartholomew's' Church, Aldsworth

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'St. Peter's' Church, Windrush

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'St. Oswald's' Church, Shipton Oliffe

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'St. Mary's' Church, Shipton Sollers

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Downham Hill in the snow

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Sledging on Cam Peak

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Uley Village Green in the snow

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'Owlpen Manor'

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'St. Bartholomew's' Church, Coaley

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Stained glass window in Coaley Church

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'Joshua' window in Coaley Church

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'The Centurion' window in Coaley Church

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Tresham Church

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'St. Mary's' Church, Bibury

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The churchyard at Bibury

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Stained glass window in Bibury Church

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Interior of Bibury Church

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Bibury homesteads

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'St. Michael and All Angels' Church, Winson

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The tower of Northleach Church

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Northleach Church

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Stained glass window in Northleach Church

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The Village Sign at Yanworth

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'St. Michael's' Church, Yanworth

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Wheatenhurst

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'St. Andrew's' Church, Wheatenhurst

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'St. David's' Church, Moreton-in-Marsh

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'St. Mary's' Church, Batsford

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Interior of Batsford Church

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'St. Peter and St. Paul's' Church, Blockley

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Interior of Blockley Church

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Stained glass window in Blockley Church

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'St. Michael and All Angels' Church, Broad Campden

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'St. Paul's' Church, Broadwell

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Stained glass window in Broadwell Church

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'St. Peter's' tower, Frocester (church demolished)

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'St. Mary Magdalene's' Church, Rodborough

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'St. Laurence's' Church, Stroud

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Subscription Rooms, Stroud

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'St. Matthew's' Church, Cainscross

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Gloucester Docks

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The Cathedral Church of 'St. Peter and The Holy Indivisible Trinity', Gloucester

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Plan of Gloucester Cathedral

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Gloucester Cathedral portico

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Interior of Gloucester Cathedral

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The Cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral

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'St. Edward's' Church, Evenlode

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'St. Nicholas' Church, Lower Oddington

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'St. Thomas a Becket's' Church, Todenham

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'St. Mary Magdalene's' Church, Adlestrop

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Adlestrop churchyard gates

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'St. Leonard's' Church, Bledington

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Houses and staddle stones at Wyck Rissington

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'St. Laurence's' Church, Wyck Rissington

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Exterior detail of Wyck Rissington Church

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Stained glass window in Wyck Rissington Church

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'St. Peter's' 12th Century Church at Little Rissington

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Interior of Little Rissington Church

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'St. Andrew's' Church, Chedworth

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'St. John the Baptist's' Church, Shipton Moyne

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Stained glass window in Shipton Moyne Church

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'Hodge's Barn', Shipton Moyne

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'St. Mary's' Church, Tetbury

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'St. Matthew's' Church, Coates

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'St. Peter's' Church, Siddington

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12th Century Berkeley Castle

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'St. Mary's' Church, Boxwell

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'St. Martin's' Church, North Nibley

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'St. John the Baptist's' Church, Elmore

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Exterior detail of Elmore Church

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Elaborate altar tomb at Elmore Church

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Ornate wrought iron gates at 'Elmore Court'

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Pheasants by the roadside in Elmore

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Blunder Lock on the Stroudwater Canal near Eastington

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'Bridge House' on the Stroudwater Canal near Stonehouse

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'St. Michael and All Saints' Church, Eastington

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'St. Swithun's' Church, Brookthorpe

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Thatched cottage in Brookthorpe

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'St. Luke's' Church, Frampton Mansell

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'St. Bartholomew's' Church, Oakridge Lynch

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'All Saints' Church, Bisley

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'St. Oswald's' Church, Compton Abdale

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'St. Andrew's' Church, Hazleton

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Snowdrops by the River Churn in Rendcomb

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'St. Peter's' Church, Rendcomb

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The Norman font in Rendcomb Church

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Rendcomb College

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Rendcomb College

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'St. Mary's' Church, Temple Guiting

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Interior of Temple Guiting Church

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A mill in Chalford

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'Christ's Church', Chalford

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'The Old Crown' public house, Uley

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A portico of a house on the village green in Uley

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'Raglan House' in Uley

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A farmhouse in Ozleworth Bottom

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'All Saints' Church, Stone

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A stained glass window in Stone Church

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Bluebells in the woods at Damery

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'St. Peter's' Church, Haresfield

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A house in Haresfield

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'St. Lawrence's' Church, Sandhurst

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The lych gate at Sandhurst Church

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Stained glass windows in Sandhurst Church

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Stained glass

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Detail of stained glass window

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Sandhurst Church

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'Angeston Grange' near Uley

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'Bencombe Gables' near Uley

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A 1799 chapel converted in to a house in Uley

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'St. Swithin's' Church, Quenington

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Norman tympanum and archway at Quenington Church

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Topiary in the garden of 'Sheepbridge Barn' near Eastleach

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'St. James' Church, Colesbourne

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Stained glass window in Colesbourne Church

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'St. John the Apostle's' Church, Sheepscombe

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'St. Mary's' Church, Painswick

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The Cotswolds can justifiably claim to be the most unspoilt region of the English countryside. Centred on the gentle slopes of the Cotswold Hills, this beautiful area is famous for the tranquillity of its villages and hamlets which nestle in to the folds of the wolds. Built of the local warm, honey-coloured limestone, saturated with the sun of centuries, they are so much in harmony with their surroundings that they give the impression of having grown almost naturally out of each hillside. Tudor manor houses, with gables, mullioned windows, tall chimneys and generously carved initials and coats of arms stand side-by-side with richly decorated Perpendicular churches with tall towers, pinnacles and flying buttresses. Each village has its own large farm with tithe barn and dovecote; one main street with an inn; a shop or two; and a few straggling cottages. Long, low, unmortared stone walls run for miles in all directions, enclosing fields where sheep have grazed for centuries. In an area once given over almost entirely to sheep-farming, wool has been the source of Cotswold prosperity throughout the ages and the splendid churches and manor houses are the bequests to posterity of the rich wool merchants of the Middle Ages. The beauty of these valleys and villages is considerably enhanced by a number of enchanting little rills, streams and rivers bearing such sweet sounding names as Coln, Evenlode and Windrush. Crossed by low stone footbridges, their banks are gaily bedecked in Springtime with kingcups, irises and other colourful wild flowers.

To find out more and to view a wide variety of aspects of Gloucestershire,
refer to Picture Sets 1, 2, 4 and 5 below:

Picture Set 1

Picture Set 2

Picture Set 4

Picture Set 5

South Gloucestershire
Picture Set

Parish Churches

Churches listed in ten geographical areas of Gloucestershire

Dursley

A closer look at the town

Uley

Points of interest in and around the village