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Books & Videos
- Thomas Rudge: The History of the County of Gloucester, compressed and brought down to the year 1803
Published 1803, excellent entry on the village of Cherington - Henry Thomas Ellacombe: The Church Bells of Gloucestershire
Written in 1877, published in 1881 and digitized by Google in 2007, includes songs about the theft of Cherington Church's bells in 1830. - Kim Milsom: Match Fishing: A Champion's Guide
Cheringtonian Kim Milsom was a professional angler, competed at national level, and wrote this book covering all major techniques, including chapters on fishing with wagglers, stickfloats, swimmfeeders and poles, bait and tackle, match prep, and assessing venues. Kim Milsom: Grand Western Tench - The Compleat Angler - Vol. 1 - No. 10
Match angler and ex-Cheringtonian Kim Milsom, takes the viewer to the Grand Western Canal in Tiverton, Devon.D Verey: Gloucestershire: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Buildings of England)
Includes an excellent historical overview of Cherington and its buildings.- Macmillan Way Assn: Cross-Cotswold Pathway
Guide containing detailed route directions and clear sketch maps to plan and walk the route. This is a great walk to undertake with sponsorship from friends or colleagues to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Relief. 86 mile walk across the Cotswolds from Banbury to Bath. Follows existing footpaths, bridleways and byways and small stretches of minor roads when these are unavoidable. Runs through Sapperton, Tarlton, Hazleton, Cherington, Avening, Chavenage and Westonbirt and many other places. Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer: Church-lore Gleanings
Another book referencing the theft of Cherington church bells around 1830.- Elizabeth Workman and Beryl Milsom: Cherington - A Century of Change in a Cotswold Village
The annual Flower and Vegetable Show was perhaps an appropriate occasion to launch this book. It is the time the inhabitants, new and old, get together and has been held in the gardens of the Old Rectory for many years. This house together with the church, school and Cherington Park have been important and familiar landmarks during the past 100 years. Drawn from the memories of many inhabitants past and present, Elizabeth Workman has given the reader a close-up picture of life in a small, and in the first part of the century, a fairly isolated agricultural community. (****) Brian Trubshaw: Brian Trubshaw: Test Pilot
The late Brian Trubshaw: Concorde test pilot, aviator, author, and Cheringtonian.- N M Herbert, R B Pugh (Editors), A P Baggs, A R J Jurica, W J Sheils: A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume XI
The volume covers the 18 parishes of the Cotswold hundreds of Bisley and Longtree and includes the market towns of Stroud, Tetbury, Painswick, and Minchinhampton. In the deep valleys centred on Stroud the cloth industry was the shaping force, adding interest and complexity to the story of even the smaller parishes like Cherington, Rodborough and Woodchester. (*****) Stephanie Laurens: A Fine Passion
Who knew? A novel set in our 'hood. "The rattle of carriage wheels reached him. Through the screening drifts, he glimpsed a black carriage bowling along the road from Cherington. The carriage crossed the junction with the Tetbury lane down which Jack was descending, and continued west toward Nailsworth..."- Joseph Whitaker: A Descriptive List Of The Deer-Parks & Paddocks Of England
Published 1892 and includes Cherington Park entry: Owners, the Misses George (co-heiresses of the late Rev. W. George). Acreage, about 150 acres. Fence, iron hurdles. Water supply, artificial. Number of fallow deer, 126. Average weight of bucks, 56 Ibs. ccasionally Scotch cattle feed. Trees, principally walnut trees, some of great age. Elevated situation on the Cotswolds, about 500ft above the sea. According to the old Gloucester histories, this small park was imparked in the year 1600.
