Some villas such as Great Casterton in Rutland and Hucclecote in Gloucestershire had new mosaic floors laid around this time, suggesting that economic problems may have been limited and patchy, although many suffered some decay before being abandoned in the 5th century ; the story of Saint Patrick indicates that villas were still occupied until at least 430.

The Wessex Regionalists had used Hardy's definition of Wessex for their political Wessex Region, but today the party also includes Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.

He says he himself played for the West Gloucestershire club as early as 1857, when he was nine years old, and had 11 innings in 1859.

Gloucestershire again had a strong claim to the Champion County title although some sources have awarded it to Derbyshire and Grace himself said that it should have gone to Yorkshire.

There was bad feeling between Grace and some of the 1878 Australians, especially their manager John Conway ; this came to a head on 20 June in a row over the services of Grace's friend Billy Midwinter, an Australian who had played for Gloucestershire in 1877.

and E. M. were called to account by the Gloucestershire membership because of the expenses they had claimed from Surrey for that match, and which Surrey had refused to authorise.

In addition, Gloucestershire had declined following its heady success in the 1870s.

Unlike the south-east and northern counties, Gloucestershire had neither the large home gates nor the necessary funds that could have secured the services of good quality professionals.

As a result, Gloucestershire fell away in county competition and could no longer match Nottinghamshire, Surrey and Lancashire who had the strongest sides in the 1880s.

Tyndale's family had migrated to Gloucestershire at some point in the fifteenth century – probably as a result of the Wars of the Roses.

At the suggestion of August Derleth, he rewrote many of his earliest stories, which he had originally set in the Massachusetts locales of Arkham, Dunwich and Innsmouth, and relocated them to English settings in and around the fictional Gloucestershire city of Brichester, near the River Severn, creating his own Severn Valley milieu for Lovecraftian horrors.

The military quality of the Welsh border Royalists was well proved, that of the Gloucestershire Presbyterians not less so, and, in basing himself on Gloucester and Worcester as his father had done on Oxford, Charles II hoped, naturally, to deal with the Independent faction minority of the English people more effectually than Charles I had earlier dealt with the majority of the people of England who had supported the Parliamentary cause.

Even though many of the lands of his uncle of York had been granted for life only, or to him and his male heirs, the remaining lands, concentrated in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, Yorkshire, and Wiltshire and Gloucestershire were considerable.

Maurice ( d. 1361 ) was the son and heir of Maurice de Berkeley ( d. 1347 at the Siege of Calais ), who had acquired the manor of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, in 1337, the second son of Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley ( 1271 – 1326 ).

The idea of building a bridge across the Avon Gorge originated in 1753, with a bequest in the will of Bristolian merchant William Vick, who left £ 1, 000 invested with instructions that when the interest had accumulated to £ 10, 000, it should be used for the purpose of building a stone bridge between Clifton Down ( which was in Gloucestershire, outside the City of Bristol, until the 1830s ) and Leigh Woods in Somerset.

His father, Sir Leonard Hastings, had owned a modest estate in Leicestershire and Gloucestershire, where the family had long been established.

He died c. 1485 and was buried in the parish church of Ebrington, Gloucestershire, which manor he had purchased, and after which his descendants took the name of their title Viscount Ebrington, today used as the courtesy title of the eldest son and heir of Earl Fortescue.

On the advice of Monck, the commons rejected a resolution put forward by jurist Matthew Hale ( a member for Gloucestershire ) for a committee to be formed to look into the concessions that had been offered by Charles and to negotiate conditions with the King such as those put forward to his father in the treaty of Newport.

William and Joan had two sons, who were encouraged by their father to become members of the Gloucestershire gentry, yet both predeceased him, and thus ended the Canynges dynasty in Bristol.

However, he had always wanted to go in for the Church, and when he was forty-four he took Anglican orders, and became a curate first at Shipton, Gloucestershire, and then at Sedgefield, Durham.

In January 1949, in a very weak condition, he set off for a sanatorium in Gloucestershire, escorted by Richard Rees.

The Thames is maintained for navigation by powered craft from the estuary as far as Lechlade in Gloucestershire and for very small craft to Cricklade.

In a very short time, primarily in the USA, Bennett recruited many students and in October 1971 the International Academy for Continuous Education was inaugurated in Sherborne, Gloucestershire.

Several long distance trails-the Offa's Dyke Path, the Wye Valley Walk, the Wales Coast Path, and the Gloucestershire Way-pass through, or very close to, the town.

Gloucestershire fell to fifth in the County Championship, and Hammond, after enthusiastically making the team very competitive at the start of the season, became increasingly affected by pain, particularly in damp weather.

It achieved this by having a News and Current Affairs team that was very active in reflecting local issues of real importance to Glopucestershire folk, and by having an outside broadcast schedule that took Severn Sound into every corner of Gloucestershire on a regular basis.

However, in the Pro40 First Division things were very different, and victory over Gloucestershire in mid-September brought the title to New Road, the county's first trophy since 1994.

Due to the geography of Stroud and its environs, these students are drawn from a very wide geographical area of central and southern Gloucestershire, usually from over 60 different feeder primary schools.

No tribe of this name is known, but it is very similar to that of the Dobunni who occupied Gloucestershire.

The country estate in Gloucestershire was located adjacent to Berkeley Castle and was situated on that included a very large English garden, park land and forest.

with " a booming voice which carried well across his Gloucestershire estate, but was very disconcerting elsewhere " At 13, Elwes was sent to study at Eton College.

The Gloucestershire Old Spot pig today has a very fine carcass and produces top quality meat for all purposes be it pork chops, roasting joints or sausages.

Two days after his innings at Canterbury, he made 177 for Gloucestershire v Nottinghamshire ; and two days after that 318 not out for Gloucestershire v Yorkshire, these two innings against counties with exceptionally strong bowling attacks.

Two days later he makes 177 for Gloucestershire v Notts, and two days after that 318 not out for Gloucestershire v Yorkshire, the latter two innings against counties with exceptionally strong bowling attacks.

The first reinforcements to arrive were the Composite Regiment of the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade ; they came up on the flank of their mounted regiment ; the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars ' " D " Squadron west of Mount Royston, which was being attacked by a strong body of Ottoman soldiers.

The Severn estuary at Beachley, Gloucestershire, showing the strong tidal currents.

The town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire also provides many fine examples of Regency architecture and makes the claim to be " the most complete regency town in England ".

He struck a total of eight centuries, and amassed a total of 2, 267 runs in all competitions, whilst also leading Kent to the finals day of the 2007 Twenty20 Cup, in which Kent defeated Sussex and Gloucestershire to claim the trophy.

Downend's greatest claim to fame is that the cricketer W. G. Grace was born in the village, and played cricket as a boy for the nearby West Gloucestershire Cricket Club, which had been founded by his father, the Downend GP.

However, unconfirmed reports contradicting Gray ( 1987 ) claim that the Sydney funnel-web spider has been found as far away as Canberra, from Sydney, and even Gloucestershire in England.

( However, Gloucestershire won some unofficial titles prior to 1890.

Gloucestershire joined the ( unofficial ) County Championship at this time but the existence of the Cheltenham club seems to have forestalled the installation of its " constitutional trappings ".