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Gloucester (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər / ⓘ GLOSS-tər) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England.Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west; it is sited 19 miles (31 km) from Monmouth, 33 miles (53 km) from Bristol, and 17 miles (27 km) east of the border with Wales.
Gloucester (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər / GLOST-ər) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of Massachusetts's North Shore.The population was 29,729 at the 2020 U.S. Census. [2]
The cloisters at Gloucester are the earliest surviving fan vaults in England, having been designed between 1351 and 1377 by Thomas de Cantebrugge. [ 36 ] [ d ] David Verey and Alan Brooks, in the 2002 revised volume, Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean , in the Pevsner Buildings of England series, call them "the most memorable in ...
Stage Fort Park is a park at Stage Head in Gloucester, Massachusetts, part of the Essex National Heritage Area.It contains two beaches, a large playground, picnic benches, two baseball fields, a basketball court, a dog park and plenty of room for any weekend activities.
Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook , produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond.
The Flower of Gloster is a 1911 book by E. Temple Thurston.Published by Williams and Norgate, [1] it sold well enough to merit a second edition two years later. A third unillustrated edition was published by Chapman and Hall in 1918, after which the book remained out of print for over half a century until being republished by David & Charles in 1968.
The Folk of Gloucester is a museum which is housed in two of the oldest buildings in the city of Gloucester, a Tudor merchant's house and a 17th-century town house. The museum, at 99–103 Westgate Street , is devoted to the social history of Gloucestershire .
The Museum of Gloucester [1] in Brunswick Road is the main museum in the city of Gloucester, England. It was extensively renovated following a large National Heritage Lottery Fund grant, and reopened on Gloucester Day, 3 September 2011. [2] In March 2016, the museum rebranded itself; it used to be called the Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery ...