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From a new university campus to £107m city centre revamp, 2025 is going to be a year of transformative projects for Gloucestershire. As the county hits the quarter of the century mark, developers ...
Gloucester Day is a recently reinstated annual day of celebration of the City of Gloucester's history and culture. The day was first held in the modern era on 5 September 2009 [ 1 ] but originally dates from the lifting of the Siege of Gloucester in 1643, during which the city held out against Royalist forces during the First English Civil War .
Festivals in Gloucestershire (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Events in Gloucestershire" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Music festivals in Gloucestershire (9 P) ... Gloucester Day; Gloucester Tall Ships Festival This page was last edited on 15 April 2019, at 20:13 (UTC). ...
A race on 27 May 2013. This ceremony originally took place each Whit Monday, but was later moved to the Spring Bank Holiday.The first written evidence of cheese rolling is found in a message written to the Gloucester town crier in 1826; [1] even then it was apparent that the event was an old tradition, and it is believed to be at least six hundred years old.
This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the county of Gloucestershire, England. For places in the district of South Gloucestershire , see that article. For places in Bristol formerly in Gloucestershire, see Subdivisions of Bristol .
View of Tetbury, looking up Gumstool Hill Spectators at the 1985 Tetbury Woolsack Race. The Tetbury Woolsack Races are an annual sporting event in the English town of Tetbury, in Gloucestershire, where competitors must race up and down the steepest street in the town carrying a full woolsack on their back.
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.