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Kingswood Abbey was a Cistercian abbey on the northeast edge of the village. The abbey was founded in 1139 by William Berkeley, in accordance with the wishes of his uncle, Roger II of Berkeley, and colonised from the Cistercian house at Tintern. [5] All that survives today is the 16th-century gatehouse, which is under the care of English Heritage.
Wotton-under-Edge / ˈ w ʊ t ən / is a market town and civil parish in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England. Near the southern fringe of the Cotswolds , the Cotswold Way long-distance footpath passes through the town.
Wotton Hill (grid reference) is a hill on the edge of the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire, England, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Wotton-under-Edge. The Cotswold Way passes over the hill. The escarpment forms a 26.1-hectare (64-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire , notified in 1954 and ...
The Berkeleyan - Summer 1950 Edition. Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is an academy school near Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England, for ages 11 to 18.It has been ranked as the 4th best non-fee paying school in the South-West and 250th best in the whole country.
Kingswood Abbey was a Cistercian abbey, located in the village of Kingswood near Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England. The abbey was demolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and all that remains is the gatehouse, a Grade 1 listed building. Through the gatehouse arch are a few houses and the small village primary school of ...
Wotton is a suburb of Gloucester, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. [1] It is situated close to the city centre (1 mile), the Royal Hospital , the city's railway station and to London Road. [ 1 ]
Wotton Underwood is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, 7 miles (11 km) north of Thame, Oxfordshire. The toponym is derived from the Old English for "farm near a wood". It is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of AD 848 as Wudotun and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Oltone .
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