Talk:Elmstone Hardwicke

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History of the parish of Elmstone-Hardwicke

Info on the church, impressive for a village of this size

No pubs or shops (unless the Old Spot is officially in E-H?)

The old school, now a Slavic church - children attend mostly Tredington Primary School and Cleeve Comprehensive ('Cleeve School')

Notable local farms & farming families

the Furzens; Dog Bark Lane; River Swilgate; Smithy's scrapyard; the conker tree by Westerns

The M5 motorway passes through the village and split some farms in half. Kilbys had a bridge built just for their cattle and tractors by the Ministry, the public road through Colmans Farm is now a dead end.

The extent of the parish(quite large in terms of area) - Elmstone-Hardwicke church area, the hamlet of Hardwicke (with the tiny village green), through to the travellers site near the A38.

Naming confusion - before postcode databases we would regularly receive mail marked 'Hardwicke' (Stroud)

Pleasant rural area but somewhat the rubbish dump of Glos. too - flytipping, crematorium, motorway, rubbish dumps, Cursey Lane -- kingboyk 22nd/23rd September 2005

Also, historical links with Deerhurst and Deerhust Priory. --kingboyk 18:54, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]