Talk:Elmstone Hardwicke

Material to add: Stats Map(s) 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)