Talk:Elmstone Hardwicke

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• 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)