Deerhurst

For other uses, see Deerhurst (disambiguation).
Deerhurst
Deerhurst
 Deerhurst shown within Gloucestershire
Population 906 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSO869295
DistrictTewkesbury
Shire countyGloucestershire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town GLOUCESTER
Postcode district GL19
Dialling code 01452
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentTewkesbury
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Coordinates: 51°58′N 2°11′W / 51.96°N 2.19°W

Deerhurst is a village near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England on the east bank of the River Severn. The Royal Mail postcode begins GL19.

According to legend, the village was once the home of a dragon, said to have been swept in on the River Severn.[2]

Anglo Saxon church & chapel

Deerhurst has an Anglo Saxon partly 10th century monastic building still standing, St Mary's Priory Church. It is notable among Anglo-Saxon buildings for the many features of the period which can be observed.[3][4][5] Remarkably, there is a second important Anglo-Saxon building in the village, Odda's Chapel, a Saxon church, lying about 200 yards south-west of the church. An inscription dates this precisely to the reign of King Edward the Confessor.[6]

Riverside setting

The village suffered badly from the floods of 2007 and local residents were seen on the local BBC news network, Midlands Today. Pictures of the floods can be seen at the Flooding Blog.

References

  1. ↑ "Parish population 2011.Retrieved 1 April 2015".
  2. ↑ "Glosfolk - The Legend of the Deerhurst Dragon". Glosfolk. Retrieved 30b August 2014. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. ↑ Taylor, H.M. & Joan, Anglo-Saxon Architecture Cambridge 1965.
  4. ↑ Biddulph, Joseph, Getimbrod: A Love of Anglo-Saxon Architecture Pontypridd 2004. ISBN 978-1-897999-52-3.
  5. ↑ Biddulph, Joseph, More Anglo-Saxon and Pre-Conquest Building: From England and Wales Pontypridd 2010. ISBN 978-1-897999-80-6.
  6. ↑ Higgitt, John, Odda, Orm and others: Patrons and Inscriptions in Later Anglo-Saxon England Deerhurst Lecture 1999. ISBN 0-9521199-7-8.

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