#woodchest

[pianotunerwolverhampton]

Tuned and Serviced an English made Woodchester Upright Piano dating from the 1980s at St Thomas More Catholic School Willenhall.

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Woodchester export firm tastes success with Queen’s Award

Woodchester export firm tastes success with Queen’s Award

Christie International, based in Woodchester, were presented with the prestigious Queen’s Award for International Trade today, Friday, by Edward Gillespie, the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Andrew Christie and his wife Shirleen proudly received the Award on behalf of the Christie International team. Andrew and Shirleen Christie (left) with Lord Lieutenant Edward Gillespie and Deputy…

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The Great Pavement of Woodchester - The Orpheus - Roman Mosaic Floor

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Kitchen, Woodchester Mansion, Gloucestershire

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Woodchester Park (2) (3) by Jamie Wilkins

[polymorphousculturevulture]

Orpheus, from The Roman Great Pavement of Woodchester, believed to have been laid in around 325 A.D

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[illiaburakov]

Chester (placename element)

The English place-name Chester, and the suffixes -chester, -caster and -cester (old -ceaster), are commonly indications that the place is the site of a Roman castrum, meaning a military camp or fort (cf. Welsh caer), but it can also apply to the site of a pre-historic fort.

source: WIkipedia.

I found the book on the English place-names by Charles Whynne-Hammond. Direct quote about fortified places which ended up as the name of cities/towns with suffix (somewhere altered) -cester.

"The most common elements which refer to defensive sites are those meaning army camp, fort or fortified place. The Romans built many a defensive or military base, most of which were taken over by later peoples. The ‘colonia’ was an army establishment, usually a colony for retired soldiers (hence the present name of Lincoln) and a ‘castra’ was a fortified camp or walled town. The latter was very common indeed and most were re-established under the later Saxons, who called them ‘ceasters’ or ‘caesters’. Their walls were rebuilt, their gates and towers restrengthened, their streets resurfaced. The settlements today which began as Roman ‘castras’ are legion. Normally they can be recognised by their suffixes, which derive from the Saxon version of that word. Thus, we have all those places ending in ‘-chester’, ‘-cester’ ‘-caster’ and ‘-xeter’: Winchester, Worcester, Manchester, Doncaster, Exeter and so on. Some of these have prefixes from older Celtic words (sometimes tribal names or physical features), others have prefixes purely Saxon. Rarely, if ever, are the prefixes from a Roman or Latin root."

More examples: Acaster Malbis, Acaster Selby, Alcester, Alchester, Ancaster, Bicester, Binchester, Brancaster, Caister-on-Sea, Caistor, Caistor St Edmund, Casterton (Cumbria), Casterton (Great, Rutland), Casterton (Little, Rutland), Castor (Cambridgeshire), Chester, Cheshire (Chester-shire), Chester (Little, Derby), Chesterfield, Chesterford (Great), Chesterford (Little), Chester-Ie-Street, Chesterton, Chesterwood, Chichester, Cirencester, Colchester, Dorchester, Dorchester-on-Thames (Oxfordshire), Ebchester, Frocester, Gloucester, Godmanchester, Grantchester, Hincaster, Ilchester, Irchester, Kenchester, Lancaster, Lancashire (Lune-caster-shire), Lanchester, Leicester, Mancetter, Muncaster, Portchester, Ribchester, Rocester, Rochester (Kent), Rochester (Northumberland), Silchester, Tadcaster, Towcester, Uttoxeter, Woodchester, Worcester, Wroxeter.

Since there are a lot of "-shire", and it's popular place name all over GB, I'll make next etymology-of-places post about this suffix.

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

Fright Nights and the Paranormal

Steve Mera provides some of the video footage from the TV series 'Fright Nights' which he worked on almost 20 years back. Taking a team of young American's into two locations in the UK for the evening, Woodchester Mansion and Newstead Abbey. This trial footage prior to production was lower resolution and before all audio tweaks, so please bare that in mind. This quirky production had Steve in character and dressed like a mad scientist. Hope you enjoy this bit of fun.

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Following Catholic emancipation in the first half of the 19th century, other Poor Clares came to the United Kingdom,[9] eventually establishing communities in, e.g., Notting Hill (1857, which was forced to relocate by the local council in the 1960s, and settled in the village of Arkley in 1969),[10]Woodchester (1860–2011), Levenshulme (1863),[11]Much Birch (1880), Arundel (1886), Lynton (founded from Rennes, France, 1904–2010s), Woodford Green (1920–1969), York (1865–2015)[12] and Nottingham (1927–2023).[13][14]

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Woodchester park, Gloucestershire

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Woodchester Valley planted vines usually associated with the Loire Valley and New Zealand – and to their surprise, it workedFiona Shiner admits that eyebrows were raised when she planted Sauvignon Blanc vines, usually associated with places like the Loire...

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The Great Pavement of Woodchester - The Orpheus - Roman Mosaic Floor

source: pazzesco via ganymedesrocks