Dymock
Dymock is a village and also civil church in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England, regarding four miles southern of Ledbury. The parish had a recorded population of 1,214 at the UK Census 2011. In the town of Dymock there are several interesting buildings that include cruck beam cottages; "The White House", which was the birthplace of John Kyrle - the "Man of Ross" in 1637, Ann Cam School of 1825 and St Mary's Church, a patchwork background in brick as well as stone with Anglo-Norman beginnings. Nearby stands the only staying town pub, which was purchased by Parish Council to assist preserve a thriving town. The pub is rented out and run by a proprietor and sustained by a local fundraising and also social board "Buddies of the Beauchamp Arms" (FOBA). Dymock provided its name to an institution of Romanesque sculpture first explained in guide The Dymock School of Sculpture by Eric Gethin Jones (1979 ). The college is noted for its use of tipped volute capitals and its decorative "tree of life" theme on tympana. A lead tablet computer etched with an intricate 17th-century curse versus a female called Sarah Ellis was found in a home in Wilton Place. It is protected in Gloucester's gallery collection as "The Dymock Curse". Dymock is the ancestral home of the Dymoke family who are the Royal Champions of England. It is believed that the Dymokes initially lived at Knight's Green, a location simply outside the town of Dymock.