Dymock
Dymock is a town and also civil parish in the Forest of Dean area of Gloucestershire, England, concerning 4 miles south of Ledbury. The parish had actually a recorded population of 1,214 at the United Kingdom Census 2011. In the town of Dymock there are numerous fascinating structures which include cruck light beam homes; "The White House", which was the birth place of John Kyrle - the "Man of Ross" in 1637, Ann Cam School of 1825 as well as St Mary's Church, a patchwork background in block and also rock with Anglo-Norman origins. Nearby stands the only remaining village pub, which was acquired by Parish Council to help preserve a successful village. The pub is leased and also run by a property manager as well as sustained by a local fundraising and also social committee "Close friends of the Beauchamp Arms" (FOBA). Dymock provided its name to a college of Romanesque sculpture initial explained in the book The Dymock School of Sculpture by Eric Gethin Jones (1979 ). The school is noted for its use tipped volute fundings as well as its decorative "tree of life" motif on tympana. A lead tablet computer engraved with a fancy 17th-century curse against a woman called Sarah Ellis was found in a home in Wilton Place. It is protected in Gloucester's museum collection as "The Dymock Curse". Dymock is the genealogical home of the Dymoke family who are the Royal Champions of England. It is assumed that the Dymokes initially lived at Knight's Green, an area just outside the village of Dymock.
