Dymock
Dymock is a town and also civil church in the Forest of Dean area of Gloucestershire, England, concerning four miles south of Ledbury. The parish had actually a recorded population of 1,214 at the UK Census 2011. In the town of Dymock there are numerous intriguing structures which include cruck light beam cottages; "The White House", which was the native home 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 rock with Anglo-Norman beginnings. Close-by stands the only continuing to be town club, which was purchased by Parish Council to aid maintain a flourishing village. The club is leased as well as run by a proprietor and sustained by a neighborhood fundraising and social board "Buddies of the Beauchamp Arms" (FOBA). Dymock gave its name to an institution of Romanesque sculpture first explained in the book The Dymock School of Sculpture by Eric Gethin Jones (1979 ). The college is noted for its use of stepped volute capitals and also its stylised "tree of life" motif on tympana. A lead tablet etched with a sophisticated 17th-century curse against a woman called Sarah Ellis was found in a home in Wilton Place. It is maintained in Gloucester's gallery collection as "The Dymock Curse". Dymock is the genealogical house of the Dymoke family that are the Royal Champions of England. It is believed that the Dymokes initially lived at Knight's Eco-friendly, an area simply outside the town of Dymock.
