Dymock
Dymock is a village as well as civil parish in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England, about four miles southern 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 birth place of John Kyrle - the "Man of Ross" in 1637, Ann Cam School of 1825 and St Mary's Church, a patchwork background in block and stone with Anglo-Norman origins. Close-by stands the only staying village club, which was purchased by Parish Council to help protect a growing village. The bar is rented out as well as run by a proprietor as well as sustained by a regional fundraising and also social board "Close friends of the Beauchamp Arms" (FOBA). Dymock gave its name to an institution of Romanesque sculpture initial explained in guide The Dymock School of Sculpture by Eric Gethin Jones (1979 ). The institution is kept in mind for its use of tipped volute capitals and its decorative "tree of life" motif on tympana. A lead tablet engraved with an elaborate 17th-century curse against a female called Sarah Ellis was found in a home in Wilton Place. It is preserved in Gloucester's gallery collection as "The Dymock Curse". Dymock is the ancestral house of the Dymoke household that are the Royal Champions of England. It is thought that the Dymokes first lived at Knight's Environment-friendly, a location simply outside the village of Dymock.
