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90 relations: Abbey, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Anglo-Saxons, Apotropaic mark, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Arts and Crafts movement, Battle of Tewkesbury, BBC, Becoming Jane, Berkeley Castle, Bristol, Caroline Anne Southey, Carrigaline, Cider, Concealed shoes, Cotswolds, Countryfile, County Cork, County Kerry, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dendrochronology, Dursley, Eddie Redmayne, Ernest Gimson, F. L. Griggs, Feudalism, Fodor's, Gasworks, Gemma Arterton, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Gertrude Jekyll, Gristmill, Henry Avray Tipping, Historic England, Historical period drama, Holiday (TV series), House of Stuart, Italianate architecture, ITV Wales & West, Jane Austen, Jill Dando, John Buchan, John Burnside, John Cole (journalist), Joseph (Genesis), Kinsale, Knight, List of Most Haunted episodes, Listed building, Lynchet, ..., Mander baronets, Mander family, Manor house, Margaret of Anjou, Middle Ages, Most Haunted, Munster, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Nicholas Mander, Norman Jewson, Owlpen, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Plantations of Ireland, Plasterwork, Poet laureate, Prince of Wales, Reginald Arkell, Robert Southey, Samuel Sanders Teulon, Sapperton, Gloucestershire, Sleeping Beauty, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, Stroud District, Taxus, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008 TV serial), The Other Boleyn Girl (2003 film), Topiary, Tudor architecture, Tudor period, U. A. Fanthorpe, Uley, Vernacular, Vita Sackville-West, Watercolour Challenge, Wightwick Manor, William Morris, Witches' mark, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Wotton-under-Edge. Expand index (40 more) »
Abbey
An abbey is a complex of buildings used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic.
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Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.
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Apotropaic mark
Apotropaic marks are symbols or patterns scratched into the fabric of a building to keep witches out.
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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of countryside in England, Wales or Northern Ireland which has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.
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Arts and Crafts movement
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920, emerging in Japan (the Mingei movement) in the 1920s.
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Battle of Tewkesbury
The Battle of Tewkesbury, which took place on 4 May 1471, was one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Becoming Jane
Becoming Jane is a 2007 British-Irish biographical romantic drama film directed by Julian Jarrold.
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Berkeley Castle
Berkeley Castle (historically sometimes spelt Berkley Castle or Barkley Castle) is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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Caroline Anne Southey
Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1854), was an English poet and second wife of Robert Southey.
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Carrigaline
Carrigaline is a commuter town and civil parish in County Cork, Ireland.
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Cider
Cider is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of apples.
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Concealed shoes
Concealed shoes hidden in the fabric of a building have been discovered in many European countries, as well as in other parts of the world, since at least the early modern period.
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Cotswolds
The Cotswolds is an area in south central England containing the Cotswold Hills, a range of rolling hills which rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to an escarpment, known as the Cotswold Edge, above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale.
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Countryfile
Countryfile is a British television programme which airs weekly on BBC One and reports on rural, agricultural, and environmental issues in the United Kingdom.
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County Cork
County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is a county in Ireland.
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County Kerry
County Kerry (Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland.
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship.
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Dendrochronology
Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in order to analyze atmospheric conditions during different periods in history.
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Dursley
Dursley is a market town and civil parish in southern Gloucestershire, England, situated almost equidistantly between the cities of Bristol and Gloucester.
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Eddie Redmayne
Edward John David Redmayne (born 6 January 1982) is an English actor of stage and screen.
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Ernest Gimson
Ernest William Gimson (21 December 1864 – 12 August 1919) was an English furniture designer and architect.
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F. L. Griggs
Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, RA, RE (30 October 1876 – 7 June 1938) was a distinguished English etcher, architectural draughtsman, illustrator, and early conservationist, associated with the late flowering of the Arts and Crafts movement in the Cotswolds.
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Feudalism
Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.
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Fodor's
Fodor's is a publisher of English language travel and tourism information and the first relatively professional producer of travel guidebooks.
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Gasworks
A gasworks or gas house is an industrial plant for the production of flammable gas.
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Gemma Arterton
Gemma Christina Arterton (born 2 February 1986) is an English actress.
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Geoffrey Jellicoe
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (8 October 1900 – 17 July 1996) was an English architect, town planner, landscape architect, garden designer, lecturer and author.
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Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll (29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, artist, and writer.
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Gristmill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill or flour mill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings.
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Henry Avray Tipping
Henry Avray Tipping (22 August 1855 – 16 November 1933) was a French-born British writer on country houses and gardens, a garden designer, and Architectural Editor of Country Life magazine for 17 years.
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Historic England
Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
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Historical period drama
The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television.
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Holiday (TV series)
Holiday was a long-running UK television programme, which aired mainly on BBC One, sometimes airing on BBC Two.
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House of Stuart
The House of Stuart, originally Stewart, was a European royal house that originated in Scotland.
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Italianate architecture
The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.
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ITV Wales & West
ITV Wales and West, previously known as HTV, refers to the Independent Television franchise area until 31 December 2013, licensed to a broadcaster by the regulator Ofcom.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
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Jill Dando
Jill Wendy Dando (9 November 1961 – 26 April 1999) was an English journalist, television presenter, and newsreader who was 1997 BBC Personality of the Year.
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John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
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John Burnside
John Burnside (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline.
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John Cole (journalist)
John Morrison Cole (23 November 1927 – 7 November 2013) was a journalist and broadcaster from Belfast, Northern Ireland, best known for his work with the BBC.
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Joseph (Genesis)
Joseph (יוֹסֵף meaning "Increase", Standard Yosef Tiberian Yôsēp̄; يوسف Yūsuf or Yūsif; Ἰωσήφ Iōsēph) is an important figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis.
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Kinsale
Kinsale (meaning "Tide Head") is a historic port and fishing town in County Cork, Ireland, which also has significant military history.
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Knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch, bishop or other political leader for service to the monarch or a Christian Church, especially in a military capacity.
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List of Most Haunted episodes
Most Haunted is a British television programme based on investigating purported paranormal activity produced by Antix Productions and was for satellite and cable channels Living TV.
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Listed building
A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.
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Lynchet
A lynchet is an earth terrace found on the side of a hill.
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Mander baronets
The Mander baronetcy, of The Mount, Tettenhall Wood, in the County of Staffordshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 July 1911 in the Coronation honours of King George V, for Sir Charles Tertius Mander, English varnish manufacturer (and as such Royal Warrant holder) and public servant.
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Mander family
The Mander family has held for over 200 years a prominent position in the Midland counties of England, both in the family business and public life.
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Manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor.
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Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Anjou (Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was the Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Most Haunted
Most Haunted is a British paranormal reality television series.
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Munster
Munster (an Mhumhain / Cúige Mumhan,.
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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.
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Nicholas Mander
Sir Charles Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet (born 23 March 1950) is a British baronet.
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Norman Jewson
Norman Jewson (12 February 1884 – 28 August 1975) was an English architect-craftsman of the Arts and Crafts movement, who practised in the Cotswolds.
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Owlpen
Owlpen is a small village and civil parish in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England, set in a valley in the Cotswold hills.
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Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also referred to by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker.
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Phantom Thread
Phantom Thread is a 2017 American period drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, set in London's couture world in 1954.
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Plantations of Ireland
Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century Ireland involved the confiscation of land by the English crown and the colonisation of this land with settlers from the island of Great Britain.
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Plasterwork
Plasterwork refers to construction or ornamentation done with plaster, such as a layer of plaster on an interior or exterior wall structure, or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls.
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Poet laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.
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Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales (Tywysog Cymru) was a title granted to princes born in Wales from the 12th century onwards; the term replaced the use of the word king.
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Reginald Arkell
Reginald Arkell (1882–1959) was a British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre.
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey (or 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the "Lake Poets" along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843.
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Samuel Sanders Teulon
Samuel Sanders Teulon (2 March 1812 – 2 May 1873) was a 19th-century English Gothic Revival architect, noted for his use of polychrome brickwork, and the complex planning of his buildings.
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Sapperton, Gloucestershire
Sapperton is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire in England, about west of Cirencester.
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Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty (La Belle au bois dormant), or Little Briar Rose (Dornröschen), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince.
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Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) (sometimes known as Anti-Scrape) is an amenity society founded by William Morris, Philip Webb and others, in 1877; to oppose what they saw as destructive 'restoration' of ancient buildings then occurring in Victorian England; 'ancient' being used in the wider sense of 'very old' rather than the more usual modern one of 'pre-medieval'.
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Stroud District
Stroud is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England.
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Taxus
Taxus is a small genus of coniferous trees or shrubs in the yew family Taxaceae.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008 TV serial)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a 4-hour BBC television adaptation of Thomas Hardy's book of the same name.
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The Other Boleyn Girl (2003 film)
The Other Boleyn Girl is a 2003 BBC television film, adapted from Philippa Gregory's novel of the same name.
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Topiary
Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful.
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Tudor architecture
The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to England.
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Tudor period
The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603 in England and Wales and includes the Elizabethan period during the reign of Elizabeth I until 1603.
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U. A. Fanthorpe
Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was an English poet.
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Uley
Uley is a village and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England.
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Vernacular
A vernacular, or vernacular language, is the language or variety of a language used in everyday life by the common people of a specific population.
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Vita Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist, and garden designer.
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Watercolour Challenge
Watercolour Challenge was a daytime television lifestyle game show that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 15 June 1998 to 23 November 2001.
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Wightwick Manor
The legacy of a family's passion for Victorian art and design, Wightwick Manor (pronounced "Wittick") is a Victorian manor house located on Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.
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William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist.
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Witches' mark
According to witch-hunters during the height of the witch trials, the witches’ mark (not to be confused with a witches' teat) indicated that an individual was a witch.
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Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Wolfgang Hildesheimer (9 December 1916 – 21 August 1991) was a German author who incorporated the Theatre of the Absurd.
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Wotton-under-Edge
Wotton-under-Edge is a market town within the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owlpen_Manor
