Gloucestershire Place Names

Gloucestershire Place NamesFrom Apperley ‘apple-tree wood’ to Hartpury ‘peartree with hard pears’, Saintbury ‘Saewine’s enclosure’ to Dymock ‘fort of the pigs’, Gloucestershire’s place names tell us more about our ancestors than we could ever imagine! Join Cambridge historian Simon Draper, leading expert in landscape archaeology, as he explores the fascinating hidden history of Gloucestershire’s place-names, revealing the mysteries they unlock about the county’s people, places and landscapes more than 1,000 years ago.Speaker Bio:Dr Simon Draper is a local historian with a background in Anglo-Saxon archaeology and a special interest in place-names and family-names.

He is Assistant Editor of the Oxfordshire Victoria County History (VCH) and will shortly also take up a new role as VCH County Editor in Gloucestershire.Date and Time:Saturday 25th September11amLocation:Old Baptist ChapelOld Baptist Chapel CourtOff Church StreetTewkesburyGl20 5rzTickets:Adults: £7.00Concessions: £5.50Children: £2.50