Whiteshill Kerbs dropped: Whiteshill kerbs have been dropped in several places to improve access for wheel and push chairs. The Parish had set up a meeting to discuss the exact location of the kerbs to be dropped - it was therefore with some surprise that a week before that meeting John Rogers, the Parish Chair and myself who were out looking at something elsestumbled across Highway contractors already at work!!! I do sometimes wonder....and have to question the location of some of the drops....
Bread Street drain cleared: at last after some months we have got the drain sorted - see 28th September blog - the blockage had led to the neighbours house being flooded on several occasions - the contractors ended up being there for 3 days as the whole pipe was completely blocked - they've done much root cutting and had to dismantle and rebuild a cotswold stone wall in one place. Now we need some rain to test it!Litter in alleyway: I had a couple of reports re litter but would like to make a plea for people to report to SDC direct - you can use the online service at:
www.stroud.gov.uk/machinery/reportit.asp?did=reportit
Plea for old photos of Whiteshill: we are looking for photos of the Main Road in particular as part of exploring how to improve road safety along there - returing villages to beingvillages has shown in other areas to work well.
Cuckold's brook: is this really the name of the Lower part of Ruscombe brook (see photo)? A Randwick councillor tells me it is so and also is the name of the Randwick Tributary - a check with online history confirms that is indeed the name for the bottom section! Any more thoughts on name of the Randwick bit?? History online write:"The smaller, western division of the parish, divided from the eastern by a long southern arm of Painswick parish, was known as Paganhill tithing and contained the villages or hamlets of Paganhill, Ruscombe, and Whiteshill, and part of the hamlet of Dudbridge. It was bounded on the south by the Frome, on the east by the Painswick stream, on part of the north-east by a tributary of the Painswick stream, and on part of the west by the lower course of the Ruscombe brook, known variously as the Cuckold's, Woosley's, or Ozel brook."
Landbanking EDM: Early Day Motion 494 was put forward by Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland - there is little chance this will be made law but it all helps to raise the issue - David Drew MP has signed already - if you know other MPs please get them to also sign. The Ruscombe Valley has already been sold off so we can't stop that but at least we can stop it happening to other communities. See links to Ruscombe Valley Action Group for more info.
"That this House shares the concern of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) about the growth of land banking, the practice of subdividing land into small plots then marketing these plots on the basis that permission for development will be granted; agrees with the CPRE that this practice is having serious consequences for the future of England's countryside; further recognises that investors are encouraged to invest in these land banking schemes despite the fact that in many cases no realistic possibility of planning permission being granted exists and thus stand to lose their investments; notes that Land Heritage UK, one of the country's biggest land bankers, has gone into liquidation; and supports the CPRE's campaign calling for the Government to recognise the seriousness of this problem and the need for a co-ordinated and joined up Government response, involving the Financial Services Authority, Office of Fair Trading and Department for Communities and Local Government to protect both the countryside and potential investors from this practice."
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I have been reading through 'Notes and Recollections of Stroud' (published 1891) trying to find info about a possible Saxon Chapel located in Brownshill and came across something that may be of interest to you.
Excerpt One:
“...the Stroud clothing district, commonly known to the upper Cotteswoldians by the name of 'The Bottoms.
Stroud stands at the head of this inlet, and near it begins those tortuous gorge-like valleys; each of which, (as it winds upwards into the mass of the hills,) breaks into numerous smaller lateral valleys, and into combs, dells, and glens, having their own local names and peculiarities, and all being "beautiful exceedingly." The number of the main valleys is five, known at their respective entrances as the Vales of Oozle's, commonly called Cuckold's and Buscomb brook, Painswick, Slad and Steamwick; Stroud and Chalford; Rodbourough , Woodchester, and Nailsworth; each of which has its appropriate stream of water, with tributary feeders, falling into the river Froome at and a little below Stroud.”
Excerpt Two
“…Both these portions of the parish are separated from the parishes of Minchinhampton and Rodborough by the Froom on the south, and another portion is separated from Randwick on the west by the rivulet which falls into the Froom below Cuckold’s Brook, from the valley of the same name. “
Indeed Cuckold’s Brook is refered to not simply as a section of water but as a hamlet several times in the book.
Excerpt Three.
“Maggot’s Bridge was, in my young days, a narrow wooden structure for foot passengers. The pathway over it entered the Parish of Painswick, and led through the fields to Cuckold’s Brook, a hamlet situated on the small stream of that name, where it is crossed by the highway between Paganhill and Cainscross.”
This book has been digitised and can be read at the following address: https://archive.org/details/notesandrecolle00fishgoog
Yours
William
Huge thanks William for this information - brilliant! I will follow up reading on that.
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