Gorsley

Human settlement in England

Gorsley and Kilcot

District

Forest of Dean

Gloucestershire

Region

South West

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Forest of Dean

List of places: UK; England; Gloucestershire

51°55′47″N 2°28′00″W / 51.92979°N 2.46680°W / 51.92979; -2.46680

Gorsley is a small village in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England, forming part of the civil parish of Gorsley and Kilcot.^[1] Nearby Gorsley Common and Little Gorsley are both in Herefordshire.

Location and amenities

Gorsley is 4.7 km (2.9 mi) west of Newent,^[2] 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Ross-on-Wye^[3] and about 19 km (12 mi) south of Ledbury.^[4] The village is near junction 3 of the M50, one of the first motorways built in Britain in 1960. The slip roads on the junction end in right angled turns which often surprise motorists used to the more gradual, modern junction designs.

The Anglican church parish is combined with Cliffords Mesne.^[5]^[6] A stone Baptist chapel opened in 1852.^[7]

Gorsley limestone is named for the area.^[8] Stone from area quarries were used to build Victorian era buildings.^[9] Victorian maps show a number of quarries and lime kilns in the area.

The village pub is The Roadmaker, originally named The New Inn. It is owned and run by four ex-British Army Ghurka soldiers.^[10]^[11]

Gallery

Gorsley Village Hall - September 2005
Gorsley Post Office
View to Gorsley Common
Quiz night in Gorsley Village Hall, 2008
View to Linton ridge from Gorsley Common

References

^ "Gorsley, Forest of Dean". Ordnance Survey. 22 June 2017.
^ "Directions Gorsley to Newent". Google maps. 22 June 2017.
^ "Directions Gorsley to Ross-on-Wye". Google maps. 22 June 2017.
^ "Directions Gorsley to Ledbury". Google maps. 22 June 2017.
^ "Gorsley with Clifford Mesne". A Church Near You. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
^ "The District of Gorsley with Clifford's Mesne, in the Counties of Gloucester and Hereford and Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol". Appendix to the twenty-sixth (twenty-seventh, thirty-fifth-forty-seventh) report. Edward Stanford. 1874. p. 344.
^ The Primitive Church Magazine. 1852. p. 296.
^ Alfred M. Ziegler; R. B. Rickards; W. S. McKerrow (1 January 1974). Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of the British Isles. Geological Society of America. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8137-2154-5.
^ David Verey; Alan Brooks (2002). Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean. Yale University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-300-09733-7.
^ "The Roadmaker Inn". theroadmakerinn.co.uk.
^ Lezli Rees. Walking the dog - Motorway walks for drivers and dogs. Veloce Publishing Ltd. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-84584-552-0.