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Farmcote is steeped in history and is mentioned
in Doomsday Book, 1086, as ‘Ferncot’.
Beckbury Camp, an Iron Age hill
fort ½ a mile along the escarpment, dates long before Doomsday
having being occupied 1-2000 BC. Situated on a great vantage point,
the inhabitants had a 270 degree view over the Vale to the Welsh
Mountains 70 miles away. Today the ‘Strip Lynches’ or terraces
, created by hundreds of years ploughing with oxen, can easily
be identified.
Winchcombe, 3 1/2 miles away was
the capital of Mercia approximately 7-800 AD, a kingdom extending
to Northern England.
Hailes Abbey, ½ mile distant, now
a ruin, was build aprox 1220 AD by a contemporary of King John’s
as a ‘thank you’ for surviving a ship wreck!
Sudley Castle near Winchcombe, burial
place of Catherine Parr, Henry VIII’s last surviving wife, Castle
badly damaged in the Civil War but later restored in nineteenth
century by wealthy Dent family of glove making fame.
Great Farmcote our neighbour; Owned
by the Stratford family 1350 to 1750 whose estates covered 128sq
miles at their height! In the Civil War they raised their own
army of 1000 men and then afterwards grew tobacco in the Cotswolds
Walking
Farmcote is well situated for walking with
numerous footpaths in the area and the Cotswold Way crossing the
farm.
The aforementioned historic sites can all
be walked and take in a pub or two for refreshment!.
Other places of interest nearby
Cotswold Villages
Broadway, Chipping Campden, Stow-on-the-Wold
and Cheltenham are all within half an hour’s drive, with Stratford,
Oxford and Bath only an hour away.
Also in the region
Cheltenham, Winchcombe, Hailes Abbey, Stanway,
Broadway, Snowshill, Cutsdean, Ford, Temple Guiting, Guiting Power,
Stow on the Wold, Stanton, Bourton on the water
If yo would prefer a self contained holiday
cottage for 2, try Anne Dawson's: www.littlebarnfield.co.uk
Contact:
David Eayrs
North Farmcote
Winchcombe Glos
GL54 5AU
Tel: +44 (0) 1242 602304
Mobile: 077923 28274
E-mail: davideayrs@yahoo.co.uk
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