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2 unusual facts about Cirencester


Civitas

At Cirencester, for example, the Romans made use of the army base that originally oversaw the nearby tribal oppidum to create a civitas.

EHS 4D Group

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Albert Gerald Lewis

After the war he went to the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester.

Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst

He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and became Member of Parliament for Cirencester in May 1705, retaining his seat until December 1711, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Bathurst, of Battlesden in the County of Bedford.

David Stancliffe

The son of the former Dean of Winchester, the Very Revd Michael Stancliffe, who was himself ordained at Salisbury Cathedral, Stancliffe was born in 1942 in Devizes, Wiltshire, where his father was curate of St James' Southbroom, later serving at Ramsbury and Cirencester before becoming Chaplain to Westminster School.

Englishcombe

The south eastern boundary of the parish follows the route of the Fosse Way a Roman road that linked Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) in South West England to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) in the East Midlands, via Ilchester (Lindinis), Bath (Aquae Sulis), Cirencester (Corinium) and Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum).

John Bryan Ward-Perkins

John Bryan Ward-Perkins, CMG, CBE, FBA (3 February 1912, Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom – 28 May 1981, Cirencester, United Kingdom) was a British Classical architectural historian and archaeologist, and director of the British School at Rome.

John Dawnay

John Dawnay, 4th Viscount Downe (1728–1780), MP for Cirencester and Malton, son of the above

Neville Poole

Poole was the son of Sir Henry Poole of Cirencester and Oaksey and his wife Griselda Neville, daughter of Edward Nevill, 7th Baron Bergavenny.

Oswald Allen Harker

Oswald Allen Harker was born in Cirencester in 1886, the son of James Allen Harker, professor at the Royal Agricultural College, and his wife Lizzie Allen Harker.

Paul Clarkin

He died playing polo in at the Cirencester Park Polo Club in Cirencester, England, after falling during a game in which he was reputedly "playing a blinder".

Peter Waals

Gimson had set up a small workshop in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, and then at Daneway House at Sapperton, making furniture, turned chairs, and metalwork to his own designs.

Sokari Douglas Camp

Among her notable solo shows are Spirits in Steel — The Art of the Kalabari Masquerade at the American Museum of Natural History, New York (1998-1999); and Imagined Steel at The Lowry Arts Centre, Manchester, which toured to the Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno; Brewery Art Centre, Cirencester; and Derby Museum and Art Gallery (2002–2003).

Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum

Traditionally both regiments recruited from Gloucestershire and the surrounding areas including Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, Tewkesbury, The Forest of Dean and from the city of Bristol.

Star 107.9

Star 107.9 was a UK Independent Local Radio station centred on the area of Stroud, in Gloucestershire, also broadcasting to other localities including Cirencester, Tetbury and Stonehouse, and Dursley on a 107.3 FM relay (originally 107.2 FM).

Welsh Agricultural College

The College had young lecturing staff, (including.... Wyn Jones and...), in contrast to the established institutions in England (Wye College, Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, Harper Adams, University of Reading etc.).


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