Europe, British Isles, England, Welsh March, Gloucestershire, Cirencester [Map]
Cirencester, Gloucestershire is in Gloucestershire.
In 577 Ceawlin King Wessex and his son Cuthwine (age 12) won a major victory over the Britons at the Battle of Dyrham at Hinton Hill Dyrham, Gloucestershire. The victory of resulted in the capture of Gloucester, Gloucestershire [Map], Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map] and Bath, Somerset [Map].
Coinmail Briton, Condidan Briton and Farinmail Briton were killed.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 879. This year went the army from Chippenham [Map] to Cirencester [Map], and sat there a year. The same year assembled a band of pirates, and sat at Fulham [Map] by the Thames. The same year also the sun was eclipsed one hour of the day.
Assers Life of Alfred 57. 879. 57. The Danes go to Cirencester.133 In the year of our Lord's incarnation 879, which was the thirty-first of King Alfred's life, the aforesaid army of heathen, leaving Chippenham, as they had promised, went to Cirencester [Map], which is called in Welsh Cairceri, and is situated in the southern part of the kingdom of the Hwicce134, and there they remained one year.
Note 133. Chiefly from the Chronicle.
Note 134. Gloucester, Worcester, etc.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1020. This year came King Knute (age 25) back to England; and there was at Easter a great council at Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map], where Alderman Ethelward was outlawed, and Edwy, king of the churls. This year went the king (age 25) to Assingdon; with Earl Thurkyll, and Archbishop Wulfstan, and other bishops, and also abbots, and many monks with them; and he ordered to be built there a minster of stone and lime, for the souls of the men who were there slain, and gave it to his own priest, whose name was Stigand; and they consecrated the minster at Assingdon. And Ethelnoth the monk, who had been dean at Christ's church, was the same year on the ides of November consecrated Bishop of Christ's church by Archbishop Wulfstan.
On 07 Jan 1400 at Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map] Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley (age 40) was beheaded by the townspeople following an unsuccessful attempt to seize the town. Baron Lumley forfeit.
Thomas Holland 1st Duke Surrey (age 26) was beheaded. He had to forfeit the honours and estates he had gained after the arrests of Gloucester and Arundel: Duke Surrey extinct. He retained those he had received before: His brother Edmund Holland 4th Earl Kent (age 16) succeeded 4th Earl Kent, 3rd Baron Holand, 8th Baron Wake of Liddell.
John Montagu 3rd Earl Salisbury (age 50) was captured, tried and beheaded. Earl Salisbury, Baron Montagu, Baron Montagu forfeit.
Bernard Brocas (age 46) was captured.
On 04 Feb 1400 Bernard Brocas (age 46) was tried, and condemned to death, by Thomas Fitzalan 10th Earl Surrey 12th Earl Arundel (age 18) at Tower of London [Map] for his role in the Epiphany Rising having been captured in Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map].
On 05 Feb 1400 Bernard Brocas (age 46) was beheaded at Tyburn [Map]. He was buried at the Chapel of St Edmund, Westminster Abbey [Map].
Before 1472 Bishop Thomas Ruthall was born at Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map]. The date being based on his being ordained Deacon at age eighteen or over.
On 12 Apr 1477 Ankarette Hawkeston aka Twynyho was arrested at Keyford, Somerset and taken to Bath, Somerset [Map]. George York 1st Duke of Clarence (age 27) believed she had murdered his wife Isabel Neville Duchess Clarence who had died four months before.
On 13 Apr 1477 Ankarette Hawkeston aka Twynyho taken to Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map].
On 15 Apr 1477 Ankarette Hawkeston aka Twynyho and John Thursby were hanged at Myton Gallows, Warwick [Map].
On 14 Apr 1556 Anthony Kingston (age 48) died at Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map]. Possibly suicide. he had been implicated in the Dudley Plot against Mary I and was on his way from Gloucester to London when he died.
Evelyn's Diary. 20 May 1639. Accompanied with one Mr. J. Crafford (who afterward being my fellow-traveler in Italy, there changed his religion), I took a journey of pleasure to see the Somersetshire baths [Map], Bristol, Gloucestershire [Map], Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map], Malmesbury, Wiltshire [Map], Abington, and divers other towns of lesser note; and returned the 25th.
Ermine Street 41b travels from Speen, Newbury [Map] through Baydon, Wiltshire [Map], Wanborough, Wiltshire [Map], Blunsdon St Andrew, Wiltshire [Map] to Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map]. Whilst Margery's scheme doesn't say so, the road appears to continues from Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map] to Gloucester, Gloucestershire [Map].
Fosse Way. After Batheaston the Fosse Way continues along Bannerdown Road [Map] where it curves around Solsbury Hill, Somerset [Map] to reach the high ground where the road straightens out passing Three Shires Stone [Map], Fosse Gate, Wiltshire [Map], crossing the Gloucestershire River Avon 1.2km south-west of Easton Grey [Map] before reaching the Cotswold Airport, Gloucestershire [Map] after which it travels to Corinium Dobunnorum [Map] aka Cirencester.
Fosse Way Cirencester. In Corinium Dobunnorum [Map] aka Cirencester the Fosse Way follows the Old Tetbury Road [Map] and Castle Street [Map] as far as the Market Place [Map] where it gives way to the East-West Silchester to Gloucester road following Cricklade Street [Map], Lewis Lane [Map] and London Road [Map] before reaching the Burford Road [Map].
Fosse Way 5d Cirencester to High Cross. From Corinium Dobunnorum [Map] aka Cirencester the Fosse Way continues straight through Fossbridge, Gloucestershire [Map] where it crosses the River Coln, then past Northleach [Map] where it crosses the modern A40, then past Bourton-on-the-Water [Map] after which Icknield Street continues towards Alcester [Map] and Lichfield, Staffordshire [Map]. 4.5km after Bourton-on-the-Water the Fosse Way makes a change in direction heading north passing through Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire [Map], Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire [Map], Halford [Map], past Fosse Way Compton Verney [Map], Princethorpe [Map], then Bretford [Map] where it crosses the Warwickshire River Avon. After it crosses the River Avon it continues straight to Venonae [Map] aka High Cross where it crossed Watling Street.
Europe, British Isles, England, Welsh March, Gloucestershire, Cirencester, Burford Road [Map]
Fosse Way Cirencester. In Corinium Dobunnorum [Map] aka Cirencester the Fosse Way follows the Old Tetbury Road [Map] and Castle Street [Map] as far as the Market Place [Map] where it gives way to the East-West Silchester to Gloucester road following Cricklade Street [Map], Lewis Lane [Map] and London Road [Map] before reaching the Burford Road [Map].
Castle Street
Fosse Way Cirencester. In Corinium Dobunnorum [Map] aka Cirencester the Fosse Way follows the Old Tetbury Road [Map] and Castle Street [Map] as far as the Market Place [Map] where it gives way to the East-West Silchester to Gloucester road following Cricklade Street [Map], Lewis Lane [Map] and London Road [Map] before reaching the Burford Road [Map].
Europe, British Isles, England, Welsh March, Gloucestershire, Cirencester, Cricklade Street [Map]
Fosse Way Cirencester. In Corinium Dobunnorum [Map] aka Cirencester the Fosse Way follows the Old Tetbury Road [Map] and Castle Street [Map] as far as the Market Place [Map] where it gives way to the East-West Silchester to Gloucester road following Cricklade Street [Map], Lewis Lane [Map] and London Road [Map] before reaching the Burford Road [Map].
Europe, British Isles, England, Welsh March, Gloucestershire, Cirencester, Lewis Lane [Map]
Fosse Way Cirencester. In Corinium Dobunnorum [Map] aka Cirencester the Fosse Way follows the Old Tetbury Road [Map] and Castle Street [Map] as far as the Market Place [Map] where it gives way to the East-West Silchester to Gloucester road following Cricklade Street [Map], Lewis Lane [Map] and London Road [Map] before reaching the Burford Road [Map].
Europe, British Isles, England, Welsh March, Gloucestershire, Cirencester, London Road [Map]
Fosse Way Cirencester. In Corinium Dobunnorum [Map] aka Cirencester the Fosse Way follows the Old Tetbury Road [Map] and Castle Street [Map] as far as the Market Place [Map] where it gives way to the East-West Silchester to Gloucester road following Cricklade Street [Map], Lewis Lane [Map] and London Road [Map] before reaching the Burford Road [Map].
Europe, British Isles, England, Welsh March, Gloucestershire, Cirencester, Market Place [Map]
Fosse Way Cirencester. In Corinium Dobunnorum [Map] aka Cirencester the Fosse Way follows the Old Tetbury Road [Map] and Castle Street [Map] as far as the Market Place [Map] where it gives way to the East-West Silchester to Gloucester road following Cricklade Street [Map], Lewis Lane [Map] and London Road [Map] before reaching the Burford Road [Map].
Europe, British Isles, England, Welsh March, Gloucestershire, Oakley Grove Cirencester
On 06 Aug 1794 Henry Bathurst 2nd Earl Bathurst (age 80) died at Oakley Grove Cirencester, Gloucestershire. His son Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst (age 32) succeeded 3rd Earl Bathurst of Bathurst in Sussex. Georgiana Lennox Countess Bathurst (age 28) by marriage Countess Bathurst of Bathurst in Sussex.
On 25 May 1866 Henry George Bathurst 4th Earl Bathurst (age 76) died at Oakley Grove Cirencester, Gloucestershire. His brother William Lennox Bathurst 5th Earl Bathurst (age 75) succeeded 5th Earl Bathurst of Bathurst in Sussex.
Europe, British Isles, England, Welsh March, Gloucestershire, Cirencester, Old Tetbury Road [Map]
Fosse Way Cirencester. In Corinium Dobunnorum [Map] aka Cirencester the Fosse Way follows the Old Tetbury Road [Map] and Castle Street [Map] as far as the Market Place [Map] where it gives way to the East-West Silchester to Gloucester road following Cricklade Street [Map], Lewis Lane [Map] and London Road [Map] before reaching the Burford Road [Map].
Europe, British Isles, England, Welsh March, Gloucestershire, Cirencester, Quern's Barrow [Map]
Quern's Barrow is also in Cotswolds Neolithic Tombs.
8 Cirencester Barrow. Cirencester aka Quern's Barrow [Map]
There is a long barrow in the "Querns" field, close to the Cirencester Railway Station, on the south-west of the town; its length is about 180 feet. It was opened thirty years ago by Messrs. Newmarch and Buckman, and is mentioned by them in their "Remains of Roman Art in Cirencester." It is there suggested that the word "querns" is derived from "cairn," or burial place. The Roman amphitheatre lies a little to the south-east of the barrow. Several skeletons were found arranged east and west, but it seems they were in a very fragmentary state, none of them being in a condition to be capable of measurement. The explorations consisted simply of two transverse cuts through the mound, so that it is impossible to say what may yet be found.
See Buckman's "Corinium" p12.
Long Barrows of the Cotswolds. Quern's Barrow [Map]