- St Briavels (Gloucestershire)
A Dictionary of English folklore. Jacqueline Simpson & Steve Roud. 2014.
St Briavels (Gloucestershire)
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Gloucestershire — /glos teuhr shear , sheuhr, glaw steuhr /, n. a county in SW England. 487,600; 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). Co. seat: Gloucester. Also called Gloucester. * * * Administrative (pop., 2001: 564,559), geographic, and historic county, southwestern… … Universalium
St. Briavels — is a medium sized village and civil parish in the extreme west of Gloucestershire, on the border between England and Wales. It is roughly equidistant from the Welsh market town of Chepstow and county town of Monmouth. The nearest town on the… … Wikipedia
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List of places in Gloucestershire — This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the county of Gloucestershire, England. See the list of places in England for places in other counties. For places in the district of South Gloucestershire, see that article.compactTOC NOTOC… … Wikipedia
List of civil parishes in Gloucestershire — This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England, including the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire.Cheltenham*Charlton Kings *Leckhampton *Prestbury *Swindon *Up HatherleyThe parishes of Leckhampton,… … Wikipedia
bread and cheese throwing — An annual *Whit Sunday* scrambling custom which still takes place at St Briavels (Gloucestershire), in which bread and cheese is distributed by being thrown from the top of a high stone wall to the waiting crowd below. The ceremony once took… … A Dictionary of English folklore
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Philip Toynbee — Theodore Philip Toynbee (June 25 1916 June 15 1981) was a British writer and journalist. He wrote experimental novels, and distinctive verse novels, one of which was an epic called Pantaloon , a work in several volumes, only some of which are… … Wikipedia
Arthur Coke Burnell — (1840 ndash;12 October, 1882), English scholar in Sanskrit, was born at St. Briavels, Gloucestershire. His father was an official of the British East India Company, and in 1860 he himself went out to Madras as a member of the Indian Civil Service … Wikipedia
Godiva, Lady — The wife of Earl Leofric of Mercia, and a devout and generous patron of churches and abbeys, she was Lady of Coventry in her own right. She died in 1067 and about a 100 years after her death, Roger of Wendover, a monk of St Alban s, told how… … A Dictionary of English folklore
