The Journal

Gloucestershire stretches all the way from the edge of the beautiful Cotswold Hills, across the Severn Vale, to the Forest of Dean and onto the Wye Valley, where south west England becomes Wales. This is a county that has witnessed Roman rule and the regal high society of the Georgians, even managing to resist the mass industrialisation of the Victorians, with its vast and expansive rural landscapes remaining unchanged for centuries. Its position and status as a great seat of religious and financial power in the country is represented in suitably grand ways, with Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey telling glorious stories that begin almost a thousand years ago.