Uley

Uley is a village and at the same time a parish ( Parish ) in the English county of Gloucestershire . It is in the Cotswolds region between Dursley and Stroud . The place has about 1,100 inhabitants, but was much larger at the beginning of the industrial revolution .

history

The Romans built a temple on the site of a prehistoric sanctuary at West Hill near Uley. In 1976, when a water pipe was laid, numerous finds were made, including a number of Roman tablets. Some of the finds can now be seen in the British Museum . There were several Roman estates ( villas ) in the area.

Attractions

• To the north of Uley is the Neolithic megalithic complex Uley Long Barrow .
• Above the village is an Iron Age fortress called Uley Bury .
• Downham Hill, west of Uley, is called Smallpox Hill in the area because it was one of the first hospitals in England to isolate smallpox sufferers .
• To the east of the village is Owlpen Manor, a 15th century manor house.
• Stouts Hill , a neo-Gothic country house near Uley, built in the 1770s, was the birthplace of the historian Samuel Rudder and the orientalist Edward Granville Browne . In the 20th century a private elementary school was housed here, whose students included Mark Phillips , Stephen Fry and Rik Mayall ; the school closed in 1979.

Trivia

• In 1837 Moses Bendle Garlick, a weaver from Uley, moved to Australia and settled north of what is now Adelaide ; he named the settlement Uleybury .
• In the early 1920s, Alyce Cunningham raised a young gorilla in Uley who was named John Daniel .

literature

• Ann Woodward, Peter Leach: The Uley Shrines. Excavation of a ritual complex on West Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire 1977-9. English Heritage / British Museum Press, London 1993, ISBN 1-85074-303-7 ( digitized ).
• Alan Saville: Uley Bury and Norbury Hillforts. Western Archaeological Trust, 1983, ISBN 0-904918-20-3 .
• Ed. Alan Bebbington: A History of Uley, Gloucestershire. The Uley Society, 2003, ISBN 0-9544525-0-X .
• Eilert Ekwall: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names. 4th edition, Oxford University Press, 1960, ISBN 0-19-869103-3 .

Web links

• Official website (English)