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Gloucester & District

Event Category: Outing

  • Guided walk of Stow-on-the-Wold with Phil Collins

    Members are invited to join Phil Collins for a 75 minute guided history walk through this beautiful Cotswold market town. The walk will explore the town's rich past as a centre of the medieval wool trade, its Civil War connections, historic coaching inns, hidden alleyways and the famous St Edward's Church. Following the walk, we Read more

  • Guided tour of the grounds and chapel of Sudeley Castle with Phil Collins

    Sudeley Castle remains the only private castle in England to have a queen buried within the grounds - Queen Katherine Parr, the last and surviving wife of King Henry VIII – who lived and died at Sudeley. Henry himself, Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, Queen Elizabeth I and Richard III have all played a part Read more

  • Social Cycle

    Social cycle to the Ashleworth Hub, including a visit to the historic tithe barn and bee shelter at Hartpury. Please be aware that there will be a couple of modest hills to climb and some very short sections of main road to negotiate. Meet outside the Mariners Church in The Docks. All welcome, but please Read more

  • Summer evening social cycle

    Short summer cycle to The Anchor Inn at Epney for meal and chat. Please meet at 5pm outside the Mariner's church in the docks. Read more

  • Steam Railways Group

    A visit to the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway. This will also include a behind the scenes tour of both the carriage and wagon works at Winchcombe and the locomotive depot and workshops at Toddington. We will be departing Cheltenham Racecourse station around 10.00 am and returning about 4.30 pm. I will need to submit the Read more

  • Afternoon promenade through Cheltenham with Captain Skillicorne

    The Cheltenham Regency Tea Tour - a leisurely afternoon promenade through Cheltenham with Captain Skillicorne dressed as the founder of the first spa. See some of the famous landmarks that put Cheltenham on the map as a world-famous spa town, hear about the rich and famous celebrities of the day, following the six week visit Read more