Histories From The Cotswold Edge - Signed Paperback Edition

by Aldred, David | Local History
Published 22/11/2025 by Hobnob Press in the United Kingdom 
Paperback | 160 pages
214 x 153 x 20mm | 

Signed Edition - Paperback - Publishes November 22nd

We have a new David Aldred book on local history available for Christmas!

Anyone who has an interest in the history of this part of the Cotswolds and he adjacent vale will find much to fascinate them within this book. Among its wide ranging articles you will discover how Bishop's Cleeve and Woodmancote got their names, how the railway came to Broadway twice, how a Cheltenham boy became Australia's national poet, how trains came to Cleeve Hill, how Guiting Power became the centre of an amazing stone industry and how tobacco growing became important in Winchcombe.

There are descriptions of a medieval feast in Prestbury, a royal visit to Sudeley, the early history of Cheltenham races and the impact of the First World War on the area

The book is full of archive photographs and contemporary illustrations!