Near the Wiltshire village of Fovant army regimental badges have been carved into the chalk hill to commemorate those British and Australian soldiers killed in the two World Wars.
The graveyard at the village church of St. George has some sixty graves of army personnel who died.
The badges were first started by recuperating soldiers of the First World war at the army camp based in Fovant.
The Fovant Badge Society looks after the hill site in order to maintain and restore the badges and it is possible to become a member of the society for a small contribution.
Read the detailed story at - http://www.cotswolds.info/strange-things/the-fovant-badges.shtml.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
The Flying Monk at Malmesbury Abbey
In the year 1010, Eilmer or Elmer (there is a variety of spellings of his name), who was a monk at the abbey, attempted to fly.
He was known to have read the Greek fable of Daedalus and it was his belief in the fable that influenced him to make the attempt.
He had observed how Jackdaws would circle the area swooping and gliding , he calculated how to make use of the air currents after which he constructed wings, the material of which is not known. Fixing the wings to his wrists and flapping them as a bird would, he leapt from the abbey tower, he was successful in travelling a distance of 200 metres but panic set in and he crashed to the ground breaking both legs.
The venture crippled him for the rest of his life, although he was so badly hurt it did not deter him from making preparations for a second flight. The news of his second attempt came to the notice of the Abbot who banned him from any such efforts.
Read the full article at - http://www.cotswolds.info/places/malmesbury-abbey-and-flying-monk.shtml
He was known to have read the Greek fable of Daedalus and it was his belief in the fable that influenced him to make the attempt.
He had observed how Jackdaws would circle the area swooping and gliding , he calculated how to make use of the air currents after which he constructed wings, the material of which is not known. Fixing the wings to his wrists and flapping them as a bird would, he leapt from the abbey tower, he was successful in travelling a distance of 200 metres but panic set in and he crashed to the ground breaking both legs.
The venture crippled him for the rest of his life, although he was so badly hurt it did not deter him from making preparations for a second flight. The news of his second attempt came to the notice of the Abbot who banned him from any such efforts.
Read the full article at - http://www.cotswolds.info/places/malmesbury-abbey-and-flying-monk.shtml
Saturday, March 26, 2005
About Cotswolds.Info
Our website www.cotswolds.info was started 3 years ago when I pre-registered the new suffix domain name of cotswolds.info and was lucky enough to actually get it.
At the time no internet website covered all of the English Counties of Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire that made up the unique UK region of the Cotswolds. Not only that but the Cotswolds has, in my opinion, never really been marketed successfully with each county promoting themselves rather than the region.
Combine a liberal sprinkling of my passion for the Cotswolds and the website was born. It now achieves on average 5000 unique visitors per day and over 500,000 page views and 10.8 million hits per month and keeps us very very busy.
At the time no internet website covered all of the English Counties of Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire that made up the unique UK region of the Cotswolds. Not only that but the Cotswolds has, in my opinion, never really been marketed successfully with each county promoting themselves rather than the region.
Combine a liberal sprinkling of my passion for the Cotswolds and the website was born. It now achieves on average 5000 unique visitors per day and over 500,000 page views and 10.8 million hits per month and keeps us very very busy.
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