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Dursley (Gloucestershire)

Description: A small town in Gloucestershire, England.

Newest Review: ... way to the shops. There are the usual small shops - a local pet shop, a florist, a couple of chemists, quite a few charity shops, a smallish 'Somerfield' supermarket, a mediocre bakery, an excellent branch of the small, local greengrocery chain 'Bramley's', and a really in some ways outstanding traditional butcher's. It sells meat like you'd get in the old days - which means excellent ... more

... value and a range of traditional cuts, but also occasionally an olde-worlde approach to stock storage and refrigeration which in some cases can sometimes prove slightly unfortunate. Not of course to the extent that anyone's ever going to come to grief, a...more

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Dursley (Gloucestershire): Dursley - wonderful backwater of the Cotswolds! (1447 words)
by - written on 29/06/09 (Very useful, 37 readings)
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Lovely Dusrley! Beautiful, well-kept secret on the Cotswold Way! Where to begin describing your brilliantness.... This small market town on the Cotswold Edge has at least two (literary) claims to fame: firsly it was a destination so despised by the childrens' author JK Rowling (who is from Yate / Chipping Sodbury by all accounts and thus a nearly local lass) that in her books she named Harry Potter's horrible relatives, an awful suburbanite family, after the town. Secondly, William Shakespeare may or may not have lived and worked (as a schoolmaster) briefly in the area; there is a reference to nearby Stinchcombe Hill in one of the King Henry (or is it King ... Read the complete review