We at Radical Stroud have been marking the Terminalia Festival of Psychogeography on the 23rd February in various ways over the last few...

The Guardian, Saturday 30th January 2021 Aamna Mohdin and Rhi Storer tell us today in The Guardian that ‘scores of tributes to slave...

WALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON Not in linear sequence: Flooding prevents that - But in an act of near nominative determinism, I present the...

Uley Long Barrow is a partially reconstructed Neolithic burial mound, situated high on the Cotswold escarpment. Locally, it is known as...

I’m sure Robert Jenrick sincerely believes what he says about protecting our history and so on. I don’t think it’s mealy mouthed cant. I...

On the Winter Solstice of 2020 a group of Radical Stroud walkers paid a visit to this local “Trig Point” with a view to commemoration,...

We all know of the cloth stretched out on tenterhooks Around Stroud and the five valleys: Stroud Scarlet, Uley Blue, Berkeley Yellow, Out...

Selsley Common, Woodchester August 12, 1842/2020 The Plug Riots they were called. Riots don’t tend to have such interesting names...

Fake Views Trigonometry Points or Trickonometry Points? The clue is in the name of course: Ordnance Survey: Ordnance: artillery; Survey:...

One dull December tier two afternoon, I biked out from Rodborough’s dull streets, Then along the Slad valley to Bulls Cross: Past wintry...

It came upon a midnight clear It came upon a midnight clear, That glorious song of old, When angels bent down to the earth, And changed...

‘Rydal’, Coronation Road, and Captain Forster The house I live in was built in 1910; Typical Edwardian red brick semi With suburban...

Good morrow, good friends, pray tarry a while Forget the business of modernity’s style, And list to my questions about this fair parish,...

Starting at the Clothiers Arms 1. Walk up Rodborough Hill. You will pass Lower, Middle, and Upper Spillmans. I interviewed nonagenarian...

When you’re walking footloose and fancy-free Along some seemingly ancient footpath, Checking your progress on the OS map, Senses working...

There were some 2,000 voyages Made from Bristol for enslavement In the money hungry eighteenth century, With the consequent...

Friends, railwaymen and women, I come not to bury the Great Western Railway But to tell you of its provenance; To tell you how the...

Down there at Walbridge, on the canal plaque, Is a portrait of the nearby area, From 'circa 1790'. Stroud scarlet is stretched out on...