Ash Copse

Wood, Forest in Gloucestershire Cotswold

England

Ash Copse

Red Phone Box, Dunfield Now housing a defibrillator, which along with book exchanges is the new use for many village phone boxes. — Red Phone Box, Dunfield Credit: Des Blenkinsopp

Ash Copse is a picturesque woodland located in Gloucestershire, England. It is situated in the heart of the county, approximately 6 miles southwest of the city of Gloucester. Covering an area of around 20 acres, the copse is a part of the larger Forest of Dean, renowned for its natural beauty and rich biodiversity.

The woodland is predominantly composed of ash trees, which give it its name. These tall, slender trees create a dense canopy that provides shade and shelter for a variety of wildlife species. The forest floor is covered in a lush carpet of ferns, mosses, and wildflowers, adding to the copse's enchanting atmosphere.

Visitors to Ash Copse can enjoy a peaceful and tranquil experience, as the area is relatively secluded and away from the hustle and bustle of urban life. The copse is crisscrossed by a network of winding footpaths, allowing visitors to explore and immerse themselves in the natural surroundings. These paths lead to various points of interest, such as a small stream that meanders through the woodland, adding to the charm of the area.

The copse is also home to a diverse range of wildlife. Birdwatchers can spot species such as woodpeckers, owls, and various songbirds, while nature enthusiasts may encounter deer, foxes, and even elusive badgers. The copse is particularly renowned for its butterfly population, with several rare and protected species found within its boundaries.

Overall, Ash Copse is a hidden gem in Gloucestershire, offering a tranquil haven for nature lovers and a chance to reconnect with the natural world.

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Red Phone Box, Dunfield Now housing a defibrillator, which along with book exchanges is the new use for many village phone boxes.

Red Phone Box, Dunfield

Now housing a defibrillator, which along with book exchanges is the new use for many village phone boxes.

Des Blenkinsopp

Roadside Seat, Dunfield At the southern end of the quiet hamlet of Dunfield.

Roadside Seat, Dunfield

At the southern end of the quiet hamlet of Dunfield.

Des Blenkinsopp

Plane watcher at the gate A common sight around the edge of the airfield. An aircraft enthusiast has found a quiet spot to sit and look at whatever might be going on.
At a guess this now dead end road once carried on to join the similar cut off road on the other side of the runways.

Plane watcher at the gate

A common sight around the edge of the airfield. An aircraft enthusiast has found a quiet spot to sit and look at whatever might be going on. At a guess this now dead end road once carried on to join the similar cut off road on the other side of the runways.

Des Blenkinsopp

St James, Marston Meysey: early September 2023

St James, Marston Meysey: early September 2023

St James, Marston Meysey: churchyard (a)

St James, Marston Meysey: churchyard (a)

Siesta time in Marsdon Meysey (taken on a sweltering September afternoon)

Siesta time in Marsdon Meysey

(taken on a sweltering September afternoon)

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (1) Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (1)

Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (2) Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (2)

Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (3) Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (3)

Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (4)

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (4)

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (5) Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (5)

Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (6) Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (6)

Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (7) Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (7)

Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (8) Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (8)

Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (9) Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: stained glass window (9)

Intricate and colourful windows in churches and cathedrals greatly add to the ambience, although many early examples in England were smashed by the Puritans and replaced with plain glass. There was a huge revival in the 19th Century with many elaborate new stained glass windows created. The 20th century saw the development of new techniques, including Gemmail, which overlaps pieces of stained glass without using lead. New windows are still being commissioned today, while the oldest known ones are still in place within the Ancestors of Christ window on the south side of Canterbury Cathedral.

St James, Marston Meysey: organ The organ was invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria, a third century BC engineer. Fragments from one early organ in Pompeii are now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples. The first definition is provided by St. Augustine: “apropryte to the Instrument that is made of many pypes: and blowe with belowes.&quot; In 757, Emperor Constantine Copronymus sent an organ as a gift to Pepin, King of the Franks. By 1474, S. Petronio, Bologna, had a full scale 50 note organ with 9 stops. The low pipes in the largest cathedral organs produced some of the lowest sounds ever created by man. Perhaps predictably, given its extraordinary capabilities, a somewhat persistent element in the history of the organ is various puritan&#039;s criticism of it. Writers from Cicero to Milton saw it as a temptation away from virtue and reason. Nevertheless they continued to grow in range, power and tone. By the 19th century there was a vast amount of music for the organ. And to play it on? As many as 200 stops and 10,647 pipes….

St James, Marston Meysey: organ

The organ was invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria, a third century BC engineer. Fragments from one early organ in Pompeii are now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples. The first definition is provided by St. Augustine: “apropryte to the Instrument that is made of many pypes: and blowe with belowes." In 757, Emperor Constantine Copronymus sent an organ as a gift to Pepin, King of the Franks. By 1474, S. Petronio, Bologna, had a full scale 50 note organ with 9 stops. The low pipes in the largest cathedral organs produced some of the lowest sounds ever created by man. Perhaps predictably, given its extraordinary capabilities, a somewhat persistent element in the history of the organ is various puritan's criticism of it. Writers from Cicero to Milton saw it as a temptation away from virtue and reason. Nevertheless they continued to grow in range, power and tone. By the 19th century there was a vast amount of music for the organ. And to play it on? As many as 200 stops and 10,647 pipes….

St James, Marston Meysey: memorial to a former incumbent A graduate of Wadham College, Oxford <span class="nowrap"><a title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadham_College,_Oxford" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadham_College,_Oxford">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span> Castle-Smith seems to have spent many years as a teacher at Kingsbridge College in Devon. Although ordained in 1838 as all Oxbridge men were entitled, he only served his title at Chipperfield <span class="nowrap"><a title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipperfield" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipperfield">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span> between 1869 and 1871 before succeeding his father the next year.

St James, Marston Meysey: memorial to a former incumbent

A graduate of Wadham College, Oxford Link

Castle-Smith seems to have spent many years as a teacher at Kingsbridge College in Devon. Although ordained in 1838 as all Oxbridge men were entitled, he only served his title at Chipperfield Link

between 1869 and 1871 before succeeding his father the next year.

St James, Marston Meysey: font The font in a Christian church is that place where new members are inducted in a ceremony known as a christening. Fonts are often symbolically placed at or near the entrance. Typically, the font is between 90 and 130 centimetres tall and sculpted in stone- although wood and metal are sometimes used. During the ceremony, a priest traces the sign of the cross on the new member’s forehead. If an infant, several adults will be asked to be godparents. They will then pledge at the font to guide the child on their Christian journey.

St James, Marston Meysey: font

The font in a Christian church is that place where new members are inducted in a ceremony known as a christening. Fonts are often symbolically placed at or near the entrance. Typically, the font is between 90 and 130 centimetres tall and sculpted in stone- although wood and metal are sometimes used. During the ceremony, a priest traces the sign of the cross on the new member’s forehead. If an infant, several adults will be asked to be godparents. They will then pledge at the font to guide the child on their Christian journey.

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Ash Copse is located at Grid Ref: SU1398 (Lat: 51.688971, Lng: -1.8036912)

Administrative County: Gloucestershire

District: Cotswold

Police Authority: Gloucestershire

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