LEDBURY
The main street is full of charm in its possession of several old houses and a market-house standing on chestnut pillars. The upper portion has been much restored, but the wooden supports are those of the building believed to have been put up by John Abell in Elizabethan times.
The most notable feature of the church is the detached Early English tower, now crowned with a modern spire. Of the original Norman church the western doorway remains in the Perpendicular nave. Besides the tombs of the Biddulphs the stained glass in the north chapel should be examined. These windows are of the Decorated period, and the chapel is dedicated to the local St. Catherine, who lived at the beginning of the fourteenth century. During the Civil War there was a hot fight in Ledbury in the year 1645 between Prince Rupert and a body of Roundheads. Marks of bullets can be seen on the church doors and elsewhere in the town.
(For Hereford, see [p. 176].)
LOOP No. 7
GLOUCESTER TO BATH, MALMESBURY, EVESHAM, TEWKESBURY, AND GLOUCESTER, 153 MILES
DISTANCES ALONG THE ROUTE
| Miles. | ||
| Gloucester to Stroud | 12 | ¼ |
| Stroud to Nailsworth | 4 | ¼ |
| Nailsworth to Old Sodbury | 13 | ¼ |
| Old Sodbury to Bath | 11 | |
| Bath to Chippenham | 13 | |
| Chippenham to Malmesbury | 10 | |
| Malmesbury to Minety | 7 | ¼ |
| Minety to Cricklade | 4 | ¾ |
| Cricklade to Highworth | 7 | ½ |
| Highworth to Lechlade | 4 | ½ |
| Lechlade to Burford | 8 | ¾ |
| Burford to Shipton-under-Wychwood | 4 | ¼ |
| Shipton to Chipping Norton | 6 | ¾ |
| Chipping Norton to Moreton-in-the-Marsh | 8 | |
| Moreton to Broadway | 8 | ½ |
| Broadway to Evesham | 5 | ¾ |
| Evesham to Tewkesbury | 13 | ¼ |
| Tewkesbury to Gloucester | 10 | |
NOTES FOR DRIVERS
Gloucester to Nailsworth.—The road is fairly level, with a good surface.