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Dymock
Dymock is a town as well as civil parish in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England, about 4 miles south of Ledbury. The parish had a recorded population of 1,214 at the United Kingdom Census 2011. In the village of Dymock there are several interesting structures which include cruck beam homes; "The White House", which was the birthplace of John Kyrle - the "Man of Ross" in 1637, Ann Cam School of 1825 as well as St Mary's Church, a patchwork history in block and rock with Anglo-Norman origins. Nearby stands the only staying village bar, which was purchased by Parish Council to help maintain a flourishing town. The pub is rented and also run by a property owner as well as supported by a neighborhood fundraising and also social board "Close friends of the Beauchamp Arms" (FOBA). Dymock offered its name to a school of Romanesque sculpture very first explained in guide The Dymock School of Sculpture by Eric Gethin Jones (1979 ). The institution is noted for its use stepped volute resources and its decorative "tree of life" motif on tympana. A lead tablet computer engraved with a sophisticated 17th-century curse against a woman called Sarah Ellis was discovered in a home in Wilton Place. It is maintained in Gloucester's museum collection as "The Dymock Curse". Dymock is the genealogical house of the Dymoke household that are the Royal Champions of England. It is thought that the Dymokes initially lived at Knight's Green, a location just outside the village of Dymock.