Dymock
Dymock is a village and civil parish in the Forest of Dean area of Gloucestershire, England, about four miles southern of Ledbury. The parish had a recorded population of 1,214 at the UK Census 2011. In the village of Dymock there are several interesting buildings that include cruck beam cottages; "The White House", which was the birth place of John Kyrle - the "Man of Ross" in 1637, Ann Cam School of 1825 and St Mary's Church, a jumble background in brick and also stone with Anglo-Norman beginnings. Neighboring stands the only staying town bar, which was bought by Parish Council to assist maintain a thriving town. The club is rented out as well as run by a landlord and sustained by a neighborhood fundraising and also social board "Pals of the Beauchamp Arms" (FOBA). Dymock gave its name to a school of Romanesque sculpture first explained in the book The Dymock School of Sculpture by Eric Gethin Jones (1979 ). The institution is noted for its use tipped volute capitals as well as its stylised "tree of life" theme on tympana. A lead tablet engraved with a fancy 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 ancestral home of the Dymoke family that are the Royal Champions of England. It is assumed that the Dymokes first lived at Knight's Green, an area simply outside the village of Dymock.