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Event Series: Highways and Byways Exhibition
Highways and Byways Exhibition
July 14th, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 4:30 pm BST
Highways and Byways – How did people get about 200 years ago? A free exhibition about local turnpikes, toll gates, coaching inns, ancient tracks and footpaths, the people who travelled them and how they carried their goods. Old maps, turnpike riots and complaints, potholes, road accidents and highway robbery!
By local historians from Amberley, Bisley, Chalford, Minchinhampton, Oakridge, Painswick, Pitchcombe, Randwick, Rodborough, Sheepscombe, Stinchcombe, Stonehouse, Stroud and Woodchester.
Admission free, donations welcome, books for sale.
