Adlestrop (formerly Titlestrop or Edestrop) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is known as Tedestrop in the Domesday Book.
The civil parish also includes the village of Daylesford. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 153[1].
This small Gloucestershire village deep in the heart of the Cotswolds is renowned for its surrounding countryside and fine walks. Situated off the main A436 Stow-on-the-Wold road it is an isolated community, with the village post office being the main source of shopping and communication.
Adlestrop was immortalised by Edward Thomas' poem Adlestrop which was first published in 1917. The poem describes an uneventful journey Thomas took on 23 June 1914 on an Oxford to Worcester express. The train made an unscheduled stop at Adlestrop station. He did not alight from the train, but describes a moment of calm pause in which he hears "all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire". His poem has immortalised the village throughout the English-speaking world ever since. The railway station closed in 1966; however, the local bus shelter contains a bench which was originally on the platform. A plaque on the bench quotes Thomas’s original poem.
The village has a connection with the novelist Jane Austen who, with her mother, was a regular visitor to the Old Rectory, when her uncle was vicar there.
Adlestrop also has a cricket club, set in the wonderful surroundings of Adlestrop Park. The pitch has a characteristic tree within the boundary, and sheep bleat their approval outside the pitch's perimeter. Many teams have travelled from afar to play the club, including the Old Leightonians from Reading, who famously possess one of the finest sets of cricket club statistics in the world.
Coordinates: 51°56′N 1°39′W / 51.933°N 1.65°W
Adlestrop [1] is a small Cotswolds village (population 80) in the English county of Oxfordshire, close to the border with Gloucestershire. The village is located just off the road between Chipping Norton and Stow-on-the-Wold (look for the signs).
Adlestrop is one of the more attractive of Cotswolds villages, the more so on account that it is far less frequented by mass tourism than many other neighbouring towns and villages.
The novelist Jane Austen was a visitor (her uncle was the church rector) and is thought to have drawn inspiration from the village and its surroundings for Mansfield Park.
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Adlestrop poetry Adlestrop is probably best known from the short poem of the same
name, by the war poet Edward Thomas, whose verse captures for many
the essential atmosphere of the English countryside in high
summer: Yes. I remember Adlestrop — |
The nearest pub is The Fox Inn at Oddington, within easy walking distance across Adlestrop Park.
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