The Local History Directory — Gloucestershire
 

Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1876)
M/ship: 875
Newsletter, 2pa, members only
Transactions, 1pa, £12.00 (free to members)

Contact: J R Loosley
Hon General Secretary
Stonehatch
Oakridge Lynch
Stroud
Glos
GL6 7NR

Tel: 01285 760460
E-mail: john@loosleyj.freeserve.co.uk
Website: www.bgas.org.uk
(15/4/06)


#Gloucestershire County Local History Committee (1960)
M/ship: 40
Gloucestershire History & Newsletter, 1pa, £3.99

Contact: Mrs E M Bourne
Secretary
c/o Gloucestershire Rural Community Council
Community House
15 College Green
Gloucester
GL1 2LZ

Tel & Fax: 01452 309783
E-mail: grcc@grcc.ndirect.co.uk
Website: www.gloshistory.org.uk
(17/7/01)


Leckhampton Local History Society (1992)
Contact: Miss Amy Woolacott
Acting Hon Secretary
15 Arden Road
Leckhampton
Cheltenham
Glos
GL53 0HG

Tel: 01242 522566
Website: www.llhs.org.uk

Publications:
Leckhampton Court: Manor House to Hospice
By Eric Miller, published by Matador. With a Message from H R H the Prince of Wales, Patron of the Sue Ryder Care Centre at Leckhampton Court.
ISBN 0 9524200 31, price £6.99 (post free in UK; otherwise US$15, please make cheques payable to ‘Sue Ryder Care, Leckhampton’). Available from Eric Miller, 20 Collum End Rise, Leckhampton, Cheltenham, Glos GL53 0PB, UK.

'One of the oldest medieval houses in Gloucestershire, Leckhampton Court has had a rich and varied history. It dominated village life for some 600 years until the estate was sold at the end of the 19th century.

The Lords of the Manor included members of important local families - the Giffards, Norwoods and Tryes - and this book relates some of their more interesting achievements. During the First World War the Court housed a Red Cross hospital, and in the Second World War a camp was set up in the grounds, occupied in turn by British and US troops and then by German POWs.

Today the Court is best known as a Sue Ryder Hospice, noted for its atmosphere of love, compassion, unhurried care and understanding of patients' needs. This book is sold entirely in aid of its running costs.'
(27/10/08)

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