The Country between Dursley & Uley is very beautiful, the Hills in the shape of Promontories being elegantly diversified with wood & the vale filled with the lively marks of manufacture. The Hills round here present specimens of Roman fortifications, particularly, Uley Berry, which affords to the Antiquarian a very compleat Roman encampment. Mr. Baker’s House is in the Gothic stile & beautifully wooded. The Tea was very good. Mrs. Cooper her daughter & her Governess with whom we walked back to Dursley, joined the party on the tea. As also Mrs. H. Baker, Miss Gregory & Miss Tristram.
The above was written by eighteen-year-old Francis Edward Witts, Saturday 19 December 1801.
The country between Dursley and Uley remains beautiful, but the lively marks of manufacture are now replaced by new houses. Mr Baker’s house was Stoutshill, Mr Cooper’s house was Ferney Hill — and both houses survive.
This book provides examples of how the likely marks of manufacture have degenerated to post-industrial scars, with those scars in turn now being replaced by new growth.
Change in the townscape is a never-ending process, and the images provided here are merely a few fleeting snapshots from this journey through time.
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