Cotswold Tales Past

28/01/2026

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We are so excited here at the museum! This is a little teaser of one of the final parts of Project Orpheus. Fragments of a Roman Orpheus mosaic found in Withington are coming home to the Cotswolds and will be reunited for the first time in 200 years. See them for yourself from January 31! Thank you to and

28/01/2026

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26/01/2026

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🎉🚶 Bonds Mill Bridge Open – Visitor Centre Reopening!

We’re delighted to share some great news — with the bridge now open, we’re pleased to be able to reopen our much-loved Bonds Mill Visitor Centre!

📅 Opening: Sunday 1st March | 10am–1pm

Visitors will be able to explore new interpretive signage, browse CCT-branded goods, and pick up information books and guides, with refreshments also available to purchase. Our friendly volunteers will be on hand for a chat, sharing stories about the history of Bonds Mill and its important role during World War II.

We’re really looking forward to welcoming you back. We’ll be open most Sundays from March - 1:30pm to 4pm - do pop in and say hello 💚

21/01/2026

One of the oldest baptismal fonts in Britain, this Anglo-Saxon beauty is at St Mary's in the Gloucestershire village of Deerhurst.

Dating from between 800 and 850, the font lay buried for some centuries before reappearing as a trough for feeding animals in a field near the church.

Some historians are of the opinion that old fonts were ritually buried within the consecrated grounds of a church, seen as crude and unsophisticated by the incoming Normans yet still sacred objects that could not be destroyed.

The designs carved into the oolite stone have lost much of their detail but the lower section does depict a parade of birds and animals entwined together with knotted vines. The upper half is a seemingly endless pattern of four legged spirals arranged into groups of four, a possible nod to the four archangels.

There are many other Anglo-Saxon architectural and carved features at Deerhurst, making it an essential visit for anyone interested in the period, with Odda's chapel right next door and Tredington with its graffitti-strewn Romanesque doorway just along the road.

18/01/2026

Whilst lamp boxes are fairly common sites in the countryside, seeing one with a George VI cypher is less so.

This was spotted in the picturesque Cotswold village of Naunton for this week's Postbox Saturday.

18/01/2026

Just in case you didn’t know already.

18/01/2026

This black and white photograph shows army manoeuvres through the town of Lechlade in 1909.

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16/01/2026

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300,000 farm records will be made available online, thanks to a grant from Lund Trust. The Farm Survey maps & forms are being digitised and put online for free, with the first records coming online in March

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12/01/2026

Next week!