Chalford

Chalford is a small British village in England in the so-called Cotswolds and is situated in the Frome Valley in the county of Gloucestershire. It is located about 4 kilometers east of Stroud. At this point, the valley also Golden Valley is named.

Location and area

The district ( in this case called Parish ), in the Cotswolds region covers an area of ​​5.2 km ².

History

The remains and various historical sites of burial mounds, suggest that the high levels of Chalford Hill, France Lynch and Bussage, was an area that had been around for over 5000 years continuously inhabited. Flints from the Stone Age have also been unearthed, as well as remains of a Roman villa.

Often the names of places or areas indicate Saxon or Danish origin.

The name of Chalford is probably a fusion of two languages ​​and probably derives from the Saxon words cealj or Chalk and the Norman word from Ford. These words would all have the same meaning. Chalford Hill is a recent designation for the western side of the hill, but the original was Chalford Lynch.

Lynch (Old English: Terrace ) from the Anglo-Saxon hline indicates a cultivated terrace landscape, to nod the parent hills.

Personalities in Chalford

James Bradley, the famous astronomer and Astronomer Royal, the third lived and died in Chalford 1762nd Similarly, the active in the 19th century sculptor John Thomas.

British artist Damien Hirst lives temporarily in Chalford, where it has an art studio.