Slad
| Slad | |
| Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
Jan2006.jpg) Holy Trinity Church, Slad | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SO873076 |
| Location: | 51°46’0"N, 2°10’60"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 388 (2011) |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Stroud |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Stroud |
Slad is a village in Gloucestershire, in the Slad Valley about two miles from Stroud on the B4070 road from Stroud to Birdlip.
Slad is notable for being the home and final resting place of Laurie Lee, whose novel Cider with Rosie (1959) is a description of growing up in the village from his arrival at the age of three in 1917.
The Slad Brook runs along the bottom of the valley.
The small parish church, Holy Trinity Church, is a Grade II listed building[1] and there is also a small traditional pub, The Woolpack.[2]
In literature
Slad is both the home and the final resting place of Laurie Lee, whose novel Cider with Rosie (1959) is a description of growing up in the village from his arrival at the age of three in 1917. Having bought a cottage there with the proceeds from the book, he returned to live permanently in the village during the 1960s after being away for some thirty years.
Between 1970 and 1980 the poets Frances and Michael Horovitz lived at "Mullions", the end cottage of the settlement of Piedmont in an offshoot of the valley only accessible by foot from Slad. Frances' poetry from that period often refers to the surroundings there, as does Michael's Midsummer Morning Jog Log (1986).[3] Horovitz's continued occasional residence is testified not simply by that poem but by his use of the cottage as the editorial address of his magazine New Departures into the 1990s.[4]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1091579: Church of Holy Trinity (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Home page". The Woolpack, Slad. http://thewoolpackslad.com/. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ↑ Horovitz, Michael; Blake, Peter (14 April 1986). Midsummer Morning Jog Log. Five Seasons Press. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Midsummer-Morning-Jog-Michael-Horovitz/dp/0950460672. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ↑ Horovitz, Michael (19 May 1995). "Fiddling". The Times Literary Supplement. http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/fiddling. Retrieved 19 September 2017.