Hawkesbury's Thousand Years of Wool

Hawkesbury parish stretches 31 miles around its boundary, and its economy was built on sheep — their wool washed in the streams that still run through the village. Hawkesbury is one of the largest parishes in Gloucestershire, with a circumference of thirty-one miles. Its boundaries encompass not just Hawkesbury Upton but the hamlets of Dunkirk, Petty France, and...