Editing Dymock

{{Short description|Village in Gloucestershire, England}}
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   |official_name= Dymock
   |coordinates = {{coord|51.979|-2.440|display=inline,title}}
   |static_image_name=Dymock church and War Memorial - geograph.org.uk - 370028.jpg
   |static_image_caption=Dymock church and War Memorial
   |population=                1214
   |civil_parish=              Dymock
   |shire_district=            [[Forest of Dean District|Forest of Dean]]
   |shire_county =             [[Gloucestershire]]
   |region=                    South West England
   |country=                   England
   |constituency_westminster=  [[Forest of Dean (UK Parliament constituency)|Forest of Dean]]
   |post_town=    Dymock
   |postcode_area=   GL
   |postcode_district= GL18
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   |os_grid_reference= SO700312
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'''Dymock''' is a village and [[civil parish]] in the [[Forest of Dean (district)|Forest of Dean district]] of [[Gloucestershire]], England, about four miles south of [[Ledbury]]. In 2014 the parish had an estimated population of 1,205.<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Insight profile for 'Dymock CP' area |url=https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/media/1521350/glos-parishes-forest-dymock-cp-glos_li_parish_e04004304-20161108195654177.pdf |publisher=Gloucestershire County Council |access-date=2 May 2021 |archive-date=2 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502153507/https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/media/1521350/glos-parishes-forest-dymock-cp-glos_li_parish_e04004304-20161108195654177.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

Dymock is the origin of the Dymock Red, a [[cider apple]], and [[Stinking Bishop cheese]].

==History==
In the village of Dymock there are several interesting buildings which include [[cruck]] beam cottages; "The White House", which was the birthplace of [[John Kyrle]], the "Man of Ross", in 1637; Ann Cam School of 1825 and [[St Mary's Church, Dymock|St Mary's Church]], a patchwork history in brick and stone with Anglo-Norman origins, and is a [[Grade I listed]] building.<ref name=NHLE>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1303073|desc=Church of St Mary|access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref> Nearby stands the only remaining village pub, which was purchased by Parish Council to help preserve a thriving village. The pub is rented and run by a landlord and supported by a local fundraising and social committee "Friends of the Beauchamp Arms" (FOBA). A former pub, The Crown, closed in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lost Pubs Project: The Crown, Dymock|url=https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/gloucestershire/dymock_crown.html|access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref>
[[File:The Beauchamp Arms, Dymock - geograph.org.uk - 370036.jpg|thumb|left|The Beauchamp Arms, Dymock]]
Dymock was served by the [[Hereford & Gloucester Canal]], opened in 1845; this closed in 1881 and the section between [[Ledbury]] and [[Gloucester]] converted into [[Ledbury and Gloucester Railway|a railway line]], a branch line of the [[Great Western Railway]], though a stretch between Dymock and [[Newent]] was by-passed as it was decided not to take the line through the 2,192 yard [[Oxenhall Tunnel]]. [[Dymock railway station]] was on this line which closed in 1959, but the canal (including the tunnel), is now being restored.

Dymock is the ancestral home of the [[Dymoke]] family who are the [[Queen's Champion|Royal Champions]] of England. It is thought that the Dymokes first lived at Knight's Green, an area just outside the village of Dymock.

==Governance==
The village falls in the '[[Bromsberrow|Bromesberrow]] and Dymock' [[Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom|electoral ward]]. This ward starts in the north at ''Dymock'' and ends in the south at [[Kempley]]. The ward total population taken at the 2011 census was 1,901.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/bromesberrow-and-dymock-e05004341#sthash.l8bpZ7Rr.dpbs|title=Bromesberrow and Dymock ward 2011|access-date=6 April 2021|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042441/http://www.ukcensusdata.com/bromesberrow-and-dymock-e05004341#sthash.l8bpZ7Rr.dpbs|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Popular culture==
Dymock gave its name to a school of [[Romanesque sculpture]] first described in the book ''The Dymock School of Sculpture'' by [[Eric Gethyn-Jones]] (1979). The school is noted for its use of stepped volute capitals and its stylised "tree of life" motif on tympana. A lead tablet inscribed with an elaborate 17th-century curse against a woman called Sarah Ellis was found in a home in Wilton Place. It is preserved in [[Gloucester City Council|Gloucester]]'s museum collection as "The Dymock Curse".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.deanweb.info/history7.html|title=Forest of Dean History-Witchcraft & curses in the Forest of Dean|website=deanweb.info|access-date=6 April 2021}}</ref>

It was the [[eponym]]ous home of the [[Dymock poets]] from the period 1911–1914. The homes of [[Wilfrid Wilson Gibson]], [[Lascelles Abercrombie]] and the American-born [[Robert Frost]] can still be seen there. Dymock is renowned for its wild daffodils in the spring, and these were probably the inspiration for the line "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" in Frost's poem "[[The Road Not Taken (poem)|The Road Not Taken]]", which was a gentle satire on his great friend, and fellow Dymock Poet, [[Edward Thomas (poet)|Edward Thomas]]. In 2011 the village featured on ''[[Countryfile]]'', where the Dymock poets were looked into in more detail.

===Daffodil Way===
The Daffodil Way is a circular walk through the ′Golden Triangle', best in late February and March when wild daffodil (''[[Narcissus pseudonarcissus]]'') are flowering in the fields around Dymock and [[Kempley]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Daffodil Way |url=https://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_name=Daffodil+Way |publisher=Long Distance Walkers Association |access-date=6 April 2021 |archive-date=17 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317194448/https://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_name=Daffodil+Way |url-status=live }}</ref>

==References==
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;Bibliography
*{{cite book |first=Eric Gethin |last=Jones |title=The Dymock School of Sculpture |date=1979 }}
*{{cite book |first=Thomas |last= Hinde |title=The Domesday Book, England's Heritage, Then & Now |url=https://archive.org/details/domesdaybookengl00hind |url-access=registration |date=1985 |publisher= Crown |isbn= 9780517558683 }}
*{{cite book |first1=David |last1=Verey |first2=Alan |last2=Brooks |title=The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and Forest of Dean |place=New Haven and London |date=2002 |orig-year=1970 |isbn=978-0-300-09733-7 |pages=344–347}}

==External links==
*[http://www.dymock.org.uk Dymock Community Web Site]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120322031130/http://www.dimock.ca/ Dymock Family Web Site (England, U.S.A., and Canada. With extensive information on the Royal Champions]
*[https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=6655835 Photos of Dymock and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk]
*[https://www.visitgloucestershire/co.uk/townsandvillages/dymock Dymock on Visit Gloucestershire]

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[[Category:Romanesque architecture in England]]
[[Category:Villages in Gloucestershire]]