Publisher's Synopsis
Covers the sixteen parishes of Bradley hundred, to the east of the county The history of a high part of the Cotswold hills, extending from the steep escarpment above Cheltenham south-eastwards to the small town of Northleach on the Foss Way, is detailed in this volume. Northleach was established as a market town in about 1220, and its later functions were as a distribution centre for the medieval wool trade and as a stage on the main road from London to Gloucester and South Wales during the coaching era. In the rural parishes, with little industry apart from quarrying, the varying fortunes of agriculture shaped the development of landscape and village.
