Talk:Gloucestershire

message: I think there should be a link in here somewhere since it is quite a major feature of the county.  Not sure where to add it though, so if anyone would like to give it a go... Robotmannick 10:54, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Gloucestershire Airport]] 

message: I've parked this at the bottom of the page for now. Unfortunately twin infoboxes are pushing the text way down the page (at least in IE 6.0) and the article appears blank unless the reader realises they need to scroll right down.
One solution might be to merge the infoboxes, but there may be other ways of dealing with this. I've experimented a bit but not found a quick solution. Does anyone have any other way of fixing it? Chris Jefferies 07:49, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Where this has occured on other articles its been moved to the History of.... article. I've done this now with this one too. I didn't realise there were any left still on the main article. MRSC 08:01, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure that I'm entirely happy with the infobox disappearing altogether to a different article with no link from the main article. Futhermore I don't experience the "pushing text way down the page"  effect either. Both boxes are right floats which (unless there is a wide image in the main body of the article) shouldn't interfere with the main text at all. Owain 08:18, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

text: I think this started after the last wiki update. Berkshire still has this problem for me in IE6 on XP SP2 but is ok in Firefox. MRSC 08:43, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Firefox 1.07 on XP and Camino 0.8 on Mac OS X. I have seen the problem before as I say when the window size is too narrow and there is a wide image that won't fit across the page when there are infoboxes on the right. It shouldn't matter if there are one or ten infoboxes because they are all right floats... Owain
Hmm, definitely browser dependent, then. I've just tried Mozilla 1.6 on Win2K and it's fine too. Chris Jefferies 09:15, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info box - Traditional County 

message: I know some towns/counties have this as a section, not sure how many there are for Glos. However, Sir Chay Blyth (although he was born in Scotland) currently lives in Box, which doesn't currently have a page of it's own.
Kert01 14:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous Residents 

message: Hi; I just cribbed a bio of a Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, the Hon. Clement Francis Cornwall, who was born in Gloucestershire, but at a place called Ashcroft, which I don't find on your towns list here, or on the list page, or on the South Gloucestershire page.  I do find it on a google search as an Ashcroft Road in Gloucestershire.  Is this an older or smaller village or locality that's off the beaten track or otherwise obscure today, or has its name changed?  Just wondering about dab'ing the link to it if there is one; currently to the Ashcroft disambiguation page, where I've put a mention of "Ashcroft, Gloucestershire" without actually knowing if there is one (ahem) other than because of my source (publ. 1890).  It's important to the Cornwall story as the name of the ranch - where English culture was pursued in fortu, with fox-hunting (well, coyote-hunting with foxhounds) and the main venue for horse racing in the BC Interior - was the Ashcroft Manor, and the nearby town of Ashcroft has the same namesake, or rather being named because of the ranch, which predated the town y'see...though just barely...1860s; there's also an Ashcroft NSW in Oz which may be named for the place in Gloucestershire, whatever it is named now or whatever it was, vs being named for one of the many people named Ashcroft.  Skookum1 10:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the OS Landranger Map (avalable online at www.streetmap.co.uk) the only extant likely candidate is a large building called Ashcroft House, near Bagpath, about 10km ENE of Wotton-under-Edge. It might be a (more or less) stately home of some kind, in which case both it or its estate could have been referred to just as "Ashcroft" - the word "House" would probably be used only in order to distinguish the house itself from the rest of the estate. So it could mean he was born either at the house, or just somewhere on the estate, or of course somewhere else which doesn't exist or isn't called Ashcroft any more.... Best wishes, Cambyses 15:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ashcroft, Gloucestershire?

message: The article prominently features a photo of Broadway Tower. Although undeniably in the Cotswolds, Broadway is in Worcestershire, not Gloucestershire.
Can someone please confirm whether the tower itself- some 3-4 miles from Broadway village- is in Gloucestershire, and if not, replace the photo with a landmark actually from Gloucestershire? I suggest Gloucester Cathedral, Pittville Pump Rooms in Cheltenham, Bourton-on-the-Water high street or the Subscription Rooms in Stroud. I will go out and take photos of these myself if no legally-viable ones exist. 62.231.149.155 15:09, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just checked my OS map and although the road alongside the tower is in Glos the tower itself is most definitely in Worcs (all be it only by about 100m). Jjasi 19:26, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broadway Tower photo - Broadway is Worcestershire 

message: I came here to read about the county, but found a bizarre pushy parents' contest.  Is a comparison of local schools' A level statistics really, honestly, one of the most notable things about this historic part of the country? I think this is a dire case of schoolcruft - Cheltenham has managed to eliminate it amicably.  Can we adopt the same model?  Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 11:31, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In an attempt to be constructive, rather than just saying "it's all rubbish, this", I've added a brief section on the university and glos college.  Maybe someone who knows could write a sentence at the top about the education system in gloucestershire, which I think is more appropriate to an encyclopaedia entry on a county.  Maybe something along the lines of "gloucestershire operates the two-tier system of primary and secondary schools", etc? Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 14:57, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My above comment refers to a previous revision of this page.  I think the current version looks pretty good. Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 13:43, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  My School's Better Than Yours 

message: A link to the Flag of Gloucestershire keeps being added to the See also section of the page.  I keep removing it as it has absolutely no official standing, has not been officially adopted and is simply as far as I can tell the result of an unofficial competition to design one.  Does anyone think we should actually have the link? Jjasi (talk) 08:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the link is useful. If anyone comes across references to this flag and looks it up under the county name, the link will enable them to discover its unofficial status. No link, no information. Myopic Bookworm (talk) 09:46, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Weak oppose.  I'm not bothered by the flag itself, but the actual content of the article is of marginal notability.  It seems to be of interest only to enthusiasts of obscure flags (granted a valid activity) or those involved with the competition it talks about.  On a list of the highest value Gloucestershire topics we could have articles on (and hence links) I'd rate it a long way down.  If we do keep the link, I think it's because we don't have many decent articles on Glos topics, which is a bit sad. Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 07:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag of Gloucestershire 

message: I've flagged this addition because all references to Belton Knapp (currently under discussion in an AfD) come from the same user, none of which seem to be verified. Can someone either confirm or delete this statement (and preferable give their thoughts at the AfD too)? Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 11:11, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belton Knapp May festival? 

message: I've boldly rebranded the list of towns and villages to just towns.  There really area lot of villages in the county, so I think listing them here would just be silly.  I also changed the wikilink from one to Kingswood, Gloucestershire to Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, which I presume is the one intended.  
More interestingly I think though is the remaining contents of the section.  The list isn't complete: according to :Category:Towns in Gloucestershire this missing towns are Cinderford and Fairford.  Although I don't think a list of towns is the best use of space on a page about a county (when we have a perfectly good category), the set of towns is limited, static and can't get out of control.  I'll add these two.  If anyone knows if this is the full set it would be useful to know.  But do we really need a list here at all?  Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 13:18, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of towns (and villages) 

message: You might be familiar with this cartoon called "An Enquiry after Stretchit in Gloucestershire or the Sailors Reply" (version from the Royal Museum Greenwich, version from the British Museum).
But is there really a place called Stretchit in Gloucestershire or was it invented for the sake of the joke?
Contact Basemetal here 06:37, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there really a place called Stretchit in Gloucestershire? 

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message: There have been edits to the article to move 'Gloucester' into the 'West Midlands' region, with such edits being revoked.
Some evidence for south west includes:
* It has been that way in this article for some considerable time
* The BBC regional news considers it part of the south west region.
* Notice even the 'The West Country Challenge' section above this one.
If you feel Gloucester should be in the West Midlands then please provide citable evidence here so concensus can be reached.  Thankyou.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djm-leighpark (talk • contribs) 06:05, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: We seem to always use the European regions (even in situations where the name contradicts geography, like Oxfordshire being in the "south east"), so this shouldn't be controversial. --Inops (talk) 16:28, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not controversial.  South West England has been a government-recognised region of England since the 1990s (and de facto for several decades earlier).  It has always included Gloucestershire.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:53, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

text: Whilst Gloucestershire is in the South West region, your point about BBC regional news isn't true and is probably where the confusion stems from - Gloucester itself is part of the West Midlands TV region, and gets Midlands Today rather than Points West.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.163.190 (talk) 11:36, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  This BBC page suggests otherwise, though this suggests some overlap.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:54, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: BBC regions have more to do with transmitter coverage than political areas. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 14:58, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep. TV transmitter coverage doesn't respect lines on a map, it's influenced by things like hills. In certain parts of north Oxfordshire, you can pick up reasonably-strong TV signals from Oxford (South TV region), Sandy Heath (East) and Sutton Coldfield (Midlands). Oxfordshire is in South East England, most of which is covered by three TV regions - London, South (east of a line roughly joining Guildford and Littlehampton) and South East (east of that line). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:53, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gloucestershire - In South West Region 

message: The fact that Jackson once recorded a song mentioning Gloucestershire (see this edit) is not reliably sourced (WP:YT) and in any case is of no relevance whatever to an encyclopedia article about the county.  Agreed?   Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:20, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed Murgatroyd49 (talk) 10:39, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

text: Yep, it's WP:FANCRUFT. After all, we don't mention "The Elements" on our articles about antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, rhenium and 90+ others. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:11, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael Jackson 

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