Stow-on-the-Wold Farmer's Market

Plan your walking tour to visit the market on the second Thursday in the month.
This month enjoying April showers but in warmer temperatures - spring is coming!

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Anne
Walk the Landscape

Gypsy Horse Fair, Stow-on-the-Wold - 12th May 2011

In 1476, King Edward IV chartered the fair at Stow-on-the-Wold. Today, the fair is held in the fields between Stow and Maugersbury twice a year, on the Thursdays nearest to the 12th May and 14th October.

Gypsies and travellers from all over the UK meet there, travelling in traditional caravans but more often in motor homes and four-by-fours - and their horses in boxes. The stalls sell everything the modern traveller could desire, from horses and vans to furniture, crockery, shoes, hair decoration and even wedding cakes.

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Doubts over the location of the Battle of Stow

The Battle of Stow is one of our most popular walks, but the exact site of the battle has been questioned by experts from as far back as 2002.

The monument, on the ridge near Donnington about two miles north of Stow, was placed in it's current position in line with local hearsay and following discovery of lead shot by a local landowner. The farmer has since died and the shot is lost so its now impossible to verify its authenticity.

Historians consider the site to be too far off the Royalist route from Evesham to Oxford and too far from the town of Stow. It's in a poor defensive position as Royalist foot soldiers would have been overtaken by Parliamentary cavalry in any retreat.

The Stow Civic Society, English Heritage and the Battlefields Trust are applying for a grant of £50,000 to survey the area with metal detectors and are calling for volunteers to help with the various activities associated with the project.

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