Bypassed in 1969 by a new main road, the village has returned to its
former
calm. For two years Coleridge lived here in a cottage now owned by the
National Trust; the poems he wrote in it include ‘The Ancient Mariner’
and
‘Kubla Khan’. Adjoining the local church is Stowey Court, a manor
house
dating in part from the 15th century, with a fine 18th-century gazebo
(garden
house). A stream flows down beside the road from the circular mound of a
ruined castle, and the houses stand behind little bridges over the
stream.
Dodington Manor House. 2 miles to the North—west, dates from 1581.
Above the village is Danesborough Camp, an oval high-banked prehistoric
earthwork. |
