West Country Quiz with Gerry Brooke ; a Battle of the Roses

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1. Which god was worshipped at Lydney Park's Roman temple? 2. Where was the ancient Forest of Selwood? 3. Where will you find the villages of Steeple, Little and Hanging Langford? 4. Poet Rupert Brooke published his War Sonnets from this Gloucestershire village. Which one? 5. Which literary father and son lived at Combe Florey in the Quantocks? 6. The great 19th century cricketer Sidney Kitcat was born in this Cotswold town. Which one? 7. The actress Helena Bonham- Carter's grandmother, Lady Violet, is buried in this Somerset village. Where? 8. Marconi used this hill, near Salisbury, for his telegraphic experiments. Can you name it? 9. Where in the West will you find the only perfumery exhibition in the UK? 10. One of the fiercest battles in the Wars of the Roses was fought in Gloucestershire in 1471. Where? 8) Pepperbox Hill. 9) Bourton-on- the-Water. 10) Tewkesbury.

Answers 1) Nodens. 2) On the borders of Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire. Longleat Woods is a remnant. 3) Near Salisbury.

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West Country Quiz with Gerry Brooke ; a Battle of the Roses

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