The Brake
The Brake is a forest in Naunton, Cotswold District, England. The Brake is situated nearby to the village Naunton, as well as near the hamlet Aylworth.Places of Interest
Highlights include Barton Bushes and St Andrew’s Church, Naunton.
Barton Bushes
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Barton Bushes is a 5.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1996. The site has local names being Barton Larches and Meadows Larches.
St Andrew’s Church, Naunton
Church
Photo: Derek Meek, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew's Church is an Anglican parish church in Naunton, Gloucestershire, dedicated to St Andrew the Apostle.
St Michael’s and All Angels Church, Guiting Power
Church
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.
St Michael's and All Angels Church is in the village of Guiting Power, Gloucestershire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Stow, the archdeaconry of Cheltenham and the diocese of Gloucester.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bourton-on-the-Water and Guiting Power.
Bourton-on-the-Water
Photo: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0.
Bourton-on-the-Water is famed for its picturesque High Street. Lying on the meandering River Windrush with several low arched stone bridges resulted in the village becoming known as "Venice of the Cotswolds".
Guiting Power
Village
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.
Guiting Power is a village and civil parish in the Cotswolds, in Gloucestershire, England. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 296. Guiting Power stands on the slopes of a small valley formed by a tributary of the River Windrush, mid-way between Cheltenham and Stow-on-the-Wold, and lies to the north of the parish church, which is located at Ordnance Survey grid reference SP 096246.
Barton
Hamlet
Photo: Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barton is a village in Gloucestershire, on the River Windrush, near Naunton. It appears in written records as Berton as early as 1287. The manor was acquired by the Knights Templar of Temple Guiting; in 1558 it was held by Maurice Rodney.
The Brake
- Type: Forest
- Location: Naunton, Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.9112° or 51° 54′ 40″ northLongitude
-1.8256° or 1° 49′ 32″ westOpen location code
9C3WW56F+FPOpenStreetMap ID
way 187292063OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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