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A city so old the Romans named it, then everyone forgot how to spell it.
means Gloucester is a cathedral city in southwest England, the county town of Gloucestershire, also lending its name to a famous cheese.
from The Romans founded a colony here and called it Glevum, a Latinised form of a Celtic name meaning roughly 'bright place.' Later English speakers tacked on Old English 'ceaster' — their borrowing of Latin 'castra,' a fort or camp — to mark it as a former Roman stronghold. The two fused into 'Gleawceaster,' which time worn smooth into 'Gloucester,' a word now spelled with a generosity of letters and pronounced with almost none of them ('GLOSS-ter').
- cheese rolling
- People chase a wheel down brutal Cooper's Hill yearly
- pronunciation
- Said gloss-ter, defying every letter present
- royal coronation
- Henry III was crowned here, not London
- cathedral fame
- Hosted Hogwarts corridors in the Harry Potter films
- docks revival
- Victorian warehouses now museums and waterside bars
gloucester cathedral — gothic cathedral in england founded 1089, famous for its cloisters and harry potter filming location
gloucester docks — historic port in gloucestershire, england, operational since the 14th century with victorian warehouses
gloucester old spot pig — british pig breed originating in gloucestershire, england, recognizable by black spots on white coat