Sights in Gloucester
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National Waterways Museum
The largest warehouse at the Gloucester Docks, Llanthony, is home to the National Waterways Museum, a hands-on kind of place where you can discover the history of Britain’s inland waterways. Among other boat-related topics, exhibitions cover the lives of ‘boat people’ – workers and their families who lived on narrowboats and moved goods up and down the intricate system of canals and rivers. Interactive hands-on displays include a model of a lock on a river, and you can scramble aboard a restored narrowboat moored outside to pretend that you, too, are a ‘boat person’.
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Gloucester Cathedral
The main reason to visit Gloucester is to see its magnificent Gothic cathedral, the first and best example of Perpendicular style. It was originally the site of a Saxon abbey, but a Norman church was built here by a group of Benedictine monks in the 12th century, and when Edward II was murdered in 1327, the church was chosen as his burial place. Edward’s tomb proved so popular, however, that Gloucester became a centre of pilgrimage and the income generated from the pious pilgrims financed the church’s conversion into the magnificent building seen today.
Inside, the cathedral skilfully combines the best of Norman and Gothic design with sturdy columns creating a sense of…
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Gloucester Folk Museum
This creaky-floored folk museum examines Gloucester domestic life, crafts and industries from 1500 to the present, its exhibits including the Civil War weaponry, a retro 1950s kitchen, and Black Dog – a beloved pub mascot. The museum is housed in a wonderful series of 16th- and 17th-century Tudor and Jacobean timber-framed buildings which used to belong to a merchant, an undertaker and a fishmonger.
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Historic Gloucester Docks
Once Britain's largest inland port, Gloucester docks feature restored Victorian warehouses and a series of shops, cafes and museums, including the excellent National Waterways Museum, a hands-on kind of place where you can discover the history of inland waterways. Boat trips along the canal are also available.
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House of the Tailor of Gloucester
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Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery
The bright, spacious city museum is a jolly romp through everything from dinosaur fossils, interactive natural-history section and Roman artefacts to paintings by the artists Turner and Gainsborough.
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Blackfriars
One of Britain's best-preserved 13th-century Dominican friaries.
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