Ross in winter sun
Ross has two Gloucester Roads
Ross has two Gloucester Roads - Gloucester Road and Old Gloucester Road - as a result of George IV's carriage being held up by a farmer's cart in the town's narrow streets. He demanded the town widen its roads or be removed from the lucrative mail route, so the town acquiesced and built a new road out towards Gloucester.
10 things to know about Ross
John Kyrle was the 'man of Ross' Alexander Pope's poem 'The Man of Ross' is about John Kyrle, the local philanthropist, whom Pope saw as 'an example to greater and wealthier men how they ought to use their fortunes.' A monument to Kyrle can be found …more
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