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Square
Market Square
Market place where charter fairs were held; most surrounding buildings date from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Stow-on-the-Wold: things to do
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Things to do in Stow-on-the-Wold
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Monument
Market Cross
Late-medieval cross in the Market Square, restored in 1878, where Stow's market and fairs were held.
Historic building
The Talbot
Grade II listed building of about 1714 on the Square, built as a coaching inn and used as the corn exchange from the 1840s.
Gallery
Fosse Gallery
Commercial gallery on the Square showing contemporary art.
Chapel
Stow Baptist Chapel
Grade II listed chapel of 1852 on the site of an earlier meeting house, behind houses on Sheep Street.
Church
St Edward's Church
Parish church with yew trees at its north porch; hundreds of prisoners were held here after the Battle of Stow in 1646.
Memorial
Battle of Stow memorial
Marker recalling the Royalists' defeat on 21 March 1646, which ended in surrender in the Market Square.
Church
Our Lady and St Kenelm
Catholic church in a Tudor-style building of 1836 that began as a Church of England infant school.
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- Stow-on-the-Wold (area photo): Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Market Square: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Market Cross: Richard Law, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- The Talbot: Rodw, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Fosse Gallery: Rodw, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Stow Baptist Chapel: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- St Edward's Church: Gary Rogers, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Battle of Stow memorial: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Our Lady and St Kenelm: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bourton-on-the-Water: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Burford: bongo vongo, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Cirencester: Tony Grist, Public domain, source
- Chipping Campden: nick macneill, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Broadway: Jeff Gogarty, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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