If you are looking for professional jewellers in or around Gloucestershire,
F. Hinds could be your choice!
You can visit any one of the following seven F. Hinds shops in Gloucestershire:
Our staff are looking forward to seeing you at your next visit to one of our stores.
Something about Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is named after its county town of Gloucester, originally the Roman town of Glevum, which is derived from the Celtic for 'bright place'.
The limestone mass of the Cotswold Hills dominates the centre of Gloucestershire and provides the charactericstic pale golden stone of many of its buildings.
Famous for
The Cheltenham Festival is the pre-eminent National Hunt racing meeting in Britain. Spread over four days in March, the Festival was established in 1902 and includes the Cheltenham Gold Cup Steeplechase. It is estimated that 18,000 bottles of champagne and 214,000 pints of Guinness are consumed during the Festival.
Berkeley Castle was completed in the 12th century and is still lived in by the same family. Its fame grew after Edward II died there in 1327 after he had been forced to abdicate - though there is no evidence to support the accounts of some of the more extreme methods by which it is suggested he was murdered.
The Slimbridge Wetland Centre was founded in 1946 by Peter Scott, the first reserve in the world to protect the wetland environment so essential for wildfowl. It now has the world's largest collection of swans, geese and ducks.
Famous people
John Keble, Anglican priest, founder of the Oxford Movement, born Fairford, 1792.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, born Down Ampney, 1872.
Sir Ralph Richardson, actor, born Cheltenham, 1902.
Frederick Sanger, biochemist and Nobel Prize winner, born Rendcombe, 1918.
David Hemery, Olympic athlete, born Cirencester, 1944.