Talk:Marshfield, Gloucestershire

The title is wrong, can some person please change it to Marshfield (South Gloucestershire). In explanation, if a place is in South Gloucestershire that does not mean that the place is in the south of Gloucestershire! Confusing!!

This arises because, thanks to a remarkably silly piece of naming, South Gloucestershire is an entirely separate local government area to Gloucestershire and is not governed in any way from the Gloucestershire County Coucil HQ in Gloucester. It merely shares a similar name. In other words, when driving away from Marshfield, you will soon see a sign on the road saying Gloucestershire! In other words, Marshfield cannot be (and is not) in Gloucestershire.

Fnally, have a look at a county map of England where Glos and South Glos are clearly different places.

If this process of labelling places in South Gloucestershire as being in Gloucestershire continues, then Wikipedia is going to look an amateur piece of work for those who live in the area, and will tell a lie to those who don't - Adrian Pingstone 09:31, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

This issue wastes many person-hours. Marshfield is in the traditional county of Gloucestershire, and shares eg its Lord-Lieutenant and archive facilities with the GCC. Whether this suffices for WP purposes depends (I think) on whether South Glos UA is a district or a county in status. Well, it's a district inside a 'shadow county'... Linuxlad 21:57, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Can anyone give me some advice on how this page should be cleaned up? I've got loads to put in and want to make a good job of it. Cuzzer1202 13:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

August 2007. There still exists the issue of South Glos and Glous as the correct county for this entry. Marshfield is in South Glos which is nothing to do with the county of Glouscestershire. How do we remove the cleanup tag???? and sort the matter out??? Help 88.111.10.56 22:16, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Can the editor who provided the image for Marshfield county in south glos have a good look at the image. It seems to suggest that Marshfield is in Gloucestershire and not South Glous. It needs a clear up please. 16/08/07 Cuzzer1202 22:27, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Pre-history

Hi

Can someone add some information about the pre-historic side of Marshfied? At least mentioning the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age sites that have been located through field walking as well as excavation. The area is littered with activity right through to the Romano-British period, it's only Saxon evidence which is scarce. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Microluv (talk • contribs) 14:16, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Bury Wood Camp

Bury Camp

The camp itself is actually not Roman but Middle to late Iron Age. Bury Wood is a multivallate hill for dating from the middle to late Iron Age. Excavations on the site showed that an earlier structure existed on the north side, indicated by revetments within the northern rampart. Phase two seeing a further development of the general size of the camp and its enclosure along with the construction of substantial earthworks around the perimeter. Evidence of burning at one of the entrances is thought to have been due to a Roman attack, though this has never been fully proved. All we know is that after the Roman occupation, the hill fort seems not to have been in use and smaller RB settlements were established in the area. One of these areas being Marshfield, where there is evidence of Romano-British farmsteads scattered around the landscape. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.76.136.201 (talk) 14:06, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Mummers

If one of you people from the great wide world, manage to find the lyrics to the Mummers Play. DO NOT EDIT THEM ON TO THE PAGE. The lyrics of the play on boxing day are secret and should not be written down, ANYWHERE. I am a Marshfield boy myself and I know that the Lyrics should not be written down. I am awhere of the youtube clip of half of the play, and I am against it completly. This is a plea from a Marshfield Boy himself. Don't write down the words. Hoborobo234 (talk) 09:23, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Mummers

I take your point about the play, but the script does not have its origins in Marshfield alone! If you look back through records, you will see that folklore dictates it belongs to many villages and there are many variations of the script and storyline. The origins of the script in Marshfield date only to the 1930's when it was resurrected and written down by memory after the previous member of the Church had outlawed the performance as being Pagan!

So what we see today is only a 'guess' at what might have been.