Ashton Keynes was known as AESCTUN in 800 AD and appeared in the Domesday book as ESSITONE in 1086. From Mediaeval times when this whole area was a Royal Forest, through the Civil War when Cirencester was held by Parliamentarians, through to modern times ordinary people have lived out their lives in Gosditch.

The School was built in this street in 1870 and a Primitive Methodist chapel was opened in 1840, but became a baker’’s shop later.

The Horse and Jockey was a “scrumpy house”, selling cider made from the apples from the orchards in the village. The Inn was the social centre of the community where dominoes were laid and gossip exchanged, and the hard times debated.

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