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Title: Gorse Hill Post by: ronnie21 on Friday, January 8, 2010, 23:27:54 Drove through Gorse Hill about 7 pm. Half of Swindon's finest police were chasing about, dogs the lot. Anybody else see it or knows what was going down! Area around Majestic Wines seemed to be the hot spot!
Title: Re: Gorse Hill Post by: nochee on Saturday, January 9, 2010, 00:33:33 Buy 1 get 1 free maybe?
Title: Re: Gorse Hill Post by: Ardiles on Saturday, January 9, 2010, 12:38:09 Place names have always interested me. Wonder how long it has been since there was gorse on that hill.
Title: Re: Gorse Hill Post by: Bogus Dave on Saturday, January 9, 2010, 13:09:07 There isn't even much of a hill at gorse hill is there? A gentle incline at best
Title: Re: Gorse Hill Post by: leefer on Saturday, January 9, 2010, 13:23:26 There is a Gorse Hill in Leicester and Manchester....at least a dozen in England.
Although not in modern times due to house building and road building there would have once been a steep walk to the gorse on the hill....a walk from say old Drove Road to Gorse Hill would have been a fairly steep walk....while on local history Ferndale,s houses were built mainly by Welsh navvies and was named after Ferndale,a town in South Wales. Incidently the welsh had a bad name for undercutting the prices of even the irish during these times and wernt particularly liked! Title: Re: Gorse Hill Post by: BANGKOK RED on Saturday, January 9, 2010, 13:25:26 What, or whom, is a gorse anyway?
Title: Re: Gorse Hill Post by: leefer on Saturday, January 9, 2010, 13:29:01 http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/trees/images/gorse1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/trees/gorse.htm&usg=__ak9cmKuT5NKwEgNCaBNwe55Ideg=&h=340&w=542&sz=35&hl=en&start=16&um=1&tbnid=tMssLlBxyYgAHM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=132&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgorse%2Bpics%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:*:IE-Address%26rlz%3D1I7GPEA_en%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1
Basicly small hardy bushes...but once growing spreads rapidly. Title: Re: Gorse Hill Post by: ronnie21 on Saturday, January 9, 2010, 15:55:56 Armed robbery apparently. Majestic Wines.
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