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Cossack Square, STROUD, GL6 0DG

It wasn't possible to see if he still had snow on his boots.

Dating from the mid 17th century, set back from the southwest side of Chestnut Hill. A nearby board shows QUAKER MEETING HOUSE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) MEETING FOR WORSHIP held here followed by details of the worship times. The building was Grade II listed in 1951 (as Friends Meeting House, Nailsworth)

The meeting house is set back from the road, Chestnut Hill, in a yard, now called Quakers' Close and laid out with a garden. The building dates from the early 1680s, when Friends, as Quakers call themselves, were emerging from the period of severe persecution by the state following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, and were now able to build places of worship for themselves. These were called meeting houses, never 'churches' (which the founder of the Quakers, George Fox, dismissed as 'steeple houses'), as Quakers accepted no ordained ministry or priesthood and no programmed religious rites. The meeting house is built in Cotswold limestone in the local, vernacular style and has been in continuous use as a place of worship since 1689 at the latest. Early Quakers worshipped in homes and it is not clear whether this building was purpose-built or converted from an existing farm building. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1299075

Gabled Cotswold house, built c1700, viewed across Chestnut Hill. Grade II* listed in 1951.

The office of WSP (Winterbotham Smith Penley LLP) is located in Cossack Square. Their website states that WSP Solicitors was established by the merger of three local firms that had been providing legal advice in Gloucestershire for more than two centuries: Winterbothams, A E Smith & Son and Penleys. Penleys LLP was one of the oldest legal firms in the South West, established in Dursley by John Vizard in 1758. Family member William Vizard represented Queen Caroline when King George IV tried to divorce her.

At the edge of Chestnut Hill.

On the corner of Chestnut Hill and Chestnut Close (ahead). The white arrow on the sign on the left points towards the Quaker Meeting House. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4780987

The white-frontaged properties in the centre are in Market Street http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/978171 The building at the left is in Cossack Square http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1042363

Bar and restaurant in Cossack Square, on the corner of Horsley Road and New Market Road.

The signpost is on the corner of Newmarket Road and Chestnut Hill. Wild Garlic http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4776872 is in the background.