FRAMPTON SCARECROW COMPETITION

FRAMPTON SCARECROW COMPETITION

ENTRY BY STONEHOUSE ROTARY

 FAIR ROSAMUND

ROSAMUND CLIFFORD WAS BORN SOME TIME BEFORE 1150 AND BECAME KNOWN AS ‘THE FAIR ROSAMUND’ OR ‘THE ROSE OF THE WORLD’.   ROSAMUND BEING DERIVED FROM THE LATIN ROSA MUNDI MEANING ROSE OF THE WORLD.

SHE WAS FAMED FOR HER BEAUTY AND BECAME THE MISTRESS OF HENRY II OF ENGLAND.

ROSAMUND CLIFFORD HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE VILLAGE OF FRAMPTON-ON-SEVERN, FOR CENTURIES.  THIS VILLAGE GREEN (BELIEVED TO BE THE LONGEST IN ENGLAND) HAS BEEN KNOWN AS ROSAMUND’S GREEN, SINCE THE 17TH CENTURY.

IN MORE RECENT TIMES, THIS POND BECAME KNOWN AS ‘ROE’S POOL’.

ROSAMUND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN THE DAUGHTER OF WALTER DE CLIFFORD AND HIS WIFE MARGARET. HENRY PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED HIS LIAISON WITH ROSAMUND, IN 1174.

WHEN THE AFFAIR ENDED, ROSAMUND RETIRED TO GODSTOW ABBEY, WHERE SHE DIED, NOT THIRTY YEARS OLD.

ROSAMUND CLIFFORD WAS REPUTEDLY ONE OF THE GREAT BEAUTIES OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY AND INSPIRED BALLADS,POEMS,STORIES AND PAINTINGS (AND NOW A SCARECROW CONTESTANT)

WHY NOT REST AWHILE ON THIS SEAT, FUNDED BY THE GARDENERS OF FRAMPTON AND INSTALLED BY STONEHOUSE ROTARY.

SHARE THE VIEW OF ‘ROE’S POOL’ WITH THE BEAUTIFUL MISTRESS IT WAS NAMED AFTER.

PERHAPS EVEN TAKE A ‘SELFIE’ TO REMEMBER THE OCCASION.

P.S. DONT FORGET TO VISIT FRAMPTON HIDDEN GARDENS

DURING THE AFTERNOON OFSUNDAY 19TH JUNE

Admirers Gill Rogers and Bryan Webster from Stonehouse Rotary