James Tucker in Cov

Gloucester is an old town on the banks of the Severn, in Western England. It was an old Roman town, and the four main streets (Southgate, Eastgate etc.) still run straight from the four gates to the central square, apparently on the old street-plan.
Gloucester has a small port at one end of the city that connects the Midlands canals with the sea via the Severn, and has some huge warehouses (being converted into condos, inevitably) to attest to that.
The main attraction in is the collection of churches, including a full set of old monastic ones, and the cathedral. Gloucester's cathedral has features from throughout the middle ages (see left, where Norman meets Gothic fairly inelegantly), but is probably most famous for its late High Gothic cloisters, which were used in the filming of Harry Potter films recently (right). The fan-vaulting on the ceiling is probably the first anywhere, though it was taken to greater heights on buildings like King's College Cambridge and the Henry VII chapel in Westminster. The ceiling in the nave is slightly earlier, but absolutely studded with gilded roof bosses and sculptures. Both the east windows are huge expanses of stained glass, and the choir is dark and richly decorated. And, there's a murdered King (Edward II) and a dispossessed one buried there too (William II's brother). The cathedral seems to have needed some pretty desperate repairs at some point, as there have been some extra buttresses tacked on here and there.
Still, the rest of the town, port and all, didn't seem anything too special, though that's what you get for going places in the rain, I guess. Summer by the river might have been a better option.