Trivia
- Mikael Pedersen invented the Pedersen bicycle in Dursley in the 19th Century.
- Dursley once had a castle, built by Roger de Berkeley in 1153.
- Harry Potter author JK Rowling, born in nearby Yate, named the Dursley family in the Potter books after the town.
- It is claimed that William Shakespeare may have spent part or all of the eight years between 1582 and 1590, a period of his life of which little is known, in Dursley, possibly working as a school teacher.
- The writer Evelyn Waugh lived in nearby Stinchcombe between 1937 and 1956.
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