Uleybury

Uleybury was named after Moses Bendle Garlick, a weaver who migrated from the village of Uley in Gloucestershire, England.  Garlick was a pioneer settler and lay preacher.  The hills district reminded him of his native Cotswold and he settled in the area.  Garlick named the area Uleybury - Uley being after his home village and bury being the name used in Gloucestershire for a tree-covered plateau.1

In 1851 Garlick built the Baptist Church known as Uley Chapel at a cost of £400.  Sadly the chapel and graves were vandalised quite badly during the 1970s and 1980s.  On 10 March, 1981, the church was demolished and today only a few headstones remain.  The front boundary wall that encloses the cemetery was made from the stone of the demolished chapel.  Garlick and early pioneers such as Barritt, Bowman, Ifould and McKenzie were buried in the cemetery.2

The Uleybury School was built in 1856 due to the efforts of Moses Bendle Garlick and was erected on land provided by John Parker Buttfield.  The school known as Uleybury was changed to One Tree Hill School in the 1940s and remained so until 1971 when a new school opened.  In 1979 the school building was reopened as a museum and is now open to the public.3