Blockley houses [2]
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Blockley houses [2]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 9 Jun 2010
Greystones, High Street, was built in the 18th century. Constructed of squared, coursed rubble under a stone slate roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1153423 Blockley is a large village in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, some 3 miles northwest of Moreton-in-Marsh. The village has its roots in the wool industry but it became a prosperous centre of the silk industry in the 18th and 19th centuries. The silk mills used the waters of the Brockley Brook, a tributary of Knee Brook which flows into the River Stour.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.008522
Longitude
-1.766706