Bishop's Cleeve houses [13]
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Bishop's Cleeve houses [13]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 9 Nov 2021
The Priory, Station Road, is a large house probably built in the mid 17th century with alterations in the late 18th or early 19th century. Constructed of squared, coursed limestone under a roof partly of stone slate and partly of artificial stone slate. Some early internal features and fittings remain. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1091703 Bishop's Cleeve is a large village in Gloucestershire. It lies at the foot of Cleeve Hill, the highest point of the Cotswolds, some 3½ miles north of Cheltenham. Although Iron Age and Roman remains have been found locally, the earliest known origins of the village date to the 8th Century. A monastery and surrounding land was given to the Bishop of Worcester, and the village became the Bishop’s Cliffe. The village grew rapidly when an aerospace factory was built nearby after the Second World War and continues to grow.
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51.948572
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