Bishop's Cleeve houses [24]
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Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 9 Nov 2021
St Michael's Cottage, Priory Lane, was built in the later 17th or early 18th century. Constructed of square-panelled timber framing with rendered and painted brick noggin set on a limestone plinth, all under a thatch roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1091697 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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