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Millham Road, CHELTENHAM, GL52 8BB

Housing on the northern edge of Bishop's Cleeve.

Suburban road in this dormitary village at the foot of Nottingham Hill.

Cottage. C17. Square-panelled timber framing with limestone rubble and unpainted brick infill, on a limestone rubble plinth; gable end facing road limestone rubble and weatherboarded gable; thatched roof with decorative ridge thatching; red brick stack.

Number 79 Station Road is a 17th century cottage with a later, unsympathetic extension. Constructed of square-panelled timber framing with rubble and brick noggin, set on a rubble stone plinth with the gable end to the street in rubble stone and weatherboarded, all under a thatch roof. There is another view of the cottage at Image Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1091701 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.

Number 79 Station Road is a 17th century cottage with a later, unsympathetic extension. Constructed of square-panelled timber framing with rubble and brick noggin, set on a rubble stone plinth with the gable end to the street in rubble stone and weatherboarded, all under a thatch roof. There is another view of the cottage at Image Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1091701 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.

There are some older houses in this road but the village lost its station in March 1960. Although the line has been relaid by the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, a heritage line, there are currently no plans for a station in the village.

From Station Road, this footpath leads to Priory Lane. 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.

Newly built houses, viewed from a passing train on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway on a lovely mid-October day.

This is an extension of the village northwards into former farm land.

A very good indication of the arrival of Spring, are the trees at the bottom of Millham Road in Bishop's Cleeve. They look splendid when they are in full blossom.