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Withyfield Road, CHELTENHAM, GL52 8LF

Fieldgate House, Fieldgate Road, is a large house built in the late 18th or early 19th century with later additions. Constructed of squared, coursed limestone under a concrete tile roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1340173 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.

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's track passing behind the houses at Pine Bank.

Number 39 Priory Lane is a delightful Victorian cottage in brick with some fine bargeboards. 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.

Off Pecked Lane, Bishop's Cleeve. Seen from a train on the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway.

Woodmancote & District Branch of the Royal British Legion are based here, on a site which used to be used by the railway. Today there is a railway line on the other side of the fence on the right. This is used by the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, a heritage line. The route used to be part of the Great Western Railway's Cheltenham to Stratford on Avon & Birmingham line, which finally closed in the 1970's. The RBL branch incorporates the former Bishop's Cleeve branch, which closed in 1951. The Club building is actually just within Bishop's Cleeve. The village of Woodmancote is on the other side of the railway line.

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.

Seen from a train on the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway.

View southward, towards Cheltenham; ex-GWR Birmingham - Stratford-on-Avon - Honeybourne - Cheltenham - Gloucester - Bristol main line. Station closed to passengers 7/3/60 (goods 7/7/63). The line Honeybourne North Junction - Cheltenham Lansdown Junction last saw regular passenger trains 25/3/68, but continued as a freight route until Winchcombe accident on 25/10/76 closed line completely. Line restored by Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway in stages southwards from Toddington since 22/4/84, eventually through to Cheltenham Racecourse Station 28/12/00. However, Bishop's Cleeve station has not been restored.

There is no station now, although the railway has been resurrected as the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.