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BISHOP'S CLEEVE, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"BISHOP'S CLEEVE, a parish in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Gloucester, 3 miles to the N. of Cheltenham, its post town. It is a station on the Bristol and Birmingham section of the Midland railway. The parish includes the hamlets of Gotherington, Stoke Orchard, Southam with Brockhampton, and Woodmancott.

The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, of the value of £1,574, in the patronage of the Rev. W. L. Townsend, incumbent. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a large ancient structure in the form of a cross, with a central tower of modern erection, and exhibits various styles of architecture, from the Saxon downwards. It has a fine Norman arch at the west end, and contains monuments of a crusader, and of the De la Veres of Southam House. [Just for the record it's 'De la Beres' elsewhere - which is also the present spelling -RL 2003]

The rectory house was formerly a residence of the bishops of Worcester, to whom the village belonged. On Cleeve Hill is a large ancient entrenchment, of a crescent shape, supposed to be a British work. On the same hill the Cheltenham races annually take place. There are mineral springs in the vicinity."

"BROCKHAMPTON, a hamlet in the parish of Bishop's Cleeve, hundred of Cleeve, in the county of Gloucester, 3 miles to the N. of Cheltenham. It is joined with the hamlet of Southam."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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