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A History of the County of Gloucester
… lies on the west border of the hundred, 12 miles east of Cheltenham and five miles west of Stow-on-the-Wold, crossed by the River Windrush and the main road from Cheltenham to Stow. The southern part of the parish includes … bridge at the other end of the village. 51 The Banbury and Cheltenham Railway was built in 1881 52 across the southern …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Eastington, lies in the central Cotswolds 18 km. ESE. of Cheltenham and 16 km. NE. of Cirencester. A manor based there … of the county as the route from Gloucester and Cheltenham to Oxford and London. Earlier, however, it was of … 1376 as the way to Hampnett 36 and in 1576 as the way to Cheltenham. 37 Gloucester during the Middle Ages was probably …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… NOTGROVE The rural parish of Notgrove lies 16 km. east of Cheltenham and 10 km. south-west of Stowon-the-Wold and, for … on the south side of the main road from Gloucester and Cheltenham to Bourton-on-the-Water. It comprised 1,724 a. 1 … of Notgrove. On the north side of Notgrove the road from Cheltenham to Bourton-on-the-Water follows the route of an …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1806, states that visitors to Oxford and invalids going to Cheltenham mostly turned aside to look at it. 24 A branch of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… from Swindon to Kemble and Cirencester (Glos.) by the Cheltenham & Great Western Union Railway was opened in 1841 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Glos. ii. 404; G.E.C. Baronetage, iii. 173; cf. Horde, Cheltenham Spa, 17; Neale, Views of Seats, i. G.E.C. … Ibid. P 236/OV 2/1 and 2. B. & G. Par. Recs. 210. Horde, Cheltenham Spa, 17, referring to Lady Reade of Oddington Ho. …
A History of the County of Worcester
… At the point where this road crosses that from Evesham to Cheltenham and meets Crashmore Lane leading north to Overbury … village is situated on a branch road from the Evesham and Cheltenham road at about 100 ft. above the ordnance datum, … as a silver flagon of 1880, the gift of Miss Levett of Cheltenham. The registers previous to 1812 are as follows: …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Parishes Oxenton OXENTON Oxenton lies 5 miles north of Cheltenham on the west side of Oxenton Hill, a northern … damaged in a gale and remained in ruins in 1966. 21 The Cheltenham-Bredon road, running east of the village, was … were 4 main fields: the largest, Elmfield, lay west of the Cheltenham-Bredon road, with Furzon and Meadow Field north of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… on the Cotswold escarpment five miles north-north-east of Cheltenham and two and a half miles west of Winchcombe, was … the short southern boundary touched the turnpike road from Cheltenham to Winchcombe. The eastern boundary followed … it is crossed by the railway line 6 (built 19046) from Cheltenham to Honeybourne junction. 7 The parish lies on a …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… slopes of the Cotswold escarpment 1 mile north-east of Cheltenham. Prestbury, which in the Middle Ages had a market … and fair, 1 has been overshadowed by the growth of modern Cheltenham, and although the village centre has preserved its … 2 in the southern part of the parish, were transferred to Cheltenham Borough; 3 the account given here relates to the …