Salperton

Salperton
Village

All Saints Church
Salperton
Salperton shown within Gloucestershire
OS grid reference SP0719
Civil parish
  • Hazleton
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Cheltenham
Postcode district GL54
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Salperton is a village in the Cotswolds about 8 miles (13 km) east of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. It is also known as Cold Salperton, owing to its exposed position.[1]

History

The Church of England parish church of All Saints is Norman, with some Early English Gothic windows and a Perpendicular Gothic porch.[2]

Tudor House is a Cotswold stone house built in the 16th or 17th century.[3] The Old Bell Inn is Georgian, with a date-stone of 1752.[3]

Salperton Park is a country estate. Its country house was designed by Richard Pace and built in 1817.[3]

Sources

  • Herbert, N.M. (ed.); Davidson Cragoe, Carol; Jurica, A.R.J.; Williamson, Elizabeth (2001). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 9. pp. 155–166.
  • Verey, David (1970). The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 385–386. ISBN 0-14-071040-X.

References

  1. ↑ Carol Davidson Cragoe, A R J Jurica and Elizabeth Williamson, 'Parishes: Salperton', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 9, Bradley Hundred. The Northleach Area of the Cotswolds, ed. N M Herbert (London, 2001), pp. 155-166. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol9/pp155-166 [accessed 9 September 2018].
  2. ↑ Verey, 1970, page 385
  3. 1 2 3 Verey, 1970, page 386

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