Bishops-Cleeve, a township and a parish in Gloucestershire. The township lies 1 1/2 mile E of Cleeve station on the M.R., and 3 1/2 miles N by E of Cheltenham. It has a post and money order office under Cheltenham, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 1297 ; population of civil parish, 646; of ecclesiastical, 1794. The parish includes also the hamlets of Gotherington, Woodmancote, Stoke-Orchard, and Southam and Brockhampton. Cleeve Hill, the highest point of the Cotswold range, has a crescent-shaped ancient British camp, a race-course, and exhibits brilliant scenery of cliff and wood. There are mineral springs. The Grange, Clevelands, and Southam House are the chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £600 with residence. The church is chiefly Norman, is cruciform and large, and contains some ancient monuments. The rectory was at one time the residence of the Bishops of Worcester. There is a chapel of ease at Stoke-Orchard, Congregational chapels at Stoke-Orchard and Gotherington, and chapels for the Countess of Huntingdon's connexion at Bishops-Cleeve and Woodmancote. The highest point of Cleeve Hill is 1083 feet. On the top is a valuable common of 1111 acres, waste land of the manors of Cleeve and Southam, over which the owners in Cleeve, Southam, and Woodmancote have commonable rights; it is now regulated by Act of Parliament, and there is a Board of Conservators.
