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| The
Village of Cleeve Prior - History Page Click HERE for the Maps page Click HERE to view video of interviews about different aspects of the School, Church and Village |
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| The
Stone Age |
Celtic
Times |
Roman
Times |
Saxon Times | Norman Times | |||||||||||
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| Arrow-heads
and Axe- heads found. Hand axe, 150,000 years old, found in the
garden of Manor House. |
A
few Bronze age items have been found nearby |
Coins
found from Emperors Valerian, Valentinian I and III, Gratian,
Theodosius, Arcadius (400 - 411 AD) A Roman Road runs along the top of the cliff by the river |
Cleeve was given to the Church at Worcester by Ethelred, elder brother of King Alfred, in 872 AD. The Prior was the head of the church at Worcester (St Mary's) and he owned the land. | Domesday
Book ( AD 1086) mentions Cleeve Prior. |
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| Simon de Montfort | Tudor Times | Victorian Times | First
and Second World War |
Later
20th Century |
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| 1265
Battle of Evesham - Edward I's soldiers crossed at the Ford. |
After
the First World War when 11 people from the village had been killed,
the Memorial
Hall was built to remember them. There was a garrison stationed around Cleeve Prior in the Second World War. Read about the memories of the Second World War by following THIS LINK |
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