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Pittville Places<\/strong><\/span>

the streets and houses of Pittville<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPittville Places\u201d is the hub for information about houses, other structures, and places in Pittville. As the site develops, we will include here details of individual houses on the estate, as a counterpoint to \u201cPittville Lives\u201d, which documents the lives of the people who lived in Pittville\u2019s houses in the past. See also Cheltenham Borough Council’s comprehensive Cheltenham Local Development Framework (Pittville Character Area Appraisal and Management Plan<\/a>)<\/em> (July 2008), with special reference to the area map (p. 7) and the historical commentary from p. 16.
Maps<\/strong>: see the Pittville section of the Old Town Survey<\/a> of 1855-7 on this site or click any of the map icons.<\/span><\/center><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Clarence Road <\/em><\/strong>

Clarence Road runs from the top of Winchcombe Street along to Clarence Square at the south of the Pittville estate. It was developed in the early 1830s, generally following the line of an old through route, Sandy Lane, and acquired its present name in 1890. It includes the former Pittville Terrace (in which the Holst family lived for a decade from the mid 1870s) and the three Sussex Villas, both on the south side of the road. See the Holst Victorian House<\/a> web site for more information on the Holst family at 4 Clarence Road.

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Browse through the 1861 census return for Robert Chapman<\/a> (\u201cdealer in horses\u201d), who lived at no. 6 Pittville Terrace (now no. 6 Clarence Road) with his family and three servants.


Clarendon Villas <\/em><\/strong>[now even nos. 6-14 Pittville Lawn]

The five houses which constituted Clarendon Villas were located just inside Pittville Gates, on the western side opposite Segrave Place<\/em>. Building started in 1848, and the houses were first listed in the Cheltenham Annuaire<\/em> directory of 1849.


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Read about the poet, writer, and composer Charlotte Price<\/a>, who lived at no. 4 Clarendon Villas for many years in the nineteenth century.


Evesham Road<\/em><\/strong>

The construction of a new road to Birmingham, through Evesham and Alcester, was enabled by an Act of Parliament in 1810; the new route via Bishop’s Cleeve was appreciably shorter than the older route through Prestbury. The road name is found from 1820. Later it had the alternative name Cleeve Road <\/em>(both names were used until at least 1884). The residential part of the Pittville section of the road was first developed between 1825 and 1844 (Blake). Nos 2 to 34 (even numbers) were originally named Pittville Parade; nos 3 to 11 (odd numbers) were originally Caledonia Terrace and then (by 1841) Blenheim Terrace or Blenheim Parade. The larger houses to the left of the road heading north towards the West Lake were mostly built later in the nineteenth century, except for Saxham Villas (now 108 and 110 Evesham Road), which were first occupied in the later 1840s.
House details and stories<\/strong>: Evesham House<\/a>, The Grange<\/a> (formerly Marle Hill House).<\/span>


Pittville Lawn <\/a><\/em><\/strong>

Today Pittville Lawn is the central road running up the spine of the Pittville estate from the Gates in the south up to the lake. Its original name was Central Carriage Drive<\/em>, though the name Pittville Lawn <\/em>was in use from 1834. Development of the road continued until 1849.

The present Pittville Lawn has three sections: