Cleeve Common cross dyke

Nearest town:
Cheltenham (5km SW)
OS reference:
SO9867226282
OS sheet:
163
Latitude:
51° 56' 4.5 N
Longitude:
2° 1' 9.55 W
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Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

The dyke on the lip of the escarpment. The Malvern Hills form the skyline backdrop.

Image credit: A. Brookes (21.4.2020)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 27, 2020
Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

Looking towards Cleeve Hill summit. The hut circles are on the flat top of the common, to the left of the masts.

Image credit: A. Brookes (21.4.2020)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 27, 2020
Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

Looking east along the dyke towards Postlip Warren, with Winchcombe just visible above the left-hand slope of the hill.

Image credit: A. Brookes (21.4.2020)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 27, 2020
Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

Looking towards the dyke from the common to the south. The earthwork runs from the left-hand edge of the image (where the people are walking along it), sloping gently downwards across the hillside to the right-hand edge of the image (where the small clump of gorse grows on it). The northern summit of Cleeve Hill rises above, cut off from the rest of the common by the dyke.

Image credit: A. Brookes (21.4.2020)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 27, 2020
Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

Another of the hut circle-sized features on the common near the summit, picked out by helpfully growing thistles.

Image credit: A. Brookes (21.4.2020)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 27, 2020
Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

One of several hut circle sized features on the common, near the summit of Cleeve Hill.

Image credit: A. Brookes (21.4.2020)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 27, 2020
Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

One of several circular features (good hut circle sized) just below the cross dyke, as noticed by Mrs thelonious.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.3.2019)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 1, 2019
Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

Central section of the cross dyke, looking towards Cleeve Hill summit.

Image credit: A. Brookes (6.4.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 16, 2013
Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

At its western end, the ground drops away steeply. The village of Bishop’s Cleeve can be seen to the right, 250m metres lower than the hill.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.1.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 30, 2012
Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

Looking SE from the western end of the dyke. The highest point of Cleeve Hill, and the highest point in Gloucestershire, is just beyond the masts on the skyline.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.1.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 30, 2012
Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

Gap in the dyke, just below the high point of the hill. Don’t know if this was always an access point, the hill has been completely messed up by the golf course.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.1.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 30, 2012
Image of Cleeve Common cross dyke by thesweetcheat

The dyke snakes towards its highest point, below the northern summit of Cleeve Hill. Looking WSW.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.1.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 30, 2012

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Cleeve Common cross dyke

C
CARL May 11, 2012

Visited 5.5.12

I was a bit disappointed by this.

I was expecting a sort of Offa’s Dyke type construction but the section I saw was not much more than a shallow ditch.

I think my expectation levels were a bit high!
(At least I didn’t get hit by a golf ball)

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