Syde

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Syde
Gloucestershire
Syde Church - geograph.org.uk - 584521.jpg
Syde Church
Location
Location: 51°47’46"N, 2°4’30"W
Data
Post town: Cheltenham
Postcode: GL53
Dialling code: 01242
Local Government
Parliamentary
constituency:
Cotswold

Syde, often in the past spelt Side, is a small village and parish in the Rapsgate hundred of Gloucestershire. It lies in the Cotswolds, near the source of the River Frome, some six miles north-west of Cirencester and seven miles east of Painswick.

There is a Church of England parish church dedicated to St Mary.[1]

The principal house is Syde Manor, a listed building which dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, built of stone rubble with a Cotswold stone roof and gables. Some of its mullioned windows have unusual three-centred arches at their heads. The front of the house which has the main entrance was added in the late 18th or early 19th century.[2]

History

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) says of Side (as it spelt the name):
SIDE, a parish in the hundred of Rapsgate, county Gloucester, 7 miles N.W. of Cirencester, its post town, and 7 E. of Painswick. The parish, which is of small extent, is situated near the Roman Ermine Street. The surface is hilly. The soil consists of stonebrash and gravel, with a rocky subsoil. There is no village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £126. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small stone edifice, with a tower and three bells. The parochial charities produce about £2 per annum. John Hall, Esq., is lord of the manor.[3]
John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-1872) says:
SIDE, or Syde, a parish in Cirencester district, Gloucester; 7½ miles NW by N of Cirencester r. station. Post town, Winstone, under Cirencester. Acres, 614. Real property, £886. Pop., 55. Houses, 11. The manor belongs to J. Hall, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £126. Patron, J. Hall, Esq. The church is good.[4]

Notes

  1. St Mary, Syde - Church of England at genuki.org.uk, accessed 25 November 2013
  2. Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Vol. 40 (1970), p. 446
  3. The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
  4. Syde at visionofbritain.org.uk, accessed 25 November 2013