Snowshill
| Snowshill | |
| Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
 Snowshill | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP096337 |
| Location: | 52°0’8"N, 1°51’38"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | WR12 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cotswold |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
The Cotswolds |
Snowshill is a small Cotswold village in northern Gloucestershire, located near Broadway, across in Worcestershire. The population at the 2011 census was 164.
Prehistory
An important early Bronze Age hoard was found outside Snowshill in the late nineteenth century. Excavated from a barrow in 1881, it includes a picrite battle-axe and bronze pin, dagger and spear-head. It has been dated to between 2100 and 1600 BC and is now in the British Museum.[1]
Snowshill Manor
Snowshill is best known for nearby Snowshill Manor, a National Trust property open to the public. The manor house contains an unusual collection of furniture, musical instruments, craft tools, toys, clocks, bicycles and armour, all collected by architect and craftsman Charles Paget Wade between 1900 and 1951. His Arts and Crafts-style gardens are arranged in an eccentric combination of terraces and ponds forming outdoor rooms, with bright colours and delightful scents.[2]
Snowshill Lavender
In Snowshill is 'Snowshill Lavender', a farm with 35 acres of lavender fields, which also sells lavender products, plants and local crafts.
Gallery
Snowshill Manor
Church of St. Barnabas
Snowshill Lavender
Snowshill
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Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Snowshill) |
- Snowshill Manor and Garden: information at the National Trust
- Snowshill Lavender
- Snowshill Tourist Information
References
- ↑ British Museum Collection
- ↑ "Snowshill Manor & Garden". Gloucestershire County Council. 2004. http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2016. Retrieved 2006-09-10.
