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The village contains a small number of listed buildings, including the grade II-listed Old Church Farm. Formerly known as Alveston Manor, it was originally built as a house for the Veel family in the late 16th century and features their coat of arms above the front door along with the year 1634. By
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The neighbouring Pypers estate also has a number of buildings and structures that are all grade II-listed. These include main house itself, originally built in the late 18th century with additions made in the 19th and 20th centuries and built in the
501:. The establishment took its name from Silverhill Brake, the road on which it was located, and was based there from 1949 until 1992. Since 1994 the former school building, known as Silverhill, has been home to a 478:
The only other listed building in Rudgeway is the Grade II Tockington Park Farmhouse. Built in the 17th century and extended in the nineteenth, its barn is said to contain a portion of Roman wall. A small former
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Within the grounds of Old Church Farm is the ruin of St Helen's Church, which is also grade II-listed. All that remains of the building now is the tower and a portion of the
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chapel, known as Ebenezer Chapel, was built in the village in 1896 and closed in 2001 and has since been converted into a private dwelling.
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the end of the 18th century it was being used as a farmhouse and in 1960 the property was purchased by the aircraft engine manufacturer
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in which the village resides as the 21,849th most deprived neighbourhood out of the 32,844 in England in terms of
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style, the entrance gates and surrounding piers and walls, and the stables and adjacent wall and piers.
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The Place-Names of Gloucestershire – Part Three: The Lower Severn Valley and The Forest of Dean
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known as the Ridge Way or Rudge Way which ran through it on the path now followed by the
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The village was formerly home to Silverhill School, an independent
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and is spread out along the upper edge of the escarpment above the
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The remains of the church are also a 1635:Villages in South Gloucestershire District 1008: 994: 546: 524:(numbered E00075103 and E00075104 by the 438: 960:"Indices of Deprivation: 2019 and 2015" 606: 577: 575: 436:and Alveston, to the north of Bristol. 344:in south west England, located between 1627: 392:. The road started in what is now the 989: 581: 416:Rudgeway is located in the parish of 572: 896:. 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A38 road
Rudgeway is located in Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
OS grid reference
ST626867
Unitary authority
South Gloucestershire
Ceremonial county
Gloucestershire
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
BS35
Dialling code
Police
Avon and Somerset
Fire
Avon
Ambulance
South Western
UK Parliament
Thornbury and Yate
UK
England
Gloucestershire

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