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Historic site in Gloucestershire, England
Dixton Manor
Part of Dixton Manor is visible between the trees.
LocationAlderton, Gloucestershire, England
Coordinates51°58′22″N 2°01′26″W / 51.97288°N 2.02395°W / 51.97288; -2.02395
Listed Building – Grade II*
Designated4 July 1960

Dixton Manor is a Grade II*-listed 16th-century manor house in the south of Alderton parish, Gloucestershire, England.

The manor was built for John Higford in 1555. In the nineteenth century, it was acquired by Samuel Gist. In 1962, it was purchased by Charles Hambro, Baron Hambro.

It has been listed Grade II* by English Heritage since 4 July 1960.

References

  1. ^ British Listed Buildings: Dixton manor
  2. ^ 'Parishes: Alderton with Dixton', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 6, ed. C R Elrington (London, 1965), pp. 189-197 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol6/pp189-197 .
  3. Charles Mosley (ed.), Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage, 1999, vol. 1, p. 1278


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