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Latitude: 51.896 / 51°53'45"N
Longitude: -2.0815 / 2°4'53"W
OS Eastings: 394488
OS Northings: 221946
OS Grid: SO944219
Mapcode National: GBR 2MB.2L1
Mapcode Global: VH947.VLYV
Plus Code: 9C3VVWW9+CC
Entry Name: Pillar Box Outside Hanover House
Listing Date: 6 July 1977
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1387361
English Heritage Legacy ID: 475317
ID on this website: 101387361
Location: Bays Hill, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cheltenham
Electoral Ward/Division: Lansdown
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Cheltenham
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire
Church of England Parish: Leckhampton St Philip and St James
Church of England Diocese: Gloucester
Tagged with: Pillar box
CHELTENHAM
SO9421NW MONTPELLIER WALK
630-1/17/583 (West side)
06/07/77 Pillar box outside Hanover House
GV II
Pillar box. 1866-79. Cast-iron. Designed by JW Penfold.
Manufactured by Cochrane Grove Company of Dudley. Hexagonal
letter box with elaborate leaf decorated crest and lettering
'VR'. Cheltenham has 8 of the 94 surviving Penfold-type
Victorian pillar boxes reputed to remain in the country. There
are others in Bayshill Road (qv), College Lawn (qv), Douro
Road (qv), Evesham Road (qv), Lansdown Road (qv), Pittville
Circus Road (qv) and St Paul's Road (qv).
(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham:
1993-: 99; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork:
Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 68-9).
Listing NGR: SO9448821946
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