Official Name: | Seend Cleeve |
Static Image Name: | Seend Cleeve.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Main road of Seend Cleeve, with the village's only red telephone box visible in the background |
Coordinates: | 51.348°N -2.101°W |
Os Grid Reference: | ST931610 |
Civil Parish: | Seend |
Unitary England: | Wiltshire Council |
Lieutenancy England: | Wiltshire |
Region: | South West England |
Country: | England |
Constituency Westminster: | Devizes |
Post Town: | Melksham |
Postcode District: | SN12 |
Postcode Area: | SN |
Dial Code: | 01380 |
Website: | Parish Council |
Seend Cleeve is a large hamlet or sub-village immediately west of Seend in Wiltshire, England. It lies about 2.3miles southeast of the town of Melksham.
A Primitive Methodist chapel with Sunday school was built in 1841 at Seend Cleeve.[1] [2] In 1849, the chapel was rebuilt in red brick with ashlar quoins.[1] The chapel closed in 1979 and was converted into a private house in 2012.[1]
Seend Cleeve Quarry was a source of brown haematite; since 1987 the quarry has been a Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. There was an ironworks in the second half of the 19th century, and quarrying continued until 1946.[3]
Seend Cleeve has two public houses: the Barge Inn[4] on the Kennet and Avon Canal, and the Brewery Inn.