Dixton Manor is a Grade II*-listed 16th-century

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in the south of Alderton parish,

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, England. The manor was built for John Higford in 1555.British Listed Buildings: Dixton manor
/ref>'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 ccessed 5 May 2015 In the nineteenth century, it was acquired by Samuel Gist. In 1962, it was purchased by

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. Charles Mosley (ed.), ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', Crans, Switzerland:

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, 1999, vol. 1, p. 1278 It has been listed Grade II* by

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since 4 July 1960.

References

Grade II* listed buildings in Gloucestershire Houses completed in 1555 Hambro family {{UK-struct-stub