The Mythe
The Mythe is a house built on the top of a hill overlooking the town of Tewkesbury, England. There has been a house on the site for nearly a thousand years. The Mythe is the name of the house but it also the name of the surrounding area, about 4 square miles (10 km2), which includes Mythe Chapel. The main road going through it is the A38 or the "Mythe Road". "Mythe" in Old English means the joining of two rivers.
The house now standing on the plot is an early Georgian house that was built in 1753. This house was later bought by the Marquis de Lis. When he bought it he had a Gothic facade put on the front and the sides of the building. He later added a servants' quarters on the back.
King John's Castle is the surviving fragment of an earlier house, comprising a medieval former staircase tower adjoining a Tudor building. There is no firm evidence for a castle on the site.[1]
On the south wall of the church of Studley St Mary, Warwickshire is the following: Sir Francis Lyttelton
The Mythe is now a sheep and arable farm that has also diversified into events.
In Frome, Somerset there is a Victorian gothic house called Mythe House which is a house on the top of a hill too (Butts Hill) the house overlooks the town of Frome. The house was built in the 1700s and the name 'Mythe House' is carved in stone on the front of the house.
There is The Mythe located in the Parish of