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  • Collection: Homes and Farms

Bishop Cottage
Information on previous owners gained from documents: Identified in Lloyd George Survey 1910 as cottage 428Description: Stone and tile cottage: 2 bedrooms, living room, scullery, lean-to washhouse, garden, EC, well Owner 1910 : Sarah Ann Chapman…

The Old Mill, Mill House & Blandfords
Identified in Lloyd George Survey 1910 as Cottage and land 391 Description: Stone and slate cottage: 3 bedrooms, living room, kitchen and pantry, lean-to washhouse, garden, hovel and EC Occupier 1910: George Halliday Owner 1910 : Henry Hunt from…

Bowns Pool, Bournes Green
Linda Hall, Author of ''Period House Fixtures and Fittings 1300 - 1900' has viewed Bownes Pool and set out her observations :The house is set at right angles to the road and is built on a level platform cut out of the hillside. It faces east down to…

Identified in Lloyd George Survey 1910 as cottage and land in ruins 436 Description: Stone and tile cottage: 2 bedrooms, sitting room, kitchen and scullery, lean-to washhouse, lean-to galvanised coal house, garden, EC, fowl run. Cottage renovated in…

Cave Cottage on the right with Cobdens behind
Information on previous owners gained from documents : 1779 John Vincent, tailor, of Oakridge Lynch sells property “having a cottage or tenement of John Stephens on the north west side, a cottage of John Hunt on the north side thereof and Oakridge…

Identified in Lloyd George Survey 1910 as Cottage and land 376 Chapel House Description: Trustee secretary. Stone & tile cottage in only fair repair. 2 bedrooms, sitting room,kitchen and pantry, lean-to stone & tile washhouse and shed, garden…

Information on previous owners gained from documents :The plot on which Cherryoaks is built was, until 1971, part of a plot of land which was attached to Cave Cottage. There are therefore details included in the Cave Cottage records which relate to…

Oakridge late 1800's. Mary Twissel's Cottage in Twissels Hill on the site now occupied by Clare Cottage. Presumably it is Mary sitting at the door. She lived here with her brother Benjamin and died a spinster aged 76 in 1904. Benjamin died the following year, aged 68, following a fall from a haystack. The cottage was sold and renovated in 1910.
Oakridge late 1800's. Mary Twissel's Cottage in Twissels Hill on the site now occupied by Clare Cottage. At that time the cottage was possibly called Golygfa Hardd (beautiful scene).Presumably it is Mary sitting at the door. She lived here with her…
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