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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…

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…

Cobdens is typical of the former weavers cottages which were connected by a network of footpaths and typically had large gardens.Information on previous owners gained from documents: Identified in Lloyd George Survey 1910 as cottage and land and…

A tiny old cottage at the Frith (once part of a small group called the Wilkins), which dates back to the seventeenth century. (Katrina Thatcher).Rememberance of George Hunt: "Talking of our house, Frith Cottage, 'I don't remember it, but I've heard…

A Brief History by Stanley Gardiner and Leonard PalinThe Manor House of the ancient Denway, or Tunley, Estate - the two names were interchangeable. The oldest part of the house pre-dates 1339 when the inhabitants, Henry de Clyfford and Matilda his…

Duttons, a cottage near Waterlane, has remained largely unchanged since it was built nearly 200 years ago.

Information on previous owners gained from documents: Identified in Lloyd George Survey 1910 as House and land 377 Fairview House Description : Stone and tile house: 3 bedrooms, hall, sitting room, kitchen, dairy, scullery, pantry, washhouse, garden…

Identified in Lloyd George Survey 1910 as Whare - house and buildings 451 Description: Stone and tile house fair, bad roof: 4 bedrooms, 2 sitting rooms, kitchen and pantry,washhouse, coal house, EC, timber and galvanised lean-to shed, piggeries,…

The house of Alfred and Norman Bucknell.