Garden Cottage

Title

Garden Cottage

Description

Previous names of the cottage : Rodbrow/Rodborough Wood Cottage

Information on previous owners gained from documents :
Samuel Clissold (1)
Thomas Clissold
Samuel Clissold (2)
Samuel Clissold (3) of Prestbury

John Bucknell of Lillyhorn agreed to pay Samuel Clissold (2) £20 for cottage, but no conveyance recorded This is regularised by payment of 5/- 

1813 John Bucknell of Oakridge, weaver 
1819 Thomas Davis of Chalford, clothworker buys for £65 1834 Isaac Twissell of Oakridge, carpenter (with mortgage from Thomas Davis) buys for £74 
1869 Enclosure plots 383 and 384 appear to be Rodbrow Wood and ownership of strip of land adjoining road awarded to Mary Phelps. 
1885 OS map plot no 897 
1910 Ellen Twissel (Lloyd George survey)
Miss Stella Tanner 
1994 Mrs V Mills

Information on occupants from documents and reminiscences of local people: 
1813 William Keary 
1819 John Herbert 
1834 Isaac Twissell 
1910 John Tanner and family 
1950 Ivor Gardiner

1910 Lloyd George survey (plot 398) “Stone and tile cottage: 4 bedrooms, sitting room, kitchen pantry, scullery, stone and tile washhouse, pigsty and EC, lean-to and galvanised pigsty, garden”

Source

Oakridge History Group

Collection

Citation

“Garden Cottage,” Oakridge Archives, accessed May 4, 2024, https://oakridgearchives.omeka.net/items/show/111.

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