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Photographs L - R 1. Butchers Arms Sign 2. The Butchers Arms 3. The Butchers Arms 4. Frank Gardiner, Landlord of the Butcher's Arms in his garden in the 1930's5. The Butchers Arms, 2014This eighteenth-century pub was previously a butcher's shop and…

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…

The Story of Oakridge Methodist Chapel Like so many of our hillside villages, Oakridge Lynch has its origin in a few houses built round the upper part of a combe, a depression in the face of the hill down which runs a stream, the natural water supply…

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…

The pub closed in 1969 and the last landlady was Mrs. Hawkins. Kellys Directory lists the following Publicans :1894/David Phillips 1902/Thomas Hill 1906/Thomas Hill 1910/Thomas Hill 1923/Thomas Hill 1927/Leonard Parslow 1939/Chas W Hewer

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…

Photographs L - R, T - B 1. The Bricklayers Arms c. 1911 before it became The Daneway. This picture was taken by Gerald Drummond, who never returned from the First World War. 2. The DanewayThe Bricklayer's Arms, now the Daneway :Originally built as…

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