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Overview :Until the middle of the nineteenth century this was known as Twissells Mill after the family who had owned it since at least 1581. Mainly worked as a corn mill, it was equipped as a cloth mill in 1821. This building gives an idea of how…

The Peacey family were involved with Oakridge Chapel from the beginning. In 1784 the house of Thomas Peacey in Oakridge was registered for non-conformist meetings. Thomas Peacey's son John, born in 1776, has left an early account of the family. He…

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…

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…