Oaklands Park, Awre / Lower Soudley / Newnham (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Thursday, February 11, 2010, 06:50 (5206 days ago) @ logosthedestroyer

OAKLANDS PARK, a mansion set in parkland, was built just north-east of Oaklands Farm in the early 19th century. Sir James Jelf. formerly a Gloucester banker and a partner in the nearby Bullo Pill tramroad, (fn. 81) apparently built it; he was living there in 1818 (fn. 82) and in the 1820s, when he ran a marble works at Bullo Pill. (fn. 83) In 1830 Oaklands was offered for sale together with 26 a. of wood and a farm of 100 a. (fn. 84) but Jelf still owned the house and its park in 1839. (fn. 85) About 1850 the house, park, and adjoining land, including Oaklands farm, were bought by the ironmaster Henry Crawshay, (fn. 86) who was living at Oaklands Park by 1856. (fn. 87) He died in 1879 and his widow Liza Eliza owned Oaklands Park until her death in 1895. (fn. 88) In 1899 it was sold to William Gwynne-Evans of Fordham (Essex), (fn. 89) whose family owned it until 1976.

The house and park were bought then by the Camphill Village Trust, a charity for the care of mentally retarded adults; in 1989 the occupants were employed in craft work and in the large kitchen garden attached to the house. (fn. 90) The original house, built by 1818, survives as a low wing at the north end of the present house; it was refitted c. 1830. (fn. 91) Some adjacent outbuildings and the lodge on the main road at the parish boundary are contemporary with it. About 1850 Henry Crawshay built a large new house in Renaissance style. It has a main block of two tall storeys with principal fronts to the north-east and south-east and a service block, of the same height but incorporating three storeys, to the west. There were terraced gardens to the south and south-west and a winter garden, unroofed by 1989, (fn. 92) and stable block on the west.

From: 'Awre', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 14-46. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23250 Date accessed: 11 February 2010.

OAKLANDS PARK is a busy rural community on the edge of the Forest of Dean.
http://www.cvt.org.uk/oaklands

Some inhabitants :-
1881
Lisa Crawshay abt 1815 Carmarthenshire, Wales Head Awre, Gloucestershire
Constance M. Crawshay abt 1853 Oaklands Park, Gloucestershire, England Daughter Awre, Gloucestershire
Catherine H. Creogh abt 1852 Oaklands Park, Gloucestershire, England Daughter Awre, Gloucestershire
Eva J. Talbot abt 1856 Oaklands Park, Gloucestershire, England Daughter Awre, Gloucestershire
Arthur A. Talbot Oaklands Park, Gloucestershire, England Grandson Awre, Gloucestershire

1901
Jas Gill Pavey abt 1861 Yarcombe, Devon, England Head Awre, Gloucestershire
Lucy Pavey abt 1863 Bovey Tracey, Devon, England Wife Awre, Gloucestershire
Frederick Pavey abt 1890 Gittisham, Devon, England Son Awre, Gloucestershire
Eliza Bessy Pavey abt 1891 Gittisham, Devon, England Daughter Awre, Gloucestershire
Arthur Jas Pavey abt 1893 Gittisham, Devon, England Son Awre, Gloucestershire
Walter Gill Pavey abt 1895 Gittisham, Devon, England Son Awre, Gloucestershire

Year: 1910
Month: [N] Dec
Day: 5
Parents_Surname: GWYNNE EVANS
Child_Forenames: John
Fathers_Forenames: William
Mothers_Forenames: Blanche Sophia
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Oaklands Park Newnham
Occupation: Gentleman
Officiating_Minister: John C.E.Besant
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes: [John C.E.Besant underlined]
Register_Reference: 851113
Page_Number: 276
Parish_Chapel: Lydney

1911
PAVEY LUCY F 1863 48 Devonport Devonshire

1911
PAVEY JAMES GILL M 1861 50 Westbury on Severn Gloucestershire

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