Have used your great parish records database - but have now become a little confused over the area of Drybrook. Are Quarry Hill and Harry Hill one and the same place - or two different places? I have also noted a place called Stenders, Drybrook which appears on a map to be reasonably isolated. Was this a farm or somesort of settlement?

Quarry Hill and Harry Hill are used almost interchangeably for Harrow Hill - many quarries on Harry Hill !

Building on Harrow (or Harry) hill began on the north side towards Drybrook before 1787 (fn. 44) and the hamlet of Harrow Hill contained c. 24 cottages in 1832. (fn. 45) Holy Trinity church, standing to the south-west on Quarry hill, was opened in 1817 (fn. 46) and a parsonage house was completed, to the southeast, a few years later. (fn. 47) Cottages were built in old inclosures on the main part of Harrow hill from the mid 19th century (fn. 48) and scattered houses and bungalows were built in the area in the later 20th century.

From: 'Forest of Dean: Settlement', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 300-325. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23266 Date accessed: 05 December 2010.

The Stenders is more west of Mitcheldean way....

To the west, above the town, was the extraparochial Forest of Dean, into which the parish made a substantial indent, rising steeply up Stenders hill and reaching 275 m. at the Wilderness in the south-eastern corner

From: 'Mitcheldean', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 173-195. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23259 Date accessed: 05 December 2010.

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Thank you very much for your replies - and especially for the History of Britain references. I have also received an offer of a photograph from another FoD member. Congratulations on a wonderful website.
Leslie

You will find a few photos in the Photo section of this site under Drybrook :-)

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