Chestnuts Lodge .. continued (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, February 07, 2012, 03:02 (4669 days ago) @ Danny

Hi Danny,
thanks so much for your post. I tried to describe the location of the Lodge at the start of my longest post in the locked thread.
This was obtained purely from studying this great website.
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html

Unfortunately the site's search engine doesn't recognise Popes Hill etc, suggest first search Littledean, then drag the resulting modern image so Chestnuts Hill is deadcentre, this is important. Use the RH menu to select the 1924 preWW2 1:10,560 map. Hopefully when it loads the Hill will be within the image, sometimes it "moves" as you zoom in, if it "falls" off screen sadly you bhave to start over.
The Lodge is marked as just to the "North" (wrt the screen!) of centre of the Hill, on the summit I think. The next/later map from 1953 doesn't show it.

This site's wonderful but does take patience waiting for it to load & focus.
There are many other OS maps on the site and at even closer scales, so very informative, the Lodge is shown on the oldest 1890 map. In fact at the mo the site's playingup again, not unusual for websites at this late hour. However I think I saw a Chestnuts House marked on the 1924 map, at the base of the hill towards Greenway Farm. If I recall correctly this is shown as Chestnuts CottageS on the later maps, so I guess this is the house you're thinking of ?. The maps also show Chestnuts Farm the other side of the Hill.
Hopefully this will tie in with you and your brother's most interesting recollections. Pity the lad living rough there, as you say.
Thanks again, Jeff.