Chestnuts Lodge .. continued (General)

by Danny , Thursday, February 09, 2012, 15:18 (4667 days ago) @ unknown

Hi Jeff and Janey,

An extract from the Victoria history of Glos, Forest of Dean version, reads as follows:
....The other lodges were new buildings put up between 1806 and 1815, often, like those at Lea Bailey, Serridge, Staple Edge and Chestnuts, at high and isolated sites in the middle of enclosures. The small two-storeyed cottages , built of local stone, were identified by an inscription on the window lintel ...

It also refers to each having nearby land used by the Lodge dwellers for farming as well as their forestry duties.

The Jones family you refer to Jeff were a well known family from Popes Hill, most of whom worked on the forestry, as did another local - Fred Phelps. The family were not the Chestnut Lodge residents although their forefathers may well have been.

The final dismantling of the lodge was probably during the clearance or even the replanting phase, but how long it was uninhabited before that no-one seems to know.

Finally, I note there is an entry on the 1901 census for Chestnuts Lodge, East Dean, Glos - however have no credits to follow this up!

regards .... Danny