Plump Hill School, Jubilee Rd, and the Old Maps site (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 17:02 (4591 days ago) @ slowhands

Thanks all for that ladies & gentlemen.
I see from the ever-usefull Old Maps site that Plump Hill is a typical Dean "sprawling" community (no offence meant), with several houses & old quarry workings dotted about and even a tramway route across the top of the Hill where the old Wilderness Centre is. I really must take a mooch around the whole area rather than just drive thro' it on the main A4136.

Trying to help Amaska "place" my earlier post, to locate The Point and the adjacent quarry/photo I've tried to describe, it seems the nearest modern address is "Dockins Hill". I strongly recommend you search "Dockins Hill" on the Old Map site & wait for the modern-day map to load with this arrowed at the centre. The main A4136 road is shown red with the sharp bend clearly visible, this is "The Point". Wrt the main road Mitcheldean is "downhill" past the top of the map, and Harrow Hill thence Cinderford over the road's summit is towards the base of the map. The summit of Plump Hill with the Wilderness Centre etc is to the left, up above Dockins Hill area. The panoramic view towards the Severn is therefore from Dockins Hill out to the righthand side of the map, overlooking Glencoe Lane and then Jubilee Road (with the Plump Hill Centre/old School).
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html

Using the website's righthand menu you can now load one of the various old maps altho be warned this takes a while to load. Eg the oldest 1881 map is a highly detailed 1/2500 scale, here the sheer number of quarry workings all across the whole hill can be seen as can several lime kilns, with many kilns around The Point both above and below the road !. The Point Inn is clearly visible next to Edgehills House, look immediately below the large "Plump Hill" title. The road is rather smaller then !
There is also a zoom feature too... Apologies Amaska if you already know how to navigate this site, I've had a lifetime of using this noofangled electrickery yet it still took me quite a while to work this particular site out, while being unsure as to whether my pc was waiting for images to load or just locked up (Vista!!?) as this site can occasionally do. (I do wish the modern Windows OS's would display the old hourglass "I'm working" symbol rather than leave you wondering what if anything was going on before the "blue circle of doom" appears...)

Using the various maps from around 1930 will hopefully help you place your particular house and garden, I do hope so !
Happy Househunting !