Worcester Walk (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Tuesday, November 06, 2012, 08:16 (4395 days ago) @ nigeldownunder

I have googled Worcester Walk Joyford, but the closest one I can find is in Broadwell, which is obviously not the one.

Worcester Walk a portion of West Dean

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Dean like this:

DEAN (West), a township in the district of Monmouth and county of Gloucester; averagely 1½ mile E of Coleford.
It consists of the western portion of Dean Forest; and comprises Worcester-walk, York or Park-end-walk, and parts
of Denby and Speech-House-walks. Acres, 19, 035. Real property, £33, 104; of which £22, 870 are in mines,
£449 in quarries, and £810 in ironworks. Pop., 8, 254. Houses; 1, 655.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/ForestofDean/Gaz1868.html
WORCESTER WALK, an extra parochial liberty in Dean Forest, county Gloucester, 6 miles W. of Newnham. It includes the village of Lidbrook."
Encroacment in Worcester Walk

Many were in Worcester walk where much early building took place in the Berry Hill and Lydbrook areas.
The cottages of the period, still often termed cabins, remained primitive low dwellings, sometimes erected
hastily in the widespread belief, recorded in the mid 19th century, that the Forest authorities had no power
to pull down those built overnight. Some were of turf and a few of wood, mud, or rushes, but most had dry
stone walls and turf roofing.[/i

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: 06 November 2012.

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