Farms in the Elton - Littledean area (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Tuesday, August 06, 2013, 07:37 (4122 days ago) @ kathg42

Thank you all for your wonderful findings.

Here is transcript of part of a GROVE FARM FLAXLEY Catalogue of the farm to be sold by auction under instructions from Mrs PALMER 1871. Until I began typing I had missed the clue to the exact position of said farm i.e.'ONE MILE FROM NEWNHAM STATION'![I realize the station no longer exists].

The catalogue was sent to me by the present owner of a GROVE FARM in 'in Westbury Parish but Newnham postcode'.Whether the document relates to her farm I do not know. But it does show that a PALMER lived at Grove Farm Flaxley in 1871.

“GROVE FARM FLAXLEY
One Mile from the Newnham Station
CATALOGUE
OF THE VALUABLE
LIVE AND DEAD STOCK
Ricks of Hay and Clover etc
90 ACRES GRASS-KEEP
Agricultural Implements etc
BRUTON, KNOWLES & BRUTON
Have received instructions from Mrs PALMER
who is quitting the Farm and declining business, to
Sell by Auction, on Tuesday, 24th Oct. 1871…”

I will enc a transcript of John PALMER's 1812 will in another post. As well as showing his children it includes other names that might benefit someone.

Kath

The more you share/uncover the more it narrows the search area down !

So the Plough Inn was believed to be on teh Elton Rd, near Elton corner ( the junction of the roman Gloucester - Chepstow road with the roman road leading up to Littledean http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/142522 )
1851 Elton {Plough Inn}
Sarah Barnett abt 1796 Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England Widow Grocer & InnKeeper
The Plough was probably closed by 1861 and possibly became the Travellers Rest
1871 Elton Travellers Rest
Charles Mitchell abt 1816 Tibberton, Gloucestershire, England Head

A group of cottages, mostly in stone but including two with timber frames, stands along the parish boundary on the road below Pope's Hill in the area known as Blackmore's Hale. Blackmore's Hale Green was mentioned in 1591; (fn. 26) there were at least four houses there by 1639, (fn. 27) and in the later 17th century the tithing was sometimes known as Elton and Blackmore's Hale. (fn. 28) One of the cottages there housed the Plough Inn in 1788 and until c. 1880. (fn. 29) There is another small group of cottages near Upper Hall, all of them of brick with the exception of a derelict timber-framed cottage of one story and dormered attic with a lateral stone chimney with projecting bake-oven. Another projecting bake-oven survives at an L-shaped timber-framed cottage with a gabled dormer south of the Littledean road. A small cottage further east was the Traveller's Rest Inn in 1839 and until at least 1891. (fn. 30)

From: 'Westbury-on-Severn: Introduction', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds (1972), pp. 79-85. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15765 Date accessed: 06 August 2013.

Elton farm is 3/4 mile along this road from Elton corner / Plough?

The Camp is 1 1/4 mile along today the Greyhound Inn is a marker to look for http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1640306

The eastern boundary with part of Flaxley took in Littledean Camp, a small earthwork probably of the late 11 th century or early 12th, which has been identified as 'the old castle of Dean' recorded in the mid 12th century. (fn. 15) The earthwork was acquired in 1987 by the Dean Heritage museum.

From: 'Littledean', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 159-173. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23258 Date accessed: 06 August 2013.

The Grove / Grove Farm is almost 2 miles up from Elton, or 1/2 mile before you reach Littledean. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/156135 Newnham rail station was to the north west of the village and about 1 mile away. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3193340

Tibbs Cross can be reached by turning right either just after the Grove, heading across Chestnuts, or turning right later at the George / Belfry along George Lane towards Green Bottom / Gun Mills. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1459050

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