Cox or Hardwicke House -> Oaklands Farm, Awre (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Friday, November 27, 2009, 15:50 (5550 days ago) @ Ralph Cook

A house called Cox which stood on the site of Oaklands Farm near the north-west boundary of the parish was recorded from the late 16th century.

A house called COX, later OAKLANDS FARM, at the north end of the parish (fn. 66) was the centre of a customary estate of Awre manor in 1573. (fn. 67) It was alienated from the manor in 1656 and was probably bought by the tenant Matthew White. (fn. 68) Later, possibly by 1690, (fn. 69) it passed to Eustace Hardwicke; he was living at the house, then called Hardwicke House, in 1710 and was said to have a good estate in Awre and other parishes. (fn. 70) At his death in 1718 he devised the estate to his daughter Patience (fn. 71) and in 1720 it was settled on her marriage to Robert Walter of Bristol. (fn. 72) By 1741 Cox belonged in right of his wife to John Hardwicke, (fn. 73) possibly a second husband of Patience, who died c. 1762. (fn. 74) John Hardwicke was living at Cox in 1763. (fn. 75) It was owned by John Walter in 1770 (fn. 76) and later by William Marshal (d. by 1794). (fn. 77) Cox was sold before 1799 to Thomas Ambrose, from whom the house was leased as a farmhouse at the beginning of the 19th century. (fn. 78) In 1839 the house, leased with 73 a., was part of William Ambrose's estates, (fn. 79) and c. 1850 Oaklands farm was bought by Henry Crawshay and added to his Oaklands Park estate. (fn. 80) The farmhouse was rebuilt in the early or mid 19th century.

From: 'Awre', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 14-46. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23250 Date accessed: 27 November 2009.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46994

'William III, 1700 & 1701: An Act for granting an Aid to His Majesty for defraying the Expence of His Navy Guards and Garrisons for One Year
and for other necessary Occasions. [Chapter X. Rot. Parl. 12 § 13 Gul. III. p. 2.]', Statutes of the Realm: volume 7: 1695-1701 (1820), pp. 648-716

Eustace Hardwick of the county of Gloucestershire

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