Hewler's farm (General)
by jane gould 
, Friday, January 04, 2008, 06:29 (6238 days ago)
On the west boundary of the parish some houses were built near the Ayleford-Blakeney road, including Hewler's Farm, a three-storeyed farmhouse of the late 17th century, and a few mid 19th-century cottages, loosely connected to the adjoining Forest hamlet of Blakeney Hill.
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: 04 January 2008.
Does anyone know of the family who built this farm? I can find no references to the name in the FoD database. I know that some of the WOOD family I am tracing were living there in the mid c19 but by 1876 according to the Morris & Co directory, some farmers named DAVIS lived there. Any suggestions welcome!
Hewler's Farm - location nr Blakeney Hill
by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Friday, January 04, 2008, 06:57 (6238 days ago) @ jane gould
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
co-ords 366800 207900
(just south of Millers Farm, Brains Green)
Current address
Hewlers Farm, Blakeney, Gloucestershire GL15 4AP
modern OS ref SO 6680 0790
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=4978#p4978
Hewler's Farm - location nr Blakeney Hill
by jane gould , Friday, January 04, 2008, 07:30 (6238 days ago) @ slowhands
thanks x
Hewler's Farm --> John HEWLER family of Rodley c1630s
by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Sunday, April 30, 2017, 13:25 (2833 days ago) @ jane gould
I think this PR was transcribed after this thread was started, Rodway's not TOO far from the Brains' Green area, all Severn side of the Forest so maybe this family are related to the original occupier of Hewler's Farm in Brain's Green ?.
This is the only name transcribed as HEWLER in the FoD database, altho I see dozens of close variations such as Hillier/Hallier/Howler etc along the general floodplain area north of the Severn, all fertile farming land hence occupied long before the higher Forest was developed during the Industrial Revolution. To my surprise given the way Foresters drop their "H"s, I see no PRs for Ewler etc.
Record_ID: 216251
Entry_Number:
Year: 1638
Month: Nov
Day: 13
Surname: HEWLER
Forenames: John
Residence: Rodley
Age_at_death:
Officiating_Minister:
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda: sonn of James Hewler
Notes:
Register_Reference: P354 IN 1/1
Page_No: 68
Parish_Chapel: Westbury on Severn
Soundex: H460