The Morse - map (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 11:07 (4601 days ago) @ BDaviesVera

My gt grandfather was born at The Morse, Ruardean Woodside. Was The Morse an actual residence or is it a general area which encompasses Morse Road? Thank you.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/showmap.php?gridref=SO6417

In the early 17th century there were scattered farmsteads and cottages throughout the parish.
Some stood at intervals along the Forest boundary (fn. 85) and some on waste ground in other parts of the parish.
(fn. 86) All the early buildings, including five houses built shortly before 1656 by William Roper, lord of Ruardean manor, (
fn. 87) appear to have been replaced. In the east a few dwellings on Morse Lane included Ash Farm, purchased in the
1720s for several Mitcheldean charities. (fn. 88) At White Hill, known sometimes as Morse or Hazle Farm, (fn. 89)
the house was rebuilt on a larger scale in the 18th or 19th century and was unoccupied in 1990.
In the south-eastern corner of the parish, part of an area known as the Morse, (fn. 90) there was a farmstead at Ground
Farm in 1749 (fn. 91) and a few cottages were later built on the Nailbridge road (Morse Road) constructed in 1841. (fn. 92)
In the 16th and 17th centuries there were a few cottages in the north-eastern corner of the parish at the place known as Haseley
(fn. 93) (later Hawthorns).

From: 'Ruardean', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996),
pp. 231-247. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23261 Date accessed: 11 April 2012.

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