Ruins in Cotmeadows, Lydbrook (General)

by probinson , S. Oxon, Tuesday, July 09, 2019, 18:30 (1974 days ago) @ Caron

Looking at old OS maps (old-maps.co.uk), the cottage seems to disappear in the sixties. There's some inconsistency because a 1960 map doesn't show it but a 1966 map does. But it definitely seems to be gone by the seventies.

My guess is it didn't have any mains services and installing them would have been difficult and expensive due to its position. In the mid 20th Century people wanted more mod cons and so it was probably considered uninhabitable and became derelict. It was probably knocked down by the land owner and the stone used for some other project. Just my guess but I know of a couple of other properties that disappeared in the same period for much the same reasons.

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Peter