The Hoggins ....

Just North East of St Briavels ( village) taking the Coleford road out, at the end of the straight section of road ( say 3/4 mile) is a farm called "Little Hoggins"

I suspect the Hoggins refers to what is now know as the Great Hoggins.

About 1/2 mile south east on the St Briavels to Bream lane is "Great Hoggins" farm.

The Great Hoggins, Bream Road, St Briavels

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/289316

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

coords 357600, 204500

Farmsteads are scattered fairly evenly across the high ground of the east and south parts of the ancient parish. Willsbury and Rodmore were established in the early Middle Ages and Aylesmore Court by the late 17th century. (fn. 55) Great Hoggins Farm, at a place called Willsbury green (fn. 56) where the Bream road meets Rodmore Lane, was owned and farmed by the Allen family from the early 18th century to the mid 19th. (fn. 57) It is a late 17th-century stone farmhouse of two storeys and attics, which had a symmetrical plan with central entrance and end-gable stacks. A back wing was added in 1767, (fn. 58) displaced windows being reset in it, and by the 19th century a lean-to occupied the angle between the new and old ranges. In the mid 19th century the main range was extended eastwards and the dormers and ground-floor windows of the old part of that range were made uniform with those of the extension.

From: 'St. Briavels', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 247-271. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23262. Date accessed: 28 July 2008.

also
Hoggins Cottages, Bream Road, St Briavels. GL15 6RA.

coords 357900. 204600

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Hello

I am also a kiwi living in cheltenham at the moment and researching my family tree in the forest of dean.

My family lived at the Hoggins near 1878 which I have only just found out.

My familys surname is James so if you want any photos I would try and get you some. The bus service is not so good in some parts of the forest but while I am out and about if I know which places you are interestd in I will do my best.

Rita James
ritpetite@gmail.com

Morse I have found that the family if recorded as living at Hoggins Green, Tiny Hoggins and Little Hoggins. I have found Little Hoggins on the O S maps of the UK it is near to St Breavels. I have been looking for the place myself Joseph Morse is one of my names.
regards Richard