Hoggins nr St Briavels (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Sunday, July 27, 2008, 20:42 (5972 days ago) @ kiwiceltic

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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