Mork & Lindors Country House (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 15:37 (5071 days ago) @ selbyfamily

Mork and Mork Hill are just to the North of St Briavels village, on the road leading down to Bigsweir

Lindors Country House is "on" Mork Road
http://www.christianguild.co.uk/lindors/history.php

In the horseshoe valley below St. Briavels village a place called Lindhurst was settled by 1310, (fn. 33) and in 1608 apparently comprised a number of dwellings. (fn. 34) Later there was only a single farmstead, the name of which by the 19th century was corrupted to Lindors Farm. (fn. 35) Further north a hamlet called Mork, of which little survived by the 20th century, grew up on the Bigsweir-Stowe road around the junction with the old road descending from St. Briavels village through Allen's grove. By the mid 14th century it had three or more houses, a mill, and a roadside chapel, (fn. 36) and in 1608 it comprised c. 13 small dwellings, most of them grouped loosely around a green on the Stowe road east of the junction. (fn. 37) A farmhouse called Mork Farm below the junction belonged during the 17th and 18th centuries to the Dale family, whose enlargement of their farm caused the disappearance of at least some of the other houses of the hamlet. (fn. 38) In 1846 the farm was bought by James White (d. 1871), a land agent of Coleford, who replaced the house with a large residence in an elaborate Tudor style, named Lindors, and formed a garden with an ornamental pond on Mork brook below. (fn. 39) A smaller house in a similar style, called Woodlands, was built nearby, on the north side of the road, c. 1850. (fn. 40) Further up the road to Stowe, where the road and the brook were crossed by the St. Briavels-Wyegate road, a settlement was established near another small green. In 1608, when the place was known as Mork Green, there were three or four houses there. (fn. 41) A farmhouse standing close to the road junction and known as Mork Farm by 1880 (fn. 42) apparently occupies the site of a dwelling recorded in 1376. (fn. 43) It is a gabled, stone building of the early 17th century, built on an L-shaped plan and entered beneath a newel-stair turret in the angle of its two ranges. Internally many of the original fittings survive. At the head of the valley St. Briavels included two farmhouses attached to the hamlet of Stowe, which is otherwise in Newland parish. Stowe Grange, on the south-east side of the road, is on the site of a medieval manor. (fn. 44) There was a farmhouse at Stowe Farm, further down the hill on the other side of the road, by 1608 when the farm belonged to the Clearwell estate; (fn. 45) in the late 17th century and until c. 1780 it was part of a scattered estate that the Foley family of Stoke Edith (Herefs.) owned in the parish. (fn. 46)

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: 12 January 2011.

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