Marshwell House, Yorkley Slade, Lydney (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, February 27, 2014, 19:58 (3923 days ago) @ dent

Hi Chris,
Please bear with me as I don't know Yorkley Slade personally, so may be wrong. However searching the net gives a modern "Marshwell House" on a "Trovit" agency site at GL15 4SA, with a usefull location map etc, which is hopefully the property you mentioned and the right location ? (Sorry I cannot post a link to this site but it's easily searched-out).

Using this postcode on the Old Maps site gives it at Woodland Place, Yorkely Slade. The site has excellent close scale 1:2500 maps from 1878, 1902, 1922 and 1958-60, so nicely covering the timescale of both the article and of your grandparents' there just afterwards. The earlier map shows just a handfull of properties, some of which have their own wells (marked W, Well or Pump). Hopefully you'll recognise one of these properties to be yours ?. They also show at least one Well that's not within a house boundary - I suspect this is the "public" one referred to in the article. I think it's this same Well which is still marked on the 1958/60 Map, despite much new building having taken place in the locality.
search GL15 4SA within http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html

If you've not used the Old Maps site before it can be tricky, if you have any troubles please see this post which hopefully helps navigate the site.
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=38858