Marshwell House, Yorkley Slade, Lydney (General)

by dent , Friday, February 28, 2014, 15:53 (3922 days ago) @ Jefff

Many thanks for the further information. The modern Marshwell House is almost certainly not on the site of the original house occupied by my grandparents. When I visited last year, there were three bungalows on the site. Woodland Place is a relatively new road name, I suspect, as there was no such name in my grandparents' day and the new Marshwell House must be somewhere on this road. The Old Maps site is fascinating. I can certainly pick out the Marshwell House I knew, in the top left hand corner of the loop of the road now named Woodland Place. There is a well marked in a triangle of land (delineated by paths) to the left of the garden of Marshwell House. I can remember that this land was potentially marshy, and therefore I would guess this will be the marsh well referred to in Cam Johnson's article. Although no photograph of Marshwell House has yet been forthcoming, you have helped me to reconstruct in my mind the landscape surrounding it.
Christopher