Near the Ostrich Inn ! Newland

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The Newland Almshouses are sited one side of Newland Church (they are white painted brick cottages).The side facing the church & where the Ostrich Pub is on the corner - marks the old burial path to Coleford.
The plaque on the Almshouses reads:

'These Almshouses for eight Men and eight Women Parishioners of Newland and the Habitiation adjoining for a Lecturer were founded A.D. 1615 by Mr William Jones. Citizen and Haberdasher of London: and he appointed the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers Governors.'
Underneath another small plaque reads:

'The Almshouses were modernized in 1954 by The Haberdasher's Company Governors of the Charity of William Jones'
They are also referred to as 'Jones Almshouses' on certificates & census returns.

There are 2 sets of almshouses in Newland, Jones's Almshouses as already mentioned, and Bell's almshouses which were built a few years later, (about 1750?) on the other side of the church directly opposite the Ostrich Inn. They housed 12 men and 12 women. The church is in the centre of a square with the main road running past the Ostrich Inn on one side, then turn right to go past the Lecturer's House, (the Lecturer was a clergyman), up to Newland House where the squire lived. Then turn right again to go past Bell's Grammar School, endowed by the same Mr Bell, and right again past Bell's Almshouses and back to the Ostrich.
Jones's Almshouse should appear on HO107/365/5/4/2 between the Lecturer's House and Newland House, but it does not!
Bell's Almshouse should appear at the top of HO107/365/5/5/4, just before the Ostrich, and it also does not!
It looks as if the paupers were not considered important enough by the census enumerator to be included!

Viv