Looking for location of land near Westbury Brook / Abenhall (Urgent)

by BelindaHill , Wednesday, July 09, 2025, 03:27 (44 days ago) @ slowhands

Thank you so much for this. No, Horsepool bottom isnt mentioned in his will. Benjamin Moore owned land either side of the Westbury Brook according to his will. On his death, his four children and grandson Benjamin junior lived on land owned by him. All in Westbury Brook/Plump Hill. Indeed, in the 1841 census, it simply lists them as living in edge Hills/Plump Hill/Westbury Brook but doesn't shed light on where in these places. The enumarators exact route is a bit hard to follow in 1841, as he seems to jump around a bit. In this census Benjamin (85yrs of independent means) lived with his son John, a quarryman, and his family at Edge Hills.

He built the cider Mill, press and bakehouse later adjoining land owned by him which he gave the running and upkeep of to his four children after his death. I was hoping to find where "Moore's Patch" actually was, but that may be impossible. I assumed being a cider mill (perhaps a smaller one) may have needed running water in the brook to work, so it depends on how well and how far the water flowed in the brook up to Plump Hills back then. He had built the mill later in his life, because when he married in 1788 he was listed as a cordwainer and may have inherited the money earlier from his Bright inlaws as explained in other earlier posts.

But my concern at the minute is where exactly the land was. Which patches were his for sure.

Perhaps someone has a list of who owned the patches on the tithe maps back then. Its a long shot. I am limited to online searches as I live in Australia and so far have found nothing for that area.

Does anyone know anything of the history of "Green Farm" on the tithe map, as this runs near the Westbury Brook leading into the right area. Could it have been owned by Benjamin back then?

Thanks so much.
Belinda.