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

by slowhands @, proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Tuesday, July 08, 2025, 11:20 (45 days ago) @ BelindaHill

Roods & perches. These are subdivisions of an acre. There are four roods in an acre, and in turn a rood contains 40 perches.
As a rood is a quarter of an acre, it contains 1.012 square metres – about the size of two tennis courts.
Each of the 40 perches in a rood thus consists of just over 25 square metres – the size of one of the net-side playing areas of the tennis court.

The description fits the land either side of the roman road from Shapridge up to Mitcheldean (School) with Westbury Brook running parallel

There was a cider Mill associated with Abenhall House


From the Gloucester Journal Saturday 25th May 1867,

TO SELL BY AUCTION

Lot 2- A valuable freehold dwelling house, called Abinghall House, situate in the Parish of Abinghall, immediately contiguous to the town of Mitcheldean adjoining the turnpike road leading to Abinghall, containg entrance hall, dining, drawing and breakfast rooms, 2 pantries, kitch., laundry, 6 bedrooms, dressing and store rooms, underground cellar, yard, court, washhouse, pleasure and large, productive
kitch. garden, together with a three-stall stable, Mill-house, Cider-mill and coachhouse, with loft above and valuable PASTURE ORCHARD adjoining: the whole containing 2a 0r 26p or thereabouts now in the occupation of John ROBINSON, Esq.

Lot 2 may be viewed by permission of the tenant.


does Horsepool bottom feature in any of your research ?

https://maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=glos if you pan left towards Plump hill you will find Edgehills and the various pathches ( numbered) but not named


Reference: IR 30/13/1
Description:
Tithe map of Abinghall [Abenhall] (parish), Gloucestershire. Shows buildings (named), boundary trees, footpath and/or bridleway, waterbodies. Scale: 1 inch to 3 chains

Note: [Grid references: OSGB36: SO 672 173; WGS84: 51.85288, -2.47627]. WGS84 interpolated from OSGB36.
Date: [1839]
Related material:
Tithe file: IR 18/2605

Separated material:
Tithe apportionment: IR 29/13/1

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Map scale: 1:2376
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:
Roger J P Kain and Richard R Oliver, The Tithe Maps of England and Wales (Cambridge, 1995).

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