by James Lawson | Dec 14, 2024 | History
Housing – The Valley of Gatten, Part 8 By James Lawson Housing The earliest dateable house on the estate is the half-timbered part of Near Bank Farm which was certainly built by 1616, the date on some wainscot with the initials RMB, standing for Rees and Mary...
by James Lawson | Dec 14, 2024 | History
Sporting rights – The Valley of Gatten, Part 7 By James Lawson Sporting rights The pursuit and hunting of deer in the high middle-ages and into the early modern period has already been mentioned. It was still exploited as a private forest in the early...
by James Lawson | Dec 14, 2024 | History
Woodland Management and Moorland Ecology – The Valley of Gatten, Part 6 By James Lawson Woodland Management and Moorland Ecology The mention of Hays and a park in the early thirteenth century suggests that there was already extensive wood pasture either for...
by James Lawson | Dec 14, 2024 | History
Minerals and Mining – The Valley of Gatten, Part 5 By James Lawson Minerals and Mining From the Eighteenth century at least, stone was used for building purposes on the estate and for a limited number of field walls. There are mineral veins primarily of barytes...
by James Lawson | Nov 5, 2024 | History
Development of Settlement & Economy – The Valley of Gatten, Part 4 By James Lawson Development of Settlement The mention of both Gatten and Westcott in the thirteenth century although fleeting may mean that there was some form of settlement on the periphery...
