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Housing – The Valley of Gatten, Part 8

Housing – The Valley of Gatten, Part 8

Housing - The Valley of Gatten, Part 8By James LawsonHousingThe 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 Bowen who...

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Sporting rights – The Valley of Gatten, Part 7

Sporting rights – The Valley of Gatten, Part 7

Sporting rights - The Valley of Gatten, Part 7By James LawsonSporting rightsThe 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 Elizabethan period...

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Minerals and Mining – The Valley of Gatten, Part 5

Minerals and Mining – The Valley of Gatten, Part 5

Minerals and Mining - The Valley of Gatten, Part 5By James LawsonMinerals and MiningFrom 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 but at...

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Marsley Farm – The Valley of Gatten, Part 3

Marsley Farm – The Valley of Gatten, Part 3

Marsley Farm - The Valley of Gatten, Part 3By James LawsonMarsley FarmThe Stiperstones Forest was a royal hunting forest in the late Saxon period. It is unmentioned by name in Domesday Book but at Marseteleie, now represented by Marsley Farm in Habberley there was a...

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