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...
by James Lawson | Nov 5, 2024 | History
Marsley Farm – The Valley of Gatten, Part 3 By James Lawson Marsley Farm The 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...
