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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Oxfordshire => Topic started by: merilyn64todhunter on Thursday 11 December 08 11:15 GMT (UK)
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I am needing a photo of Oxleaze Farm near Woolstone. Wonderignif anyone has one or knows where I could get one? My Great Grandmother Sarah Jane Hathrill 1850-1933 lived there. Anything on the history of the Farm would also be appreciated
Thanks Merilyn
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Hi Merilyn
You could try this site, it has some photo's of around Woolstone.
Just type in Woolstone in the search box, top right hand side, and then when you get a list of woolstone's come up just tick the circle next to Woolstone Gloucs
http://www.geograph.org.uk/
ricky
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Thankyou, I will do that
Merilyn
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Hi Merilyn
I should be able to help BUT the farm you mention doesn't appear on the modern Ordnance Survey map of Woolstone - any idea where it is/ was?
Kind regards, Arranroots ;)
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Hi
Is this the place:
[no title] D4858/2/3/1944/1 27 July 1944
Contents:
Sevenhampton: Oxleaze farm (illustrated with engravings and photographs)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=040-d4858&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
Post Script - no this is not your Oxleaze
David
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Good piece here on Oxleaze:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66469
Two-storey stone farmhouse in 1803 bulging side walls and with two barns and two stables among the stone outbuildings, was rebuilt in the early 19th century.
In the late 20th century it became a private residence and the extensive ranges of farm buildings were converted as houses.
Post Script: Wrong farm see below - keep going
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Looks like there is more than one Oxleaze farm on Glouc there is another one here: 420500,224500 on streetmap and another one here: 421500,205500
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Ahhhhh this is probably it:
http://www.hotfroguk.co.uk/Companies/Oxleaze-Bungalow
Oxleaze Farm Woolstone, Faringdon, Oxfordshire SN7 7QS
Change of county perhaps
:)
Now we are getting there:
http://www.brownbook.net/business/732121/j-j-matthews
COWLEAZE FARM WOOLSTONE FARINGDON OXFORDSHIRE SN7 7QS
01367-820559
:)
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.... and a picture from http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/306696 attached:
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Hi Merlyn
Quite pleased with that result unless you come back and say that your Oxleaze is definitely in Gloucestershire, then we will have to think again
Regards
David
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oh a bit more:
http://www.creditgate.com/companysearch/WEETCH+MASON+INTERIOR+DESIGN+LIMITED.aspx
Company Name: WEETCH MASON INTERIOR DESIGN LIMITED
Company Type:
Limited Company
Company No:
03663159
Company Address:
WEETCH MASON INTERIOR DESIGN LIMITED
Cowleaze Farmhouse
Woolstone
FARINGDON
SN7 7QS
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hI
1km ENE from Cowleaze (see post above) is another farm called Oxleaze Farm, this is North from Woolstone and W from Uffington. Grid Ref is SU 291 892.
Whether this was ever in Gloucestershire I don't know.
The Woolstone in Glos is between Gloucester and Cheltenham just N of Gotherington and the next hamlet northwards is Oxenton.
In order to ascertain for certain where you are searching for it would be useful if you could post a census reference.
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Yes, that would most likely be it, I know I found it by typing in the name Oxleaze on Google earth, it is about 1.9 kilometres from Woolstone, east & slightly north, and about 1.3 kilometres from Uffington.
Thank you so much
Merilyn
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Ah, not the Woolstone that I know then - sorry I won;t be near enough to visit for you, but looks as though you've found it.
A ;)
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Yes, found it but as yet no Photo, the one kindly posted is of Cowleaze, I have found the co-ordinates and it is listed as 'Woolstone, Faringdon' the coordinates are 51deg 35'53.69' North and 1deg33'53.53'West
Thanks
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Which in grid is: SU 30136 88965
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Just for my own sanity which is the Oxleaze that you are looking for - I can't make it out from the messages above?
David
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I think to bowl this one out it would be useful if someone could provide census information trying to get a cross reference on Sarah Jane Hathrill at Cowleaze 1850-1930? From there we might be able to tie down the location.
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To build the picture:
From Free BMD: Hathrill Sarah Jane
Birth Jun Q 1850 Faringdon 6 199
Marriage Sep Q 1869 Faringdon 2c 483
(Only person on same page is James White)
The district Faringdon spans the boundaries of the counties of Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire
Woolstone was in Berkshire
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/faringdon.html
Registration County : Berkshire.
Created : 1.7.1837.
Abolished : 1.4.1937 (succeeded by Wantage and Cirencester districts).
Sub-districts : Buckland; Faringdon; Shrivenham
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hI
1km ENE from Cowleaze (see post above) is another farm called Oxleaze Farm, this is North from Woolstone and W from Uffington. Grid Ref is SU 291 892.
Whether this was ever in Gloucestershire I don't know.
The Woolstone in Glos is between Gloucester and Cheltenham just N of Gotherington and the next hamlet northwards is Oxenton.
In order to ascertain for certain where you are searching for it would be useful if you could post a census reference.
I think we can say based on the free bmd reference to Faringdon that the Glos Woolstone by Gotherington is not the one we are looking for :-\
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hI
1km ENE from Cowleaze (see post above) is another farm called Oxleaze Farm, this is North from Woolstone and W from Uffington. Grid Ref is SU 291 892.
Whether this was ever in Gloucestershire I don't know.
The Woolstone in Glos is between Gloucester and Cheltenham just N of Gotherington and the next hamlet northwards is Oxenton.
In order to ascertain for certain where you are searching for it would be useful if you could post a census reference.
This looks right to me. If you tie in the:
http://www.hotfroguk.co.uk/Companies/Oxleaze-Bungalow
Oxleaze Farm Woolstone, Faringdon, Oxfordshire SN7 7QS (which has the same postcode as Cowleaze), you can see bungalowes being built for the farmer as he gets older and when the farm is passed on. It would dead handy if someone local could walk the patch and perhaps provide a digital photo but that is asking a lot. Failing that I would give the comapny at COWLEAZE a ring (it is very close) and schmoooooze them for information and xould you possibly .... take a picture. Ho Ho Ho.
It would still be nice to build up census data to work out the buildings and ownership of the buildings around COWLEAZE, OXLEAZE and Woolstone (Berkshire).
Marry Xmas
:D
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Here is the page for woolston on the 1901:
http://www.1901censusonline.com/results.asp?wci=locale_results&searchwci=locale_search
but I can't access from work (naughty me)
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If required:
http://www.brazell.net/genuki/BRK/Uffington/index.html
WOOLSTONE, a chapelry and township in the parish of Uffington
http://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/familyhistory/parish.asp?letter=u
134 Uffington St Mary 1654-1873 1663-1988 1654-1946 ` M 1738-1753, B 1750-1759 C 1654-1873, M 1663-1988, B 1654-1946 T & I: C 1654-1988, M 1663-1990, B 1654-1946 BTs M 1800-1837, B 1607-1637 IGI: C 1654-1838, M 1663-1737, 1754-1837 MIs: Searchroom
Lots of Uffington / Woolston references here:
http://www.berksfhs.org.uk/librarycatalogue/libcatWestBerks.htm
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this might be of interest:
Reference D/EX 1301-1400
Covering dates 1546-2000
Held by Berkshire Record Office
Extent 91 Sub-fonds
Photographs of Oxleaze Farmhouse, Woolstone D/EX 1303/7/88/1-2 1985
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=005-dex13011400&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
Surely that must be the coup de grace :)
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Could have done with this yesterday:
http://www.oos.org.uk/downloads/places.txt?PHPSESSID=96dbf3780190d04553601691...
Uffington,SU3089
Uffington: Britchcombe Farm,SU3087
Uffington: Fawler Road,SU3188
Uffington: Mill House,SU300893
Uffington: Oxleaze Farm,SU2989
Uffington: Ridgeway,SU3086
Uffington: Stockholm Farm,SU3088
Uffington: The Coombes,SU3187
Woolstone,SU2986
Woolstone: Cowleaze Farm,SU2888
Woolstone: Woolstone Hill Barn,SU2985
Woolstone Down,SU3084
but these could be plotted on a map to show the area layout to cross refer to census with.
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If you use:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/
Click on 'get a map now' and tap in SU2989 you can clearly see Oxleaze, Cowleaxe and by re-centering Uffington
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And a photo:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=4572316
sorry obviously the wrong image :-[ grid ref is off
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HiWilliam, I'm not familiar with that term, can you explain it to me? Sorry, these antipodeans, you know!
Merilyn
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Merilyn again, sorry, unused to this!! I answered the top question before going to the bottom to see the most recent duhhh! So can I get excited yet? Is that a photo of Oxleaze Farm????
I honestly cannot keep up to how you guys think and communicate, it's a whole different language!!
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Sorry Merlin know its not. f you use the grid reference for Oxleaze SU2898 which I am certain is your one on this site
http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=4572316
then its gives you this picture (but you can't see the farm annoyingly)
But there is this which you can access to get the information:
this might be of interest:
Reference D/EX 1301-1400
Covering dates 1546-2000
Held by Berkshire Record Office
Extent 91 Sub-fonds
Photographs of Oxleaze Farmhouse, Woolstone D/EX 1303/7/88/1-2 1985
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=005-dex13011400&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
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Hi
Because of the current location of Woolstone/Uffington you might also be able to get some further help from the Oxford or even Wiltshire boards.
I will be down in Swindon over the first weekend in the New Year and may be able to get a photo if you haven't got one by then.
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I'm tempted to move this, since it definitely isn;t Gloucestershire but I can't decide which county it is!
The records seem to be in Berkshire but locals from Oxfordshire might also help, as SL implies.
How about I'll put it in Oxfordshire and you can post a link on the Berkshire and Wiltshire boards, Merilyn? Please make sure that you don't end up with several threads going at once though!
Kind regards, Arranroots ;)
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Thankyou for that, I will do. :D
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Thanks williamsdr for the info on Oxleaze farm sevenhampton, I was looking for info on it as my grt grt grandparents were the farmers there in 1901 census.
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Thanks williamsdr for the info on Oxleaze farm sevenhampton, I was looking for info on it as my grt grt grandparents were the farmers there in 1901 census.
So are you must be related to the White Family?
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Hi
Here is a photo of Oxleaze.
The gable end facing the camera is a newish addition (old bricks).
It is in multiple occupation and the chap I spoke to has this side of the main building and added the extension mentioned above.
Didn't get round the back to photo that side.
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SintonLomas
Top dollar! Thanks for posting the picture and bringing closure to this thread.
Regards
David
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Thankyou so much to StintonLomas, my family and particularly myself will get a lot of pleasure from this photo, I feel it has brought closure as well, we had never seen our grandfathers childhood home.
Not only is it appreciated, the phot is also a very clear one and well taken.
Once again, thankyou to all who have helped out on this project,
Merilyn
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Hi
This is a section of OS map showing the location.
Edit..
Here is a link for the map in case it gets pulled for copyright.
http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/jsp/map_print.jsp?mapX=429190&mapY=189310&zoomLevel=6&isNI=&mapAction=zoomabs&isGeo=y