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Apologies for the long delay in response.  My father passed away in November 2013 so we didnt make our journey to The Rectory in Nunburnholme after all.  I organised a headstone for his beloved grandfather John Young in York stone which was placed in the local churchyard the same year as this was one of his dying wishes.  One day I hope to venture to Nunburnholme and thank you all for your messages and photos.

Last shot can someone kindly see who was on the 1930 and 39 registers for number 2 either Asylum Cottages, Park Prewett/Prewett Cottages and Wellington Terrace, if it's the same named person I will then start from there, Thank you again

Hello Shaun, possibly, we have the village of Sherbourne st John which is 2 miles away.  Wellington Terrace was once in that parish but is now under Basingstoke and Deane.  I will have to do some more digging.  These houses were sold in 1986 when the ex Asylum/psychiatric hospital closed and sold off all its land and property.  Ex employees were given first dibs, if they could afford to buy they did if not they had to move out/away.

Thank you all much appreciated I don't know if anyone in the Terrace is aware of the name change although we have people here in their 80s who have lived here since the 1960s so they will be delighted with this discovery as am I.   

Interesting, there were cottages on the Park Prewett Asylum site as wel, so it's possible they moved from Wellington Terrace to the cottages, they were all workers at the local asylum and Wellingtin Terrace and Park Prewett cottages were owned by the asylum