Where is/was SPRING HILL Chipping Campden? COMPLETED

[panthers1]

Hi Panthers1
 
Thank you for the suggestions, I will certainly pursue the Blockley Heritage Soc. I have already made good use of your Cotswolds site, particularly in the days before the 1841 and 1851 censuses came online. The Blockley 1827 census was an extra bonus.
The parish records have also been very useful for my Webb family of Blockley and Barnet family of Chipping Campden. When I returned to the site to try and find out more about Dingle Lodge I discovered interesting items that you must have added more recently.

Keep up the good work it is much appreciated. 


I have now found out from birth and death certificates found when clearing out her home that my grandmother's younger brother was born at Dingle Lodge in 1900 and died there age 3 days. No-one in the family knew anything about him other than there had been an infant son who had not survived but as the rest of the family were born in London or Sussex I had searched fruitlessly in the wrong place.
That knowledge has now made Dingle Lodge more than just a name.

Thanks all
Regards
Suecee

Contact me via my email address on the cotswolds web site (used to have 280+ researcher pages on there along with 700+ census pages) want to know more about your WEBB + BARNET fams - I am connected to the WEBB's and BARNETT 1778 Blockley too

[panthers1]

Also, have emailed my cousin in Blockley who happens to be a cofounder of the Heritage Society asking him about Spring Hill and Dingle's Lodge (not mentioned in the Blockley through 12 Centuries book that I have - BUT both the WEBB and BENNETT families are )

[panthers1]

From my cousin John Malin in Blockley:

Now about Dingle Lodge.  One of our relations Richard Turner lived there
from 1920 and died there in 1925.  I lived there with my parents from 1934 -
1949 before doing National Service. The Lodge was demolished in 1958.  Have
a photograph somewhere which I will download to you shortly.

Photo is attached

[suecee]

Hi Panthers1

Thanks for posting the picture but it is not my Dingle Lodge, yours must be the Lodge that was known in 1891 as Dingles Lodge and in 1901 as Lower Dingles Lodge - perhaps to avoid confusion with the newly built Dingle Lodge.
I'm posting a picture of mine which is on the Spring Hill House end of the Dingles plantation. Lower Dingles Lodge was at the other end near the Old Jockey Stables. The current owner of Spring Hill House assures me mine is still there and remarkably unchanged.

[panthers1]

Thanks for that, sending image to cousin in Blockley

[billygeorge]

Hi

My mothers family lived in Spring Hill Lodge in 1851. James Ivins his Wife Mary Ann Ivins. They had 10 children all born in the lodge.
 I live in Yorkshire but have made the journey to see the old lodge. I have an OS map ,1919 Stow on the Wold and District. It shows a small mark on the three lane junction, one of which is the road to Broadway Tower, at the end of the main drive to Spring Hill House. A short distance S/W from Seven Wells Farm.I take this to be the lodge.
The lodge is no longer there. I went to the Spring Hill House and was greeted cordially by the owner. He told me that the lodge was demolished in the 60's, I saw in one of the letters that they mention 1958 so it is quite possibly the same place. He said it was a very small place only a couple of rooms, flagstones on an earthen floor and no water and in his opinion not fit for habitation.
There is mention of dingle lodge in the mails, I wonder if this could be the same place.
There has been a picture uploaded on to a mail but my new membershire seems to exclude me from downloading it.
I would love to see the photo if it is possible to send it to me on

Moderator comment: email address removed to prevent spam and other abuses.  Please pass personal email details by Personal Message.  Billy, you will need to make a couple more posts before you can use the system - you can reply here a couple of times, for example.

Regards
Billygeorge

[suecee]

Hi Billygeorge

I looked at a possible site for my Dingle Lodge at the western side of the estate at the main entrance to Spring Hill but realised that it wasn't the right one as mine wasn't built until around 1900. There are a confusing number of lodges around the estate at various times. Yours would have been the main lodge, mine is on the eastern side of the estate and away from any main roads so not obvious. There was also a Dingles Lodge near mine but belonging to the Northwick Estate (both so named because they were located at either end of the Dingles plantation.)

Panthers1's cousin kindly took a photo of my Dingle Lodge a few weeks ago and it has hardly changed in over 100 years. He may have some information on your lodge - maybe even a picture.

You travelled a long way to look for Spring Hill Lodge and as I live a little nearer I have no excuse for not making the pilgrimage some time soon.

Regards
suecee

[billygeorge]

Cheers for getting back to me Suecee
I first went to find the lodge last year while on Holiday at Boughton on the Water. Surprising enough I bumped into a farmer in that area who's wife came from Seven Wells farm and remembered the lodge before it was pulled down. She said she would look to see if she had a photo of the old place but as I never heard from her I guess she couldn't find it. The owner of Spring hill House didn't have one ether. I was there again on Easter Monday and had a poke about in what is now a copse of trees. I found some brickwork that supported the idea that the lodge was indeed there.

Mmm if we didn't like a search we wouldn't do the ftree thingy would we!

BG

[carltonhood]

Dear All. 

New to this forum so not sure how this works, or even who might see this reply.  I am currently the occupier of Keepers Lodge, which, if I read correctly, is probably the new Dingle Lodge. (distinct from Lower Dingle Lodge).  My family have lived in the lodge for the past 50 years.

Its a beautiful spot.

Carlton