Long Barlands area

150 years ago this area of Lower Froyle - you can see Rose Cottages clearly in the left centre of the frame - was much more built up than it is today.

Going back to the Tithe Map of 1847, the 'picture' is much different.

This small section of the Tithe Map shows the area around Rockhouse Farm. To help you with the orientation:-

71 is “Long Barlands” (the long thatched roof to the left of the picture) - 3 cottages.
The house in plot 68 that adjoins the road by the pond is “Travellers Rest” (now a private house), and this is the white gable in the centre of the picture.
30 is where I am standing to take the picture - there is no obvious trace of these two cottages.
32 (one cottage) & 33 (two cottages) have been demolished - they were in the field opposite “Rose Cottages. ”
35 “Five Cottages” was demolished after World War 2 and two houses built on the site.
70 is the site of “Rose Cottages”. This was actually four cottages.
69 is the site of “Rockhouse Farm.”

According to the Tithe records there were a total of 17 cottages which have since been demolished. These housed, in 1851, some 80 people.

By 1910, when this map was drawn up, there had been a dramatic change in this part of Lower Froyle. All the dwellings up to “Five Cottages” have been demolished - probably around 1900 - and, on the other side of the road, “Rose Cottages” and “Rock Cottage” have been built (I have marked these new buildings in red). After that, apart from the 'loss' of “Rockhouse Farm” and the demolition of “Five Cottages” and it's replacement by the modern day “Semley House” and “Coxes Meadow”, this part of Lower Froyle has seen little change in a hundred years.