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Topic: COMPLETED THANKYOU Where the hell are the tar pits? (Read 1017 times)
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tristiw
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Sorry if I sound terse, but It's midnight in Australia and I can't find what I want:
Where the hell are the tar pits, Bathpool, West Monkton, Taunton?
That's what it says on my ggrandmother's birth certificate in 1910. I'd like to see a map, but when I google it I get googledegook.
Surely the place names haven't changed that much since 1910?
Really I'd just like to know whether it really is a tar pit, what it's there for and what it looks like. I have a hunch that it's just part of a farm though.
Does anyone know the area?
Tristi
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RIDGWAY - England & Australia WOERZ (WึRZ) - Australia, Palestine, West Germany Find out about the search at: http://missingevelyn.wordpress.comWhy spend a lifetime wondering?
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stanmapstone
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I'd like to see a map, but when I google it I get googledegook
You could go to http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ click on Maps and Pictures
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behindthefrogs
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Tar pits occur naturally in areas where oil is found but in the UK this is unlikely.
They are usually the result of chemical works or oil refining, being pits where the waste products are deposited. This might help with your search
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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stanmapstone
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The area you want is on Ordnance Survey 1:10560 County Series 2nd edition (c.1900) Sheet 71 Subsheet 05 Which shows some of the places named in the 1881 description of the Enumeration District.
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behindthefrogs
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If it helps you are looking for somewhere close to a stream as running water would have been essential to the tanning process, particularly if they started from hides straight from the slaughtered animals.
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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stanmapstone
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In the 1891 Census it is Tanyard, between Bird's Farm and Heathfield Villa.
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stanmapstone
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There is a Tanpitts Farm, Dyers Lane Bathpool TA2 8BZ which is where Bird's Farm was. You can enter the post code on http://uk8.multimap.com/
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PrueM
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If it's "Tawpit" then that could be interchangeable with "Tanpit" as tawing and tanning are parts of the same industry.
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