Deciphering Handwriting

[1dylan1]

Hello, I wonder if someone would be able to help decipher an address on an 1881 census.  Piece 1289, Folio 30, Page 12.  The family name is SAYER and the address seems to read 'Manhoods Pit'  but when I try and google info on the place name the search engine seems to wander off into other areas 

Many thanks

[charlotteCH]

Hullo and glad you have jined Rootschat

if you are able to post a section of the census page that has the address on it, it would make it easier for us to have a try at deciphering it.

charlotte

[karenlee]

Well it most def looks like Manhood Pits.... and a quick Google shows that there was a section of Brightwaltham area known as the Manhood Hundred.  Wonder if this is where the name came from??

Cheers
Karenlee

NOTE.. apologies, it appears that this Hundred was in Sussex..... found refs in The Manor and Manorial Records

[1dylan1]

Hullo and glad you have jined Rootschat

if you are able to post a section of the census page that has the address on it, it would make it easier for us to have a try at deciphering it.

charlotte

I didn't know you could do that, how do I go about that?

Louise

[karenlee]

This is the Enumeration District description...

[charlotteCH]

What wonderfulclear writing that enumerator had ...if only they were all like that.

Karenlee is better placed than I am to tell you how to put the scanned bit on here.

  And it will be fresh in her mind as she's just done it   [  that's for KL who is a good friend]

charlotte

[PrueM]

I've found what I think is it, on an old Ordnance Survey map dated 1882 (http://www.old-maps.co.uk/) - it's called "Manwood Pit" on this map, and is a chalk pit.

I've linked to its location on a modern map, although you won't see anything unless you look at the satellite view.  In the bottom right quadrant of the map I've linked to, look for the name of the road "Sparrowbill" - it's named four times, and the second time it's named, working from the bottom right of the map, you'll see above it a small farmstead or house, surrounded by greenery , and a field boundary working its way north from there.  This is the site of the old "Manwood/Manhood" chalk pit.
http://g.co/maps/564d5

[Geoff-E]

I've found what I think is it, on an old Ordnance Survey map dated 1882 (http://www.old-maps.co.uk/) - it's called "Manwood Pit" on this map, and is a chalk pit.

Here www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=443375,178570

(Note to PrueM:  if you . URL in your favourites, it's a simple matter to edit it to give the coordinates of any location )

EDIT: How strange ... the words savethis have been changed to a full stop.

[PrueM]

Thanks for that, Geoff - must remember that!
I didn't have the coordinates for the actual location though, only the closest village (Brightwalton).