Craggs Farm - Woodhouse Eaves

[spark]

Hi,

Does anyone with local knowledge know anything about Craggs Farm Woodhouse Eaves?  I have an interest in a couple of absent voters registered there in 1918/9, for  WW1 research.

Thanks
Spark

[diddymiller]

Craggs were a local family. see this memory on Francis Frith:

https://www.francisfrith.com/starbotton/cragg-farm_memory-30721

I can check records in Loughborough library this week

Diddy

[spark]

Hi Diddy,

Thanks for the response, unfortunately that photo is from Starbotton on Yorkshire Moor.  I'm after a Craggs farm in or around Woodhouse Eaves.

Best wishes,
Spark

[diddymiller]

so sorry.

Craggs farm, situated between Loughborough & Nanpantan was sold
 in Aug 1918 as part of the Burleigh estate (local family & landowners).

Woodhouse Eaves just along road out of Nanpantan.

I just remember the Cragg's Farm estate before houses were built on it. we used to cross it to go up to the Outwoods - part of Charnwood Forest.
 
will check library - they have old maps etc.
Are you looking for anything specific?

Diddy

[dcbnwh]

The farm can be seen on the following maps before the houses were built:-

http://maps.nls.uk/view/101592132
Adjacent to the first 'N' of Nanpanton

And larger scale:-
https://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html#/Map/451208/317459/12/101099

and this one after the houses were built in front:-
https://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html#/Map/451208/317459/12/100954

If any trouble with the links, go to www.old-maps.co.uk and search on the postcode  LE11 3YD. Zoom in or out as necessary and load any of the 1:2500 maps. It isn't named on any of the earliest maps but is in 1921 and 1964. Still there on the 1967-8 1:10,650 map but not on any after that.
Just to the right of Burleigh Farm. The old maps are only visible if zoomed out far enough.

David

[spark]

Hi David,

Many thanks for the links, I know that farm track, which is now an alleyway (jitty) from Nanpantan Road to the new estate (1960s). Not named on Cassini 1902-3 map I have.

What doesn't make sense is why it is on the electoral register as Woodhouse Eaves - at least on the transcribed index I have bought.  A trip to Wigston required to see the originals.

Thanks for your help David and Diddy

Cheers,
Spark