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Durham / Re: Letch Farm, Ryton, 1773-1807, location?
« on: Today at 11:50 »
Studying the tithe map further I now find that the land just to the south –labelled as Norman’s Riding on the OS map– has an alternative name of ‘the Letch Farm, Crosshills’ so it seems this is the farm that you are looking for.  The landowner is Edward Townley Peregrine Esquire, and the occupier is James Robinson.

James Robinson, farmer, is in the 1841 census, address Barlow Letch (which is confusing!)

The farm is still Norman’s Riding Farm on modern maps.

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Durham / Re: Letch Farm, Ryton, 1773-1807, location?
« on: Today at 11:01 »
On this map view of the 1857/1862 6 inch OS map you will see Barlow Letch, lying to the SW of Winlaton.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/102341473#zoom=7&lat=8745&lon=900&layers=BT

On the 1838 tithe map of Winlaton Township this is plot 444, Barlow Letch Farm owned by Miss Ann Simpson and occupied by John Nixon. The farm extends in a zone to the NNW of the building up to the Blaydon Burn, and is flanked to the west by woodland that is still there today . The farm is a little over 55 acres.

Added: John Nixon is also the occupier of Barlow North East Farm and Barlow South East Farm situated immediately to the west and on each side of Barlow Lane.

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The Common Room / Re: Help with a brick wall please 🙏 thank you
« on: Yesterday at 15:11 »
The marriage of William Joseph Chapman and Alice Thrussell, 1876, records his father as WILLIAM Joseph Chapman

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The Lighter Side / Re: Twitchels
« on: Friday 17 May 24 15:53 BST (UK)  »
Alley or cut where I grew up in County Durham.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Twitchels
« on: Friday 17 May 24 15:51 BST (UK)  »
Pretty sure that I heard 'jitty' when I lived in Leicestershire.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Twitchels
« on: Friday 17 May 24 15:48 BST (UK)  »
It's vennel in Edinburgh (and elsewhere in Scotland).

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Northumberland / Re: Arthur Chapell or Chappil Gibson
« on: Friday 17 May 24 11:47 BST (UK)  »
1921 census: the family is at 44 Audley Road in Gosforth. He is the youngest child, with one brother and four sisters

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Northumberland / Re: Arthur Chapell or Chappil Gibson
« on: Friday 17 May 24 11:37 BST (UK)  »
An article about his Military Medal – you probably have all this, but there is a photo.

 2 March 1943: Newcastle Evening Chronicle

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Monmouthshire / Re: Nantyderry House, Goytre in 1930s
« on: Friday 17 May 24 08:03 BST (UK)  »
Here are the opening paragraphs of a newspaper article from 1936. Later articles suggest that the house was on the market in 1938.

18 March 1936: Western Mail


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