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Breconshire / Re: Losget, Defynog, Breckonshire
« on: Monday 24 March 14 23:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi Carandalex,
Losged, Losget or Losgoed is indeed Forest Lodge. I know because my grandparents were tenants in the farm cottages there from the 1940s to 1967. By then it was all called Forest Lodge.
You will see the Farmhouse, with the Dairy cottage in front of the farm buildings and then separate from these a block of cottages, now consisting of 4 cottages but at it's height, consisting of a square (with one side missing ) of 9 cottages.
The complex was started as a "model Farm" built to provide corn for the soon to be built Swansea to Brecon tramway after the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). Corn, lime etc would be sent to Swansea and coal would be sent in land. The Tramway was never finished, but the 3 model farms including Forest Lodge were very successful farms in their own right.
The final downfall of Forest Lodge was with the succession of owners post the 1970s and now the land has been sold off in parcels and what remains of the housing, is holiday lets, even the farmhouse, with silly names like Bramble cottage. Your and my ancestors would be turning in their Graves!! The beautifully built farm buildings built to house the corn etc for the model farm are now getting into a poor state and are let out to various enterprises. All very sad!!
Cochiaid
Losged, Losget or Losgoed is indeed Forest Lodge. I know because my grandparents were tenants in the farm cottages there from the 1940s to 1967. By then it was all called Forest Lodge.
You will see the Farmhouse, with the Dairy cottage in front of the farm buildings and then separate from these a block of cottages, now consisting of 4 cottages but at it's height, consisting of a square (with one side missing ) of 9 cottages.
The complex was started as a "model Farm" built to provide corn for the soon to be built Swansea to Brecon tramway after the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). Corn, lime etc would be sent to Swansea and coal would be sent in land. The Tramway was never finished, but the 3 model farms including Forest Lodge were very successful farms in their own right.
The final downfall of Forest Lodge was with the succession of owners post the 1970s and now the land has been sold off in parcels and what remains of the housing, is holiday lets, even the farmhouse, with silly names like Bramble cottage. Your and my ancestors would be turning in their Graves!! The beautifully built farm buildings built to house the corn etc for the model farm are now getting into a poor state and are let out to various enterprises. All very sad!!
Cochiaid