The Great Field After Enclosure

 

 

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By 1774 Powlett Wrighte’s turnpike had been constructed running from the Bath Road at Bostock and joining up with Green Lane south of Cranemoor Lake. The plan of the reallocation of lands also shows a road from Parker’s Corner joining this turnpike. There had always been an access track into the Widemoor Furlong here so this seems to be a formalisation of that.

 

Several of the owners who had land here before the enclosure are not shown after the enclosure. These are Thomas Powell, Timothy Pearce, John Horn, Thomas Draper, Edward Clarke and James Attlee and there may be several reasons for this.

 

John Horn ( the son of the John Horn in Ballard’s survey) did not have any allocation in the new Great Field but was instead given a piece of land at North Street, adjacent to other land he owned, in exchange for his former holding in the Great Field.

 

If James was the James Attlee, son of Roger Attlee and born in 1677, he must be presumed to have died by this time with his land perhaps subsumed into that of his relation Mrs Powell.

 

Thomas Draper and Thomas Powell may likewise have died, with their holdings now in the hands of their widows.