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No, nor is the new road the railway people built down to staggered junction with Rocky Lane. That would make sense as I think it was built in the late 1880s or early 1890s. The new road is there in the 1896 map. I have the maps with the deeds from 1928 and your house is not on there; your side of the road just says Rothschild. Our house was built in 1928 from plot 407. Moonrising was called Hill View and owned by Kingham and then Oliffe. Not sure when Tollington moved in. Jack Baker was already living at the back in Highfields although the land showed as John Christian Baker.
1896: http://maps.nls.uk/view/101168495 (can see the new road on this one)
1896: http://maps.nls.uk/view/101168498 (clearer. Cannot see the Old Ford Cottages though?)
1899: http://maps.nls.uk/view/104182859
1900: http://maps.nls.uk/view/101449855 (you can see the the Fox (interestingly in my 1928 map for the deeds it is called the Bugle Horn) and the Black horse but nothing down our side of the hill after the Old Ford cottages.)
1945: http://maps.nls.uk/view/74466958 (now clearly Dunsmore and not Scrubwood)
1960: http://maps.nls.uk/view/93505998 (your house is clearly shown here)
1961: http://maps.nls.uk/view/91577128
That’s interesting. I see your and our house plots don’t even show.
In England you have to pay (Cassini maps) but in Scotland, as with so many things, it is free! They have maps from 1873 on-wards. It is a bit odd, you pick the area first and then you get a list of maps on the right and you click on that and then you can zoom and pan like Google maps. It is rather good, I think.
Hopefully this link will take you to the 1874 one: http://maps.nls.uk/view/102340202
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