Question from
Gareth & Deborah Turner-Broadhead
Church Street Brierley May 2006
Hi Richard, we
have not lived in Brierley long. We are really eager to find photo’s of
the well we have bricked up in our front wall on
Church Street
opposite the Farriers Arms, and any information about it. The plot of land
our house was built on was known as Jennet Croft. There are two dwellings
and a joiners shop marked on an early plan of the site.
Kind Regards
Gareth &
Deborah Turner-Broadhead Church Street Brierley
Reply from Richard
Hello
Gareth & Deborah
Thank
you for your email.
The
Tithe Award Survey 1840 shows Jennet Croft as one acre of arable land
owned by John Hoyland of Brierley Hall Church St. Brierley, and farmed by
John Wilkinson of Grimethorpe. His farm house was close to what is now
Windmill Avenue
. The well is marked a Coblers (Cobblers) Well on the 1893 6"
Ordnance Survey map of the village. There were no buildings on the site at
that time. The next map I have is the 1919 Ordnance Survey, this shows the
present buildings. I would be interested to see what buildings were there
in the period 1894 to 1918. You may view a photograph of the well at Cobblers
Well
Regards
Richard
Reply
from
Gareth & Deborah
"Wow-fantastic-thank
you so much. Why was the well bricked up in the first place? It
seems such a shame. It might not take a lot for us to restore it. We will
have to see. Thanks once again Deborah and Gareth Turner-Broadhead