Difference between revisions of "Loosley Hill"

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[[Braeside]]
 
[[Braeside]]
  
'''Starting at the east end of the road (at the top of Loosley Hill)''' the following houses on the '''south side''' were :-
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'''Starting at the top of Loosley Hill where the road meets Lacey Green Main Road, (click those in blue, in red yet to be researched)''' on the '''south side''' were :-
  
 
[[Hillcroft Farm & Post Office]]
 
[[Hillcroft Farm & Post Office]]
  
[[Dunmari]].  Opposite Clarinsted and Alberta
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[[Dunmari]].  Opposite [[Clarensted]] and [[Alberta]]
  
 
[[Lea View]]
 
[[Lea View]]

Revision as of 10:54, 8 August 2024

Loosley Hill is a road in Loosley Row.

Research by Joan West

The road known as Loosley Hill runs east to west from the crossroads by The Whip public house to the cross roads where Lower Road crosses it from northeast to southwest.

The following properties were shown on a map published 1970/1980

Starting at the top of Loosley Hill where the road meets Lacey Green Main Road, (click those in blue, in red yet to be researched) on the north side were:-

Valley View

Maurcom

Manley

Maplehurst

A plot with track that run northwards to

Clarensted

Alberta

Chiltern Breezes

Ruskin

Knockree

Braeside

Starting at the top of Loosley Hill where the road meets Lacey Green Main Road, (click those in blue, in red yet to be researched) on the south side were :-

Hillcroft Farm & Post Office

Dunmari. Opposite Clarensted and Alberta

Lea View

Stone Corner

Waddesdon View . Opposite Knockree

Entrance to Loosley Row Cemetary

Side of Horseshoe Cottage which opens onto the southwest end of Lower Road

Houses built in 1910. A letter printed in Hallmark in 1976 from Edith Saunders of Sunny Bank, Bradenham, stating that two houses, completed in 1910, were built on Loosley Hill Road for her father-in-law Noah Saunders. They were called Waddesden View click Noah & Pamela Saunders for Noah's life story

Report by Rita Probert. At the top of Loosley Hill Road the Post Office and general store was much in use.

Violet Close was constructed as a new access road to a section of land situated behind existing properties and gardens on Loosley Hill developed for the erection of houses.

Hallmark Advertisement. P S Forster of Field End, Loosley Hill, advertised for Building Services, Design, Construction and Groundworks business in Hallmark from April 1991 to May 1999.