Bramble Cottage archive.
Below are the archives of deeds relating to Bramble Cottage in Bishops Offley. These provide a fascinating insight into the ownership and transfers that took place on this site during the past 150 years.

Go to the wills of the Gaywood family.

Moderna
Before the existing cottage, a bungalow stood on the site:


In 1991, the property was transferred (to see the full conveyance, simply click the image):


A previous sale in 1978 had transferred the property to Frank Broadbent:


This was after Joseph Ridgway had bought the property in 1938 from Joseph Ball:


Joseph Ball had acquired the property in 1919 from Arthur Gaywood:


There's more. Click on to see wills relating to these people.