Wadesmill History
Wadesmill 1836 with the old river crossing looking North from what is now Thundridge.
Wadesmill late 18th century - print by Batty and Jukes - Seems they forgot to show the sack hoist?
This print is looking South with both 'Corner House' and 'The White Hind' clearly visible.
Youngsbury late 18th century
Youngsbury consists of an 18th-century park and woodland with 4 hectares of garden around the house, the front part of which is dated 1745, the back early 19th century, with 18th-century stables. There are extensive 16th to 18th-century walled kitchen gardens, an arboretum, an icehouse and tumuli and Roman barrows within the grounds, which extend to the river Rib. Capability Brown's involvement included widening the river and creating two islands, designing a ha ha and placing small groups of trees in open parkland. Nineteenth-century development of the kitchen garden was re-created in the late 20th century, with notable mixed borders. There is a moat and church in a bend of the river on the southern edge of the parkland.
Wadesmill Fair
An annual fair was held at Wadesmill on June 16th , but was eventually stopped in the late 19th century due to rowdiness and bad behaviour!
Wonder why the was Fair held on a certain date and not day?
Newspaper cutting from 1817
"NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That on Monday, June 16th 1817, a HAT will be run for, by Men, at FIVE O'Clock;
also a SMOCK to be run for by WOMEN, at SIX O'Clock:- ALL GRATIS"
More coming soon..........