Map showing rail proposal, 1852

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See record 2741 for a summary of Wheatley's rail history.

Extracts from map of the original route chosen for the proposed GWR railway line, 1852 (later rejected). Also list of owners and occupiers from which the following is deduced as shown on the coloured-up map. Cooper owned all the quarry and brickworks area including Rock house and Old House, but not the stone pit (now the recreation ground) and lock-up which were owned by the Surveyor of Highways. Rev. Elton had already bought the site for the parsonage and subsequent church and burial ground, but there are a multitude of occupiers of the then ‘garden’ area numbered 39, so was this temporarily let out as an additional allotment? The school was later built on plot 37 owned in 1852 by Thomas Herdfield. The All Souls (College Farm and All Souls Cottage in the High Street) and Hall/Crown Farm are as expected. Rev. Richard Henry Wace owned Ambrose Farm but the Davis family still owned a very small part of this shown in blue.

Cooper owned all the quarry and brickworks area including Rock House and Old House, but not the stone pit (now the recreation ground) and lock-up which were owned by the Surveyor of Highways. By this date Rev. Elton had already bought the site for the vicarage and the subsequent St Mary’s Church and burial ground, but there were a multitude of occupiers of the then ‘garden’ area numbered 39. The school was later built on plot 37 owned in 1852 by Thomas Herdfield. The All Souls College Farm and All Souls Cottage in the High Street are shaded blue, and Hall/Crown Farm is shaded yellow. Thomas Wace owned Ambrose Farm but the Davis family still owned a very small part of this shown in light blue.

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