Land’s End One-Place Study

I have determined that the enumerator followed a loop around the village, starting at the bridge in the east and ending at the vicarage in the west. The map I used to follow the path was the OS County Series, 1:2500, published in 1871, the same year as this census. I have recreated some of the landmarks in my own map below. No street names are indicated on this map, so any mention of street names here are the modern-day equivalents.

Key locations:

• The last place the enumerator visited before entering the village was the Hoe Moor Brick Works, as evidenced by the occupations of the people recorded here and their location. However, I’m unsure if they began at Maidenstone Heath or directly at the bridge. The Brick Works was located in Hoe Moor Copse and is not evident on a modern map.

• The first landmarked location is Schedule 54, The Swan Public House. In 1871, the head of the house, Robert HICKLEY was the publican. The pub stood at the corner of what is now Bridge Road and Church Lane. This entry of The Swan Hotel on the Lost Pubs Project website indicates that “the first swan stood on what was the car park and faced the river.”

• From The Swan, the enumerator travelled north on Bridge Road to the next marked landmark, Oak Hill House, or Oak Hill Lodge, on my 1871 map. Thomas W. OLIVER, a 38-year-old Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and the Landowner, headed the household at Schedule 59. He lived here with his wife, Elizabeth, one-year-old son, Thomas L., and his mother-in-law, Elizabeth BERRY. They had two servants, a nurse and a general domestic. The house sits where Oakhill, Dodwell Lane, and Bridge Road meet today.

• The next landmark I can only interpret from the location indicated on Schedule 60 as “Cottage & Farm”. Most locations are Cottages in Bursledon, and only one farm is marked on the 1871 map. However, beginning with the maps from the 1900s, nearby Oak Hill at the corners of Oakhill and Portsmouth Road is called Redcroft Farm. This is near the location marked Lower Claypits on the 1871 map. The landowner and farmer here is Joseph B. CUDLIPP, who lives with his family. The Redcroft Farmhouse is an officially listed building.

• Then, heading down present-day Long Lane, the occupation of household Schedule 62, Benjamin ROLES, as an Independent Minister (of Bursledon) matches roughly the location of the Independent Chapel marked on the map. Benjamin lived in a cottage with his wife, Rhoda, and one-year-old daughter, Mariam.

• The households at Schedules 66 and 67 list Highfield Lodge and House location names. No area is marked with this name on the map, but the next area of considerable size is marked Ploverfield. The lodge's residents include the Thomas BLAND family, whose occupation is a Coachman, probably for the house's residents, the family of Joseph Dean BROWNE. Joseph was a retired farmer from Ireland, living with his wife, Georgeana. They also employed a butler, a lodge maid, a cook, and a housemaid.

• From here, the enumerator went south down Long Lane to the National School marked on the 1871 map. I noted the Parsonage nearby, but I believe the enumerator ended their loop around Bursledon as one of the last households. While not marked as an address, Schedule 68, immediately after the residence of Highfield House, Richard SHARP, is recorded as a Certificated School Master at the National School, so it would make sense that he and his wife also lived here. There are also a few named cottages around this area, but I have not yet discovered their locations from any available information.

• I lose track of exactly where the enumerator travels between the school and the Jolly Sailor, but I believe, given the area where landmarks pick back up again after the Jolly Sailor that they travelled east along School Road and then north and around Church Lane, back toward St. Leonard’s Church. From here, they made their way south and toward the Jolly Sailor and Land’s End.

• I believe the enumerator went to the Jolly Sailor, down Land’s End Road and then up again to record the Daniel BIRCH family at Schedule 101. Because the Jolly Sailor is toward the top of Land’s End, I suspect every household that appears between that and the New Inn could all be residents of this one road, but I' am not completely positive yet. I did not transcribe much more after the residences at The New Inn, however I can tell that the enumerator then went on to Elm Lodge and finishing up at The Vicarage, which completes the loop around the village.

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