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Old Ford Farm building 1

The 1740 map  shows a building next to Old Ford Farm which is not clearly shown in the 1794 map. Several families  may have lived there which was probably part of the Town tithing and it was a  other Waldegrave property. It may have been were Ann Cramphone lived in 1740 or it could have been the site of the Royal Oak or a mill. There are several sites on Lower Street and the Litton road which could have been where any of these properties but Old Ford Farm Building 2 is the best prospect for the grist mill mentioned in the lease.
The Cramphone lease refers to the Exon and Dowling families and  churchwarden accounts and poor-law  make references to all of these families but they are not precise about where the property was.
Plot number 132 in 1839 shows building which may been the building shown in 1740 next to plot 131.
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