tozzin Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Can anyone give me precise directions on how to get to the farmhouse in Clough Fields, I believe it has a date stone on it dated 1725? As I don't have a car I can't be walking around looking for the old building, a map would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Off Back Lane, I would say. https://goo.gl/maps/M1bu4JX4tcy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=16&lat=53.3852&lon=-1.5224&layers=10&right=BingHyb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miked Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 I have recently done some work on 19th century Clough Field hamlet if interested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 I have recently done some work on 19th century Clough Field hamlet if interested I am interested but I've got to try and find the cottages first to take a few photos, is it private land? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Hi Tozzin, Here's a map showing the various footpaths (dotted green) and lanes which access Clough Fields - the best depends on which direction you're approaching from - maybe from Crookes via Mulehouse Road and along the norther edge of the cemetery? I've also put a Google street view in showing the view from the end of the main lane (off Back Lane). and a map from 1864 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miked Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 I am interested but I've got to try and find the cottages first to take a few photos, is it private land? Its not like it was and difficult to take photos of any merit, a lot demolished. Have you seen the ones on pictursheffield ? The historian Dennis Smith donated several. People there not really interested in history but don't seem to mind you looking around, several footpaths cut across. What is your interest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HughW Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 There's a picture of Delf House (shown on the 1864 map above) in the book Crookes Revisited (1989) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 The Sheffield Archives have a Fairbanks plan drawn in 1796, Reference No. FC/P/SheD/477S, titled Sheffield: Marsh Lane. Clough Fields and Delf Field, the property of Vincent Eyre (the Duke of Norfolk’s agent). Clough Field had been exchanged with Joshua Spooner, who bought it from John Bower. See also FC/FB/79/Supp page 46 A painting of the hamlet from Crosspool Through Time by Judth Hanson: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted November 12, 2015 Author Share Posted November 12, 2015 Its not like it was and difficult to take photos of any merit, a lot demolished. Have you seen the ones on pictursheffield ? The historian Dennis Smith donated several. People there not really interested in history but don't seem to mind you looking around, several footpaths cut across. What is your interest? If the cottage is still there with the date stone above the door, I want to do my article about it so I must take my own photographs but if the cottage has been demolished it will save me a journey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miked Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Tozz, I will assume you have seen the photos on Picture sheffield. I attach a photo of farmhouse 2 (picture sheffield number.) which I believe had the datestone? The b/w pic is from a mag and should state the pic was taken from the Delph House The painting shown by Ed was by Pam Elliott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clough Field Lass Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 I know this is an old thread but I have been looking up my family history and discovered my family lived in Clough Fields in the 1820's. I see "miked" has done some research and I would like to find out more about what was happening there and how these people lived. Please let me know if you have any information about the area. I cannot visit as I now live abroad but I know the area well from childhood, most of my family never moved from Crookes or even far from Clough Fields. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 For many years I've been trying to find out more about William and John Bower, both born in the 1760s, one a typefounder and the other a cutler. I think their parents were the William Bower and Mary Bridden married in Sheffield in January 1759, and I wonder whether anyone has connected this family with the Bowers who lived at Clough Fields? John Bower was my 4th gt-g'father. Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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