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Cave House Loxley Common


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Ive always loved wandering about on the Common, over the humps and bumps of the ganister mine remains and in and out of the quarries.
But the one thing that has fascinated me ever since I saw its picture on Picture Sheffield was Cave House, and today I think I found it.

The house was built by Thomas Halliday in around 1740 and blown up in the 1920's. It was built into the rock face, water was drawn from a nearby well and there was a small enclosed garden.

What is left today is a small walled enclosure, with a small stone built hut in one corner, this is ontop of the crags. A short distance below is the house site, this is nestled in between rocks. On the rock walls you can see holes carved into them to support timbers, one area has been chiseled flat and a possible fire place. The area is strewn with dressed stone and the footings of the out building survive. Nearby is a short tunnel covered by big blocks of stone, could this be the well.

Cave House as it was (Picture Sheffield).

The site today.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2684/416617..._54cda90b0b.jpg

Is this the front door step?
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/416616..._570a2c21f5.jpg

Dressed stone.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/416540..._4fd8a2ae25.jpg

The tunnel.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/416541..._140dc1aea4.jpg

Remains of the hut in the enclosure.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2597/416615..._756aec27fa.jpg

The pictures aren't very good, it was very gloomy today. I haven't posted very much either so I hope this is okay.

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R8theerOreet. lol

A good bit of on-site detective work.

I can't think where your site is. Can you mark it on a map somehow? I'd like to have a walk around there sometime.

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Right then Vox, if you know the common you should be able to find it easy enough.(Says he who's only just stumbled across it after thirty odd years).

From the top car park head for the trig point, then take the path into the woods, and you'll come to a small dry stone wall enclosure on your left. The rest of the remains are below the enclosure.

It would be nice to get some better photo's, but its one of those places you have to be there to get a good idea of whats it all about.

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So that's what those stones were that we found. When I attended Wisewood School in the late 1950's during the hour and 20 minute dinner time we used to go up Ben Lane to the allotments. Then through the allotments and over the wall into these woods where we found these stones.

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