Rock Street and Bath Road

1840 Tithe Map

In the late 1830’s a survey of the area was made for the purpose of calculating the amount payable to the Manor in place of the tithe.  This survey provides the earliest plan of the area covered by Rock Street and Bath Road and gives details of who owned and occupied the land, and its use at that time.  It was published in 1840 but seems to have taken two or three years to compile.  This means some information was out of date by the time it was published.

The detail accompanying the 1840 Tithe map shows:

Plot 123 - house and garden owned by the Feoffees of Thornbury and occupied by Joel Wathen.  Plot 124 is an orchard and garden with same owner and occupant.  Later became number 1 Rock Street.

Plot 122 - garden owned by Thomas Osborne Wetmore and occupied by Edward Salmon.

Plot 121 - house and garden owned by Thomas Osborne Wetmore and occupied by Joseph Williams

Plot 120 - cottage and garden owned by Hector Maclaine and occupied by William Jones, Henry Herbert, William Davies and William Herbert (known as the Oxhouses, later became numbers 3, 5, 7 & 9 Rock Street)

Plot 119 - cottage and garden owned by Edward Doward and occupied by John Lester, and cottage owned by Edward Doward and occupied by Abraham Gill (later became 5 houses numbered 11, 13, 15, 17 & 19 Rock Street)

Plot 118 - house and garden owned and occupied by Thomas Rutler (later became the Seven Stars beerhouse, the lodging house and 22 Rock Street)

Plot 133 - house and garden owned by Mary Wilkes and occupied by Thomas Grigg, John Thomas, William Clutterbuck, Thomas Smith, Thomas Elton, Joseph Pym and William Matthews (note this plot includes 4 houses on Horseshoe Lane and 4 on Rock Street which later became numbers 2, 4, 6 & 8 Rock Street)

Plot 138 - garden owned by Richard Scarlett (later became the site of the old telephone exchange)

Plot 139 - house owned and occupied by Thomas Savery (note the plot number is not clearly marked on the map but it is assumed that it is the little plot between 138 and 140)

Plot 140 - house and brewery owned by Daniel Pitcher and occupied by James Sly

Plot 142 - house and garden owned by Thomas Hunt and occupied by George Bennett, Thomas Wetmore, Mary Cossham, Giles Pritchard, Samuel Barge and Hester Birnall (note this plot includes the 3 houses on Rock Street which became numbers 16, 18 and 20 and 3 houses on St Mary Street.  The 1841 census shows that Pritchard, Barge and Birnall lived in St Marys Street).

Plot 115 - house and garden owned by Robert Ann and occupied by William Walker and Isaac Sly

Plot 114 - house and garden owned by John Dorney and occupied by Richard Greenwood

Plot 112 - house and garden owned by David Greenman and occupied by himself and Job Greenhill

Plot 323 - cottage and garden owned and occupied by Elizabeth Young

Plot 324 - house and garden owned by Thomas Savery and occupied by Guy Barge and Philip Marton

Plot 325 - house and garden owned and occupied by Daniel Pitcher (the notes seems to suggest that the plot includes two houses)

Plot 329 - cottage and garden owned and occupied by Charles Knott and cottage and garden owned and occupied by Jane Hancock (note this is small plot to the left of the British School) 

Plot 332 - school house and yard owned and occupied by Trustees of British School

Plot 328 - house, garden and orchard owned by Mary Allen and occupied by George Williams

Plot 330 - house and garden owned by William Rolph and occupied by James Aberhall, Richard Gale and James Williams

Plot 331 - house and garden owned and occupied by John Smith

Plot 326 - pasture orchard owned by Thomas Osborne Wetmore

Plot 322 - arable orchard owned Thomas Osborne Wetmore

This page was last updated: 04/08/2008