Mount Pleasant 1873/4 showing St Bartholomew's Church and the house for the curate (now Rest Harrow) built by the Rev Robert Allen on the site he had bought. The church was eventually demolished and rebuilt on the present site.
ESRO OS 25” 1873/4 40/14

Mount Pleasant 1899. Only the house intended for the curate survives on the site.
ESRO OS 25” 1899 40/14

Covel's (Scobell’s Farm) Farm 1820, detail.
Note the kiln structure, possibly a brick kiln, in the wide road in front of the farm, the 'Poor Houses' to the west and Mr Grover's plot (Slate Cottage 2007).
1. Buildings, yard and orchard; 2. Orchard; 3. Slip; 4 Barn Field; 7. Pit Field; 8. Upper Cow-Pasture; 9. Lower Cow-Pasture; 10. Old Hop Garden; 11; The Boast; 13. The Brook; 14 In Turnwish.

Detail from map of Knowlands and Balneath (1737) showing:
Knowlands Farm and W. of road Cheesman's house (The Knowle), ?a house to the north, possibly a lost cottage (TA 432), Cawthorn house now on the site);
E. of road John Norris’s house (Burtenshaw Farm, note Norris’s land to west of road), John Carpenter's House (later The Old Poor House, Mount Pleasant now on the site), Cooper’s House (Slate Cottage).
In 1737 John Carpenter was farming Knowlands and Balneath, 354a 1r 3p. from Sir Charles Goring of Highdown. The map also records his ownership of several houses in the periphery of the estate.
ESRO AMS 6575/1

Tithe Data

Cottage & Garden
(cottage lost, Mount
Pleasant on plot)

1841 Census

Tenement Analysis

Buildings

Archaeology

Old Maps

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