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 Godkin House
replied on: 3/14/2006 11:03:38 PM
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When Godkin House was demolished 1955ish, and Mr J Dykes rented the land could his farm be Godkin Farm?
Was Godkin House just the name of the House/ farm or was there a family called Godkin?
On the map I have it just say’s Godkin
Jenny

Jenny.
From White's 1857 Directory of Derbyshire page 274.
Samuel Colclough,in 1813,devised a messuage and the closes called Godkin House Farm,19 and an half acres,to his grandfather,William Brough,and his heirs,subject to the annual payment of £2.This sum is laid out in bread,and distributed at the vestry-room on the 5th June,the anniversary of the donor's death.Peter has jogged my memory with names.
When Grandad Towle worked at Godkin I do now remember a Miss Gregory who must have owned the estate in the 1940's/50's we were not allowed to go into the grounds of the house, by her orders,so we used to go down into the fields to the low stone boundary wall, which had barbed wire across the top, and wave to attract grandads attention to come and fetch his sandwiches.
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P&B
Copy of White's 1857 Directory pages 272-287
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