Ashmore Farm, Wednesfield, circa 1910. Two women and a girl stand next to a delivery man in a pony and trap.
Ashmore Farm, Wednesfield, circa 1910 - 1910. An Edwardian group of people in front of the farmhouse. The moat here is still in water (it has since been filled in and is now only a shallow indentation in the ground). The farmhouse is a later addition to the original building that stood inside the moat. The identity of the group is unknown. It is uncertain as to the exact date of erection of the original building but census information from 1891 shows the Lloyd family, headed by Sarah, a widow aged fifty four, living there with three of her children. The original building - an ancient medieval eight hearth manor house belonging to Robert Leveson in 1666 - stood inside a moat, but the farmhouse was added later, situated to one side, close to the modern Ashmore Inn. It survived for some time after the modern estate of Ashmore Park had been built in the 1950s, but was eventually demolished. The moat, which is recorded on the West Midlands Sites & Monuments Record as SMR 2553, lies at grid reference SJ959018 - within the modern estate.
Size: 2526px × 1901px
Location: Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Midlands, England, UK
Photo credit: © Wolverhampton Archives, UK / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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