Burnt Houses
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Burnt Houses by Gordon Hatton as part of the Geograph project.
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Burnt Houses
Image: © Gordon Hatton Taken: 19 Aug 2023
Although the name and evidence of a few dwellings appear on the first edition OS map of 1856, this row of cottages look later than that. Burnt Houses is no more than a hamlet along the road that follows the northern edge of the Raby Castle estate, but why were they built here? There's no evidence of coal mining in the immediate vicinity, and they don't look much like estate workers houses.
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Image Location
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54.605805
Longitude
-1.813578