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Mill Lane, Lowbands, GLOUCESTER, GL19 3SH

Lowbands was the second Chartist estate created by its founder Feargus O'Connor in 1846. The 23 smallholdings each of 3 or 4 acres also had access to 10 acres of common water meadow. Of note, all the cottages had their own water supply and privy. The Chartist Land Company was declared illegal in 1851 by a House of Commons Select Committee and the properties (now often much improved) have been in private ownership ever since.

Seen in the morning of a bright winter's day, with a low sun from the right.

The Chartist, or National, Land Company was founded in 1845 to establish families from the factory towns on smallholdings, where they could maintain themselves and qualify for a vote.

Lowbands is a former Chartist settlement, now designated as a Conservation Area. In the mid 1840s the Chartist Movement attempted to settle “the working classes" on the land. Around forty houses were built in the settlement which has few facilities or services. The houses which are left are distinctive in that they are set in spacious grounds of between one and five acres. Much of the original layout remains filling most of the grid square.

Lowbands is a former Chartist settlement, now designated as a Conservation Area. In the mid 1840s the Chartist Movement attempted to settle “the working classes" on the land. Around forty houses were built in the settlement which has few facilities or services. The houses which are left are distinctive in that they are set in spacious grounds of between one and five acres. Much of the original layout remains filling most of the grid square.

Phone box, notice board and bench within this rural community.

The remnants of the mill wheel at the Mill at Farm Mill.

K6 telephone box, village notice board, a bench for the weary and a reminder in stone of the origins of this idyllic little community in the centre of Lowbands.

Right to Gadfield Elm and Staunton, left to Playley Green and Redmarley D'Abitot. Lowbands is a former Chartist settlement, now designated as a Conservation Area. In the mid 1840s the Chartist Movement attempted to settle “the working classes" on the land. Around forty houses were built in the settlement which has few facilities or services. The houses which are left are distinctive in that they are set in spacious grounds of between one and five acres. Much of the original layout remains filling most of the grid square.