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Forty Green, Lowbands, GLOUCESTER, GL19 3SL

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.

An old apple and pear orchard growing in the Chartist settlement of Lowbands. Lowbands was the second Chartist estate created in 1846. Rows of fruit trees were provided for the 23 smallholders along with 22 working horses, firewood, manure and seeds.The estate was sold off in 1851 when the Chartist Land Company was declared illegal by a House of Commons Select Committee.

The chapel was built in 1858 to serve a secular community created originally by the Chartist Land Company in 1846. The 23 smallholdings had been sold off in 1851 when the land company was declared illegal.

In fine, original condition, this delightful house dates from 1847 when Feargus O'Connor founded his ill-fated Chartist Co-operative community here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.