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"abbey" ruins at Grimesthorpe,any clues?


martS5

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Can anyone remember the ruins at the end of sturton road ?, we thought it was some kind of abbey,used to play round there when i lived on margate drive in the prefabs,long before the park was there,think there was allotments then,i cant find any info on the ruins at all

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With you now mart. Yes the ruins you remember were at Osgathorpe Cottage - I think there is an old people's home on the site now.

 

Here are some photos of the derelict oubuildings from 1950...

 

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=y02146

 

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=y02143

 

and of the house at that time

 

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=y02142

 

and in 1870 when it was all country still -

 

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s05797

 

The outbuildings were much older than 1870, probably part of a 16th century farm originally.

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i used to walk over the ridge to School, depending how muddy it was i would either walk through the horses field, or go over the top through what was left of the cottage/hall,spent many hours at crabtree pond if i could get through the snicket gate next to the house. I live in Spain now and was just remembering the early 60's

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