Directory of Stoneyhills Blogs and Bloggers

13th and 14th June. Stalls, refreshments, competitions and beautiful flower displays. St. Barnabas Church, Mayland Hill, MAYLAND. From 12 noon until 5.00 pm on both days. Don't miss out!

My goal is to urge the 10,000 people in the Southend area who voted UKIP at the last European Election to encourage another 10,000 to join them this June. This blog will keep you up to date with UKIP activity in and around Southend-on-Sea.

Great Baddow. A blog dedicated to news from the village of Great Baddow

Local business, running frequent give aways on our blog!

Antenatal Workshops - if you want an honest insight in to the early days of parenthood, look no further.

Regular blog by Digital Ark, Colchester sharing thoughts based on the running of a web design business.

Witterings and stuff from an East London Ex Pat, currently living in Essex. Posts about, life, family and business in Essex

Local cardmaker and event manager

Local community market that takes place every month in Ingrave

Contemporary designs for all occasions, delivered free to your door. We also sell giftwrap & matching tags, gift bags, invitation & thank you packs, tissue, ribbons, jotter pads, colouring in hats, posters, paper chains, door hangers, stationery packs, height charts, bookmarks & family organisers.

Would you like to hold a coffee & cards event or would you like me to help with fundraising for your charity, PTA, hospice, playgroup or contact me if you would like a copy of my latest brochure ...

I am also always looking for friendly & enthusiastic people to join my team, please contact me if you are interested in your own card-selling business.

Regular posts on cats & dogs and anything pet related. Plus updates on our range of dog beds and cat beds. All from Cats & Canines based in Rochester, Kent.

Blog about Kent. Local history. Interesting people with a Kent connection. Places to go. Events. Walks in Kent etc

Is there anyone out there in the Gravesend, Cobham, Cuxton, Sole Street, Harvel, Great Buckland or Meopham who knows anything of the history of a small isolated cottage on Cutteridge Lane quite near The Golden Lion Inn at Luddesdown that is today called Cutteridge Cottage?
My knowledge of the place dates from the late forties, when I lived in Sole Street where I was born. It was then inhabited by an elderly gamekeeper who I think worked for the Darnley Estate, by the mid fifties it had fallen into a ruin and remained partly fallen down and used as a free range chicken house, until it was bought I was told, by a man who lived in Gravesend in the mid nineteen sixties who began to rebuild it.
When it was finished he was not to live in it for long before there was a fire there, the cottage was seriously damaged and the man became ill, apparently dying in Gravesend Hospital in the late sixties. For a couple of decades the cottage remained a ruin until someone began to rebuild it on quite a grand scale in the mid eighties, extending it and making it double storied.
I moved from the area to Shropshire in the early nineties and when I revisited the cottage, now named Cutteridge Cottage in the late nineties it was finished, but appeared to be once again abandoned and though part furnished, was becoming severely overgrown. Reference to Google Earth Maps appears to confirm that Cutteridge Cottage is still abandoned and it looks as if it is now an almost completely overgrown ruin.
I would be most interested to hear from anyone who has any genuine information about this property.
Honker 785.