Hi Joan Yes this still a very rural area even though it is only a few miles from Bury town centre.. I have compared our local maps against census entry's on the 1841 census JAMES (1847) was living with his father JAMES(1809) in a hamlet called Gorsey Clough the next entry was for SHEEP HILL GATE on the local maps there is a farm called Sheep Gate Farm it to the southeast of Gorsey fold . Gorsey fold is still there but it is a nursing home the houses are gone. Just as a matter of interest while I was researching my Kay family in Tottington I found that on of gt,gt grandfathers brothers DAVIE who was blind from birth and made is living as a hawker lived in Gorsey fold When I checked last night I found that on the 1881 census he was living two doors away from your James (1847) small world keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Bridges" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:31 PM Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Tottington Farms > Hi Keith > > Thank you very much for responding to my query regarding Sheep Hill Farm. > > I have all the births, marriages and census details for most of the > children > of Thomas Leach & Ellen Calderley. > > My main interest was in the farms and if they were still in existence > I have had a look at the satellite map of the area. It still looks very > green. > > Thanks again for your interest. > > Regards from Ottawa > > Joan > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message