Pieces of unfinished dressed stone suggest a stone-mason's yard, perhaps used when Dowry Reservoir was constructed. However the 1895 OS map shows a building called Dowry Castle here. It was probably demolished soon after, as the reservoir is also shown on that map. The 1850 map shows a farm called Higher Dowry, next to Dowry Road.
Uploaded to Geograph by Humphrey Bolton on 26 July 2010
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