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Further to my previous comment when we decorated the outside of the above last year we found carved in the brickwork at a high level the following: H.W. 1897 We have picked this out in black ink and assume it to be when the property was built and the initials of a Builder
I have no memories of my own but understand that the name Skendleby Psalter is connected with a small very old Church, long gone, which was on the site of Wold Cottage, and that the garden and adjacent land down to the bottom lane was the Graveyard. This obviously pre-dates the 1800 maps and may go back tp the 1600s. This would seem likely because a Psalter is a book of Psalms and/or other Christian Theology. ...see more