Kinsmansdale

Kinsmansdale

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Back on the road following the Green Trail we pass the entrance on the right to Kinsmansdale. This is a group of cottages built by Sir Thomas Bowring, and named after his wife, Annie Kinsman. His initials and the date of erection can be seen in the red terracotta tablets. Further up you will notice the sign "Hornhills" on a garden gate - this relates to a hedge of horns. the hedges around Lower Kinsmansdale were once made of the horns of the cattle which had been slaughtered in the slaughterhouse in Ford St, which extended down to Millbrook.