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HARRIS DOWER HOUSE CANWICK LINCOLN
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Gervaise did a lot to develop the Canwick estate, building the
Heighington
Road from the top of Canwick hill to the end of Grange Lane, laying
out the surviving
carriage drive and probably completing the park. During
Coningsby‟s years changes
to Canwick continued with the building of the
Dower House
in 1876 and several
estate cottages in the 1870‟s. In 1872 trials were undertaken
on behalf of the
Sibthorps searching for Ironstone on the Canwick estate, but
insufficient ore was
found, otherwise a different landscape may have been around us
today. Areas of
limestone were quarried around the village providing building
materials, as can be
seen by the dips and hallows in the area of woodland known as the
Pitts. Coningsby
mainly lived at one of the other family estates that of Sudbrooke
Holme and at
Canwick Dower House. His younger brother Montague
lived at the Hall with his
family of three daughters.
Changes continued on the estate with the Gamekeepers house being
built in 1908. In
1913 new wings were added to the Hall and The Grange was built in
1927 as the
estate house for Oscar Bates, the Sibthorps' agent.
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POSTMARK BRIEFMARKE