From the Census return, kindly provided by Tony Bayley, October 2024

“Enumerator: Joseph Jarvis

Description: “The whole of the civil parish of Stambourne including Stambourne Green, Robin Hood End, Greenfields, Metsons Farm, Smiths, New House Farm, Dyers End, Tagley Farm, Craigs Road, New Barn, Pitiful Wood, Wesley End, The Hall, Church Farm, Church Road, The Rectory, New Houses, Mill Road, Chapel End, Brick Kiln, Buskey Cottage”

Date of census: 3rd April 1881

A few facts from the return:

• 105 occupied dwellings
• 451 people of which 291 were born in Stambourne
• Less than 20 people born more than ~ 10 miles from Stambourne
• 89 men and boys described as agricultural workers
• 87 women and girls described as straw plaiters
• 84 scholars

If you have any details on which houses are which, please let us know. Very few of the houses in those days had names but they are shown where they have been entered on the census.