Site of Badger House (Oxdale Lodge) next to Houndkirk Road

A walk on Houndkirk Moor 25

A cool morning with frequent showers, clearing to sunshine by the afternoon.

This is the site of the old Oxdale Lodge, later named the Badger House, by the side of the Houndkirk Road adjacent to Thieves Bridge. A brief history is described in the Sheffield City Council image archives:

"1898 Map referred to as Oxdale Lodge; 1922 Badgers House Information from Sheffield Clarion Ramblers Handbooks Ref. 914.274, 1938-9 page 40; 1957-8 Pages 60 & 61 "Oxdale Lodge once called Badgers Houses, near Thieves Bridge on the old discarded 1757 Act Sheffield - Buxton Road below Ringinglow & Fox House. Destroyed by Sheffield Corporation in 1936." "Badger House was referred to in 1925 & 1945 SCR Handbook. They were later called Oxdale Lodge but were built by the inheritors of Joseph Badger who bought the 90 1/2 acres allotment 102 in Dore enclosure award of 14/4/1822 as far as the Oxstones". Once a single property used as a roadside pub later made in to two cottages.There was a stone slab skittle alley on the site. A cutlery worker once lived in one of them.A gamekeeper lived in one for many years. After the road from Sheffield to Fox House was opened this Houndkirk Road was not used for through traffic."


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