Cottage Row, Belchamp Walter

The location of Cottage Row was in dispute as it was thought that they could be the houses on Gestingthope Road, the last of the cottages what is now the location of the water treatment plant. But is more likely that the location was the houses on what is now Bells Road West of the Duck pond.

Cottage Row in the 21st Century

The cottages are long gone. The area West of the village pond is now occupied by Field House.

The garden of Waverly house also occupies the land which formerly was the location of the cottages and the Belchamp Walter Work House.

The cottages looking East from the Eight Bells pub.

... and looking from the other direction:

Known residents of Cottage Row

This information was taken from the Burial Register for the Parish Council Cemetery. The recorded burials date from the 1940's and 1950's. The Cottages were demolished sometime in the mid Twentieth century.

George Eldridge - d. 1941 lived at 3 Cottage Row. July 2025 the author met with his grand daughter who was 1 years old at the time of her Grandfather's death.