Dartmoor National Park Authority

Rose was born and brought up in the parish of Widecombe and has lived there all her life. Her grandparents lived in a small two up one down cottage at Uppacott near Poundsgate where they brought up six children:

“How many people lived here? "

"My grandparents and they had six children um,three were born before granddad went to War, First World War, then he came home and three more girls were born afterwards. ”

"So they wouldn't all six have been here at the same time?"

"I don't think they could have been no."

“Well there was a cobbled path down beside of the other cottage with a dung heap in the middle of the yard, um, there was little sheds and grandma used to keep chickens in one of those and an ash-pit in the corner where they used to put all the ashes from their grate and in the bottom there was a pigs house where they kept pigs and a big thatched barn, um, there used to be great big doors on the middle of it, and a tap where they used to get their water”