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CAMBRIA PLACE

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A cottage estate designed by Thomas Ellis, the manager of the Rolling Mills at Great Western Railway, to provide housing for Welsh iron workers following Great Western Railway's reluctance to build more housing in the Railway Village. The estate was constructed in 1864, its boundaries defined to the north by Farringdon Road and to the south by the Berkshire and Wiltshire Canal. It originally comprised two rows of cottages, each containing two terraces of eight to twelve cottages. Additional cottages were constructed in the southern row in 1876. The cottages were very similar in plan to the later ones in the Railway Village and comprised four rooms, including a kitchen. The back yard possibly contained a privy and washhouse and lead to a long, thin garden.

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