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Badger House, also known as Oxdale Lodge, near Thieves Bridge, Houndkirk Road (the old Sheffield to Buxton Turnpike Road)

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Ref No:	v00443
Title:	Badger House, also known as Oxdale Lodge, near Thieves Bridge, Houndkirk Road (the old Sheffield to Buxton Turnpike Road)
Location:	Derbyshire_Burbage
Date Period:	Please select
Photographer:	Morgan and Son
Notes:	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 and 61 Oxdale Lodge once called Badgers Houses, near Thieves Bridge on the old discarded 1757 Act Sheffield - Buxton Road below Ringinglow and Fox House. Destroyed by Sheffield Corporation in 1936. Badger House was referred to in 1925 and 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. After the road from Sheffield to Fox House was opened this Houndkirk Road was not used for through traffic.
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