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Kinver Edge Rock Houses

Kinver, Staffordshire

Homes carved into a sandstone cliff, lived in until the 1960s.

At Kinver Edge, families lived in houses carved into the soft sandstone rock for hundreds of years. Some were still lived in until the 1960s.

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When
Lived in until 1960s
Where
52.4480, -2.2400
Group
Caves & grottoes

Visiting

National Trust, with a tearoom in one of the rock houses.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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