Oldcroft

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Oldcroft is a hamlet in Gloucestershire, England. The village of Yorkley is to the northwest, and the hamlet of Viney Hill is to the northeast.

Oldcroft is situated near the "Dean road", a medieval route that ran between Lydney and Mitcheldean.^[1] In the 17th century there were cabin dwellings in Oldcroft.^[2] Much of the early settlement was by squatters, and in 1782 there were thirteen cottages recorded at Deadman's Cross in Oldcroft.^[2] In 1834 Oldcroft contained around thirty-five scattered cottages.^[2] In the later 20th century several cottages were enlarged and some large houses were built, especially on the south-east side of the hamlet.^[2] There was once a pub in Oldcroft called the Loyal Forester – it closed before 1893.^[2]

The Primitive Methodists opened a chapel at Oldcroft in 1876.^[3] It closed, following storm damage, in 1929.^[3] It was later reopened as an independent church, but closed in the early 1960s, and from 1975 until 1991 the building was an electrical engineer's workshop.^[3] In 1958 the Assemblies of God also had a chapel at Oldcroft, demolished by 1975.^[3]

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