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"KOYUGA" - Down Low Farside Way
 
 

Image produced from the www.old-maps.co.uk service with permission of Landmark Information Group Ltd
and Ordnance Survey

Koyuga, the cottage mentioned in Eileen Whitehead's diary of a holiday at Greenhow in 1914. The location of the cottage is just above the "F" of Far Side on the map. 

Why the cottage is called "Koyuga", we don't know. The name is also a village in Australia, where some of the Whitehead family moved to, and it's also said to be the name of a tribe of North American indians. This could be another clue; Thomas Blackah emigrated to North America in 1857 and returned a few years later. Harald Bruff mentions that Thomas built himself a cottage down Far Side way, I believe. The reason may not be connected with either of these.
 
 



Another view of "Koyuga" 
on the right of the photograph.
The building in the centre
is probably the one shown
just below the "A" of Koyuga
on the map.






"Koyuga" in 1972
Now abandoned
and partly collapsed.


I would like to express my thanks to Dr John Laycock for permission to use the photographs on this page.
 
 
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