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Category: Watling

First Occupants of the Hingham Road ‘Council Houses’

Posted on October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 by Heather Etteridge

The first known ‘council houses’ or ‘houses for the working class’ were built in Mill Lane. Around 1928, Wayland Rural District Council (Wayland RDC) commissioned a terrace of four houses in Mill Lane. The Council also built a pair of semi-detached houses near to the terrace, which were either built at the same time or within…

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