Kinver Edge Holy Austin Rock Houses

Kinver Edge is home to the last troglodyte dwellings occupied in England, with a set of complete cave-houses excavated into the local sandstone. One of the rocks, "Holy Austin", was a hermitage until the Reformation. The Holy Austin rock houses were inhabited until the 1960s. They are now owned by the National Trust and are open for tour. One house has been restored to a Victorian appearance, and the Martindale Caves show what life was like in the 1930s.

The cottage gardens and an orchard are being replanted and restored.

In the National Trust leaflet describing the Rock Houses there is an image of a lady and a young boy outside their rock house and we are told that this is Jane Bragger who was guardian to the little boy, Edward Bragger.

The inhabitants of these extraordinary houses were ordinary people and this project is to try to record those people and their families.