A TOUR OF OLNEY MARKET PLACE - NUMBER 13
Westlands Nursing Home
No 13 Market Place, 2005
At the beginning of the nineteeth century Number 13 Market Place, known as 'Westlands', was lived in by Mr Soul. Previously it was once occupied by the Minister of the Baptist church, the Reverend John Sutcliffe, before his marriage.

William Andrews was the owner of Number 13 at the time of the second and third levies (1810/11 and 1833). A young maltster, Alfred Brooks, occupied the property in 1841. By the time of the 1851 Census, Thomas Welton, a Reverend gentleman of 65 years described himself as 'a Clerk without a cure of Souls'. He lived there with his young wife Elizabeth (33) together with a cook and a housemaid.

Hipwells, the local Brewers, owned the property towards the end of the nineteenth century. The 1936 Register of Electors recorded Florence May Hipwell and Samuel Edgar Hipwell living at Westlands. Also residing at Number 13 were Maurice and Sarah Jones.