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Corner Cottage

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Ellery Rise
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Frieth Hill
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Innings Road
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Spurgrove Lane
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Mr Twitchen standing in the garden of Corner Cottage, Frieth, 1984 - Image from Joan Barksfield's collection

This cottage is aptly named as it was built right into the corner of a piece of land forming a far from square corner between the lane to Rockwell End and the road from Frieth Horse Pond to Marlow.

The 1845 Tithe Map shows that in this corner of land stood a barn and yard belonging to a house to the east of it. [ You can find the Tithe Map under "Hambleden" on the menu bar above ]

Some 20 years ago [ about 1981 ], Mr Twitchen, then the owner, invited me in to Corner Cottage. I noticed the side wall, (i.e. the one adjoining the lane) appeared to be of an early construction. The base was of sarsen stone and the wall of beamed elevations; these would have been infilled with wattle and daub and later replaced with brick. Due to more recent alterations this feature has either been replaced or encased by an interior wall.

It would appear that all the stretch of land on which stand this and the properties described above originally belonged to Chisbridge Farm and that plots were sold off to, or acquired by, other owners.

Chisbridge has a long history stretching back to at least the Norman period (N.B. There was no 'r' in the name until the Victorian era)

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