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Folly Cottages |
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Introduction
Map of Frieth Moor End Bramblings Astrea Merrydown Cottage Corner Cottage Moor's End Cottages Moor Gate House Underwood The Copse Fingest Road The Forge Folly Cottages The Willows Perrin Springs Lane Perrin Springs West's Cottages Ellery Rise Hilliers Lynden Cottage Frieth Hill Hillside Cottage Rowleys Pear Tree Cottage Hillside View The Platt Little Barlows Cutlers Cottage Yew Tree Cottage Little Cottage Barlows Birch Cottage Tedders / Rose Cottage The Old Stores The Yew Tree Inn Fairfield House Flint Cottage 1 Flint Cottage 2 Inglenook Middle Cottage Sunny Corner The Gables The Orchards Hilltop Cattons Mallards Hillswood The Old Parsonage White Gates The Laurels The Cottage The Firm Marlstone Westwood Bradstone Haylescroft The Niche Rivendell Summerhill Ashcroft Selborne The Ranch House Sara's Cottage The Cherries The Old School House Innings Road Collier's Farm Innings Gate Down the Lane Sunset Cottage Fermain Chilterns Rowan Cottage Creighton Cottage Apple Tree Old Well Cottage The Cottage Flat Roof Whitsun Backlins Red Kites Maidenscraft Spurgrove Lane Maidencraft Cottage September Cottage Spurgrove Cottage Gable End Willems Elder Barn Sunnydale |
Before these cottages were built the ground on which they stand was let out for garden plots. Originally this part of Moor Common was owned by the Lords of the Manor of Hambleden and garden plots could be rented annually or purchased for a much larger fee (see also Ted Collier's Notes on Frieth in the "A History of Frieth") By the middle of the 19th C the housing shortage was acute and some shelters and hovels had appeared along the boundary bordering Hambleden and Fingest Parishes. Rev. W. H. Ridley, Rector of Hambleden 1840-42 was instrumental in getting this row of six cottages (two up and two down) put up on this site to house these families. However an extract from the Hambleden Parish Magazine of 1898 reads : "The Folly Cottages at Frieth (so called) which are in Hambleden parish but in Lane End District seem to have justified their title, for the roof fell in with a crash. Fortunately no one was hurt" Another note of interest is that at one period circa 1900, thirty children came from these cottages to attend Frieth School! After WW2 Folly Cottages were condemned, sold and converted into three cottages. [ The 1901 Census shows 6 families, in total 36 people,
living in these cottages. The families were :
Latham, Saunders, Butler, Jolly, Bond and Hobbs. |
