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Maidencraft Cottage

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Map of Frieth
Moor End
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   Corner Cottage
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   Moor Gate House
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Fingest Road
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Perrin Springs Lane
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Ellery Rise
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Frieth Hill
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   Rowleys
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   Hillside View
   The Platt
   Little Barlows
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   Yew Tree Cottage
   Little Cottage
   Barlows
   Birch Cottage
   Tedders / Rose Cottage
   The Old Stores
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   Fairfield House
   Flint Cottage 1
   Flint Cottage 2
   Inglenook
   Middle Cottage
   Sunny Corner
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   Hilltop
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   Mallards
   Hillswood
   The Old Parsonage
   White Gates
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   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
Maidencraft Cottage, Frieth, 1979 - Image from Joan Barksfield's collection

[ Apologies for the quality of this image - the original slide is slightly out of focus.  Can you help with a better, or more interesting image ? ]

Maidencraft Cottage is the first house in Spurgrove Lane. The name is due to the local pronunciation of 'craft' for 'croft' - the field in which it is built was called Maiden Croft ( A croft is a small piece of arable land) [ see the 1845 Tithe Map under "Hambleden" on the menu bar above ]

The plots of land on which the bungalows in Spurgrove Lane are built were passed for building prior to WW2 but most were not built upon until after 1945/6.  These and the houses and bungalows on the "Stony Road" at Spurgrove are mostly post-war so the house deeds will give their origin and successive changes of ownership.

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