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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 |
Spurgrove Cottage, Gable End and Willems at Spurgrove are a group of much older cottages. [ What is known of them is spread across this page and the following two "Gable End" and "Willems" ]
The Upp family lived at Spurgrove, probably in the farmhouse now known as Willems, from at least 1588 onwards. Over the years parcels of land belonging to this farm were sold off to various purchasers. In 1657 John Dormer built (or rebuilt) Gable End. [ see next page ] After changing hands several times William Gray bought Gable End in 1849, by then described as two cottages and garden. In 1868 Jeremiah Humphreys bought the same property, described as "4 cottages, 2 newly built and all tenanted" The two newly built were what is now Spurgrove Cottage. In 1952 Father Atkinson, a retired priest from Kilburn bought these two "two up and two down" cottages and turned them into one house, Spurgrove Cottage. When Father Atkinson died a large wooden crucifix that had been given to him when he left Kilburn was given to Frieth Church and is the one that can be seen in the churchyard. This crucifix was carved by Anthony Foster a well known artist, carver and sculptor who was living at Hilliers at the time. |
