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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 |
According to the house deeds of Bramblings as shown to me by the late Ruth Levy, Alice Barlow (1797-1886), mother of Thomas (1825-1898) was the first owner of this house, stating that she had owned it for "upwards of 20 years". Mr Ted Collier, who was related to the Barlow family, said that the flints for the construction of Bramblings came from the old ruins of the Bishop of Lincoln's palace at Fingest ( see VCH Vol. 3 Fingest ). Neither Alice nor Thomas appear to have lived in this house at first, as the Census returns for 1861, 1871 and 1881 show, but Ted collier on his map of Frieth in the 1890s gives Thomas Barlow as living there then. Alice Barlow, Thomas's sister, in her will dated 1899 appears to have been living there too. Alice Barlow, mother of Thomas and Alice, was widowed in 1852 so the date of building Bramblings appears to gave been after 1852 and before 1866. Edmund Barlow, her husband, owned the field in which Bramblings is built - it was named Wood End Meadow on the Tithe Map of 1845. [ You can find the Tithe Map under "Hambleden" on the menu bar above ] A feature of this house was its large bread oven which still existed until the changes made by Mrs Cooke.
The house deeds show the following :
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