Your House and Mine |
Apple Tree Cottage & Old Well Cottage |
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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 |
These cottages are between Creighton Cottage and the road and are of a later date. The Cottage
The Cottage on the opposite side of the footpath is the last of this group of cottages. At the rear of this cottage was a communal water tank put there through the efforts of Rev. Ridley Rector of Hambleden to get clean water for this group of surrounding cottages. This well is now in the garden of The Cottage after a dispute as to the ownership of this small plot of land previously used communally e.g. for drying washing and children playing. Two snippets of interest about tenants of this cottage survive from the late 19th C : There was once a lace/dame school in this cottage too. One night a thief entered, cut all the lace off the pillows and stole it, then threw the school bell into the hedge opposite. In 1890 an old lady named Mary Austin lived here, she kept bees and when friends called she would say "Come ye in and tak' a glass of Nathalum" her way of pronouncing metheglin - a wine brewed from honey. This group of small cottages from Sunset to The Cottage comprised Little Frieth, built on land belonging to Friethe/Cutlers/Colliers Farm and owned by the Lords of the Manor of Hambleden. They are not all of the same age and some were sold off at different times. If you live here now your house deeds may tell you more. Little Frieth is named on Jeffreys map of 1770 as a group of cottages, which ones were there then ? |
