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If you have a story that we could share here about times gone by, please tell us about it. If you know someone in the village that has lived here a long time, but perhaps is not likely to use a computer to see this, maybe you could talk to them and pass on their tales.
Jon Young, 31 Spaldwick Rd says
I thought I'd get the ball rolling and tell the tale of how we came to the village.
It's been nearly ten years and our house looks as though it has been here forever, but we first came to see a field full of sheep and bramble bushes.
We wanted to find a building plot where we could live and continue to work in London.
The village and the building plot were just what we were looking for and so we decided to buy it and you can read the story of how our house was built here.
The place was a building site at first and we took on a gardener for a couple of hours a week to help us get the place tidy. It was his suspicion that the pond we have by the roadside would have been used to wash out horse drawn carts by reversing them through the gap in the hedge and down a slope into the water where they could be scrubbed.
I thought I'd get the ball rolling and tell the tale of how we came to the village.
It's been nearly ten years and our house looks as though it has been here forever, but we first came to see a field full of sheep and bramble bushes.
We wanted to find a building plot where we could live and continue to work in London.
The village and the building plot were just what we were looking for and so we decided to buy it and you can read the story of how our house was built here.
The place was a building site at first and we took on a gardener for a couple of hours a week to help us get the place tidy. It was his suspicion that the pond we have by the roadside would have been used to wash out horse drawn carts by reversing them through the gap in the hedge and down a slope into the water where they could be scrubbed.
Tell us your stories and pass on your local knowledge.
The archaeologists that precede the arrival of the sewer system we hope to have later this year have prepared a document describing what is known about the history of the village. They will be adding to this knowledge with the results of the dig they are conducting at the moment. Please feel free to take a look at it. The file is in PDF format and is quite large. You can see it here.