We would like to build up a collection of historical anecdotes, facts or recollections
about the village over the years. As new people move to the village and time goes by, the
wealth of information we have here about our past is slowly eroded.
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 thirteen 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.
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