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View looking east over Arford from Curtis Hill, c.1903
Long Cross Hill is in the foreground. Little Barn cottage is the nearest building, with Lickfold's house (now demolished) behind it, and Kellick's shop (later Bellinger's, now privately owned as Old Stores) just visible across Arford Road. To the right is the small wooden building which was Lickfold's garage. |
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Arford from Curtis Hill, about 1903 |
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| Miss Stenning's general shop was built onto the front of the barn next door to Lickfold's-behind the shop there was a large store room which gave access to the barn (now also demolished).
Next to the right are Fern Cottages, and on the far right three cottages which were demolished in the 1950s. Across the road from Fern Cottages at one time was North's the builders in what had previously been a fish and chip shop.
[Thanks to Nic Greene for some of the above information]
On the skyline is Fairview Terrace, to the right of it Burretts and Mount Pleasant which are at the west end of Arford Common. To their right are houses situated on Parish House Bottom (now Beech Hill Road), and on the extreme right is the house now called Brook Lodge, on Bowcott Hill. |
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Arford from Beech Hill Road, about 1903 |
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View looking west over Arford from Beech Hill Road, c1903
A view in the opposite direction, taken from the point where smoke appears to be rising in the previous picture. Tracks from Arford Common on the right here join Parish House Bottom (later renamed Beech Hill Road, due to incomers' sensibilities about bottoms!).
Like many of the pictures from this period, tree growth would now make this view impossible to see. To the right is Shingle Cottage with The Orchard just visible behind it. To the left is Rock Cottage, then Alpha Cottage and Greensleeves. In the distance are houses on Bowcott Hill. |
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Tidey's bakery and The Crown in Arford, 1931
Originally the Post Office before this moved to Long Cross Hill, the shop was then run as a bakery by Robert Tidey until after the Second World War, then by the Amey family.
The Crown building is said to date from the latter years of the 17th century when it bore the sign of The Duke of Richmond's Arms. In 1876, James Upperton sold the property to C.H. Master for £1,000. Mr Master subsequently became the first chairman of Friary Holroyd & Healey's Breweries of Guildford-and the Crown still serves Friary Meux beer to this day. |
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Tidey's bakery and The Crown, Arford, 1931 |
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Road junction in Arford, about 1915 |
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Road junction in Arford-left: Lickfold's Garage; right: Bellinger's Stores-pre-1915
Two Lickfold brothers and their wives ran the Garage and single hand-operated petrol pump next door. Eventually the brothers built a much larger garage in Crabtree Lane (now known as Tonard's), but the petrol pump still remained, and little Cecily Lickfold braved all weathers, at any time of day, to answer the toot of a horn. wooden building which was Lickfold's garage. |
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| The shop was then run by Miss Stenning, whose brother was a baker, selling bread, cakes, confectionery, cigarettes, haberdashery, toys and newspapers.
On the back of this card is the message:- "Quiet time, done nothing to-day except eat. I could stick this a lifetime, but it will hardly be always like this. We have received our mobilization, boots & other equipment. I hope Elsie & you and all at home are well, as this leaves me the same at present. Your own Fred." -Posted 13th September 1915 to Mrs Cullough in Co. Down. |
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Corner House, Arford |
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Mrs Chuck outside Corner House at the road junction in Arford
The wooden buildings to the left have been part of a builder's yard for at least a hundred years. At one time they were owned by Henry Knight (1805-1903) who, as a boy of ten, remembered standing outside the Royal Anchor at Liphook watching the prisoners from the Battle of Waterloo. It was he who climbed on the roof of the Church when it caught fire in 1836, trying to put out the flames. |
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| By 1901, he owned 40 properties in the village.
The next builder to live here was Mr H.R. Chuck, also an undertaker and for very many years a churchwarden. This is thought to be a picture of his wife. He was followed by the Collings family, and then Robert Moodie who had his upholstery workshop there until a few years ago. |
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Outside Eashing Cottages, Arford Road, after 1912
This undated picture is from a more peaceful time than would be allowed today, with the current use of Arford as a commuter rat-run for fast cars.
Eashing Cottages were built around 1912 as a speculative venture by a Mr Peachey of Eashing Farm near Godalming. They look much the same today. |
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Eashing Cottages, Arford, about 1912 |
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During and after the Second World War, this area of Arford was severely flooded by rain flowing off Ludshott Common which was denuded of vegetation after being used as a tank training ground.
The tanks themselves were also driven through Arford's narrow lanes regularly on their way to manoeuvres, causing severe damage to property here at times. |
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The Wheatsheaf, Arford, about 1908 |
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The Wheatsheaf, c.1908
The Inclosure Award map of 1855 shows The Wheatsheaf in this location, though whether it is the same building is debatable. The flat-roofed extension now houses the public bar, with steps on the right (enclosed in recent years) leading up to the lounge bar at a higher level.
An earlier publican here was John Lickfold -Mr Laverty says he came to the Wheatsheaf in 1835, then moved on to run Headley Mill in 1845. |
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Village legend says that Eade's stonemason's yard was here, possibly before the pub, and that it made one of the two 'Sailor's Stones' erected on Hindhead Common around 1826. Certainly the old map shows the field behind to be called Arford Stone Field. The 1851 census gives three mason's labourers living in Arford, but no stonemason.
The Wheatsheaf was demolished and the site redeveloped in 2002. |
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Junction at bottom of Barley Mow Hill, Arford |
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Junction at bottom of Barley Mow Hill
The previous picture was taken from a position by the white gate. The Wheatsheaf is now slightly behind us on the left-the road ahead is The Hanger leading to Frensham Lane-a gate leads to The Oaks -the main road bends right, up Barley Mow Hill towards Churt. |
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To the left along The Hanger is the site of a sheep wash. Two shearers at a time were given the privilege of using this, the last two being James Marshall of Parish House Bottom, and the father of George Glaysher of Barford. Further on beyond the sheep wash there were watercress beds.
In 1806 an agreement was drawn up between Edward Benham and John Willoughby to settle a dispute over the use of the water downstream from here. |
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View over The Wheatsheaf, Arford to Barley Mow Hill, about 1908 |
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View over The Wheatsheaf and up Barley Mow Hill
Another view of the junction on the previous picture. The large white house facing us was one of several shops in Arford at the time. According to Mr Laverty: "Bohanna took Curtis' shop at Arford-good voice, choir." He was also a coal merchant. The building had in the past been used as a Quaker Meeting House. |
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The first white house facing us further up the hill is The Birches built for James Allden, who married Henry Knight's daughter. Behind that to one side is Sunnybank, and on the skyline directly behind is Hillborough which Mr Beck (see the Introduction) built for his retirement.
Just visible among the trees up Barley Mow Hill to the left are Brontë Cottage and Hillside, the latter now known as Little Barley Mow. A track known as 'The Shambles' leads up to Hearn from the bottom of Barley Mow Hill behind these houses-we assume from the name that animals were slaughtered there at one time. |
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'The Oaks', 1908
Lord Robert Cecil M.P., became Viscount Cranborne in 1865 while listed as a resident here. He later became third Marquis of Salisbury in 1868, and then prime minister both in 1885 and again during the Boer War.
Major-General Woodbine Parish lived here until 1890, and Archdeacon Norris wrote his account of the parish church while staying here in 1903. This photograph was taken by Ada Laverty.
The house was demolished during redevelopment in 2002. |
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The Oaks, Arford, about 1910 |
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'Hillside' on Barley Mow Hill |
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'Hillside' on Barley Mow Hill
Now known as Little Barley Mow, the house has been altered, extended and painted pink on the outside since this picture was taken.
During the Second World War, camouflaged tanks were parked up Barley Mow Hill and Nissen huts erected in the front gardens - and local girls remember darning the socks of Canadian soldiers billeted near here for a packet of chewing gum. |
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Fellmongers Cottage at bottom of Beech Hill Road, c.1900s
Another undated picture. Fellmongers prepared skins for a tanner, and there used to be a tanyard opposite this property where Brookside Cottage is now. Mr Laverty in his parish notes says that the father of James Mills was the last fellmonger to live here. James died in March 1898 aged 82. Mr Laverty had earlier (in the 1870s) called the property 'Rotten Row' because of its tumble-down condition!
The Arford stream runs close by, and used to cross the road by a ford not far from where this picture is taken. The stream also supplied the tanyard. |
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Fellmongers Cottage, Arford, about 1900 |
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'Arford Spring Cottage' (aka 'Arford Spring Cottage')
Now known as Ivy Cottage at the bottom of Bowcott Hill, an area once known as Parfect's Hollow. The Arford stream runs through the field in front of a stone wall which borders the footpath (No.30) along Fullers Vale. People can still remember collecting their water from the spring which came out of a pipe in a wall by the house.
From an essay on Headley by Mrs WE Belcher in 1925: "There are several little beauty spots [in Headley parish], such as the winding piece of road at the bottom of Parfect's Hollow by Arford spring and pond…"
In the 1900s the house was referred to as 'Arford Lodge' according to Cherry Forray whose grandmother 'Hartie' Harnett was born there in 1879. See below right for a photograph of the house supplied by her. |
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Yew Tree Cottage, Arford Common
The cottage in the picture on the left thought to be Yew Tree Cottage on Arford Common, shown in a later picture on the right.
According to Dolly McGhee, who knew it well, a Mrs Parfitt lived there. She says the left hand door led to the washhouse, and she thinks the building lost its thatch just after the Second World War. |
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Introduction
Arford
