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The lane down to Waggoners Wells from Headley Road, 1907
Here we are looking down the line of the boundary between Bramshott parish (on the right) and part of the old Headley parish, now Grayshott (on the left). The lane leads to the ford at Waggoners Wells top pond, and in past times was used as a pack-horse route between Haslemere and Frensham. |
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Lane to Waggoners Wells, 1907 |
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Written on the back of this card, posted in September 1907 at Shottermill: "A view in our lane! The cottages are a little higher up than where I have put mark"-but the mark seems to have disappeared, so we are not quite sure to which cottages the writer was referring.
It is interesting to note that a similar postcard was also available at the time without the boy included! |
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Pond in Stoney Bottom, Waggoners Wells, 1899 |
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One of the ponds in Stoney Bottom, 1899
An unusual shot-entitled 'Waggoners Wells,' it in fact shows one of the smaller and lesser-known ponds higher up the valley. Again, we are looking along the old parish boundary, this time up Stoney Bottom towards Grayshott. The building just visible in the distance is probably the Cenacle convent, demolished in 1999. |
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At the time the picture was taken, Flora Thompson would have walked this way on the Sunday rambles she describes in 'Heatherley', her sequel to 'Lark Rise to Candleford'. |
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County Boundary stone in Crossways Road, Grayshott
Near the head of the 'bottom' (one of the few to have retained this title locally) is a stone, marking the junction of this boundary with Surrey.
H = Hampshire, Headley; S F = Surrey, Frensham |
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County boundary stone |
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Crossways Road, Grayshott, about 1900 |
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Crossways Road, Grayshott, c.1900
Thomas Wright wrote in 1898: "Grayshott looks like a doll's village, not so much because of the size of the houses, but because of their quaintness … they are all new, having been erected during the last five or six years." |
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On the right we see Walter Chapman's post office in which Flora Thompson was working as Sub-Office Assistant. In Jubilee Terrace next door are Prince the baker, Munday the greengrocer, and an off-licence run first by Upex and then Milton. Behind the tree is Deas the grocer's.
On the left is Victoria Terrace where 'Madame' Fanny Warr occupied four shops with her various businesses which, according to Flora Thompson, were advertised on the board as: Milliner and Costumier, Baby Linen and Real Lace, Lending Library (frequent boxes from Mudie's), Stationery and Artists' Materials.
Flora Thompson wrote in 'Heatherley' (her sequel to 'Lark Rise to Candleford') about her time in Grayshott 1898-1901.
(Grayshott was in Headley parish until 1902) |
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Bowes Cottage, Whitmore Vale, 1917 |
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Bowes Cottage, Whitmore Vale, 1917
Beware of captions on cards! This is a view of Bowes Cottage, on the Hampshire side of Whitmore Vale, and not of Whitmore Vale Farm itself which is in Surrey.
From Crossways Road, in the previous picture, we travel over the 'Fiveways' crossroads and along Whitmore Vale Road. The road soon drops past Bowes Cottage to enter a narrow valley. |
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The old parish boundary of Headley encompassed Grayshott and then ran along this valley, following the county boundary and the stream bed all the way to Frensham Great Pond. Headley's neighbouring parish in Surrey for many years was Frensham, until 1865, when Churt gained the status of being a parish in its own right.
Interestingly, the name of the valley is spelt Whitmore in Hampshire, but Whitmoor in Surrey. |
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