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Historic maps of Newchapel and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Newchapel maps
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Felbridge| Lingfield| Blindley Heath| Smallfield| Crawley Down| Burstow| Dormansland| Copthorne| East Grinstead| Copthorne Bank| Outwood| Shipley Bridge| Crowhurst| South Godstone| Turners Hill| Oakwood Hill| Tilburstow| Horley| Worth| Tandridge| Ashurst Wood| Gatwick| Brambletye| South Nutfield| Salfords| Three Bridges| Bletchingley| Lowfield Heath| Edenbridge| West Hoathly
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The Creasey Family of Felbridge And East Grinstead
In the nineteenth century my Creasey family were tenant farmers at Gibbshaven Farm near Felbridge. Many of the family lived their entire lives in the area and the church was where they were baptised, married and buried.
It is a beautiful area and many of the family pursued interests in farming, nursery gardening and coach making.
My great great uncle Ernest Creasey ran a wheelwright and coachmaker's business not far away at South Norwood and my grandad, George Creasey Allen, who I remember well, went to work for him as a wheelwright.
Gibbshaven Farm Off The Crawley Down Road in The 1800's
My Creasey family ancestors, farmed here in the 1700's and early 1800's. There is a possibility that Edward Creasey acquired Gibbshaven through a family connection of his wife Amelia Stone, with Thomas and John Stone who occupied the property until Edward took over in 1827. Edward and Amelia's first child was my Great-Great-Grandad Thomas Edward Creasey. In 1839, during the time that his father Edward Creasey occupied Gibbshaven, the Worth Tithe was produced giving a detailed break down of the land and usage, showing it comprised seventy-two acres. The large percentage of arable land suggests that the soil was either very fertile or had been well enriched over the years with fertiliser from its own kiln that produced quick lime, a favoured fertiliser from at least, the 18th century. The farm is just to the north of the Crawley Down Road - I have never seen it and would very much like to have a photograph if any exist.
Great-Great-Great-Grandmother Amelia Creasey (nee Stone)
My Great-Great-Great-Grandmother Amelia Creasey (nee Stone) was born in this little hamlet around 1788 yet somehow she was married in Southwark in 1813 to my Great-Great-Great-Grandad Edward Creasey who was a local man from East Grinstead. I am very interested in my family history and have been greatly helped by research published by the Felbridge & District History Group who discovered that my Creasey family farmed at Gibbshaven Farm. It is a beautiful part of the country.
Falling in The Pond
Rod Swift remarked about falling in the pond - well I was one of these. Rod must be my cousin's son, as my aunt and uncle lived in the house referred to. Around 1953 on an icy cold day in winter, a crowd of us were going home after school. On passing the pond we knew there was thick ice so decided to skate on the ice. We did not take into account that it was beginning to thaw and around the outside you could see ice had melted. Quite a number of us went on the ice and most were fine, but I was in the rear and suddenly the ice caved in. I don't remember how many were actually in the water but I was very lucky as a bus inspector waded in and pulled me out from under ther ice. Fortunately no-one was injured, and I only had hurt pride as my mother made me undress outside in the cold. I wish we could have thanked the... Read more
Just Lingfield
If you hadn't fallen in the pond, you were not from Lingfield! So says my dad. The building to the right of the cage in this photo was a shop. My memory of this shop only goes back to the mid 1970s. My grandparents' house was behind the shop (the hedge to the right on this photo is the edge of their property), and whilst on holiday visiting them, my brother and I would play cards with Grandad for 5p a hand. He always claimed that he 'was the best pontoon player in the world', although he would always twist on 18+! We always managed to win and when we both got up to 50p we would always run down the garden path and go to the shop and buy a Cornetto. (They were banned from sale on the Isle of Man back then.) My dad was born in the house and we would go back every 2 or 3 years but now my grandparents are both gone and these... Read more
Lingfield
Jean Chambers mentioned the bomb dropping on the school in 1943 - my parents shop (John Banks Outfitters) was almost opposite the school and I was born at the end of 1943 being given my second name of "Heather" after Heather Lumsden who was killed in the school and was a good friend of my parents.
Jean also mentioned the bomb that was found in 2002 at the bottom of what had been their garden. I wonder whether we lived next door to her. We lived for a time (about 1948/50 I should think) in Mount Pleasant Road - just before the corner next to a large house in big grounds and I understand this is where the bomb was found.
I see from looking at google maps that there is now a house in the grounds between that house and ours.
We left Lingfield in about 1960/61 and I now live in New Zealand but I have great memories of... Read more
The Village I Knew
I used to live at Raymead which was a complex of 24 prefabs, they have been replaced now by a new estate. I come back to Lingfield every year to see the village I grew up in. When I got married to a local lad in 1963 we moved to Tandridge, unfortunately it didn't last due to me but we used to walk to the village pond at night and there was at Christmas one night when it was snowing and they had put fairy lights round the tree by the prison, it looked so lovely I will always remember it as long as I live. I lived ther from 1942 - 1965.
