Chiddingfold
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1946-1971
GREW UP IN CHIDD IN THE 50-60'S. HAPPY MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD DAYS'
STILL "HOME" TO ME.. THOUGH NO LONGER LIVING THERE
Contributed by MADELINE SWINBURN
Chiddingfold memories
As a child living in Chidd during the war we had freedom to roam anywhere we wished, ie Sidenhurst lakes (where I caught my first carp), the brooks where we fished for tiddlers which we cooked over a camp fire, climbed trees and made camps. Girls and boys played and swam together down the Lagg's in water so muddy it was like treacle but we were never ill or caught any disease, there was no H&S rules in those days. I now live in the West Country but still visit Chidd 2/3 times a year. Bill MacDonald. Cornwall
Contributed by William MacDonald
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Chiddingfold memories
As a child living in Chidd during the war we had freedom to roam anywhere we wished, ie Sidenhurst lakes (where I caught my first carp), the brooks where we fished for tiddlers which we cooked over a camp fire, climbed trees and made camps. Girls and boys played and swam together down the Lagg's in water so muddy it was like treacle but we were never ill or caught any disease, there was no H&S rules in those days. I now live in the West Country but still visit Chidd 2/3 times a year. Bill MacDonald. Cornwall
A memory of Chiddingfold contributed by William MacDonald
1946-1971
GREW UP IN CHIDD IN THE 50-60'S. HAPPY MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD DAYS'
STILL "HOME" TO ME.. THOUGH NO LONGER LIVING THERE
A memory of Chiddingfold contributed by MADELINE SWINBURN
Extracts From Chiddingfold & Surrey books
The word ‘fold’ means
an enclosure of land for
animals, and ‘Chadynge`s
fold’ may well date back
to the Saxon period.
From the 14th to the 17th
century, Chiddingfold
was the centre of a great
glass-making industry
with French, Flemish
and German craftsmen
coming here to work.
It died out following a
Royal Proclamation in
1615 prohibiting the use of
wood as an industrial fuel.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
This old hawthorn tree is mentioned as a landmark in a 500-year-old local deed. It stands in
front of a row of pretty tile-hung buildings. In total, 107 buildings in the village are listed as
having special historical and architectural interest.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
Standing opposite the church, the 14th-century Crown Inn was originally a medieval house and solar before being let as an inn in 1383. King Edward VI stopped here briefly, with a retinue of four thousand, on his way to Shillinglee in 1552. The tile facing which obscured the timber framing above the ground floor was removed in the decade after this photograph was taken.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
This must be one of the
most attractive villages
in Surrey, with its large,
sloping triangular green
surrounded by good
houses. The green is the
scene of a spectacular
bonfire on Guy Fawkes
Night. This view is taken
from the tower of St
Mary’s church on the
other side of the A283,
looking past the old
forge with its heavily-
pruned lime tree.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".
This attractive group, which
makes the most of the
possibilities of tile-hanging
walls, is on the Petworth Road
just south-west of the Green.
The house on the left with its
whitewashed tile-hangings is
Old Forge Cottage, which
apparently dates from 1321 -
it was for sale at the time of
the photograph. The two lime
trees have now gone. Beyond,
the shops have gone too, and
the building is now Cyclops
Cottage. The Swan pub is late
Victorian, but it fits in well.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".