Hartfield, High Street 1906
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Photo of Hartfield, High Street 1906

More about this scene

This view looks along pretty Hartfield High Street with its tile-hung and half-timbered cottages. Today Hartfield is best known for its association with Winnie-the-Pooh, whose creator, A A Milne, lived for many years at nearby Cotchford Farm.

A Selection of Memories from Hartfield

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Hartfield

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My friend Hannah Rooth (Nee Symonds) can remember living in Hartfield in the late 1920s and 1930s. She lived at Kilnwood, in Cotchford Lane, and was married in the church in 1937. She then lived in Paddock Cottage in the same lane.  In Hartfield in those days there were two pubs, a grocers, a bakers, a post office, village hall, and of course the church and church school. The village was very quiet, but there was the WI in the village hall, cricket matches, and maypole dancing at the school.