Playing In The Daisy Field

A Memory of Cuddesdon.

I grew up in Cuddesdon and spent many happy hours playing in the surrounding fields. My family moved up to Parkside (No. 15) from The Park houses in '56 when I was 2. I don't remember living there although a trip with mates down Redman's Lane, turn right and pass the crab-apple tree, then on towards the river was a regular summer jaunt. The water from the spring was so refreshing - much more pleasant than the Corona bottle of tap water someone had brought along.
We would play in Cuddesdon Brook (straight down the hill on Redman's Lane) although that was seen as 'foreign' due to it being on land owned by a Wheatley farmer (Mr Greaves) rather than the familiar Palmers. The sloping meadow at the top of Parkside by (now) Sunset Lodge was the Daisy Field, named for reasons obvious in the summer. In the winter of 1963 when the snow and ice was ferocious I well remember sledging on Mum's baking tray to the bottom of the hill. My mate Paul, typically, went faster than anyone else but didn't see the barbed wire fence a couple of inches above the surface. He hit it, his tray stopped, he didn't and he ended up in the stream amongst the willows, cold, wet and as sheepish as he ever was, i.e. not a lot.

Now, this raises a question. The road from the top of Parkside to the entrance to Slay Barn has a name. All us kids knew it but none of us ever needed to write it down and now I have no idea of the spelling. Saint St Cross Hill? Sancer's Cross Hill? San Sirs Cross Hill? It is not on the maps going back to 1881; do you know the real spelling or could you suggest where I might find it? Please do mail me if you do.
Regards to all erstwhile schoolmates - Mrs Edwards', Miss Barker's and Mr Solloway's classes - from 1959 to 63.
Derek Rees