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Willems |
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Introduction
Map of Frieth Moor End Bramblings Astrea Merrydown Cottage Corner Cottage Moor's End Cottages Moor Gate House Underwood The Copse Fingest Road The Forge Folly Cottages The Willows Perrin Springs Lane Perrin Springs West's Cottages Ellery Rise Hilliers Lynden Cottage Frieth Hill Hillside Cottage Rowleys Pear Tree Cottage Hillside View The Platt Little Barlows Cutlers Cottage Yew Tree Cottage Little Cottage Barlows Birch Cottage Tedders / Rose Cottage The Old Stores The Yew Tree Inn Fairfield House Flint Cottage 1 Flint Cottage 2 Inglenook Middle Cottage Sunny Corner The Gables The Orchards Hilltop Cattons Mallards Hillswood The Old Parsonage White Gates The Laurels The Cottage The Firm Marlstone Westwood Bradstone Haylescroft The Niche Rivendell Summerhill Ashcroft Selborne The Ranch House Sara's Cottage The Cherries The Old School House Innings Road Collier's Farm Innings Gate Down the Lane Sunset Cottage Fermain Chilterns Rowan Cottage Creighton Cottage Apple Tree Old Well Cottage The Cottage Flat Roof Whitsun Backlins Red Kites Maidenscraft Spurgrove Lane Maidencraft Cottage September Cottage Spurgrove Cottage Gable End Willems Elder Barn Sunnydale |
[ See also the previous two pages "Spurgrove Cottage and "Gable End" ]
Willems would seem to have been the original farmhouse. After the Upp family died out in the 18th C this cottage changed hands several times. [ On the Tithe Map of 1845 the piece of land No 887 described as "House and Garden" is shown as being owned by Mary Smith and occupied by Anthony Todd although the outline of the indicated building looks like Willems and GableEnd. You can find the Tithe Map under "Hambleden" on the menu bar above ] Finally it was bought by West & Collier and the lower end rebuilt. [ The firm of West & Collier was established in 1869 and ceased trading in 1940 ] [ The following was sent to me by Peter Janes in December 2012. Peter's grandfather William Janes "was born at Perrin Springs and lived at Willems from 1895 to 1935 when the family moved to a newly built modern house at Booker, the purchase price of £600 paid by my grandmother, a thrifty old peasant, from monies earned, she said, from picking flints with her children in fields about Frieth. Her father was landlord of the 'Kiln' or 'Brickmakers Arms' at Moor Common. As a girl, before marriage, she daily walked to and from North's furniture factory in West Wycombe by way of Wittington Clump, Hell Bottom and Toweridge, in the dark in winter." 
[ After 1935 ] Mr & Mrs William Somers became tenants and used it first as a weekend cottage and then retired into it. After Mrs Somers died the cottage was sold and has been altered extensively. |
