HASCOMBE FETE
Please make a note in your diaries! This year’s village fete will be on Saturday 2nd August on the Hascombe village recreation ground. More details will follow in the month’s to come.
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Images of Hascombe
FRIENDS OF HASCOMBE – IMAGES OF HASCOMBE
After the AGM on 12th January the Friends were entertained by Hugh Turrall-Clarke who gave an extremely fascinating and interesting presentation on Images of Hascombe. Hugh included many old photographs of people and places including the a map of Hascombe constructed from the tithe maps of Hascombe, Hambledon and Godalming dating from 1819 to the mid 19th century.
The map showed what we now know as the Street, which was in fact the toll road from ‘Godalming, through Hascombe, to Pains Hill in the County of Surrey’. The bill to build the road was sponsored by local landowners and received the Royal Assent in 1826. Until then there was no road between Godalming and Hascombe, just windswept heath and a steep hill (Winkworth Hill) between the two. The old road ran from the White Horse, along Church Road, past Matthews Place, Upper House Farm and then onto Bramley. The new turnpike road effectively split Hascombe village in two, the old and the new - the little cluster of Bargate houses around St.Peter’s and the new houses of brick built alongside the turnpike. (Ref Mrs. Winifred Ashton’s book, A History of Hascombe – A Surrey Village.)
After the AGM on 12th January the Friends were entertained by Hugh Turrall-Clarke who gave an extremely fascinating and interesting presentation on Images of Hascombe. Hugh included many old photographs of people and places including the a map of Hascombe constructed from the tithe maps of Hascombe, Hambledon and Godalming dating from 1819 to the mid 19th century.
The map showed what we now know as the Street, which was in fact the toll road from ‘Godalming, through Hascombe, to Pains Hill in the County of Surrey’. The bill to build the road was sponsored by local landowners and received the Royal Assent in 1826. Until then there was no road between Godalming and Hascombe, just windswept heath and a steep hill (Winkworth Hill) between the two. The old road ran from the White Horse, along Church Road, past Matthews Place, Upper House Farm and then onto Bramley. The new turnpike road effectively split Hascombe village in two, the old and the new - the little cluster of Bargate houses around St.Peter’s and the new houses of brick built alongside the turnpike. (Ref Mrs. Winifred Ashton’s book, A History of Hascombe – A Surrey Village.)
Miss Frances Musgrave
MISS FRANCES MUSGRAVE
Miss Frances Musgrave, the daughter of Canon Musgrave, who lived at Oliver’s, reached the age of 100 and a half and received her 100th birthday telegram from the Queen. A memorial garden was created for her next to Oliver’s, before the pond was made, that is why, two seats face the church and not the view of the pond.
She kept a record book of the ‘Names of those buried in Hascombe Church Yard’ that goes back to 1670. There are names from past history; Coverts, Rowcliffe, Godman, Stilwell, Oliver and information as to trades;
Gardener, shepherd, keeper, butler, blacksmith, mole catcher, chauffeur. How some died is recorded ‘accidentally shot in harvest field’, ‘drowned’, ‘kicked by horse’, fell off hay wagon’, ‘fell down belfry steps’.
In 1893 new ground was added to the churchyard on the west. There’s mention of a memorial stone being smashed by a falling elm tree during a gale in January 1930.
In 1941 the body of Erich Schlect, a German airman, was buried in the new churchyard, but removed after the War. Phyllis Reed still recalls the frightening moment of discovering the body on her postal round to the Nore.
This book is now part of the Hascombe Archives, it stops in 1964 but family names of those still living in the Village bring back memories: Briggs, Stenning, Hawkins, Porter and Pearl.
May all Rest in Peace. T.H.B.
Miss Frances Musgrave, the daughter of Canon Musgrave, who lived at Oliver’s, reached the age of 100 and a half and received her 100th birthday telegram from the Queen. A memorial garden was created for her next to Oliver’s, before the pond was made, that is why, two seats face the church and not the view of the pond.
She kept a record book of the ‘Names of those buried in Hascombe Church Yard’ that goes back to 1670. There are names from past history; Coverts, Rowcliffe, Godman, Stilwell, Oliver and information as to trades;
Gardener, shepherd, keeper, butler, blacksmith, mole catcher, chauffeur. How some died is recorded ‘accidentally shot in harvest field’, ‘drowned’, ‘kicked by horse’, fell off hay wagon’, ‘fell down belfry steps’.
In 1893 new ground was added to the churchyard on the west. There’s mention of a memorial stone being smashed by a falling elm tree during a gale in January 1930.
In 1941 the body of Erich Schlect, a German airman, was buried in the new churchyard, but removed after the War. Phyllis Reed still recalls the frightening moment of discovering the body on her postal round to the Nore.
This book is now part of the Hascombe Archives, it stops in 1964 but family names of those still living in the Village bring back memories: Briggs, Stenning, Hawkins, Porter and Pearl.
May all Rest in Peace. T.H.B.
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