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Stychens
Stychens Lane
Stychens Lane in Bletchingley, Surrey, runs out of the village, in a northerly direction. It’s pretty and old, and I have used it in my story of the Radwinter family, putting one of the children there in 1851, according to the census. If you look at the census return you won’t find him, because I’ve […]
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Horace Colgate died nearly a hundred years ago at the tragically young age of eighteen… his death was not unusual at that time; millions of young men were giving their lives on the battlefields of World War 1. Horace came from the quiet Surrey village of Bletchingley where he had lived with his mother, step-father and four younger brothers and sisters. […]
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