By Mike Chapman
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In the 18th century this was the site of the church farm adjoining the old Rectory (Clyde House), which included a stable block at the rear and a large barn abutting onto the High Street. Access to these buildings was through the present entrance drive on the east side of the main house, with a separate pedestrian doorway into the barn yard, remains of which can still be seen in the wall to the right of the driveway entrance. During the ownership of John Hippisley, some time before 1884, the barn was demolished, the doorway blocked up, and the yard converted to an orchard protected behind a high front wall. When the rank of houses known as Springfield View (nos.1-6) was built beside the road in 1935, the lower courses of the orchard wall were adapted to use as their garden wall. The stable block survived until the early 1970s when it was demolished for the building of Clyde Gardens.  A view taken in 1936 with the newly built houses of Springfield View in
front of Clyde House. Left is the wall of the Glebe Garden, and further
on, the Church Farm cottages. Note the absence of a pavement on the
south side of the road.
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