Old Place names in Wing & Burcott
Old Name |
Location |
| Buck Way | Track to Burcott Hall Farm |
| Woolack's Hill | Stewkley Hill |
| Horner's Corner | Post Office end of High Street |
| Pound Piece | Field beside Ascott Estate Office |
| Tytheyard Spinney | Corner of Pound Piece / Park |
| Webster's Brook | Second field beyond the Church |
| Glebe Close | Field below Glebe Farm |
| Poor's Piece | Half way up Burcott Hill |
| The Clump | Round clump of trees in the middle of Park |
| Dolly Wops | Small pond surrounded by trees in Park |
| Long Spinney | Bottom of field in Burcott / Littleworth |
| Garden Pond | In the Park now known as Park Pond |
| Labour-in-Vain | Road between Mentmore crossroads and Well Lane |
| Spion Cop | The highest hillock in the Park |
| The Fields | Prospect Place, north side |
| Back Road | Stewkley Road top of Littleworth to Stewkley Hill |
| The Lane | Leighton Road from the High Street to Rothschild Road |
| The Puzzle | Allotment in Burcott |
| The Brickyard | Chesterfield Crescent |
| Long Row | 8 cottages off no 13 Burcott High Street |
| The Shoot (rubbish dump) | Edge of allotments and Chesterfield Crescent |
| Police House | 123 Leighton Road |
| Double Hedge | Park Gate to Tytheyard Spinney |
| The Pound | Trees at junction of Vicarage Lane and High Street |
| Hand Post | Junction Stewkley Road/Leighton Road |
| School Lane | From the church to Aylesbury Rd |
| Kemsal Spinney | First spinney on right on road to Stewkley |
| Foxharbour | Second spinney on right |
| Deep Corner | At bridge over Webster's brook towards Bluebell spinney |
| Bluebell Spinney | Field behind Old Park Farm. Cublington Road |
| Shiting Alley | From Aylesbury Road to Park |
Can anyone add to the above list?
Estate Yard, Timber Yard, Hart's Yard - does anyone know if these are one and the same?
Re Thelma's list - where we live in the houses behind Wantage House (corner of Vicarage lane) has been described to us variously as Estate Yard, Coal Yard & Timber yard (no-one has said Hart's to us yet) The old entrance is through the curved gateway that leads to 49 High Street, though which houses still have rights of access. Don't know truth - only what locals have said over the years. Yours Malcolm