12 Station Road

A bungalow standing on half of an ancient enclosure, which was part of a farm and land acquired by St John’s College, Cambridge in 1517 and 1527. The College sold the estate in Steeple Morden in 1956.

The ancient enclosure is shown on the Enclosure Map 1808-1817 below and is the square plot south of the track into the fields and area marked Gardens. On the Tithe Map 1839 it is the small plot west of the road; number 23.

There was an old thatched cottage on this plot in the past and the resident “Donkey” Hammond came out one morning to go to work and found that the fierce storm overnight had toppled a tree and it had fallen directly on the cottage. He merely glanced at this state of affairs, picked up his bike and cycled off to work.

At some point the plot was acquired by the Jarman family and in December 1976 Gladys Agnes Jarman of Highfield, 67 Station Road was granted outline planning permission for erection of two dwellings.

This plot was sold by Gladys Agnes Jarman on 26 May 1977 to Basil and Norma Williamson, who had the bungalow built.

On 1 May 2003 a small area of land on the south was acquired from the Rule family, owners of the orchard and amalgamated with this bungalow plot.

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Plots as numbered on the Tithe Map 1839 below: