Chalkpit and Hogmoor in 1810

 

This part of the estate appears to be unchanged from the situation in 1762 with Chalkpit Farm being in existence long before this time, probably before the end of the 17th century. It is shown here with the road from Wimbleton's coming in at top left and running past the farm to meet the old Tidmarsh Road. At the junction are two houses (55 & 56) that were formerly part of John Horn's farm and may have been known as New House. The key to the map does not go beyond 51 and a pencil entry is partially obscured by the number 55 in ink so we have no idea who lived here at this time but John Horn died in 1813 and the farm was sold to Richard Benyon by his heirs in 1819. Further along towards Tidmarsh (to the left) are two more houses, one on each side of the road. Again there is no indication of who lived here but these were both part of John Horn's property and the one on the same side of the road as Chalkpit Farm may have been the house known as Knapps. The one opposite was left by an earlier John Horn to his son William in 1759 and his grandson William later lived here with wife Mary. This William died in 1837 but Mary was still here in 1844.

 

The other part of the map shows Piper's Farm homestead with a block of four houses along Piper's Lane on the land owned by the Rector of Wallingford. The house nearest the road is marked both 49A and 49B with the original 49 scribbled out. Why that should be the case is not known but the key says that Robert and Ann Giles lived at 49. Ann Giles died in 1819 and her name is crossed out with "now Paulin" inserted so perhaps the house was split after that. At 50 was William and Hannah Tegg and at 51 the widow Clark and her son. The fourth house seems to have been forgotten initially and is added, unnumbered, in pencil with the name James Purey or Percy.

 

All of this is just as seen in a more accurate geographic relationship on the plan for the Pangbourne Road drawn in 1822 except that the long building at Piper's is shown in grey (farm buildings?) and a house is shown next to it, as it was in 1762.

 

There is also a sketch of what looks like some roads and this is probably Malpas, a little further along Piper's Lane towards North Street. It cannot be seen in this image but on the original the pencil outline of what is presumably a building can just be made out in the angle formed by the right-hand-most Tee-junction and there was a house in just that location at Malpas.

 

By the time the enclosure map was prepared in 1829 the new road had been built and the road from Chalkpit Farm extended back to it with the new Chalkpit Lodge at the junction. Knapps and New House had both gone by then.