Read the story of Love Lane, a bridleway in the north west corner of Chaldon (until the boundary revisions of 1933 put it into Coulsdon). The story was written by Liz Bonsall and Madeline Hutchins for a National Archives 20s Streets Local History competition in January 2023. The theme was use of information from the newly released Census records of 1921 to tell the story of a street – or lane.
Read the story of Love Lane Lost? HERE and see images related to it below.
RESOURCES USED
Chaldon Archives: Chaldon Footpaths Committee Minute Books & Cuttings, Chaldon Village Hall Minute Books, Sales Particulars
Surrey History Centre: Merstham Estate Auction 1919, Chaldon Parish Meeting Minute Books
Caterham & District Local History Centre: Chaldon Tithe maps, Scanned Images of Chaldon Rate Book 1937
The Bourne Society: Village Histories: Chaldon – publ. 2002
Find My Past Online: 1911 & 1921 Census, 1939 Register, British Newspapers online
Ancestry Online: Surrey Electoral Rolls
National Library of Scotland online – https://maps.nls.uk/ Nineteenth century OS maps
Chaldon Women’s Institute: Chaldon W.I. 1918 -2018: A Hundred Years of History – publ. 2018
“The Parish is wonderfully rural and sequestered considering it is under 20 miles from London.” A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 by H.E. Malden 1912.
In the 1921 Census, Warwick Goble was the visitor staying at the Rectory.
