Rushden Tour
Treacle Lane
(Click on image for larger picture)
Treacle Lane
With thanks to David Cole
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Rushden Tour Treacle Lane (Click on image for larger picture) |
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| Treacle Lane is so called because until the road was made up it had the consistency of Treacle. | ||||
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Treacle Lane With thanks to David Cole |
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| The Council houses were built in the twenties prior to piped water being available and a tanker used to come from Buntingford twice a week to fill a water tank at the end of the lane. It is worth looking at some of the wonderfully kept gardens as you walk along the lane, surely some of the prettiest in the village. | ||||
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| Treacle Cottage, with its thatched pheasant takes its name from the road and next to it is the delightfully named Honeypot Cottage. | ||||
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| At the very end is Field Cottage, named after a Mr Feild who lived there, who may have been related to the Victorian Feilds in the churchyard who changed the spelling of their name in the middle of the nineteenth century to Field. The views from this cottage are beautiful. The footpath past it takes you along the top of a rise, through Bluebell Wood the local name, so called because of the wonderful array of bluebells in spring) and eventually brings you back to Southern Green. | ||||
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