Sparrows

In the tithe apportionments  are two fields named Further Sparrows (tm 313) and First Sparrows (tm 314). fields owned by Stowupland Hall to the east of the A1120, across from Barn Cottages and Church Walk Hamlet.

black and white map of part of Stowupland
1881 map showing location of Barn Cottages near Stowupland Hall

On this 1881 map of the Main Road though Stowupland the field boundaries of Sparrows are no longer shown, but Sparrows was in the area bounded by the main road and Creetings Lane, off to the right.

In 1864 Mr William Freeman surrended to Mr Issac Strutt ‘two acres of land lying between Sparrows and Tuns otherwise Tins in Thorney, And three acres in a close called Tuns otherwise Tins & three roods in Culleys Croft. And one acre & one rood abutting upon Broad Green’ and others.

In a will by Margaret Tylar of Stowupland made 27 March 1629, she bequeathed land called Sparrows and Bucks Meadow also to her son John Tylar also “all that my tenement lande called or knowne by the name of Scowtons lyinge in Stowupland wherein John Wells & —– Thinge now of late doe dwellwth the yarde & appurtenances.”