An Openreach engineer told me something quite interesting. Sir Walter Scott wrote a series of 18 novels, known as the Waverley novels. Part of the Waverley novels are
So we concluded that whoever built these houses was a Sir Walter Scott fan!
Friday, March 16, 2012
The Sir Walter Scott link to Fairseat Lane
On Fairseat Lane (the one which goes between Stansted Hill and Haven Hill, not the other one) there are about 10 houses. There is a house called Waverley and a semi-detached pair called Kenilworth and Primrose Cottage. BUT Primrose Cottage USED to be called Ivanhoe.
An Openreach engineer told me something quite interesting. Sir Walter Scott wrote a series of 18 novels, known as the Waverley novels. Part of the Waverley novels are
Waverley (1814) Ivanhoe (1819) Kenilworth (1821)
So we concluded that whoever built these houses was a Sir Walter Scott fan!
An Openreach engineer told me something quite interesting. Sir Walter Scott wrote a series of 18 novels, known as the Waverley novels. Part of the Waverley novels are
So we concluded that whoever built these houses was a Sir Walter Scott fan!
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