Cutlers Green

Cutlers Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Thaxted, and the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The hamlet is 1 mile (1.6 km) west from the town of Thaxted.

Cutlers Green

Cutlers Green Farm with 17th-century barn
Cutlers Green
Location within Essex
OS grid referenceTL595307
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDunmow
Postcode districtCM6
Cutlers Green Water Tower, near Thaxted, Essex

The name of the hamlet is reminiscent of the cutlery industry which developed in Thaxted in the late Middle Ages.[1] According to a Thaxted vicar, the remains of forges were found at Cutlers Green in the nineteenth century.[2]

The common land at the centre of the hamlet once belonged to the manor of Horham Hall, which lies one mile to the south. It was gifted by the lord of the manor and owner of the Hall, Mr. Sandy Shand, to Thaxted Parish Council in the 1978,[3][4] which maintains it as a public common.[5]

There was a station on the Elsenham & Thaxted Light Railway named Cutlers Green Halt from 1913 until the line closed to passengers on 15 September 1952.[6]

A water tower at Cutlers Green was constructed in 1938 to supply the Thaxted area.[7]

Several buildings in Cutlers Green are Grade II listed, including Richmond's in the Wood farmhouse, which dates to the fourteenth century,[8] several other farmhouses and cottages ranging from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries[9] and a seventeenth century timber-framed and weatherboarded barn,[10]

There was once a public house - the Oak Beer House - which was tied to a brewery in Stansted Mountfichet and closed in 1925.[11] There are currently no retail premises operating in the hamlet.

References
  1. "Cutlers Green :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  2. Symonds, Rev. George E. (1889). "Thaxted and its Cutlers' Guild" (PDF). Transactions of the Essex Archeological Society. III (New Series): 258. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  3. Association of Commons Registration Authorities (23 October 1978). "Commissioners Decisions - Essex - Cutlers Green" (PDF). Greens and Commons. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  4. Munro, Bruce (2007–2009). "Some Stately Homes of North-east Essex: Horham Hall" (PDF). Saffron Walden Historical Journal. 14, 15, 17.
  5. "Thaxted Parish Council - About Your Council". www.thaxted.co.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  6. "Cutlers Green Halt", Disused Stations
  7. "Essex Archives Online - Catalogue: D/DU 2181". www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  8. "RICHMONDS IN THE WOOD, Thaxted - 1112979 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  9. "The List Search Results for cutlers green thaxted | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  10. Historic England. "Barn at Cutlers Green Farm  (Grade II) (1165541)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  11. Wilkinson, Edmund (March 2020). "Stansted Brewery" (PDF). The Link: Stansted Village Magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2020.


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