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Until the end of the nineteenth century this was a quiet but important ancient road linking The Green with Southwick Street. The land to the south, at one time owned by Edward Knight (brother of Jane Austen), was sold in 1898 to Clement Crosskey and Alfred Brazier who had five houses of similar outward appearance built. Hope Cottages on the corner stand at the site of the original Hope Cottage, which was once a toll house. Southwick Christian Community Church at one time used a Nissan hut from the 1917 army camp on the Green. Film pioneer George Albert Smith had a connection with several of the properties and built a laboratory in the garden of number 10. Evelyn Goldsmith, author of several dictionaries for children was born in The Gables and the more modern houses on the corner with Southwick Street are on the site of a Victorian house from which the Froebel school was run.
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Manor Cottage Heritage Centre, Southwick, Verwood, United Kingdom
