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Glasshouse Copse

Other OS name in the Parish of Alfold

Historical Forms

  • Glashouse 1610 Speed

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Glashouse 1610 Speed . There were once glass works here ( VCH iii, 77 ) . Aubrey ( iv , 92 ) saw the graves of French glass - makers in the churchyard .