became the licensee, carrying on the trade with the help of her sister Martha and the farm with the help of a bailiff. She was one of the eight Ash people who a Harrod’s Directory of 1867 recorded as hop-growers.
   At the Swan, the Misses Wakeman provided victuals of all kinds, including, it is said, lent pudding-pies, sold through Lent at a penny a tine. Their tenure of the inn outlasted the other Wakeman families of Ash. By the early eighteen-seventies, John Wakeman, the shoemaker, and his family were gone and Thomas Wakeman, who had long farmed in a small way at Hodsoll Street, had died. The only other Wakeman household remaining was that of Thomas’ widow, Jane, who had moved to West Yoke.
   Another farmer and hop-grower recorded by Harrod was a certain W. Pierson, who seems to have taken over the South Ash farm after Sophia Rogers and her family had returned to Attwood Place. He did not remain very long and, somewhere about the end of the decade, South Ash Manor

passed into the occupation of a family called Winder, who lived there in some style. When be took the 1871 census, George Elcome was at pains to record that Mr and Mrs Winder, six children and one servant ‘were out en a visit at South End’. That visit must have been a welcome break for Mrs Winder, if not for the one servant. It left as the temporary head of the household at the Manor the seventh Winder child, Florence Julia, aged nine months. She had. not been entirely abandoned. There remained to look after her a Miss Cook, who was Mrs Winder’s sister, a governess and five domestic servants, three men, a woman and a boy.
   The Mr Clark who was farming Terry’s Lodge Farm at the time of the 1792 survey did not stay long, nor did his successor, James Dengate, who moved on to Pells Farm. During the next twenty years, there were four tenants, of whom only Edward Olive remained for more than five years. In 1817, the owner, Alexander Evelyn, seems himself to