Like most villages Froyle has many named places with no obvious reason for the name. “Hussey's Lane” is indeed the lane that has “Hussey’s Farm” in it and “Well Lane” is the lane leading to the small hamlet of Well. But, why Hadwicks’s Corner? Turning once again to our old friends the Censuses, we find the answer. In the record for 1881 we find:-

Name	Christian name	Family relationship	Age	Occupation	Where born
Hadwick	Henry	Head	49	Agricultural Labourer	Horton , Hampshire
	Eliza	Wife	45		Froyle
	Sarah	Daughter	23	DomesticServant	Froyle
	Henry	Son	17	Agricultural Labourer	Froyle
	Lewis	Son	11	Scholar	Froyle
	Joseph	Son	9	Scholar	Froyle
	Lilian	Daughter	6	Scholar	Froyle
	Lydia	Daughter	4	Scholar	Kings Somborne

Henry Hadwick came to Froyle somewhen after 1851 - he was not shown in the 1851 Census. He married Eliza Taylor on December 2nd 1854 and they initially lived at Brocas Farm (1861) and in one of the several cottages at the North end of Lower Froyle that disappeared at the turn of the century (1871). The 1881 and 1891 Censuses show them at “Hadwicks Corner”, although the cottages are not called that. They were previously known as “Brocas Corner Cottages” - the Tithe Records of 1847 refer to them as “Broccas Corner Cottages”, as they were owned by Brocas Farm - that is probably how the Hadwicks came to live there. If one can accept that the order of the names in the Census is the order of the houses, the Hadwicks lived in the left-hand part of the pair of cottages. Henry died in 1907, aged 74 and Eliza died in 1912 at the age of 76.

Back