20 Fowlmere Road, Cromwell Cottage, Foxton

History of 20 Fowlmere Road

Listed Building

Cottage. c.1600 for Thomas Sympton, much altered 1780 and again mid-late C.20.

According to Don Challis, Schooldays in Foxton, this was the home of Billy Chamberlain who had lost a leg in World War One. He ran a general stores from his front room. On Saturday mornings he would load his bicycle with baskets front and back and travel round the village.

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