Eliza
Clarke née Hunt born
1834
Cressex
Farm, Cressex
Picture
from the SWOP
website
Reference
number BFP : 04031
If we returned to
Cressex now, although we're in our graves,
We'd
not believe this hilltop brow for little has been saved,
The
meadows are all hiding under builder’s dust and weeds,
Where
is the sway of barley, and of wheat ears in the breeze?
Where
are the lanes of yesteryear, the farms and woodland views?
If
I was asked where Cressex was which gardens would I choose?
For
nothing’s left of where I lived except my dear old home
And
not a single field remains on any map now shown.
For
this was farming meadowland where we could walk for miles
Over
fields and pastures, pass hedgerows, gates and stiles.
The
scent of summer flowers and the gust of autumn gales,
Mama’s
woodland stories and dear Papa’s farming tales.
My
Cressex Farm of long ago is now an office base
And
everywhere the houses stand where once was open space.
Eliza
Hunt lived at Cressex Farm. She was the daughter of Joseph Hunt
whose sister is believed to have married Edwin Skull. Eliza married
Daniel Clarke who was
a solicitor and a Mayor of Wycombe.
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