Orchard
Chapel Road

Fruit orchard
(picture from SWOP website)



Come and buy our juicy plums
Grown on Flackwell soil,
Buy a bag of fresh picked plums,
Reward us for our toil.

Up to market early morn,
Before the dew has dried,
Sieves of Flackwell produce
Piled up side by side.

Fruiterers are what we are,
Working day and night,
Pears and apples, cherries too,
Our harvest to delight.

This area was farmed by the Smith family who lived in the farmhouse on Chapel Road. (Not the Smiths of Pigeon House Farm, Dairy Cottage or Winchbottom Farm). They had orchards in other parts of the Chilterns too but this was a popular orchard for growing plums.
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