Lilliput Lane Christmas Pieces
A great selection of festive pieces to add to your collection.
We stock a wide selection of Lilliput Lane, too many to fit on this page. Please select a catagory from the left to browse the complete collection
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LL3166 Lilliput Lane The Banqueting House | $30.00
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The Banqueting House Lilliput Lane 2009 Christmas Ornament.
The 2009 Christmas Ornament North Yorkshire, North East & Yorkshire
Height: 5.0cm Length: 3.5cm
Set amidst the glorious Studley Royal Water Garden and surrounded by wildflower lawns and mature trees, it is a wonderfully romantic and secluded place.
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LL3286 Lilliput Lane Bark,The Herald Angels Sing | $42.50
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'Hark! The herald angels sing:
Glory to the newborn King!'
Our delightfully festive cottage has been inspired by the Grade-II-Listed Keeper's Cottage that can be found tucked away amidst the pine trees in the grounds of the Shuttleworth Estate at Old Warden, and features two dogs tugging at a piece of tinsel by the Christmas tree.
Keeper's Cottage was built in the popular Cottage Ornee style of the day, as part of Joseph Shuttleworth's improvements to the Bedfordshire estate he purchased in 1872 and was the work of local architect and builder John Usher in 1877-1878. As well as providing a home for the head keeper, there were also kennels for the hunt dogs and a 'sitting house' and pens for the pheasants too.
'With the angelic host proclaim:
'Christ is born in Bethlehem.'
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LL3432 Lilliput Lane The Bell Inn Snowed | $30.00
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Christmas at the Bell Inn Snowed Version
Chearsley, Buckinghamshire
The pleasant Buckinghamshire village of Chearsley was recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Cerdeslai, a variation on the Anglo-Saxon word meaning 'Cerdic's Clearing', thus commemorating the ancient King Cerdric, no less, who became the first King of Wessex in 519.
Overlooking the village green, close to where the four main roads into Chearsley meet, the Bell Inn is everything that a village pub should be - an attractive, traditional building complete with a perfectly kept thatched roof over colourwashed rendered walls.
There may be some dispute as to the age of the Bell. Though definitely traced as early as the seventeenth century, the current owners proudly claim it to be some three hundred years older. Whatever its origins, tradition still plays a significant part in the running of this delightful establishment.
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LL3043 Lilliput Lane Blencathra | $30.00
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L3043 Blencathra by Lilliput Lane made in the UK.
At the foot of Blencathra, Threlkeld’s Old
Mission Room was built in 1885 by the Keswick
& District Christian Workers Band using
Lakeland slate rubble for the walls and
green slate tiles.
Cumbria, North West
Height: 5.5cm Length: 5.0cm
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LL3342 Lilliput Lane Christmas at Lechlade | $28.00
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L3342 Christmas at Lechlade
Lechlade-on-Thames, Gloucestershire
6 cm High (2.3 ins) 6 cm Wide (2.3 ins) 3.5 cm Deep (1.4 ins)
2011 Annual Christmas Ornament
Both of the 2011 Christmas annual pieces come from Lechlade, making them the perfect pairing for your collection.
A former paper shop in Lechlade that is lovingly remembered as Ye Olde Paper Shoppe by the locals and which has a most fascinating history to boot, has inspired this adorable little Christmas hanging ornament. With its tinselled tree and bright red post box it is the perfect place to send cards and seasonal good wishes for all those celebrating 'Christmas at Lechlade' !
This unusual bow-fronted building was originally built (sometime in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries) as a gazebo, and is one of many in Lechlade, as all the discerning houses of that period succumbed to the fashion of adding such gazebos and pavilions to their properties. A good few survive to this day, but we chose this one, which was once part of the Swan Hotel.
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LL3429 Lilliput Lane Christmas at Maharajahs Well | $27.50
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Christmas at Maharajah's Well Snowed Version
Stoke Row, Oxfordshire
5 cm High (2 ins) 4.5 cm Wide (1.8 ins) 5 cm Deep (2 ins)
If ever there was a building with an intriguing story, then this octagonal red brick cottage in Stoke Row is it! It was built as a well keeper's cottage to house the warden of the adjacent Maharajah's Well. Both the cottage and the elaborately ornate well were given to the village as a gift from the Maharajah of Benares in 1863. The benevolent Indian prince also provided an orchard consisting of 101 cherry trees as a means of securing an income for the upkeep of the well.
It is believed that the well was an expression of gratitude for services rendered to the Maharajah by Edward Anderdon Reade, who whilst working in India as an Anglo-Indian Official for the East India Company told of the plight of Stoke Row's inadequate water supply. Mains water was finally piped in for the first time in 1906.
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LL3226 Lilliput Lane Christmas at Toseland | $28.50
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Christmas at Toseland LL3226
Built from brown cobbles and brick, The Parish Church of St Michael dates back to the mid twelfth century but underwent a major rebuild in 1873, under the capable hands of Sir A.W. Blomfield (1829-99) at a cost of £933.00, which was raised by subscription. Thankfully, Blomfield had the foresight to keep the magnificent arched Norman South Doorway in position.
By the south wall is a large sarsen stone, known as the 'moot stone' thought to be the Hundred Stone of the Toseland Hundred. The fact that Toesland gave its name to the Hundred in which it stood shows that it was once a place of great importance, even though it isn't actually recorded in the Domesday Book, other than as a mention to a Berewick (or barley farm) serving Paxton Manor.
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LL3050 Lilliput Lane Christmas Stores | $30.00
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Christmas Stores LL3050
Buckinghamshire - Middle England
At Christmas time our little festive village shop from East Claydon really comes in to its own,
supplying little seasonal extras for last minute Christmas preparations - Christmas trees and tinsel wreaths and even a red letter box for posting off Christmas cards and letters to Santa.
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LL3322 Lilliput Lane Christmas Tidings | $64.00
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Christmas Tidings, model number LL3322
Bedstone, Shropshire
Two of a Kind Christmas Collection
Truly 'two of a kind', our delightful snowy duo has been inspired by the Norman parish church of St Mary in the small Shropshire village of Bedstone. Situated close to the Welsh and Herefordshire borders, the village was recorded as Betieteune in the Domesday Book commissioned by William I
in 1086.
Built from roughly coursed limestone rubble, the church dates back to the twelfth century, but the attractive timber-framed bell tower is a much later addition (probably seventeenth century) and features an impressive oak-shingled broach spire and louvered belfry windows.
Our version of the Church of St Mary comes complete with a charming complementary miniature hanging ornament, which features the west end elevation of the church with its ornate Romanesque arched doorway with chevron detailing and nineteenth-century round-headed stained-glass window.
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Cockington Forge in Winter, model number L3311.
It is easy to see why we have chosen to model this picturesque thatched village, as tourists flock in their thousands to admire the charm of an almost lost bygone era Cockington seems to have preserved, in stark contrast to the hustle and bustle of the nearby seaside town, Torquay.
Listed in the Domesday Book (1086), the unspoilt village of Cockington is now managed by the Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust as part of the Cockington Country Park Estate and visitors can enjoy the scenery by horse-drawn carriage rides around the area.
Spoilt for choice, Gary Kerkhoff chose three little gems of architecture to represent the character and charm of Cockington in his study:
The Forge, Weaver's Cottage, and The Granary - all of which exhibit vernacular features of the village; such as walls built from local stone rubble, with a smattering of plastered cob too, and steeply pitched thatched roofs. All three are Grade-II-Listed, as is most of the village.
Situated by the crossroads at the heart of the village, Cockington's famous forge, as we see it today, is believed to be late eighteenth, early nineteenth century, with origins dating even further back than that (some would argue to the fourteenth century). It is built of local stone rubble with a distinctive steep thatched roof overhanging the open work area to the front, which is supported by three sturdy posts. The floor is paved with cobbles and our smithy can be seen hard at work on both the winter and summer versions of this superb limited edition.
The pretty pink cottage at the top of the hill in our scene has been inspired by Weaver's Cottage, a charming eighteenth-century dwelling built into the slope. It has an attractive gabled thatched porch, and an irregular arrangement of windows, all of which are different sizes, lending it an informal cosy appearance.
At the bottom of the slope, Gary has placed The Granary, which is believed to have served the local watermill. Today, this has been much restored, but visitors can still see the archway of the original cart entrance which was blocked up during twentieth century renovations to allow for a large shop window. Note the unusually wide hipped roof section with three dormer windows peeping out.
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Cosy Christmas LL3218
Is this quaint abode, known as The Dutch Cottage, Britain's oldest council house? Well, given that it is owned by Rochford District Council and the date 1621 is inscribed over the door, it appears to live up to such a claim! There is, however, some dispute over the date of this tiny (it's only twenty feet across) timber-framed building with circular thatched roof, as experts suggest it probably dates to the mid eighteenth century.
What is agreed upon, however, is that it was built by Dutch settlers who came to drain the Essex land and build sea walls. Two similar octagonal Dutch houses remain on nearby Canvey Island, one of which inspired a previous Lilliput Lane cottage, Circle of Love (retired in 2004) which houses a museum dedicated to this fascinating era of the area's history.
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Ding, dong, Merrily on High | $35.00
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Ding, dong! Merrily on High, model number LL3284
is a very appropriate name for our model which has been inspired by the unusual detached bell tower at the church of St Bartholomew that houses five bells. The words of this popular carol were written by G R Woodward (1848-1934) but the tune is French and dates back to the sixteenth century.
Similar detached towers exist in the surrounding area and they are believed to have been used in defence against the Welsh in more turbulent times. The lower level of the tower is of sandstone rubble construction and dates back to the thirteenth century; the close-studded timber-framed upper level, however, is a much later sixteenth-century addition.
'Ding, dong !
Verily the sky
Is riv'n with angels singing.'
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Folly and the Ivy Folly and the Ivy | $35.00
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Folly and the Ivy, model number LL3285.
'The holly and the ivy,
when they are both full grown'
'Of all the trees that are in the wood,
The holly bears the crown.'
Our delightful little flint folly has been inspired by The Prospect Tower, built in the early 1800s for General Harris (later First Lord Harris of Seringapatum) to grace his Belmont Park Estate. It is recorded as 'Gardener's Lodge' or 'General's Whim' in his accounts, but is more likely to have been used as a summerhouse.
In 1872, when the Fourth Lord Harris inherited the estate, the folly was to serve a new purpose, as a cricket pavilion. A keen cricketer, he had a cricket ground made in an adjacent field to the folly and it wasn't long before the Belmont Eleven were taking on teams from around the county.
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LL3055 Lilliput Lane Helvellyn | $42.00
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Helvellyn LL3055
This building serves Thirlmere Reservoir at
the foot of Helvellyn. With its round tower,
slit vents and battlemented parapets, this
straining well and valve house was purpose
built to supply Manchester with up to
fifty-five million gallons per day.
Cumbria, North West
Height: 5.5cm Length: 9.5cm
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Holy Post, the 2010 Annual Hanging Ornament, LL3221
Snelston, Derbyshire
Christmas is a time for sharing, of sending cards and greetings to friends far and wide, but it is also a time to reflect on the real meaning of Christmas, as the time to celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus. That's what makes this delightful little Christmas ornament with a post box near the parish church the perfect piece to adorn any festive display - as it symbolises both messages.
Our little church has been inspired by the tower of Snelston's Parish Church of St Peter, which dates back to the early fifteenth century. The rest of the church has seen many alterations over the centuries, most notably in 1825 and 1907 when major alterations were undertaken by Hodgson Fowler, but the tower stands as a proud testament to its ancient construction.
Both of the 2010 Christmas Annual pieces come from Snelston, making them the perfect pairing for your collection.
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I BELIEVE IN SANTA PAWS,L3389 (ILLUMINATED)
HAMPSHIRE, MIDDLE ENGLAND
Height: 9.5cm Length: 11.0cm
Our latest pub has been inspired by The George Inn at Vernham Green, a delightful
timber-framed building with red brick infill and thatched roof, and comes complete
with a complementary bus shelter where a loyal Border collie awaits his owners return.
Illuminated. Requires two AA batteries or 3-volt adaptor.
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LL3222 Lilliput Lane Last Post For Christmas | $136.00
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Last Post For Christmas, model LL3222
Snelston, Derbyshire
2010 Christmas Special Edition,
Illuminated cottage
It's not just Father Christmas who delivers Christmas presents, as the village postman is kept very busy too! Here you can see him loading his van outside Snelston's Grade II Listed former post office ready for some last minute deliveries, as the light glowing through the pretty mullioned windows must mean it is getting rather late in the day!
With its red Flemish brickwork, Tudoresque chimneys, and decorative timber studding, this picturesque building is typical of the architecture to be found in this model village, which was built by the Squire, John Harrison, in the mid-nineteenth century.
Uses two AA-size long life batteries, or a 3-volt adaptor.
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LL3227 Lilliput Lane Let it Snow | $35.00
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Let it Snow LL3227
Situated on the edge of the Norfolk Broads, just eight miles north east of Norwich, the picturesque Estate Village of Woodbastwick has been owned by the Cator family since the early 1800s and has, arguably, one of the most photographed village greens in the county.
With its round thatched pump house the green is surrounded by estate cottages dating from the nineteenth century, many of which have been thatched with local reed from the estate's marshes, whilst others have biblical texts featured on them.
Our Let it Snow depicts one of a pair of delightful timber-framed cottages with red brick infill to be found on the edge of the village green - complete with a very large and very jolly snowman at front door to welcome visitors to this idyllic country abode.
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L3382 O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL
ISLE OF WIGHT, MIDDLE ENGLAND
Height: 9.0cm Length: 8.0cm
Parts of St Blasius Church in Shanklin, Isle of Wight, date back
to the twelfth century, whilst the central octagonal spire dates
to the mid-nineteenth century. Our version comes complete
with a complementary miniature of its unusual lychgate with
ornate clock and bell.
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LL3433 Lilliput Lane The Old Post Office Snowed | $48.00
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Christmas at the Old Post Office Snowed Version
Nether Wallop, Hampshire
7 cm High (2.7 ins) 7.5 cm Wide (2.9 ins) 7.5 cm Deep (2.9 ins)
Our delightful 'Stores & Post Office' has been inspired by a former post office-cum-bakery in the pretty Hampshire village of Nether Wallop and depicts a bygone era when the post office was the heart of village life.
A time when people didn't have mobile phones, let alone a phone in their home, and so the village post office served as the hub for communications; a place where you could go, not only to post a letter, but to buy groceries and make important phone calls too.
Nether Wallop and its sister villages, Middle Wallop and Over Wallop, are known collectively as The Wallops, and retain an air of serenity in our bustling modern times. Nether Wallop boasts an eleventh-century church, which was chosen as the location for filming the BBC's television series adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, starring Joan Hickson.
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LL3282 Lilliput Lane Santas Grotto | $108.00
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Santas Grotto, model number LL3282.br>
Our delightful Christmas shop has been inspired by the pretty seventeenth-century timber- framed thatched cottages of Wherwell, in Hampshire's beautiful Test Valley, and comes complete with its very own plug-in illuminated grotto.
Wherwell is a fascinating place, not least for its somewhat 'dark' history. It was here, in AD 986, that an abbey was founded by Elfrida, the widow of the Saxon King, Edgar. Elfrida spent the rest of her days doing penance for her sins - being implicated in the death of her husband's son by a previous marriage to secure her own son as heir to the throne.
Outside the grotto, Santa can be seen with a huge sack of toys ready to greet the multitude of village children desperate to sit on his knee and swear that they have been good little girls and boys
all year!
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LL3056 Lilliput Lane Skiddaw | $53.00
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Skiddaw, modle number LL3056
Cumbria, North West
Height: 6.0cm Length: 9.0cm
From the roadside, Binsey Lodge appears to grow from the wall and all you can
see is the timber framing and large white chimneystack. Turn the corner
heading towards Bewaldeth and all is revealed ! Built in the nineteenth
century as part of the High Ireby Grange Estate, it enjoys spectacular
views of Skiddaw.
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LL3376 Lilliput Lane Snowed in at the Drunken Duck | $37.50
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L3376 SNOWED IN AT THE DRUNKEN DUCK, AMBLESIDE
CUMBRIA, NORTH WEST
Height: 6.0cm Length: 8.0cm
This remote Cumbrian Inns food is something of a legend, as is
its name, reputedly gained in Victorian times after the landlady
plucked what she thought were dead ducks, which turned out to
be just dead drunk from a leaky barrel of beer.
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LL3430 Lilliput Lane Snowed in With Mum | $44.00
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Snowed in With Mum
Great Bookham, Surrey
7 cm High (2.7 ins) 8.5 cm Wide (3.3 ins) 7 cm Deep (2.7 ins)
Owned by the National Trust, Garden Cottage is available as a holiday let.
Our delightful cottage has been inspired by a nineteenth-century former gardener's cottage situated in the grounds of Polesden Lacey Estate, Surrey. During a visit to mum's, a sudden heavy snowfall provides a reason for a longer stay. The warmth from the cosy fire brings back memories of time spent together in the pretty summer gardens of this picturesque cottage.
Polesden Lacey is perhaps most famous for two of its previous owners: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), playwright, poet, owner of the London Theatre Royal, and statesman; and The Hon Mrs Ronald Greville, Edwardian socialite and hostess extraordinaire, whose life evolved around entertaining and parties.
Set within the Surrey Hills and enjoying magnificent valley views across the North Downs it proved to be the perfect venue for entertaining her rich and famous friends including King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who honeymooned here in 1923.
Also available unsnowed under the name Mums Tickled Pink
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Trout Inn at Lechlade,L3343
Gloucestershire, South West
8 cm High (3.1 ins) 13 cm Wide (5.1 ins) 12 cm Deep (4.7 ins)
2011 Christmas Special Edition, Illuminated
Both of the 2011 Christmas annual pieces come from Lechlade, making them the perfect pairing for your collection.
Uses two AA-size long life batteries, or a 3-volt adaptor
This magnificent Grade-II-Listed inn in Lechlade has an incredible story to tell. Built of coursed local rubble stone with a slate roof, parts of the building date back to the late medieval period, suggesting it may have been used as a guest house for the Priory.
In the thirteenth century an almshouse and hospital was founded here to care for the workers on the nearby St John's Bridge, which is often heralded as the first stone bridge outside of London to span the Thames, and which dates from 1228.
After the dissolution of the Priory in the late fifteenth century it continued service as an inn, being known as Ye Sygne of St John Baptist Head right up until 1704 when its name was changed to The Trout Inn.
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LL3431 Lilliput Lane Vintner Snowed | $30.00
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Christmas Tipple, The Vintner Snowed Version,
Stratford-upon-Avon ,Warwickshire
5.5 cm High (2.1 ins) 7 cm Wide (2.7 ins) 5 cm Deep (2 ins)
Built in the late 1400s, this wonderful timber-framed townhouse with fishscale-tiled roof has been a vintner since the 1600s, when John Smith began selling fine wines from the premises. Did the great bard of Stratford, William Shakespeare, purchase his wine here? Well, there is no evidence to either prove or disprove this question, however it is known that he was not happy to frequent another vintner in the town; that of his wayward son-in-law, Thomas Quiney, whom he made certain was written out of his will - but that is another story!
Happily, there is a link to Shakespeare, because in 1623 John Heminge and Henry Condell (two actors from The King's Company) had the first folio containing thirty-six of Shakespeare's plays posthumously published by William Jaggard and his son, Isaac - and a descendant of the Jaggards lived here in the late nineteenth century and set up the Shakespeare Press.
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LL3434 Lilliput Lane Worsley Hall Snowed | $36.00
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Worsley Hall Gardeners Cottage Snowed Version
This distinctive building was built in 1834 for the head gardener of Worsley Hall - hence the name we have given it! - and is a charming example of picturesque estate architecture. It is constructed from rock-faced stone and boasts a wonderfully mellow slate roof, but by far its most impressive feature has to be the three-storey octagonal tower with its splendid curved roof.
Worsley has always benefited from good trade routes - a Roman road from Manchester to Wigan passed through the village, and with the Industrial Revolution came the Bridgewater canal, built in the eighteenth century by the engineer, Brindley, for Francis, Third Duke of Bridgewater.
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LL3228 Lilliput Lane Yuletide Treats | $68.00
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Yuletide Treats, modle LL3228
Chagford is an unusual name and means 'the ford where the gorse grows'. It is a town blessed with more than its fair share of fabulous old architecture, including sixteenth-century thatched granite houses and a fifteenth-century church, but it is its octagonal former Market House that has inspired our Yuletide Treats.
Built in 1862, it stands in the market square on in the site of an old Stannary Court, where miners brought their tin to be weighed and valued from 1305 when Chagford became one of four Stannary towns in Devon. Sadly the last tin mine in the area closed in 1903.
With its pyramid roof with gabled dormers topped with a louvred lantern and spire our version makes a very impressive little general store supplying Christmas treats to the townsfolk.
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