Lilliput Lane Christmas Pieces New for 2011
This section has most all of the 2011 Christmas themed pieces that were introduced this year. You will also find the past Christmas pieces on pages listed on the menu to the left .
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LL3386 Lilliput Lane Gateway to Christmas | $27.50
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L3386 GATEWAY TO CHRISTMAS
BERKSHIRE, MIDDLE ENGLAND
Height: 6.0cm Length: 6.5cm
Inspired by the gatehouse to the thirteenth-century Parish Church
of St Michaels in Bray, it was built in the early fifteenth century,
perhaps as a chantry house. The passageway underneath the jettied
first floor leads to a lychgate.
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LL3389 Lilliput Lane I Believe in Santa Paws | $125.00
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L3389 I BELIEVE IN SANTA PAWS, (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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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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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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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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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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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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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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LL3390 Lilliput Lane Bring Out the Figgy Pudding | $
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OUT OF STOCK UNTIL 2012
Bring Out the Figgy Pudding
Illuminated Cottage
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LL3387 Lilliput Lane Happy Tolly days | $
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L3387 HAPPY TOLLY DAYS
SHROPSHIRE, MIDLANDS
Height: 7.0cm Length: 9.0cm
This charming crenellated festive dwelling in the small Shropshire parish
of Willey was formerly a tollhouse and was built in the nineteenth century
by Lord Forester of Willey Hall, in a prime location for charging tolls along
the turnpike road.
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LL3385 Lilliput Lane Moored the Merrier | $
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L3385 MOORED THE MERRIER
CAMBRIDGESHIRE, EAST ANGLIA
Height: 5.5cm Length: 4.0cm
Situated on the banks of the River
Great Ouse in the small market
town of Godmanchester, this
much-photographed two-storey
boathouse with white brick walls and
a wonderful thatched roof is simply
oozing in charm and character.
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LL3384 Lilliput Lane Perfect Christmas | $
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L3384 PERFECT CHRISTMAS
ISLE OF WIGHT, MIDDLE ENGLAND
Height: 5.0cm Length: 4.5cm
Situated in Calbourne, one of the
most unspoilt villages on the Isle of
Wight, this delightful former lodge
to Westover Park was built in the
nineteenth century in the popular
cottage ornee style, and is the perfect
Christmas venue.
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LL3382 Lilliput Lane Oh Come All Ye Faithful | $
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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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