Notable Residents
Rex Vicat Cole rented a house called Brinkwells to the east of the Fittleworth to Wisborough Green road from around 1905 and he sublet it to Sir Edward Elgar between 1917 and 1921. During these years Elgar enjoyed learning craft skills from the woodmen at Flexham Park and worked on his Quintet in A minor for Piano and String Quartet, Op. 84, the Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82 and the String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83. These works were said to be inspired by the local woods and by a strange legend of a clump of trees said to be the remains of Spanish monks who had engaged in sacrilegious ceremonies in the park and been struck by lightning.
Ford Maddox Ford and his pregnant partner Stella Bowen moved to 17th century Coopers Cottage in September 1920. Their daughter Esther Julia was born in November 1920. Letters between the couple show that they kept some ducks and were helped with the garden by a neighbour called Standing. They were spied on there by Ford's former mistress Violet Hunt who "tracked them down in Bedham and hung over the fence of their cottage watching them.."in the 1930s a fascist lived at Horsebridge house and used to raise the facist flag every day, he later took part in rescuing Franco.
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