Spier's School - The Cuff

The Cuff

The Cuff was an estate and later became a farm near Gateside. A marriage stone of the Gibson family gives the date 1767 and may have come from an older mansion house once situated nearby. The farm still has many ornamental and functional entrance gates and gateposts from the Victorian era and magnificent lanes lined with beech trees. Margaret Gibson was an heiress and her son John Spier lived at The Cuff prior to his early death. The Spier are also said to have owned Cuff estate and through Robert Spier's marriage to Margaret Gibson acquired the estate of Marshalland.