Christmas Pie is a small hamlet between the villages of Normandy and Wanborough in Surrey.
Quite how the hamlet of
Christmas Pie, got its name has been a puzzle for many generations.
17th
century maps show a Christmas Farm and in an article in an addition of the
Surrey Advertiser it stated there was once a Pie Farm.
Another
story tells of a farmer whose name was Christmas, which was a fairly common
name in West Surrey at the time.
The
story tells that the man, who had a large family and no prospects of feeding
them through the festive season went into the wood and trapped rabbits and
other small game which his wife cooked into a pie and thus the name was coined.
If
that tale is too farfetched for you another theory is that it takes its name
from the popular Christmas pie church festivities.
The
only flaw in this theory being that as Christmas Pie is a hamlet it has no
church and never has done.
As there
is documentary evidence of a Christmas farm and a Pie farm I think the most
likely origin of the name is that at some point after the 17th century
the two farms merged for whatever reason and became Christmas pie farm which in
time became Christmas Pie.
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