Wednesday 19 May 2021

THE HAMLET OF CHRISTMAS PIE

 

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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