Stoke D'Abernon, The Village 1904
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Fully upholstered comfort was provided for the passenger on this splendid early motorised tricycle in the centre of the picture, and it was probably needed on the un-metalled roads of the time. Four carters and waggoners watch its passage with interest from the entrance to The Old Plough. This 17th-century inn, apparently referred to in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Speckled Band, stands by the junction of Stoke Road and Station Road. The village's name partly derives from the Saxon term for a defendable site, and appeared as 'Stoche' in the Domesday Book; the manorial rights were later bestowed on the knightly d'Abernon, or Daubernoun, family.
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