Cross Tree House

Cross Tree House

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Cross Tree House stands next to the famous Cross Tree.One John hancock had ambitions to make Cross Tree House the rival to the white hart in 1799. he had initial difficulties in getting a licence, but once he had one he spared no effort in drumming up business. He arranged a ladder to go from his garden up to the platform that had been built in the pollarded branches of the large Elm tree that grew alongside the cross, and musicians used to play there whilst people danced. It was an inn from 1800 to 1809 and became the residence of the Harvey family, who carried on the profession of solicitors, and Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths from 1809 to 1857. Some time after this it became the doctors house and surgery until the new Health Centre was built in 1970.