The Elm
There was an Elm Tree on the NE corner at the crossroads at Grange Lane just east of Sibford Ferris for centuries. It has special meaning for Sibford School, as explained on the plaque (see image below) that the school has erected in a small garden on the SE corner, where a new elm was planted in 1983.
Read more about the history of The Elm in the Sibford Scenes for May 1981 and May 1985.
1/115 Sibford Elm (#1) in about 1860. The top was blown off in the great snowstorm on 18 November 1893.
1/113 Elm #1 after the top was blown off in 1893. The Parish Vestry Council sold the broken bough and converted the money into bread for labourers, plus one cobbler because he was a cripple.
The Old Elm Tree (#1), on the NE corner
1/114 The Elm (#1), 1907
1/141 Sibford Elm (#1)
1/68 Elm #1 in the 1916 snow
1/116 The crossroads at Sibford Elm (#1)
1/117 The crossroads at Sibford Elm, late 1930s. A straight iron seat replaced the encircling one of wood. Elm #1 on the left (NE corner), #2 on the right (SE corner)
1/119 At Whitsuntide 1937 Sibford Old Scholars dedicated this ground Elm and seat in gratitude for the services of Richard and Rebecca Routh, 1842 to 1880; Robert B and Elizabeth M. Oddie, 1880 to 1906; James and Mabel Harrod 1906 to 1920.
Elm #3, on the SE corner
29 Dec 2019
The plaque
29 Dec 2019