Word: withey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first to have come to light, but according to the owners of the "Cock Horse", a tavern which now occupies the home of the blacksmith, and to several old inhabitants of the district such claims are entirely spurious. "There is no truth in the story," said Miss Withey, who has lived next door to the blacksmith's house for over 70 years; when the reporter asked her if the true smithy were in England and not in Cambridge. "I remember playing under the tree as a child. When it was cut down a chair was made of it and presented...