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the mansion house plus 53.3.11 acres of land. Other parcels of land, 16.1.30 acres - James Gale
Barford for £1090, 3.1.5 acres - Mr Marshall Pattens Ash for £500, and 72.2.22 acres Sydney Alex

Hankey £6400, were sold off at the same time. Thus presumably the original farm was split up.

30 June 1883

An Ordnance Survey map of 6 inches to the mile, based on a survey from 1871-2, shows the
building called Waterloo Lodge. The area called Froghall Green (approx. where St Crispins is now) is

shown, as is the Three Frogs Public House. The railway is called London and South Western Railway
(Staines, Wokingham and Reading Branch).

1887

We know at this time that Samuel Goodchild was living in Waterloo Lodge.

20th Century

31 May 1906

Samuel Holt Lomax made his will and appointed Charles Henry Lomax, John Chadwick Lomax and
William Hamilton Alston as executors. Frog Hall, formerly known as Waterloo Lodge was a farm

with an area of 54.099 acres. (This is the first use of "Frog Hall" I have found for the building). It
stretched from London Road in the north to the railway in the south; Clay Lane was the eastern