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The Pound in 2021, Right image (c) 2021 Google
A Whiteparish local history page from younsmere-frustfield.org.uk
From before 1983 until 2017, the site now occupied by Whiteparish Garage was an unfenced yard open to the road, with the present garage building in good order but not often visibly in use. In 1842 this land had been unenclosed and part of the Common. A small part of the land away from the road and adjacent to the garden of Poundside Cottage had been enclosed by 1878. This small rectangular area was slightly enlarged by 1924 although was not shown on the intervening map of 1900. Expansion of the area enclosed from the Common to its present size took place after 1924 and before 1983 [further research ongoing].
A small rectangular pound used for stray animals stood near the road on this site from before 1878 until after 1900, this being the origin of the current address of the garage, 'The Pound'. Earlier, the Tithe Map of 1842 didn't show the Pound, but it wouldn't have been an area separate from Whiteparish Common for tithe purposes and hence not of interest to the Tithe Commissioners. It seems very likely that the Pound was in this position from mediaeval times, but it is unlikely that this can be verified.
Between 1983 and 2017 a succession of companies used the yard at times to park vehicles. I'm fairly sure I remember Holmere Transport lorries parked there in the years from 1983, and later there were lorries associated with the Dears' milk haulage business. Then for a short time articulated HGVs from BKG, now T3C, were parked on the yard at times.
The company RAW Motorsport (based on the initials of Robin A Welsh) was set up in 2009 as a company specialising in preparing and maintaining track, race and rally cars [RAW Motorsport website]. It ran from a succession of sites over the years and moved to Whiteparish in March 2017. The company still [2022] trades from this address, and at the end of April 2018 erected new signs for Whiteparish Garage, which has since been trading as a local garage service [2022]. A verge was created at the roadside, with fence and gates along the roadside boundary to improve site security and a new hedge was planted along the boundary with Barters Farm at about this time.
The address of this business is "The Pound", and this is where the Pound stood on Whiteparish Common from before 1876 into the early years of the 20th century, a stock enclosure into which animals not entitled to be on Whiteparish Common were put to await collection by the owner. The map extracts below show the Pound on this plot in 1876 and 1900. The yard is shown in grey on the modern map below, with green areas north and south being part of the plot, and the Pound itself occupied a small area in the southeast corner of this plot.
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The Pound in 2021, Right image (c) 2021 Google
The map below shows the outline of the site in red on a modern map, overlaid with a magenta tracing of selected features from 1876. This shows that the pound stood close to the road in 1876/1900, astride the present front fence and at the south edge of the garage site today. The blue tracing from 1924 illustrates the way that the area enclosed within the address that is now The Pound grew between 1876 and 1924. See Poundside Cottage for a description of the buildings on that site, immediately to the south.
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The Pound in 2021 with 1876 tracing in magenta (1876 tracing alongside for reference)
Blue tracing from 1924 map, red from 2021
The four maps below from 1876, 1900, 1924 and 2021 have been used in the tracings and backgrounds above, and illustrate the development of this site, with Barter's Farm to the north and Poundside Cottage to the south.
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The Pound in 1876, 1900 and the site in 1924, 2021
The site of Whiteparish Garage lies between Barter's Farm and Poundside Cottage. Although both are shown on the 1842 Tithe Map, the land on the west side of Common Road was still part of the common at that time and it is unclear exactly where the Pound would have been. I've not yet been able to confirm whether the name Poundside Cottage dates from this time, or only from the position of the Pound shown on the 1876 and 1900 maps.
A new copy of the 1842 Tithe Map is now available and will replace all earlier images on this website, but this is likely to take some months [written 2.5.2025]. This page has now has the new map and altered text below. The paragraph in italics below will be removed shortly, together with the four earlier images of the map that go with it.
The map below shows the property boundaries in 1842. Coming north up Common Road towards the village, the edge of the common left the road just south of the Poundside Cottage building and ran across the rear of what is now The Pound and across the front of Barter's Farm (the buildings of which are just visible at the top of this extract from the map. This can be seen by comparing the maps above and below and on the Barter's Farm page. [Add a detailed map to cover this point.] The Pound was not indicated on this map, nor in the associated list of field/property names.
The area around the Pound the 1842 Tithe Map [replaces the four images below]
[This paragraph and images have been replaced with the paragraph and map above.]
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The area round the Pound on the 1842 Tithe Map [replaced by the map above]
The left image is an accurate copy of the 1842 Tithe Map, the other four images retained until the text has been updated
1: Phoebe Merrick tracing; 2: copy of original map; 3: untouched detail around Poundside Cottage; 4: Buildings and boundaries in red
The black marks on plot 892 above the buildings are the figures 892
The maps above show that in addition to the Pound in 1878 there was a small rectangular area separated from the common and well away from the road that hadn't been there in 1842. This appeared as a larger rectangular area in 1924, although hadn't been shown on the map at all in 1900. In the nature of areas taken from the common in the past (and present), it is possible that it was contested and returned to the common for a period before being re-established as the slightly larger area of 1924. Later it was significantly enlarged to occupy its modern area. Research into more detail is ongoing.