Fox Meadow acquires property abutting Stonehouse Road

FMTC property showing land sold to Roger Manning in 1955 and parcel purchased in 1959
FMTC property showing land sold to Roger Manning in 1955 and parcel purchased in 1959

This acquisition completed a plan dating from the late 1940s to sell the Club’s less usable higher land off Church Lane and to expand instead towards the more usable lower land behind the Club.

The higher ground of the Church Lane lot was sold in 1955. Many of the trees planted by the club, starting in 1959-60 under Walter Close, were added to the newly acquired Stonehouse parcel.

Source: Adapted from Diana Reische, Fox Meadow Tennis Club – The First Hundred Years, 1983