15 APRIL 1893, Page 26

A History of Strathfield Says. Compiled by the Rev. Charles

H Griffiths. (John Murray.)—Strsatfield was in Saxon times an open tract of country, a "field," and had its name from the fact of the Roman road running across it, the said road leading to the great camp at Colchester. Within this century it has become famous as the abode of the Duke of Wellington. The Pitts of Strathfielcl- saye (the Rivers peerage is connected with the family) appear in the Tennyson genealogy, and, indeed, bring the Royal blood into it, one Jane Pitt having married Christopher Iliklyard ; her grand-daughter Elizabeth married Michael Tennyson, great. grandfather of the poet. The Strathfieldsaye estate is held of the Crown by the tenure of the annual delivery of a Union Jack on June 18th.