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I live a couple of miles from Hare Hatch so was interested to Google 'Banksia Hare Hatch ' and a listing on Rightmove for the house came up.

It was built in 1911 and unusually in the details of the property some notes have been made by the seller:
"Banksia is where we grew up and looking back we really appreciate what a privilege is has been for us to have been raised there.
The house has been in our family since it was built and was named Banksia by our own Grandmother.
Although it has always been at the heart of our family, the time has come for us to pass on the keys to a new family who can make their own amazing forever memories there.
With age our Dad was unable to do all the jobs like he used to so it will need some TLC to bring it back to full strength but there is huge potential to make Banksia bloom again.
We will miss Banksia immensely, the location is beautiful and we have been truly spoilt. Even now after all these years, friends & family always remember coming to the house and the fun times we shared there.
We hope that someone out there will cherish it as much as we do."
The house has been sold subject to contract so I thought it might be helpful to copy the quote above before it disappears from the internet.

Hi David, welcome to Rootschat!  I live in Woodley so not too far from Binfield.

Was Crockford Cottage near Jock's Lane by any chance? There's a road of about 30 houses in Crockford Place nearby. The houses look about 30 years old I'd guess  so possibly built on the land your cottage used to sit on.  You can find it on Google maps (or any other online maps I guess) 😊

Hope that helps
Heather

Good to see you Greensleeves 

Your link is helpful waynenort, thank you  I  wasn't aware of Ann Bassett's story and as an English person, having seen the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid many years ago is my frame of reference 

Well I printed out the shorthand, numbered the lines for ease of reference but haven't really come up with much of a transcription.

The shorthand does resemble Pitman New Era which I learnt in 1979/80, this system has been around since 1922. It would be helpful to know things like:
a) what was the date of this trial? 1911 seems to be mentioned so presumably after then.
b) is this a random page from the trial as maybe to start with the first page would be simpler? How many pages are there?
c) it looks like there are a couple of words written in scribbly longhand, on lines 8 and 10 - can anyone with knowledge of the case, area or people involved hazard a guess at what these might say? E.g. Nastaley??

The most complete line I can guess at is the second one "we not personally present when they pass down most of the time". The second half of line 11 might read "I am living in fear at the moment". Line 12 possibly mentions "live stock and territory". The outline before 1911 appears to be March.

Once a writer has learnt the rules of how the phonetics are captured they tend to develop their own short forms for words that appear regularly in what they're recording so it's rarely straightforward to transcribe another person's shorthand, I used to struggle enough with my own at times!!

Sorry I can't give any more transcription than that, maybe it's an earlier version of Pitman shorthand than I learnt?

Maybe Greensleeves will be more successful 

Good luck with your research.
Heather

Hi Katie
I live quite near Hurst and Twyford and having looked at current maps I think I can suggest an area for where Riverview may have been.

The river in question is most likely the River Loddon and there's a little housing development whose address is Loddon View, Hurst Road, Twyford. Seems quite a good fit 

Perhaps it was built on the site of Riverview??

Good luck with your research, Heather

Good to see you too Greensleeves 

Hope we've helped a bit Glasscrystal 

Heather