Caffyn's Field in Littlehampton.
So far as I can tell it is between St Catherines Road and Beach Road, the church in the background is St Catherine of Alexandria RC. It is still known as Caffyn's Field.
How it got its name I don't know but it may be connected to Frederick James Caffyn who lived at 1 Beach Road. Frederick was born in 1863, the son of John and Mary Caffyn, he married Ann Elizabeth Isaac in Wokingham in 1895 (she was born in Devon). The couple moved to Sussex and eventually to Littlehampton where Frederick was a butcher. Their children were Mary Elizabeth (1897), Frederick Charles (1899), Frank (1901), Emily Gwynneth (1903) and Margaret Doris (1905). Frederick died in 1942 and his wife two years later.
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