Rowfant Station

Along the Worth Way sits the former Rowfant Station, It is within the curtilage of a road maintenance company. Beyond storage, they don't use the former station building but continue to keep it secure and watertight.

At the western end of the building, (pictured) is what appears to be a grand entrance leading to a bricked-up doorway. It never was! it was built so that the coachman could sit in the relative warmth of the porch, which backed onto the booking office fire, waiting for his master to return from London.

The "Master" was Curtis Lampson who lived in the nearby Rowfant House and sold the land needed for the railway cheaply in return for having a station built!

Sadly Rowfant House lies empty; it was for a number of years a retirement home for the Latvian Evangelical Church. With the Baltic States gaining their freedom from the USSR, those who feared going back to their homeland were from 1991 able to do so. The Latvian community, living in the UK as exiles, has been steadily reducing although the church itself continues to proper it no longer needs a retirement home.