Quainton, Buckinghamshire

Our home on the village green

I lived in Quainton in the 1950s, on the corner of The Green and Lower St.  My family had the drapers shop.  I remember bonfire night on the green, rolling down Mill Hill, Christmas carols, ballet lessons in the church hall and sitting  the 11+ exams at school and of being sent to the Sportsmans Inn for a packet of Woods... [more]

Aylesbury Photographic Memories

Moving east, the route passes through Whitchurch on its way back to Aylesbury. Whitchurch is a long village with many fine houses and cottages, and also the remains of Hugh of Bolbec's early 12th-century earthwork castle. Oving Road runs east from the High Street; this view is taken beyond its junction with Market Hill looking west, showing the mix of building materials found in... [more]

Aylesbury Photographic Memories

The Black Boy is on the left, with the Victorian school, now a house, beyond the car. The ugly lean-to on the cottage has been replaced by a conservatory, and the railings by a rubble stone wall. The church, like Quainton's, was substantially rebuilt, this time in the 1860s, a not uncommon result of medieval use of the local highly friable limestone.

Aylesbury Photographic Memories

Moving north-east of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton- Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury to the south and towards Buckingham to the north. Oving is a most attractive village. Here we see Magpie Cottage, a fine 17th-century timber- framed thatched cottage with whitewashed infill... [more]