Colnbrook
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So You Think You Know? High Wycombe
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King John's Palace
King John's Palace is the oldest residence in the village of Colnbrook and has been listed by English Heritage as a Grade II* property because of its age and historic interest. It pre-dates Tudor times to about the 13th century and was visited by Queen Elizabeth I and indeed King John stayed in the footprint area of this nice thatched home/hunting lodge on his way to sign the Magna Carta.
The 'palace' is really a very old manor house, once thatched and the barn nearby is still sometimes occupied by sheep and the River Colne runs within a few hundred yards into the Thames a few miles away.
The famous Cox's Pippin apple was born in the orchard nearby, by ...read more here
Contributed by john Crampton
Berkshire memories
King John's Palace
King John's Palace is the oldest residence in the village of Colnbrook and has been listed by English Heritage as a Grade II* property because of its age and historic interest. It pre-dates Tudor times to about the 13th century and was visited by Queen Elizabeth I and indeed King John stayed in the footprint area of this nice thatched home/hunting lodge on his way to sign the Magna Carta.
The 'palace' is really a very old manor house, once thatched and the barn nearby is still sometimes occupied by sheep and the River Colne runs within a few hundred yards into the Thames a few miles away.
The famous Cox's Pippin apple was born in the orchard nearby, by ...read more here
A memory of Colnbrook contributed by john Crampton
Where I grew up. Born 1944.
My Mum and Dad moved into the village in the 1930's into a new house in Rogers Lane and lived there for 66 years. My father was the village tailor working from a workshop in the back garden. My mother was very involved in the village life, joining the WI and also the secretary of the Old Peoples club for a while. Also a member of the local tennis club. My father was a Special Policeman during and just after the war and was a member of the British Legion. I spent my childhood playing in the fields which surrounded Stoke Poges, which now all but a few have been built on. I was in the Stoke Poges church choir for ...read more here
A memory of Stoke Poges contributed by Vivien Halse
Walks
I used to walk from Farnham Common down Templewood Lane to visit my friend Viv who lived on Rogers Lane in Stoke Poges. It didn't seem like such a long way back then. This would have been between 1957 and 1960. Both sets of our parents are buried in the Memorial Gardens at St. Giles church. Viv and I lost contact for 40 years, and found each other last year through a website. I now live in the USA.
Stoke Poges holds fond memories, dances at the Village Hall, and flirting with the boys walking down the hill.
A memory of Stoke Poges contributed by Jill Trimble
Extracts From Colnbrook & Berkshire books
We finish with a view of the River Chess winding along the floor of its flat but narrow valley, through its Chiltern
landscape towards Rickmansworth near Loudwater Farm, an area much changed since this view was taken.
An extract from from"Amersham, Chesham And Rickmansworth Photographic Memories".
This view looks south
towards All Saints Church
and shows how the tower
and spire originally closed
the vista well, although
nowadays the church is
hidden by high hedges
and a fine cedar. On the
right is the 18th century
Artichoke pub which
survives but with an added
slated roof linking ground
floor bay windows.
An extract from from"Amersham, Chesham And Rickmansworth Photographic Memories".
This is an interesting view of
All Saints at the south end of
the Green. The church, built
in 1872 to designs of one J
Norton, is in a fairly routine
design but with a circular
turret and spire on the north
or Green side. In 1907 the
exciting architect Temple
More added a nave, turning
the old church into the north
aisle. Moore used brick with
stone bands and produced
a most
successful design.
An extract from from"Amersham, Chesham And Rickmansworth Photographic Memories".
Also known as
Rickmansworth House,
this four-square mansion
dates from about 1820 and
replaced a house of 1741
built for Henry Fotherley
Whitfield, then Lord of the
Manor. James Hayward,
the new owner, apparently
used French prisoners
of war as labourers.
Rickmansworth Park is
now the site of the Royal
Masonic School for Girls,
built in the 1930s.
An extract from from"Amersham, Chesham And Rickmansworth Photographic Memories".
The canalised stretch of the River Chess was opened in 1803 for Samuel Salter to ferry barrels between his
Rickmansworth and Uxbridge breweries via the Grand Junction Canal. Now the canal winds past a builder’s yard
before petering out as the uncanalised River Chess, past the site of the old brewery and gas works. This builder’s
yard is beyond the small building on the left which still survives; the canal is beyond the weir which has been
rebuilt recently and is crossed by a neat footbridge.
An extract from from"Amersham, Chesham And Rickmansworth Photographic Memories".