Mursley
Mursley maps (2 available)
Map of Buckinghamshire
Beautifully hand-drawn and coloured, dating from around 1840
See this old map of Buckinghamshire
Personalised maps
Create an historic map centred directly on any postcode!
Mursley books (7 available)
- 2 photos on Mursley appear in 1 Frith books - View photos of Mursley
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Mursley and Buckinghamshire
Mursley memories
Read and share memories of Mursley and Buckinghamshire inspired by Frith photos
Be the first to add a memory of Mursley.
You can also read memories of nearby places in Buckinghamshire below.
Buckinghamshire memories
My roots
I lived at the family home at the Three Locks, which was about one mile out of Stoke Hammond. Every Sunday from around five years of age, I walked to St Luke's Parish Church, Stoke Hammond to attend Sunday School. In later years I was the Sunday School teacher for a time. I was also confirmed here.
Along with my brother, I joined the church choir which we were members for many years. I remember we walked to the church services very often three times every Sunday. My brother also played the organ during his late teens, and he was a member of the bell ringing team. I also learnt to ring the bells about eight years ago at this ...read more here
A memory of Stoke Hammond contributed by stephanie mcpherson
From birth to 25yrs
I lived at the house just at the top of photo. The outbuildings can clearly be seen in the adjoining field to the family home. I spent all my childhood years playing with my brother and friends here. I used to love watching the working barges going through the locks. My grandfather kept the Three Locks (known then as The New Inn) as publican for 16yrs. (That was when the barges were horse drawn.)
A memory of Stoke Hammond contributed by stephanie mcpherson
my roots from birth to 50years
2008 and this shop is still here. It has changed very little in looks. It was owned by the same family Bonner from my early memory of about 1950 for many years. Today it remains a post office/shop
A memory of Stoke Hammond contributed by stephanie mcpherson
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 or Weights cigarettes for my father.
With my parents Ray and Sylvia Wheatley, my sister Barbara and brother Ian we emigrated to Australia but I will not forget the fun we had in Quainton
Clare Masovic nee Wheatley
A memory of Quainton contributed by Clare Masovic
Extracts From Mursley & Buckinghamshire books
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 the village: timber-framing, brick, local crumbly limestone, thatch, tiles and slate.
An extract from from"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.
An extract from from"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 panels, hence the name, presumably.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".
Down at Church End there is another more well-known and photographed pond; it and the 13th-century parish church
are to the left of the War Memorial. This view shows the characteristic rendered walls of the village houses. The render
hides walls built in the local limey clay known as ‘witchert’, a corruption of white earth. Alcohol is also well represented
here: the house on the right was the maltster’s, the maltings being in the yard behind, while two other houses in this view
were once pubs.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".
This view looks towards the main entrance ranges, which were altered and added to by Brandon in the 1860s and 1870s.
On the left, out of view, is Brandon’s chapel, a surprisingly large cruciform Gothic-style stone church of the 1860s and
the only building to survive the housing estate deluge that replaced the hospital. Unfortunately, as I write it has not yet
found a new use. To fix your bearings, the drive in this view is now Warren Close, one of the 1990s housing estate roads.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".