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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
From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the
camera looks down White Hart Street. The
buildings on the right replace medieval market
place encroachment. On the left the open area was
until 1947 occupied by fine 16th- and 17th-century
timber-framed buildings, unforgivably demolished
for an aborted road improvement scheme.
An extract from from"High Wycombe - A History & Celebration".
The ancient open space of Frogmoor had from 1877 until the Second World War a fine cast-iron fountain and
well trimmed trees. Note the four gables of the old Hen and Chickens on the left (rebuilt in 1888).
An extract from from"High Wycombe - A History & Celebration".
IN 1801, according to the first national
census, the borough had a population of
2,349 consisting of 565 families living in
448 houses, while the rest of the town, the
ancient ‘foreigns’, had a further 1,899 people,
397 families living in 370 houses.
An extract from from"High Wycombe - A History & Celebration".
Arthur Vernon,
Architect and Mayor
The career of Arthur Vernon, architect and JP, born in 1846, is a good example of Wycombe’s
new class of industrialists and professionals. In 1870, having finished his training with the architect
E B Lamb, he succeeded his father as land agent to the Earl of Beaconsfield (the ennobled Benjamin
Disraeli) at Hughenden, and was appointed JP in 1875. Elected a town councillor and alderman in 1870,
he was elected to Buckinghamshire County Council at its inception in 1889 and appointed a magistrate
for the county in 1895. Elected mayor for the first time in 1882, he was mayor again in 1883, 1891,
1905 and 1906. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce from 1899 to 1906, a captain of
Wycombe Fire Brigade from its founding in 1868 until 1881, and President of the Surveyors Institution
in 1902–03. In between all this he found time to design very many buildings in the town besides the
Grammar School and Priory Road School. These included a temperance hall in Flackwell Heath, a lodge
for Hughenden, schools, buildings in the town centre, churches, the former Conservative Club at No
28 High Street of 1897, and many houses.
An extract from from"High Wycombe - A History & Celebration".
From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the
camera looks down White Hart Street. The
buildings on the right replace medieval market
place encroachment. On the left the open area was
until 1947 occupied by fine 16th- and 17th-century
timber-framed buildings, unforgivably demolished
for an aborted road improvement scheme.
An extract from from"High Wycombe - A History & Celebration".