LOCAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ
HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THE AREA?
HOW OBSERVANT ARE YOU?

This is an Elizabethan post box.
The notice board is maintained by the Parish Council.

If you turn left at the top of Kop Hill down St. Peters La, you have a choice:
1 Turn left into the copse of trees and take the circular path to the rear where there is an exit and from where this picture was taken. This Ordnance Survey Trig point is at 234m, or...
..2 Turn right into the car park and then left. Leave the rear of the car park and turn right. 100 yards further and you have an incredible view of some 20 miles down the Aylesbury Vale.

One of a few houses that come up to the pavement edge.
Now modernised and extended with many things on the wall below the chimney that indicated it was a shop being removed to make it a private dwelling.

This is the entrance to College Farm, originally known as Bailiol College,
the road goes right round the back of the property.

You are looking at the Windmill through a gap in the trees from the far side of the third field. Houses you would see in the distance to your right are in Pink Rd.

You might wonder what this is?
It's a power substation dealing with overhead power cables.
These are usually seen fenced off on the ground and bigger
but then there are only a dozen houses along here.

This phone box is only of historical interest,
it is one of many interesting exhibits along this part of Kiln Lane.

From Foundry Lane enter the Chiltern Way via Collins farm, (apex of last bend before A4010) then go left,
keep to the right of the wood (field to your right). Cross A4010 and pick up the path on the other side.
Keep straight until you hit the hedge/trees alongside the Wycombe bound rail and turn right.
(Over the hedge, the tracks to and from Risborough are diverging).
Stay with the hedge and after 500 yrds follow the Chiltern Way branching to the left.
40 more yds and this goes over a railway bridge (Wycombe line).
(150 yds more the Chiltern Way goes right - ignore) Keep straight a further 50 yds and you reach your destination.

Another exhibit from nearby Gommes Forge.

An area known as Parslows Hillocks, the houses are aptly named as Hillock cottages. This one has a history conected to the Bodgers of this area. There is a monument in Wycombe (next to/under the University near the hospital) dedicated to the bodgers who were fundamental to Wycombes' furniture industry in the early 1900's.

This is named Deep Pit and was actually a source of drinking water (yeukk!). It is the only real survivor of numerous ponds once in the area. It has constantly changing wildlife and receives rainwater from the rest of Kiln Lane.

250 yds down Smalldean Lane from New Rd. Turn left at the 5 bar gate (there is a side entrance).
Then keep walking.
After half a mile you will pass these lookout points - probably built when the trees were much smaller.
Wartime "lookout boxes," commonly known as pillboxes, were small, reinforced concrete forts built during World War I and II.
Britain constructed roughly 28,000 of these defensive posts along coasts and airfields to spot enemy movements.
The RAF base has always been a command centre and lacks an airfield, save for helicopters.
Bomber Command designed the site to blend in with the surrounding area (from the air at least).
Take the path left after the pill boxes and it circles the base bringing you out in New Rd.

As flower Bottom La. reaches the top of the hill Grubbins Lane is on the left and Speen School 20 yds further on the right. Good observation skills required.

Still called The Old Schoolhouse but little is known.
One of our long term residents makes reference to her mother going there in a 10 min talk with pictures.

Picture taken from Slad Lane, corner Main Rd.
The Sports Club is very active with Tennis Courts, Cricket and Football pitches.
Not forgetting the Childrens Play Park in the far corner.
The Clubhouse also serves as an alternative, albeit smaller, venue to the Village Hall.

If you spotted The Old School, you should have seen this.
Originally it was probably gas lit.
Not known if it works - gas or electric.

Victoria's reign began in 1837 so it is likely the post box was fitted at the same time the school was built - c1875. You can work out how long its been there.
Mail used to be smaller then.

Entrance to Loosley Row Baptist Cemetery.
A Memorial to the Veterans who lost their lives in the Great War (WWI).
There are just 12 names on here but there were many more from our two villages and Speen.
A terrible loss of men in just a small area.

A totem pole perhaps or was it carved out on the spot from an old tree stump?
Just one of the many interesting features along Kiln Lane.

This is the road into Stocken Farm. The fields on either side are part of the farm.
Not easily seen - there is a huge complex of buildings at the end
including living accommodation for staff, farm machinery and a large herd of milking cows and other animals. There are some 200 acres to farm.

This is the rear entrance to Collins Farm.
The Chiltern Way passes by on the other side.
Pedestrian access is just 50 yds further along on the bend.

Deep Meadows Farm is on the escarpment edge overlooking Princes Risborough and the Aylesbury Vale
Pink Rd to Parslows Hillock is a mile long and it's the only accommodation on that side of Pink Rd.
What a privilege.

This country mansion has now been split into three separate dwellings
each with a super view of the Aylebury Vale.

This currently well maintained stile continues to a field behind Meadow Rise.
Cross this field to the Westland allotments.

This stile over a five bar gate provides access to
the Grubbins path all the way to Smalldene Lane.
Another example of the work of Gommes Forge.
The directions thereon should have provided clues to where it is.

This path leads down the hill to Promised Land Farm
and up the other side to Church Lane
Or turn left at Promised Land up to Main Rd past the allotments at Westlands.

Many of the other locations started here so no excuse for not recognising this.
The twinning refered to a now lapsed association with a town in Normandy, France - Hambye.
Hence Hambye Close the newest street in Lacey Green - and it shows.

The old stile was hard to negotiate and often needed repairing so this new metal gate makes it easier with less maintenance.
Only drawback is the removal of a bit of our heritage.

You could see this as the start of the Chiltern Way. However the path goes down Loosley Hill,
right at Lower Rd and left through Collins Farm and on to Bledlow and Stokenchurch.
The gate here leads on to the A413 between Gt Missenden & Wendover via Parslows Hillock and St. Peters Lane.