Interesting
things.
Frogmore Farm
House
The Royal Commission on Historic Monuments (1911) notes that it was probably
built in the mid-15th century and is ‘now three tenements and of poor
condition’.
I think this means that the Gurneys built the new house (which is now Frogmore
Farm Cottages) and moved their farm labourers into the main farmhouse. Not sure
when?
There were many families living at Frogmore Farm (also called Gurney's Meadow) from 1841 onwards. See 1834 OS map. There are still bits of brick and flint on the present-day footpath crossing from Oddley Lane to Frogmore Farm. Many familiar local names were living there: Gurney, Ridgeley, Bass, Green.
The ‘missing’
church - see St Mary and St
Nicolas page
Iron Railings
I wonder who owned the land east of the A4010 and paid for all those expensive iron railings (when?) that go right along to the Rose and Crown and up Little Lane?
The old road
The story is that the main road (from where to where?) used to go past Saunderton church and across the fields towards Church Farm. The route can still be seen as a raised track-way, Church Farm Cottage was supposed to have been a pub. I have not found any documentary evidence yet though.
Lidar mapping
The Lidar mapping is fascinating – proper ‘Time Team’ stuff
Interesting sources
Lipscomb History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham vol III 1847
Page Victorian History of Bucks Volume 3 (1925)
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments Volume 1 (1911)
Head Early Man in South Buckinghamshire (1955) Wright
Freece Watermills of Buckinghamshire (2009 reprint) BAS