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Burrows Close, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP10 8AR

This display board was erected in 2016 by the Penn & Tylers Green Residents Society and is situated in Coppice Farm Road HP10 8AH near the junction with the B474 Elm Road. It says the following words and pictures: You are standing in Penn-just! On one of the two small Village Greens owned by the Penn & Tylers Green Residents Society. The boundary between Penn and Chepping Wycombe parishes followed a line of ponds from Potters Cross to Hazlemere cross-roads across the 4,000 Wycombe Heath and it is next to these ponds that the earliest cottages were to be found. There was a pond on the parish boundary somewhere near what is now the back hedge of the gardens of 4 Chilton Close and 64 Hazlemere Road. There were two or three ponds at Rushmoor, one of which still survives in the garden of 227 Penn Road on the corner of Curzon Avenue. The first column has the John Rocque map 1761 then the following wording in the second column: The very earliest local map, by John Rocque in 1761, shows a building on the Wycombe side near where you are standing, and this is confirmed by a military map of 1800. The second column has the maps of 1800 Military Map drawn on horseback using a compass, and below it Bryant's map of 1824 followed by the wording in the first column: Bryant's map of 1824 shows several buildings set in woodland called "The Copies". In 1848, the Wycombe Tithe Award records them as a pair of cottages with 2 acres of land set in 50 acres of coppiced woodland extending from Potters Cross to Rushmoor Pond. It seems likely that people had been living there for many centuries, perhaps since soon after 1203 when the heathland was first taken over by the lord of the manor. In the third column, there is the wording: On the Penn side there was also, and still is, a pond on the other side of the Hazlemere Road in what used to be known as White's Farm (now 45 Hazlemere Road). The present house has the date AD 1784 and ED 1786 cut into the brickwork. In 1838, a man called Thomas Butler owned the land on both sides of the road. To the right of this wording is a map labelled "1863 St Margaret's District showing new houses built after release of common land in 1852". Below that map is the wording: The Penn side remained common land until the 1852 Penn Enclosure Award straightened and realigned the earlier wandering track between Penn and Hazlemere and allocated the freehold of neat rectangular "allotments" of former common land to landowners-pro rata, so that the more land you already owned, the more land you were awarded. The 1863 St Margaret's District map shows that cottages were quickly built on many of these new "allotments". In the middle of the third column is an 1875 OS map with the following wording: The road and "Greens" occupy two of these allotments. When Coppice Farm Road was created in c.1957 (see adapted 1925 OS map), one cottage was removed to allow the road and another (136 on the 1875 OS map) was taken down to provide an expansive entrance to the new estate. Both Greens were purchased by the P & TG Residents Society in 2013 to prevent the real possibility of building on them, and they have since been registered as Village Green. Thus they are once more common land, freely available to us all in perpetuity. In the bottom of the third column is a 1957 adapted 1925 OS map to show proposed access the Deer Park Estate with the following wording: Hazlemere Road used to be called Rushmere Hill. Later it was called Potters Cross Road and more recently, Dog Hill. If you had walked up the hill from Potters Cross 200 years ago you would have only seen a pair of cottages to your left (now St Nicholas) with another cottage opposite, and then the cottages at "Coppice Farm" on both sides of the road. There were no other cottages all the way to Hazlemere cross-roads.

Situated in Coppice Farm Road HP10 8AH, this Church was officially opened on Saturday 10th August 1968 and is one of twelve churches in the High Wycombe Methodist Circuit. Services are held here every Sunday at 10.45am with various activities taking place during the week.

Situated in Coppice Farm Road HP10 8AN, this telephone kiosk has a BT notice above the payphone mentioning that it will shortly be removed due to lack of usage. Update: the telephone kiosk has since been removed from this location.

Map for this and other paths available at http://www.commonwoodpenn.co.uk

Autumn in Old Kiln Road