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Ruckles Way, AMERSHAM, HP7 0BZ

Iconic 1930s built homes in Highover Park, infamously described by John Betjeman as "scandalizing Buckinghamshire", they have since been surrounded by trees and other houses and have partially lost their views out over the valley of the River Misbourne.

Tucked away in its own paddock at the corner of a field and above the houses in Station Road is the Memorial raised in 1931 to commemorate the Lollard Martyrs who were burned at the stake in 1521 for exercising their claimed rights of religious liberty. The photo was taken during a snow squall. For a close up view see Image

See Image for the Memorial in its wider context. The Martyrs were: William Tylsworth burned 1506 Thomas Barnard burned 1521 James Morden burned 1521 John Scrivener burned 1521 Robert Rave burned 1521 Thomas Holmes burned 1521 Joan Norman burned 1521

A set of beautiful 1930s houses on a hillside setting between new and old Amersham. One was recently on the market, and this is from the estate agent's blurb :- " A stunning grade ii listed detached house designed by the renowned architectural partnership Connell & Ward, early exponents of the modernist movement in the 1930’s, strongly influenced by the French modernist Le Corbusier. There are five ‘sun houses’ built on the slopes leading to the famous High & Over House. These are believed to be amongst the first modernist houses built in Britain and have featured in books, tv programmes and journals covering significant buildings of the 20th century, together with those on Metroland immortalised in Sir John Betjeman’s poetry." The last sentence is rather disingenuous, as Betjeman was actually quite rude about these places.

Looking north on the A416.

Public Footpath sign directing from near Amersham Martyrs' Memorial to steep path down to Station Road. This is on the route of the London Green Belt Way. For a view of the Martyrs' Memorial from here see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6426042

Viewed from a Heathrow bound flight from Glasgow.

The memorial stands on a small dedicated piece of ground on a hillside overlooking Amersham old town. It was erected in 1931 and commemorates martyrs who were burned at the stake in 1521, for reading and interpreting the bible in their own way, in English (one of the principles that led to the Reformation and Protestantism). This side shows a number of other martyrs who were burned elsewhere.