Collection of articles, letters and research notes etc. relating to Overs Farm.
F030
Date: 1828-2001
Reproductions of letters from A Taylor to Mr. Seymour regarding articles that A Taylor has written on the history of Beaconsfield.
P-ATay/R/003
Date: 1981
Hand written notes as to Celtic origin of Overs Farm name and history of Overs farm. Coloured in map showing site 1993. On reverse two photographs showing a row of Elm trees before and after felling following Dutch elm disease 1970’s and 1996 including Miss Pitchers nephew.
F030/N/001
Date: c1996
The research notes provides details of Hunts farm – The origin of its Celtic name, its history and a list of its occupants.
F030/N/002
Date: [1900-1999]
Research notes include a reference to the Celtic name of Bullocks Farm. There are also typed notes about water supply at the small holding. Photograph of farmhouse taken in 1993. A small ordnance survey map of the remaining two farm cottages.
F030/N/003
Date: [1990-1993]
Collection of articles, letters and research notes etc. relating to Lillyfee Farm.
F031
Date: 1925-2000
Extracts on Lillyfee farm and Wooburn Manor. Including details of ownership and boundaries in history Many references shown. Appended slips of paper about origin of names
F031/A/001
Date: c2000
Collection of articles, letters and research notes etc. relating to Wattleton Farm
F019
Date: 1900-2010
Collection of articles, letters and research notes etc. relating to Wiggenton Farm
F020
Date: 1800-1999
Research notes of Celtic name derived from WIG-EYN-TON; meaning the farm of the woods of the uncultivated land permanent pasture. Also includes ad copy of a map of Wiggenton Farm and a copy of a photograph of workers at the farm
F020/N/005
Date: 1950-1990
Guide book outlining the history of the manor with photographs, detailed room descriptions, and information on exhibits.
P-Dis/B/001
Date: 1976
Pamphlet of printed from “Records of Bucks” Vol xx, part 4, 1978 covering the role of communities in Buckinghamshire during World War 1, also an partial article on Windmills
P-D/B/001
Date: 1978
Three monthly articles on the history of manorial rights and customs with particular detailed references to Beaconsfield and Thomas Lane is mentioned.
P-TFL/R/017
Date: 1924
1 article Curzon Avenue, Ledborough Lane, Warwick Road, The Railway Hotel and Roundabout. Also mentions Trade Tokens.
P-TFL/R/046
Date: 1929
Incomplete notes covering the origins of Beaconsfield Old Town, starting with the Saxon tribes.
P-D/N/013
Date: 26-Feb-80
Describes origins of Beaconsfield in Saxon times and at the time of the Domesday Book, reasons for growth, such as markets and fairs, with population and housing numbers in 1811 Mention of the estates of Hall Barn, Wilton Park and Butlers Court, and adjoining farmlands. Population ‘explosion’ caused by arrival of railway in 1906, and ...
P-D/N/017
Date: 01/03/1972
Notes on Stone Age Man in Beaconsfield: Discovery of hand-axe just north of Knotty Green. Notes on history of the site of the Lloyds Bank building in the old town, the Reading Room, Wycombe End Cottages, Factory Yard, the Old Meeting House, and the Malthouse
P-D/N/028
Date: 1923
Written long before railway came to Beaconsfield in 1906 description of the ancient buildings of Beaconsfield including detailed description of the rectory; connection with Augustine Burnham Abbey and chronological account of endowment of the manor of Beaconsfield. The rectory was rebuilt in 16th century and occupied until the 19th century by the rector. ...
P-D/NC/008
Date: c1883
Three fragile newspaper pieces regarding the election of Mr George A Charsley as Beaconsfield Coroner. Details of the history of the post of Coroner, and the association of the “Coronership” with the Charsley family – his grandfather had been Coroner in 1821 and his father in 1855. His deputy was to be his ...
P-D/NC/019
Date: 1882
Extract provided to Leslie Horrocks by Bob Waller. Starts with “The Armorial Bearings of Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller Bart., Knight Grand Cross of the Guelphic Order &c” and runs through the lineage of the Wallers from the Domesday Book until the date of publication [1837].
P-EW/A/028
Date: 1989
Series of research notes relating to Edmund Waller and the Waller family
P-EW/N
Date: [1900-2015]
Manuscript article about the life and times of Edmund Waller.
P-EW/N/004
Date: 1970-1980
Typed family tree running from Alured de Wallur de Newark, co. Notts (from the Domesday Book) through to the Wallers of Beaconsfield and down the family line to Robert Morris Waller, Jr. (b. 1966) of Clinton, Iowa.
P-EW/N/021
Date: August 1989
[John Broadbent’s working annotated copy of] typed family tree running from Alured de Wallur de Newark, co. Notts (from the Domesday Book) through to the Wallers of Beaconsfield and down the family line to Robert Morris Waller, Jr. (b. 1966) of Clinton, Iowa.
P-EW/N/022
Date: August 1989