Monkton Wood
From Lacey Green History
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15th JUNE 1853 at 12 o'clock. Sale by Auction, at Garraway's Coffee House, 'Change Alley, Cornhill, London, by Farebrother, Clark & Lye, on behalf of Lord George Henry Cavendish.
Purchase by Merton College of Oxford.
Monkton Wood situate near the villages of Speen & Hampden. Containing about ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY-EIGHT ACRES, and sundry Enclosures of WOOD LAND containing about FORTY ONE ACRES with a detached Estate.
The Woods and Plantation are in hand, the whole estate contains ONE THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED & NINETY TWO ACRES.