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 Freehold accommodation at Lacey G'''reen, compris'''ing 4 rooms together with 6 acres of arable and grass land, barn, pig styes, stable, and hen houses, let to Mr Peter Floyd, an old standing tenant, at a rental of £15 per annum.   Land tax of 12 shillings and eleven pence.    ''Researchers note.   Peter Floyd, the tenant, was the father of Frederick William Floyd, purchaser.''
+[[File:Harry Hilda Grandad Croot.jpg|thumb|Harry Floyd, Hilda West & Grandad Crook just outside the kitchen window, Stocken Farm.]]
-'''Douglas Brett''', who lived with his mother from 1923 to 1931 in one of [[Well Cottages]] in Church Lane which were owned by Fred Floyd wrote of going to Floyds Farm to help.  "At times I went to [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Fred_Floyd Fred Floyd]’s Farm Dairy.   A large wooden churn was filled with cream which I would turn until converted into butter.   Sometimes I delivered milk."   click [[1931 Douglas Brett in Lacey Green]] for more tales from Douglas
+'''Douglas Brett''', who lived with his mother from 1923 to 1931 in one of [[Well Cottages]] in Church Lane which were owned by Fred Floyd wrote of going to Floyds Farm to help.  "At times I went to [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Fred_Floyd Fred Floyd]’s Farm Dairy.   A large wooden churn was filled with cream which I would turn until converted into butter.   Sometimes I  delivered milk."   click [[1931 Douglas Brett in Lacey Green]] for more tales from Douglas
 '''''Joan West (researcher's) Note'''.  Harry Floyd lodged with Dick and Hilda West at Stocken Farm, almost from the time he inherited Floyd's Farm in 1939.  He had gone there when he had bronchitis and Hilda West said he could stay while he recovered.  However he continued to live with them until 1971.  He still ran his farm but did not live in the cottage.   Previously the cottage had been lived in by his father Fred Floyd who was a widower, having inherited it from his parents Peter & Ann Floyd.''

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 '''Douglas Brett''', who lived with his mother from 1923 to 1931 in one of [[Well Cottages]] in Church Lane which were owned by Fred Floyd wrote of going to Floyds Farm to help.  "At times I went to [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Fred_Floyd Fred Floyd]’s Farm Dairy.   A large wooden churn was filled with cream which I would turn until converted into butter.   Sometimes I delivered milk."   click [[1931 Douglas Brett in Lacey Green]] for more tales from Douglas
-'''''Joan West (researcher's) Note'''.   Almost from the time Harry Floyd inherited Floyd's Farm in 1939 he had lived at [[Stocken Farm]].   He had gone there when he had bronchitis and Hilda West said he could stay while he recovered.  However he continued to live with them until 1971.  He still ran his farm but did not live in the cottage.   Previously the cottage had been lived in by his father Fred Floyd who was a widower, having inherited it from his parents Peter & Ann Floyd.''
+'''''Joan West (researcher's) Note'''.  Harry Floyd lodged with Dick and Hilda West at Stocken Farm, almost from the time he inherited Floyd's Farm in 1939.  He had gone there when he had bronchitis and Hilda West said he could stay while he recovered.  However he continued to live with them until 1971.  He still ran his farm but did not live in the cottage.   Previously the cottage had been lived in by his father Fred Floyd who was a widower, having inherited it from his parents Peter & Ann Floyd.''
 ''In 1981 [[R M West & Son]] purchased the farm from [[Harry Floyd]] (see below).  The pictures below were taken at this time.  It seems unlikely that the men put a curtain over the fireplace so perhaps it had been there since the days of Ann and Peter.''

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 click [[1980 Harry Floyd Recalls Dairy Farming]] for full details of this article published in Hallmark when  Harry Floyd, the 3rd 'Floyd' to farm Floyds Farm recalled his memories as a dairy farmer and other farming recollections to Rosemary Mortham
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+'''This farm only became known as “Floyd’s Farm” after 1915,''' when it was purchased by Frederick Floyd.   First known records show that It had belonged to the Manor of Princes Risborough and had been tenanted by a member of the Stone family.   On his death the tenancy had passed to his wife Elizabet
-This farm only became known as “Floyd’s Farm” after 1915, when it was purchased by Frederick Floyd.   First known records show that It had belonged to the Manor of Princes Risborough and had been tenanted by a member of the Stone family.   On his death the tenancy had passed to his wife Elizabeth
+'''January 5<sup>th</sup> 1795.'''   Elizabeth Stone, widow, married at Princes Risborough with [[Joshua Dell, born 1757]], widower.
 Elizabeth Dell, a customary tenant of the Manor of Princes Risborough, gave the premises to her husband Joshua Dell.
 [[File:Fred and Ann Floyd.jpg|thumb|Fred Floyd  with his mother Ann.  Fred inherited Floyds Farm from Ann in 1929]]
-'''1823.  THE ENCLOSURES OF PRINCES RISBOROUGH'''
+'''1823.  In the enclosures''' the Commissioners allotted the property to Joshua Dell, freehold.
-'''TENANT'''
+'''Joshua let the premises''' to his brother Thomas Dell for £80 per annum.
-Joshua let the premises to his brother Thomas Dell for £80 per annum.
+By arrangement, Joshua and Elizabeth surrendered the property to the Manor and sold the tenancy to Thomas Tilbury
 '''TENANT. CENSUS 1841'''
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 Elizabeth died in 1829, Joshua died in 1842
-'''1843.   IN HIS WILL Joshua bequeathed 6 acres (Floyds Farm)''', at Lacey Green, late in his own occupancy, now of Thomas Tilbury, to James Dell, his great nephew, late of Stocken Farm, now at Parsonage Farm, Saunderton
+'''1843.   IN HIS WILL Joshua bequeathed 6 acres (Floyds Farm)''', at Lacey Green, late in his own occupancy, now of Thomas Tilbury, to James Dell, his great nephew, late of Stocken Farm, now at Parsonage Farm, Saunderton                  '''JAMES DELL ALSO INHERITED PARSONAGE FARM, SAUNDERTON'''.   James’s son Thomas became a farmer with his father at the farm.
-'''JAMES DELL ALSO INHERITED PARSONAGE FARM, SAUNDERTON'''.
+'''WILL OF JAMES DELL.'''  James Dell left his son, Thomas, to farm with his widow Elizabeth, for her lifetime, then after her death, the  farm to go to Thomas.
-James’s son Thomas became a farmer with his father at the farm.
+'''TENANT of Floyds Farm CENSUS 1851.'''   Thomas Tilbury, 70, farmer of 6 acres, born North Dean, James Tilbury, nephew, 27, ag. Lab, born Walters Ash, Elizabeth Tilbury, nee Ayres, 25 lacemaker, born Walters Ash, Richard Tilbury , nephew, 3, born Lacey Green.
 '''JUNE 9th 1915.   Sale by Auction on behalf of the Executors of Thomas Dell of Parsonage Farm, Saunderton'''
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 [[File:Inside Floyds Cottage 02.jpg|thumb|alt=|420x420px]]
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-'''FREDERICK WILLIAM FLOYD TO HARRY GEORGE FLOYD'''
+'''FREDERICK WILLIAM FLOYD TO HARRY GEORGE FLOYD.'''   July 13<sup>th</sup>1939.   Will of Fred Floyd.  Farm inherited by Harry Floyd
-July 13<sup>th</sup>1939.   Will of Fred Floyd.  Farm inherited by Harry Floyd
+'''INSURANCE FOR FLOYDS FARM AND GARAGE AT IDLE CORNER.'''  1940. £540 p.a.      1947. £1,750 p.a.      1951. 3,100 p.a.     Note!  Insurance values, pre and post WW2.   The garage at Idle Corner had originally been the coach house of the house “Gracefield”
 '''1952.   Conveyance.'''  Monica Wendy  Haines, commonly known as Monica Wendy  Bickford Haines of East Challacombe Farm, Combe Martin, Devon, wife of Percy Thomas Haines SOLD TO Harry George Floyd of Floyds Farm, Lacey Green, for £200, land at Lacey Green, Ord. Survey No. 281, 0.762 acres.   ''Research note.   This land was allotment no 687 to Francis Stone in the Enclosures 1823''
-'''SUBJECT TO COVENANT'''
+'''SUBJECT TO COVENANT.'''   Subject to the right of the owner of Gracefield to discharge sewage water and soil by means of the existing substituted drain into the cesspool, subject to a conveyance made October 10<sup>th</sup> 1950, between Norman Basil Smith and Monica Wendy Haines, for the benefit of Gracefield.
 '''HARRY BUYS MORE LAND'''
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 '''August 8<sup>th</sup> 1962.   Conveyance'''.   Harry Floyd purchased land at Lacey Green for £560, from the Rt. Hon. Robert William Evelyn Rockly of City of London
-'''SCHEDULE'''
+'''SCHEDULE.'''   2 pieces of land at Lacey Green, part of Lane Farm, Church Lane, containing 6.984 acres, nos.156 & 280 (ord survey, 1921 edition)
   Conveyance.  Bert Ralph George Dell purchased from Harry Floyd, for £100
-'''SCHEDULE'''
+'''SCHEDULE.'''   A piece of land, part of Floyd’s Farm, running in a narrow triangle to a point behind “Hickmans Stores” and “Kia Cottage”, for £100.                                 '''HARRY FLOYD SOLD THE ORIGINAL 6 ACRES OF FLOYDS FARM FOR DEVELOPEMENT'''
 March 5<sup>th</sup> 1965   Conveyance.   Harry Floyd sold to James Baldwin, builder, 6 acres of land, bounded on the west by Westlands Road, Lacey Green.
-'''THE DEVELOPMENT'''
+'''THE DEVELOPMENT.'''   James Baldwin built on the east side of [[Westlands Road]].   (The west side already had established houses.)   Also a new road off Westlands Road, to the east, called “[[Meadow Rise]]”.
 '''HARRY FLOYD SOLD MORE LAND TO BERT DELL'''
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 '''SOLD'''
-.   Conveyance.  Harry Floyd sold Floyds Farm to R M West & Son of [[Stocken Farm]] for £24,558
+.   Conveyance.  Harry Floyd sold Floyds Farm to [[R M West & Son]] of [[Stocken Farm]] for £24,558
 R M West & Son retained the land and sold the house and attached barn, retaining a right of way to the land at the rear of the property

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 '''TENANT'''
-[[Joshua Dell, born 1851|Joshua]] let the premises to his brother Thomas Dell for £80 per annum.
+Joshua let the premises to his brother Thomas Dell for £80 per annum.
 '''PURCHASE of TENANCY BY THOMAS TILBURY'''
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 Elizabeth died in 1829, Joshua died in 1842
-'''WILL OF [[Joshua Dell, born 1851|JOSHUA DELL]]'''
+'''1843.   IN HIS WILL Joshua bequeathed 6 acres (Floyds Farm)''', at Lacey Green, late in his own occupancy, now of Thomas Tilbury, to James Dell, his great nephew, late of Stocken Farm, now at Parsonage Farm, Saunderton
 '''JAMES DELL ALSO INHERITED PARSONAGE FARM, SAUNDERTON'''.
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 Freehold accommodation at Lacey G'''reen, compris'''ing 4 rooms together with 6 acres of arable and grass land, barn, pig styes, stable, and hen houses, let to Mr Peter Floyd, an old standing tenant, at a rental of £15 per annum.   Land tax of 12 shillings and eleven pence.    ''Researchers note.   Peter Floyd, the tenant, was the father of Frederick William Floyd, purchaser.''
-'''Douglas Brett''', who lived with his mother from 1923 to 1931 in one of Well Cottages in Church Lane which were owned by Fred Floyd wrote of going to Floyds Farm to help.  "At times I went to [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Fred_Floyd Fred Floyd]’s Farm Dairy.   A large wooden churn was filled with cream which I would turn until converted into butter.   Sometimes I delivered milk."   click [[1931 Douglas Brett in Lacey Green]] for more tales from Douglas
+'''Douglas Brett''', who lived with his mother from 1923 to 1931 in one of [[Well Cottages]] in Church Lane which were owned by Fred Floyd wrote of going to Floyds Farm to help.  "At times I went to [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Fred_Floyd Fred Floyd]’s Farm Dairy.   A large wooden churn was filled with cream which I would turn until converted into butter.   Sometimes I delivered milk."   click [[1931 Douglas Brett in Lacey Green]] for more tales from Douglas
 '''''Joan West (researcher's) Note'''.   Almost from the time Harry Floyd inherited Floyd's Farm in 1939 he had lived at [[Stocken Farm]].   He had gone there when he had bronchitis and Hilda West said he could stay while he recovered.  However he continued to live with them until 1971.  He still ran his farm but did not live in the cottage.   Previously the cottage had been lived in by his father Fred Floyd who was a widower, having inherited it from his parents Peter & Ann Floyd.''
-''In 1981 R M West & Son purchased the farm from Harry Floyd (see below).  The pictures below were taken at this time.  It seems unlikely that the men put a curtain over the fireplace so perhaps it had been there since the days of Ann and Peter.''
+''In 1981 [[R M West & Son]] purchased the farm from [[Harry Floyd]] (see below).  The pictures below were taken at this time.  It seems unlikely that the men put a curtain over the fireplace so perhaps it had been there since the days of Ann and Peter.''
 [[File:Inside Floyds Cottage 02.jpg|thumb|alt=|420x420px]]
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−	[[File:Ann and Peter Floyd.jpg\|thumb\|Peter and Ann Floyd. Already at Floyds Farm by 1861 census. There till their deaths - Peter 1924 aged 93. Ann 1929 aged 95 ]]	+	click [[Farms]] for a list of other local farms
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		+	click [[Farming pre 1823]] for this era[[File:Ann and Peter Floyd.jpg\|thumb\|Peter and Ann Floyd. Already at Floyds Farm by 1861 census. There till their deaths - Peter 1924 aged 93. Ann 1929 aged 95 ]]
	Research by [[Joan West]] taken from deeds lent to Rosemary Mortham and personal knowledge from a long standing friendship.		Research by [[Joan West]] taken from deeds lent to Rosemary Mortham and personal knowledge from a long standing friendship.

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 Research by [[Joan West]] taken from deeds lent to Rosemary Mortham and personal knowledge from a long standing friendship.
-click [[1980 Harry Floyd Recalls Dairy Farming]]   for full details of this article published in Hallmark when  Harry Floyd, the 3rd 'Floyd' to farm Floyds Farm recalled his memories as a dairy farmer and other farming recollections to Rosemary Mortham   " Harry believes that his grandparents were probably one or the first to keep cows in Lacey Green.   Before that the villagers would have had to collect their milk from Willott's Farm, Studridge Lane Speen.   After going up the hairpin bend , this was the first turning on the left, and the farm was about half way along.  Most people only made the journey once or twice a week.   Stocken Farm had arable crops and cows for fattening.   The only milking cows were for their own use.   This was probably normal at that time.  Milk was a by-product of the need to produce calves for beef, whereas today the problem of surplus calves, the result of the vast amount of milk produced, has led to the unfortunate need to export calves for the continental veal trade.
+click [[1980 Harry Floyd Recalls Dairy Farming]] for full details of this article published in Hallmark when  Harry Floyd, the 3rd 'Floyd' to farm Floyds Farm recalled his memories as a dairy farmer and other farming recollections to Rosemary Mortham
-Milk was not used as a drink, except for small amounts in tea.   If any milk was available it would be used in cooking something like a rice pudding.   The milk on sale would not be what was known as 'new milk'.   It would have stood for twenty-four hours and then the cream would have been skimmed off for butter making.   It was this skimmed milk that was sold for one halfpenny (0.2p) a pint.   Harry reckons it was a lot creamier than our present day 'silver top'.   He was not aware of any cheese made locally.
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+----'''BEFORE IT GOT ITS NAME'''
 This farm only became known as “Floyd’s Farm” after 1915, when it was purchased by Frederick Floyd.   First known records show that It had belonged to the Manor of Princes Risborough and had been tenanted by a member of the Stone family.   On his death the tenancy had passed to his wife Elizabeth

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 When pasteurisation became common, legislation was laid down which required very strict hygiene measures.   These made it uneconomic for the small supplier and so, around 1963, Harry gave up his milk round.   He finally retired from Floyds Farm in 1976.
-At Stocken Farm things were much more mechanised.
+At Stocken Farm things were much more mechanised.   There they had had a milking machine from the early 1950s, wereas all Harr's milking was by hand.   When he needed to cool his milk down, it was put in a churn and dropped down the water tank on a rope!
 '''BEFORE IT GOT ITS NAME'''