Windmill Farm - Revision history

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 [[File:Windmill 1960.jpg|thumb]]
 [[File:The Common Map Small.jpg|center|thumb|click to enlarge   copy of the first map. common painted green]]
 '''Before 1823''' Windmill Farm and it's Windmill was the only major property on the vast Common of Princes Risborough which covered much of Lacey Green and some land on the hilltop of Loosley Row.   Because there were no roads in Lacey Green, Windmill Farm was in the Loosley Row part of the common.

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 The windmill was used as a look out point at night on a rota 2 hours on and 4 hours off, 7 nights a week by the Home Guard and their cadets. (They “kipped” on the 2nd floor above the door, it was very draughty
-[[File:Windmill Farm Land Conveyance.jpg|thumb]]
+[[File:Windmill Farm Land Conveyance.jpg|thumb|Land sold  June 2nd 1942.]]
 '''HARRY GEORGE HAWES PURCHASES PART OF WINDMILL FARM.'''
-'''June 2<sup>nd</sup>1942,   Conveyance.'''  Harry Hawes from A E Cheshire, and M Millward of Windmill Farm, the piece of land adjoining the above having a frontage of 126’ 6” to the Lacey Green Road, a depth of 361 feet, containing 1 acre, no 199 on the ordinance survey map of 1921.
+'''June 2<sup>nd</sup>1942,   Conveyance.'''  Harry Hawes from A E Cheshire, and M Millward of Windmill Farm, the piece of land adjoining the above having a frontage of 126’ 6” to the Lacey Green Road, a depth of 361 feet, containing 1 acre, no 199 on the ordinance survey map of 1921. This document is archived in Lacey Green [[Village Hall]].
 '''WINDMILL FARM IS LET'''

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 The windmill was used as a look out point at night on a rota 2 hours on and 4 hours off, 7 nights a week by the Home Guard and their cadets. (They “kipped” on the 2nd floor above the door, it was very draughty
+[[File:Windmill Farm Land Conveyance.jpg|thumb]]
 '''HARRY GEORGE HAWES PURCHASES PART OF WINDMILL FARM.'''

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	The windmill was used as a look out point at night on a rota 2 hours on and 4 hours off, 7 nights a week by the Home Guard and their cadets. (They “kipped” on the 2nd floor above the door, it was very draughty		The windmill was used as a look out point at night on a rota 2 hours on and 4 hours off, 7 nights a week by the Home Guard and their cadets. (They “kipped” on the 2nd floor above the door, it was very draughty
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		+	'''HARRY GEORGE HAWES PURCHASES PART OF WINDMILL FARM.'''
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		+	'''June 2<sup>nd</sup>1942, Conveyance.''' Harry Hawes from A E Cheshire, and M Millward of Windmill Farm, the piece of land adjoining the above having a frontage of 126’ 6” to the Lacey Green Road, a depth of 361 feet, containing 1 acre, no 199 on the ordinance survey map of 1921.

	'''WINDMILL FARM IS LET'''		'''WINDMILL FARM IS LET'''

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 '''[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/1966_Conveyance 1966 Conveyance] Annie and George Smith, the tenants, purchased Windmill Farm''' from Alfred and Dorothy Witcher.   Les Smith, son, worked on, then ran Windmill Farm   In 1964 Les had married Rosemary Phillips.   click [[Les & Rosemary Smith]] for their life story.
-'''Hallmark November1986.   Planning Application''' - Ground floor Granny Annex and first floor bedroom extnsion at Windmill Farm, Lacey Green
+'''Hallmark November1986.   Planning Application''' - Ground floor Granny Annex and first floor bedroom extension at Windmill Farm, Lacey Green
 '''1971 – 1986 The windmill is leased by the Chiltern Society.'''   '''Volunteers completely restore it to working order'''.

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 '''Before 1823''' Windmill Farm and it's Windmill was the only major property on the vast Common of Princes Risborough which covered much of Lacey Green and some land on the hilltop of Loosley Row.   Because there were no roads in Lacey Green, Windmill Farm was in the Loosley Row part of the common.
-There were four tiny cottages facing onto [[Lily Bottom Lane]] to the far east of the common.   Click [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Princes_Risborough_Common Princes Risborough Common] to see two maps. One showing the full area of Princes Risborough Common and the other shows the changes made in 1823 when the [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Enclosures Enclosures] of Princes Risborough took place.  ''Note. With new roads having been made the Windmill now  stands in Lacey Green'' [[File:Sheaf To Loaf Day Advert.jpg|left|thumb|click [[1998 Sheaf to Loaf record challenge]] for details.  Guinness Book of Records]]
+There were four tiny cottages facing onto [[Lily Bottom Lane]] to the far east of the common.   Click [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Princes_Risborough_Common Princes Risborough Common] to see two maps. One showing the full area of Princes Risborough Common and the other shows the changes made in 1823 when the [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Enclosures Enclosures] of Princes Risborough took place.  ''Note. With new roads having been made the Windmill now  stands in Lacey Green.''  THE HISTORY FROM 1823 - 1923 CONTINUES FURTHER DOWN.
 '''Before 1823 the entrance to Windmill Farm''' was from the road behind the farm which was the route from the Hughenden Valley to Princes Risborough.  It ran through Speen, along [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Highwood_Bottom Highwood Bottom], cut straight across the Common of Princes Risborough to the pond behind [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Windmill_Farm Windmill Farm].  It proceeded down towards Princes Risborough joining Woodway, which was already an established route and on to the town.
 '''After 1823''', with the roads changed the entrance to the farm was off the Main Road, Lacey Green.  click [[Main Road section 1]] for other properties.
 '''Windmill Farm and it's Windmill''' had belonged to the Lord of the [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Manor_of_Princes_Risborough Manor of Princes Risborough].   They were surrounded by the Common to which the cattle from Princes Risborough were brought up to graze.    In the Enclosures of 1823 the Common was divided into large portions and put up for sale.   The part with Windmill Farm and the Windmill was bought by [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/John_Grubb John Grubb], the Lord of the Manor.
 '''LEASED TO JOHN STEEL'''   1838 it had been let to John Steel for 14 years, 1838 - 1852.   See [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/John_&_Hannah_Steel John & Hannah Steel]
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 '''8th October 1923.'''   George Cheshire Made his Will appointing his daughter Margaret Cheshire as his executor and bequeathed unto his two daughters Annie Elizabeth Cheshire and Margaret Cheshire equally a piece of land known as 'Long Acre' on the Lacey Green Road and anything and everything whatsoever he might die possessed of.
-'''12th October 1923 George Cheshire Died'''
+'''12th October 1923 George Cheshire Died and the''' '''WINDMILL''' '''CEASED TO BE WORKED'''
 '''P.S.  THE MORTGAGES of JOHN CHESHIRE, MILLER, born 1808'''

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	'''[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/1966_Conveyance 1966 Conveyance] Annie and George Smith, the tenants, purchased Windmill Farm''' from Alfred and Dorothy Witcher. Les Smith, son, worked on, then ran Windmill Farm In 1964 Les had married Rosemary Phillips. click [[Les & Rosemary Smith]] for their life story.		'''[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/1966_Conveyance 1966 Conveyance] Annie and George Smith, the tenants, purchased Windmill Farm''' from Alfred and Dorothy Witcher. Les Smith, son, worked on, then ran Windmill Farm In 1964 Les had married Rosemary Phillips. click [[Les & Rosemary Smith]] for their life story.
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		+	'''Hallmark November1986. Planning Application''' - Ground floor Granny Annex and first floor bedroom extnsion at Windmill Farm, Lacey Green

	'''1971 – 1986 The windmill is leased by the Chiltern Society.''' '''Volunteers completely restore it to working order'''.		'''1971 – 1986 The windmill is leased by the Chiltern Society.''' '''Volunteers completely restore it to working order'''.

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 When George Cheshire died in 1923, the windmill ceased to be worked.
-'''CENSUS 1939'''
+'''1939 Register (census).'''   William H Millward 59 carpenter and joiner, born 1880,  Margaret Millward 59 farm dairymaid born 1880, , Annie Cheshire 74 incapacitated, John Cheshire 68 retired windmill electrician.
 '''Research Note.'''   On 29th May 1942 an application for an official search under the Land Charges Act for Cheshire Annie Elizabeth of Windmill Farm, Lacey Green, Buck. Spinster and Millward Margaret of Windmill Farm, Lacey Green, Bucks, wife of William Henry Millward, gave the following details for a search of '''<nowiki/>'Long Acre'<nowiki/>''' fronting the Lacey Green Road near the ''''Windmill' Public House''', no 199 on Ordinance Map    ''(copy archived in Lacey Green [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Village_Hall Village Hall])''

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 '''WINDMILL FARM SOLD'''
-[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/1966_Conveyance 1966 Conveyance] Annie and George Smith, the tenants, purchased Windmill Farm from Alfred and Dorothy Witcher.   Les Smith, son, worked on, then ran Windmill Farm   In 1964 Les had married Rosemary Phillips.
+'''[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/1966_Conveyance 1966 Conveyance] Annie and George Smith, the tenants, purchased Windmill Farm''' from Alfred and Dorothy Witcher.   Les Smith, son, worked on, then ran Windmill Farm   In 1964 Les had married Rosemary Phillips.   click [[Les & Rosemary Smith]] for their life story.
 '''1971 – 1986 The windmill is leased by the Chiltern Society.'''   '''Volunteers completely restore it to working order'''.

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 '''ALSO''' all that land comprised part of a certain allotment purchased by John Grubb Esq. of the Common for inclosing the parish of Princes Risborough, 1823, no.636 on the inclosures map, apart from that part which was conveyed to the Chapel (Chapel of Ease of Princes Risborough built at Lacey Green)  (Glebe land)
-'''1856 Mortgagee Arabella Goodall''', spinster,   £900 + interest @ 4.5% per annum for 5 years.
+'''1856 Mortgagee [[Arabella Goodall]]''', spinster,   £900 + interest @ 4.5% per annum for 5 years.
 '''Mortgagee William Woods''' of Bedford.  £200 + interest
-'''25<sup>th</sup> JANUARY 1861.   CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE.'''   '''New mortgagee Frances Josephine Irving''' is conveyed the mortgage of £900, by the executors of Arabella Goodall.   '''SCHEDULE.'''   All that piece of land at Lacey Green called “The Hillock” with the dwelling erected thereon.
+'''25<sup>th</sup> JANUARY 1861.   CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE.'''   '''New mortgagee Frances [[Josephine Irving]]''' is conveyed the mortgage of £900, by the executors of Arabella Goodall.   '''SCHEDULE.'''   All that piece of land at Lacey Green called “The Hillock” with the dwelling erected thereon.
 '''ANOTHER £900.'''   July 14<sup>th</sup> 1861, Frances Josephine Irving advanced another £900
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 May 18<sup>th</sup> 1875 John Cheshire '''pays £500''' off his £1,800 mortgage.
-'''NEW MORTGAGEE FOR £600''', (part of the mortgage owing to F.J.Irving).   Mary Ann Buckmaster took over £600 of worth of mortgage owing to Frances Josephine Irving.   Schedule.  A windmill and premises.    (Mary Ann was John Cheshire’s married daughter.)
+'''NEW MORTGAGEE FOR £600''', (part of the mortgage owing to F.J.Irving).   [[Mary Ann Buckmaster]] took over £600 of worth of mortgage owing to Frances Josephine Irving.   Schedule.  A windmill and premises.    (Mary Ann was John Cheshire’s married daughter.)
 '''29<sup>th</sup> MARCH 1877. ACTION TO RECOVER DEBT'''