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click '''Richard West reports''' [[Stocken Farm News]] from May 1919
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[[File:Stocken Farm circa 1900.jpg|thumb|Stocken Farm circa 1911|alt=]]'''STOCKEN  FARM       ''' researched and written by    Joan West
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click [[The Maize Maze]] 2003-2011 for this
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click [[The Lords of the Manor of Princes Risborough]] for details.
  
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click [[Manor Documents]] for list
  
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click [[Farms]] for a list of other local farms
  
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click [[Stocken Wood]] for history of this wood
  
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click [[Farming pre 1823]] for this era
  
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click 1899 [[Modern transcript of 2 fields]] for the purchase of 'Hillocks' and a pasture field by William Saunders.
  
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'''1934 STOCKEN FARM SOLD BY AUCTION.'''
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Research by Joan West taken from the deeds.
  
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1934.   Conveyance. Ernest Smith, son in law of William Saunders, purchased Stocken Farm for £3,225.   It still included the large field ‘Hillocks, but the smaller field to the north of Goodacres Lane was sold off separately.  (Purchased by George Hawes of Woodbyne Farm),    William Saunders had built a house there, also sold separately, called Hillcrest.  For more on Ernest Smith go to [[1919 Wedding of Daisy Saunders & Ernest Smith]] 
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'''The History'''
  
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'''''P.S'''.  (Ed. In 1911 William Saunders had paid £3,400 for Stocken Farm.  He had added the large field ‘Hillocks’.''  '' It'' ''sold, losing £175, 23 years later.''
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click [[1066-1827 Stocken Farm under the Lords of the Manor and Lord Cavendish]].
  
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'''''NOTE''''' ''  (Ed.   Using Stocken Farm as an example, the following figures show what a difficult times these were for farming.''
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click [[1621 Lease of Stocken Farm]] giving details of lease from the Lord of the Manor to Henry Lacey.
  
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''1878  sold for £8,250.   1934 sold for £3225.   Losing £5,025, even though 2 houses and a large field were added.''
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click [[1631 Lease of Stocken Farm]] a
  
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'''STOCKEN FARM IS LET'''
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click [[1632 Stocken Farm]] and [[1632 Stocken Farm Summary]]
  
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Ernest Smith had his own business to run, so in1934 he let Stocken Farm to Richard West. See [[Dick & Hilda West]].   A guarantor was necessary to secure the rent as so many were defaulting in these depressed times.
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click [[1649 Stocken Farm]] and
  
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In the 1939 Register (census) the occupants are recorded as Richard M West born 1911 general farmer, Hilda E West born 1910, his wife, 1 entry closed WW2, Fred Crook born 1881, father-in-law, assisting son-in-law, Marion Milchener born 1879,  sister of Fred Crook, Herbert Baer born 1919 Germany, trainee plumber.
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click [[8 December 1658 Stocken Farm]]
  
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'''LANDLORD’S IMPROVEMENTS'''
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click [[1658 Summary of 8 December 1658 Stocken Farm]]
  
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Over the past years the farm had had little or nothing spent on it, and had become somewhat run down.   The landlord now made useful improvements.
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click [[1683 Stocken Farm Lease]]  giving details of lease from the Lord of the Manor to William Lacey
  
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1.      The farmhouse and some fields were connected to mains water, just newly brought to the village.   This enabled milking cows to be kept.
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click [[1735 Stocken Farm]]. Lease from Henry Penton (Lord of the Manor) to Samuel Wade of Culverton.  
  
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2.      A building was converted into a cowshed
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click [[1735 Stocken Farm Summary of lease to Samuel Wade]]
  
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3.      In the house a bedroom was converted into a bathroom.
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click [[1827-1910 Stocken Farm with Charles Brown and John Forrest]]. Charles Brown lived at & farmed Stocken, John Forrest lived at [[Grymsdyke]].
  
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4.     Three years later in 1937, he had built, two cottages for farm staff in [[Kiln Lane]].   They were called 2 & 1 [[Coronation Cottages]].   This was later changed to 1 & 2 [[Stocken Cottages]].
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click [[1911-1934 William Saunders - farmer]] giving details of farming and family 
  
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'''WW2 AIRFIELD, STOCKEN FARM  reported by [[Doug Tilbury]]'''
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click [[1934-1948 Stocken Farm with landlord Ernest Smith and tenants Dick & Hilda West|1934-1948 Stocken Farm with landlord Ernest Smith and tenants Dick& Hilda West]]
  
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On Saturday June 6<sup>th</sup> 1944 at 6 pm, bulldozers arrived to make an airfield for Air Chief Marshall ‘[[Bomber’ Harris]], of [[Bomber Command]], [[Walters Ash]].   45 acres of the flat grazing land of the farm were to be taken.  The fields of the farm were bulldozed to make the airstrip.  The first plane took off three mornings later.   Two clumps of horse-chestnut trees and a clump of lime trees had been felled and [[Nanny Coopers pond]] was filled in.   A blister hanger was erected behind the school to house the American Stinson plane of Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris.  Local lads, including [[Gordon May]] used to help push the plane into the hangar.
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click [[Stocken Farm with Dick & Hilda West]] for the history of the farm from 1948 to 1960
  
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'Bomber' Harris ordered Andrew Oliver To inspect every Spitfire which came down in England.  He used Harris's private plane, to fly to the crash sites to see if the accident was due to a fault in the wood/ glue manufacture. 
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click [[Stocken Farm with R M West & Son]] from 1960 to  
  
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The next year they took a further 21acres, which this time, included the [[Sports field]], which was being leased from Dick West.   The farm had to reduce their breeding ewes and rent more land at Waldridge Farm.
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'''The articles called 'Stocken Farm Diary' were all printed in Hallmark - as follows :-'''
  
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'''1948 LANDLORD OFFERS TO SELL'''
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[[Stocken Farm Diary Part 1]] from July 1976 to May1986
  
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In 1948 The Landlord offered Stocken Farm, now 190 acres, including ‘Hillocks’ to Dick and Hilda West.   They were encouraged to buy, by [[Harry Floyd]], who was the grandson of William Saunders and been brought up in the house.   He had his own [[Floyds Farm]] but had been lodging with Dick and Hilda.   He lent them money, telling them it was an opportunity they must not miss.
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[[Stocken Farm Diary Part 2]] from Sept 1986 to Oct 1996
  
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'''DICK & HILDA WEST'''
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[[Stocken Farm Diary Part 3]] from Jan 1997 to June 2007
  
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Dick and Hilda West bought Stocken Farm in 1948.   WW2 had brought improved farming conditions and gradually they paid off their loan from Harry Floyd.   They were the owners of Stocken Farm
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[[Stocken Farm Diary Part 4]] from July 2007 to Oct 2017 
  
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In 1958, on leaving Harper Adams Agricultural College, Dick and Hilda's son John came home to join them
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Individual records not recorded above are as follows -   
  
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'''1958 EXTRA LAND LEASED'''
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click [[1911 Coronation Celebrations]] for programme of celebrations for King George V, 22nd June 1911 in Stocken Farm meadow   
  
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SEE under Properties.  Click [[Walters Ash Farm]]
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click [[1914 Royal Engineers at Stocken Farm]] for more details of WW1 training taking place   
  
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'''R.M.WEST and SON'''
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click 1915 [[Philip & Alice Pitcher]] for wedding photos taken at Stocken Farm   
  
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In 1960 a new partnership was formed, called ‘[[R. M. West and Son]]’.
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click [[1916 Horses taken by the Army]] by Mabel Janes.   Horses taken from a loaded wagon on its way to London     
  
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The name remained the same when John’s wife Joan joined the partnership.
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click 1917 Plane Lands in [[Stocken Farm]] Front Meadow.  The military seized the infant classroom from which to guard the aeroplane     
  
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The name remained the same when John and Joan’s son, Richard joined the partnership in 1991.
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click [[1919 Wedding of Daisy Saunders & Ernest Smith]].      
  
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The name remained the same when Richard’s wife Maxine joined the partnership.
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click [[1931 Douglas Brett in Lacey Green]] in which Douglas mentions catching mice to let loose at school   
  
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'''DICK WEST DOES NOT RETIRE'''
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click [[1931 Fete at Stocken Farm]] for a report of the occasion   
  
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In 1970 a new bungalow was built in Kiln Lane for Dick and Hilda.   John and Joan, who had been living in no 2 Coronation Cottages in Kiln Lane, needed a bigger house for their growing family.   A bungalow would also be much better for Hilda, who had a weak heart.   Dick, Hilda, Harry and Hilda’s father moved into the bungalow. John, Joan and their children Patricia, Caroline and Richard moved into Stocken Farmhouse.   Dick had not retired and still came every day to the farm.
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click [[1944 Stocken Farm Airfield]] by Doug Tilbury with photos   
  
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'''JOHN WEST DOES NOT RETIRE'''
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click 1944 [[Lacey Green Airfield]] by Doug Tilbury for more details of this airfield on Stocken Farm   
  
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In 2005 it became obvious that Richard and Maxine, with two children, needed more bedrooms than the ’Cowshed’ could provide.   Application was made and passed for a new house to be built on the [[Main Road]] for John and Joan.   They moved out of the farmhouse in February 2006, and Richard and Maxine moved into the farmhouse.   Maxine’s parents, Liz and Ed Phillips, moved into the ‘Cowshed’.   John did not retire and still came every day to the farm.
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click [[The Cricket Club]] for 1946 Air Ministry Letter to The Cricket Club renting land of Stocken Farm following WW2.    
  
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'''DEATH OF JOHN WEST'''
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click [[Stocken Farmhouse]]. John and Joan west, with three young children moved in in 1970.  They modernised & part restored the old house.     
  
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John West died in July 2010.   The partnership, R. M. West and Son, continues with Richard, Maxine and Joan.{{Property
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Latest revision as of 13:51, 11 November 2025

click Richard West reports Stocken Farm News from May 1919

click The Maize Maze 2003-2011 for this

click The Lords of the Manor of Princes Risborough for details.

click Manor Documents for list

click Farms for a list of other local farms

click Stocken Wood for history of this wood

click Farming pre 1823 for this era

click 1899 Modern transcript of 2 fields for the purchase of 'Hillocks' and a pasture field by William Saunders.

Research by Joan West taken from the deeds.

The History

click 1066-1827 Stocken Farm under the Lords of the Manor and Lord Cavendish.

click 1621 Lease of Stocken Farm giving details of lease from the Lord of the Manor to Henry Lacey.

click 1631 Lease of Stocken Farm a

click 1632 Stocken Farm and 1632 Stocken Farm Summary

click 1649 Stocken Farm and

click 8 December 1658 Stocken Farm

click 1658 Summary of 8 December 1658 Stocken Farm

click 1683 Stocken Farm Lease giving details of lease from the Lord of the Manor to William Lacey

click 1735 Stocken Farm. Lease from Henry Penton (Lord of the Manor) to Samuel Wade of Culverton.

click 1735 Stocken Farm Summary of lease to Samuel Wade

click 1827-1910 Stocken Farm with Charles Brown and John Forrest. Charles Brown lived at & farmed Stocken, John Forrest lived at Grymsdyke.

click 1911-1934 William Saunders - farmer giving details of farming and family

click 1934-1948 Stocken Farm with landlord Ernest Smith and tenants Dick& Hilda West

click Stocken Farm with Dick & Hilda West for the history of the farm from 1948 to 1960

click Stocken Farm with R M West & Son from 1960 to

The articles called 'Stocken Farm Diary' were all printed in Hallmark - as follows :-

Stocken Farm Diary Part 1 from July 1976 to May1986

Stocken Farm Diary Part 2 from Sept 1986 to Oct 1996

Stocken Farm Diary Part 3 from Jan 1997 to June 2007

Stocken Farm Diary Part 4 from July 2007 to Oct 2017

Individual records not recorded above are as follows -

click 1911 Coronation Celebrations for programme of celebrations for King George V, 22nd June 1911 in Stocken Farm meadow

click 1914 Royal Engineers at Stocken Farm for more details of WW1 training taking place

click 1915 Philip & Alice Pitcher for wedding photos taken at Stocken Farm

click 1916 Horses taken by the Army by Mabel Janes. Horses taken from a loaded wagon on its way to London

click 1917 Plane Lands in Stocken Farm Front Meadow. The military seized the infant classroom from which to guard the aeroplane

click 1919 Wedding of Daisy Saunders & Ernest Smith.

click 1931 Douglas Brett in Lacey Green in which Douglas mentions catching mice to let loose at school

click 1931 Fete at Stocken Farm for a report of the occasion

click 1944 Stocken Farm Airfield by Doug Tilbury with photos

click 1944 Lacey Green Airfield by Doug Tilbury for more details of this airfield on Stocken Farm

click The Cricket Club for 1946 Air Ministry Letter to The Cricket Club renting land of Stocken Farm following WW2.

click Stocken Farmhouse. John and Joan west, with three young children moved in in 1970. They modernised & part restored the old house.

Stocken Farm circa 1911
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