Caen Field Wood

Darvills Hill Wood, Caen Field Wood and Colway Wood belonged to the Manor of Princes Risborough.    In the Enclosures of 1823, the woods remained the  property of JOHN GRUBB Esq, the Lord of the Manor, remaining as part of the Parish Woodlands

1^st June 1841  John Grubb was bankrupt.   His estate was purchased Lord Buckingham and Chandos, who in 1848 also went bankrupt and his estate was put up for auction.

LOTS 14 and 15

1848  LOT 14   Darvills Hill Wood, which had been kept in hand (not tenanted) containing 21 acres, 3 roods & 14 perches and 3 gardens adjoining, 1 rood, 28 perches, let to Williams, Turner, Dell and others.

1848 LOT 15   Caen Field Wood and Colway Wood,also in hand, contained 22 acres,1 rood & 14 perches together with a Pightle and garden let to John Chilton and Widow Jones, containing 1 acre, 1 rood, 28 perches

1857   COMMUTATION of TITHES no. 3/152    (edited)    OWNERS JAMES STRATTON & JOSEPH LOOSLEY  

James Stratton of Princes Risborough, farmer, and Joseph Loosley of the same place, farmer, owned 47 acres, being Darvills Hill Wood and Cane Field, part of the Parish Woodlands of Princes Risborough, excempted from the Enclosures Award 1823.

JOHN CHESHIRE to SARAH FLOYD

1887  John Cheshire, miller, gave to his daughter Sarah Floyd, the wife of John Floyd,  land part of Darvills Hill Wood, containing 67 perches.   Bounded on the NW by Darvills Hill Wood and on the SE by the public road leading from Darvills Hill to Speen.  This piece of ground was late in the occupation of Cornelius Williams and now in the occupation of Mary Williams and George Brown, together with the messuage, now converted into 3 cottages, erected on the same piece of ground

1908 SARAH FLOYD SOLD TO HATT BROTHERS

January 1908 The hereditaments described in 1887, conveyed to by Sarah Floyd to Walter Joseph Hatt and Frederick James Hatt as tenants in common,