Kingswood Farm

Kingswood Farm, Highwood Bottom (or Speen Bottom) was land cleared out of Kings Wood, part of the Parish Woods of the Manor of Princes Risborough.

13th July 1903 CONVEYANCE. Thomas Parsons Esq.of Princes Risborough had lately agreed to sell Kings Wood Farm to George Cowdray Welch of High Wycombe, draper, for £675. George Cowdray Welch now agreed to sell Kings Wood Farm to George Hawes of Lacey Green, chairmaker, for £700. All that Farm House,buildings, lands & hereditaments at Speen, also the tithes or tenths of the same. The schedule of lands comprised-----

Ord no (1899 edition) Description Acres 361 House, garden,yard & entrance 0.747

360 Paddock in front of house 1.200

373 Field west of house 21.796

372 Field east of house 27.636 TOTAL 51.379 acres

6th Oct 1936 CONVEYANCE George Hawes of Woodbine or Woodbyne Farm, Lacey Green, farmer, sold Kingswood Farm, Speen to Randoph John Wood of Red House Farm, Speen, farmer. for £650. All that farm house, outbuildings, lands and hereditaments, Speen, was parish of Princes Risborough now Lacey Green. known as Kingswood Farm. The schedule of land comprised----51.379 acres as at conveyance of 13th July 1903.

7th Oct. 1938 TENANCY AGREEMENT between Randolf John Wood of Red House Farm, Speen, Lacey Green, farmer (the landlord) and Eric George Drayson of "Newstead",Chalfont St Peter, meat inspector (the tenant) and Laurence Burke of Hayes, Mddx, deputy chief sanitary inspector (the surety). All that parcel of land comprising 10 acres, (ord.no.1921 edition) 361, 0.882 acres, 373e 5.772 acres, 373b 2,871 acres, together with the Farm Cottage and farm buildings erected thereon, being part of Kingswood Farm,Speen, together with the Right of Way in common with the landlord & others over the entrance track and through the rickyard at the rear of the buildings. Also reserving unto the landlord all minerals, stones, gravel, trees and underwoods.

The agreement stated- "The tenancy shall start on 8th Oct.1938 for 363 days. If continued further should the landlord desire to resume occupation before 7 years he shall give one years notice to quit of 29th Sept. of any year.before 1946 without being liable for compensation for disturbance.

The rent shall be £32.2.0 p.a; payable in advance by fortnightly installments of £1-7s-6d.

The tenant agreed to 1, Pay the rent on time; 2. Keep the premises in good repair,(after first being put in repair by the Landlord); 3. To keep fences in repair to keep stock in: 4. Not to let the premises or use as a market garden; 5. To farm the premises as a Pig and Poultry Farm, not to convert to tillage and not to mow the land twice in one year or two years in succession; 6. To keep the hedges brushed and trimmed and to lay those as need to be done at the proper season of the year; 7. To keep the ditches clean and free from obstruction, 8. To destroy rabbits, moles, and other vermin, to level mole-hills, to prevent docks, thistles, nettles and other noxious weeds from running to seed and preserve from injury all trees and underwood.

NOTE ADDED on edge of document. In the event of war being declared or breaking out the tenant agrees that the landlord mat at any time thereafter resume occupation of such of the farm buildings as he may require, writing abatement of rent.

31st Oct. 1941 TENANCY AGREEMENT between Randolf John Wood of Red House Farm, Speen, Lacey Green, farmer & UEric George Drayson, meat inspector. for part Kingswood Farm, Speen. for 2 parcels of land. Ord,no.(1921 ed) part 361 part 373e & part 373b.

17th June 1942. CONVEYANCE Randolph John Wood of Red House Farm, Speen, farmer sold to Arthur John Drayson of Kingswood Farm, Speen, farmer for £1000, Kingswood Farm. All that farm house, outbuildings, land & hereditaments Situate in Speen, formerly in the parish of Princes Risborough but now of Lacey Green. The schedule of 51.379 acres as given below.

28th March 1951. Arthur John Drayson sold Kingswood Farm to Denys Charles Tuckett of Burr Cottage, Horsell, Woking for £4,450. Comprising - All that farmhouse, Speen, formerly in the parish of Princes Risborough, now of Lacey Green.

Schedule

Ord No, 1921 edition Description Acreage

361 House, garden, yard, & entrance 0.882

360 Paddock in front of the house 1.065

372b Field east of the house 2.329

372c ditto 6.034

372 ditto 12.732

372a ditto 6.541

373b Field west of house 2.871

373e ditto 5.772

373a ditto 6.315

373 ditto 6.838 TOTAL 51.379 acres

1st Oct. 1956 CONVEYANCE Denys Charles Tuckett of Kingswood Farm, Lacey Green, farmer sold Kingswood Farm to Frank Malcolm Allen-Armitage of Chadwell Farm, Stoke Hammond, farmer for £5,000. All that farmhouse, outbuildings, lands & hereditaments. The schedule of land as that of 1942.