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'''The local bodgers worked in Hampden Woods''', after the Parish Woodlands in Loosley Row, Lacey Green and Speen had been felled. A very few small pockets of trees still survived but they were privately owned. | '''The local bodgers worked in Hampden Woods''', after the Parish Woodlands in Loosley Row, Lacey Green and Speen had been felled. A very few small pockets of trees still survived but they were privately owned. | ||
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Revision as of 16:27, 17 August 2024
The bodgers made legs and spindles for backs of Windsor Chairs for which High Wycombe became a famous centre - the chairs mostly being marketed through Windsor.
The local bodgers worked in Hampden Woods, after the Parish Woodlands in Loosley Row, Lacey Green and Speen had been felled. A very few small pockets of trees still survived but they were privately owned.
At Great Hampden the estate owned acres of farmed woodlands with its own sawmill.
