Dry Hillocks

.DRY HILLOCKS

1823 Allotment

  In the Enclosures of Princes Risborough in 1823 a piece of land was allotted, freehold to Daniel Ginger, labourer, adjoining a garden already in his own possession.                  

2^nd November 1830.  Indenture

The above land, bounded on the east by Lacey Green Road, on the SW and N by land allotted in 1823 was sold by Daniel Ginger to William Ginger.

Cottage.  William Ginger built a cottage on this site

24^th March 1860.   Conveyance.

The above land and cottage recently erected, and occupied by William Ginger, was sold by William Ginger, labourer, to Miss Mary Ginger for £50.

August 1865

Mary Ginger married Jeptha Smith of Loosley Row, labourer.

23^rd March 1893.   Conveyance

The above ground, of 2 poles, part of the allotment to Daniel Ginger in 1823, and cottage, now tenanted by Edward Rixon, was sold by Jeptha Smith of Loosley Row and Mary his wife,  to Elizabeth Ward, the wife of Alfred Ward of Loosley Row, carpenter

1893

Elizabeth Ward gave the above property to her daughter and only child Mary Ann Allen

13^th July 1913   Marriage

Mary Ann Ward married with Henry Allen.   He took over being Loosley Row sub-postmaster from Mary Ann.

13^th October 1916   Conveyance

Mary Ann Allen sold to Noah Saunders of Manor Farm, Bradenham for £9 ?

Note

In the 1920s part of the land belonging to the Methodist Chapel was let to Mr Edwin Rixon, chair bodger, with his sons.   They erected a workshop there.   One morning a shaft had appeared in the night, some 8 feet in diameter and several feet deep.   Their chopping block had disappeared down it.   A tunnel went westwards from the bottom for a considerable distance.   It was concluded that it was an old chalk digging for agricultural use.   It was refilled.

5^th September 1958.   Covenant.    Between Peter Henry John Walker and Percy William Simmons, of the ‘Thatched House’, Main Road, Lacey Green.

To erect and maintain a 3 foot fence along the SE and SW boundaries of the plot.

The building became a garage for ‘The Thatched House’ which was further along the road.   It was later demolished.

2^nd December 1958    Conveyance

Percy William Simmons of 61 Lambert Road, Banstead, Surrey, instrument maker sold to Maurice James Saunders of 6 Greenlands, Lacey Green, builder, for £500

Schedule.

All that land frontage to Lacey Green Road of 73 feet with covenant to maintain boundary fence on SE and SW.

Note.   This was now bare land.   Maurice ‘Mosh’ and Trudy Saunders cleared the ground.   Trudy spoke of the amount of rubble from the old flint cottage on the site.   They built the house ‘Dry Hillocks’ on the site.   The site of the old cottage became the drive for ‘Dry Hillocks’

November 1962.   Conveyance

Dry Hillocks purchased by Mr and Mrs P L B Pilkington for £2500

1998 Owned by Mark Leonard Jenkins of 3 Deanfield Close, Saunderton.

Dry Hillocks
Construction Era	1950-1999
Type of Property	House, Land
Use of Property	Residential
Locations	Lacey Green