Iron Beech Cottage
From Lacey Green History
The Black Hedge was the original parish boundary separating the parishes of Princes and Monks Risborough and that it was recorded in the Anglo Saxon Charter in about AD 975. This would make it one of the earliest recorded hedges in England.
Today the mound on which the blackthorns were planted and the ditch from which the soil was extracted is still in evidence all along the footpath that runs from Iron Beech Cottage, on the edge of Grymsdyke, to the boundary of Speen. click The Black Hedge for more about the hedge
Leonard Oakford born 1908 married Edith M Adams in 1949. Leonard died at Iron Beech Cottage, Lily Bottom. Speen, in March 1987 Probate under £40,000