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Goodwins to whom it had been granted in 1623 near the village of Upper Winchendon, and at the e vale to Waddesdon. Its gardens and kennels were timber. Lodge Hill was outside the boundaries o middle ages a monastery flourished close to the v fishponds. Since the days of the famous Duchess, ‘ except on one occasion, when the grandfather of t church was reopened after its restoration. Having thereafter for the grist it brought to the mill, and - roadsides was encroached upon and built over; foc of which, however, there being then no Parish Cc cut up the farms into small fields, and felled most all of which I have replanted, were ruthlessly cut « would have gone with the rest had I not stepped 1 Of the house of the Whartons only a wing of the works on Lodge Hill, and is now occupied by from Aylesbury to Thame has been constructed p mansion on the old site: The gardens, which m: disappeared, and, when I first saw them, were cov indescribably repulsive appearance. Nestling in the wood and fronting Lodge Hil It was said to have once been a kind of Rosamo deeming her secure there from the jealous eyes