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Two new Buckinghamshire Papers published
31 January 2009

Two new papers just out, on Disraeli and Wilkes, see Publications

New BAS Buildings Group formed
27 July 2008

The Society is in the process of forming an interest group for those wanting to get involved in recording Buckinghamshire buildings. Commencing in September, a series of hands-on workshops will be held at Aylesbury with other sessions at outside venues around the county.

Update January 2009 For more information see the Historic Buildings Group section of the web site

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Quarrendon chapel in the
nineteenth century
A future for Quarrendon at last!

11 February 2008

The Society is delighted that Buckinghamshire County Council has decided to step in to ensure the future of this splendid site, an extensive scheduled ancient monument shortly to be surrounded by new housing and roads. The County is to set up a trust which will eventually take on management of the site for public benefit.

Many members will remember the Society’s longstanding concern that Quarrendon should be properly looked after once it becomes detached from the agricultural land it adjoins at present, but found little immediate support locally from the leader of Aylesbury Vale District Council, within whose area the site lies, who described it first as ‘a pile of old stones’ and more recently as ‘a load of old bricks’… The old stones and old bricks are the remains of the medieval chapel of St Peter’s, Quarrendon which stands roughly at the centre of an amazing, historically-rich landscape that includes: the holloways and house platforms of the deserted medieval village of Quarrendon, a moated site which probably enclosed the house of Sir Henry Lee - one of Queen Elizabeth 1st most favoured courtiers, banks and ditches which define the landscaped water-features of his garden, and finally, a well-preserved Tudor rabbit warren, from which there are open views towards Aylesbury town. The whole is described in detail by Paul Everson in Records of Bucks 41 (2001) and see ‘Projects’ this website.

There is little doubt that the open day at Quarrendon run by the Society in September 2006 with the help of many local organisations, when 500 people visited the normally inaccessible site during a single afternoon, helped raise local awareness of its importance.

An important first step has been taken but the proposed trust will need plenty of support in order to achieve its objectives of preserving the site, making it accessible and ensuring that its wildlife potential is fully realised for the benefit of all.
 
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