Whitchurch, Bucks
A wooden Millenium sign, showing the church of St James. Carved by a local craftsman, the sign was erected on New Years Day 2000.
Whitchurch (one of nearly a dozen villages so-named in the UK) is a small, but surprising village with several springs one of which, ‘Fair Alice Spring’, rises out from beneath the site of the old castle and has never been known to dry up. It joins up with other local streams and once powered a 26 feet diameter water wheel. The community web site (link below) has a descriptive walk around the village’s highlights.
During the Second World War a large house in the village, The Firs, housed the secret Ministry of Defence department MD1, known as Winston Churchill’s ‘toyshop’. Over 250 staff developed and produced 26 different types of weapons here.
Whitchurch Community web site
Whitchurch on Wikipedia
Whitchurch Genealogy
Whitchurch, OS Grid ref: SP 801 209
John Wilson wrote,
The Church is St Johns not St James. The local craftsman is Trevor Adams. Nice photo!
Link | April 8th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Alan S wrote,
Many thanks for the correction!
Link | April 9th, 2009 at 6:52 am
John Stroud wrote,
I worked at the Firs Whitchurch when it was the HQ of the Oral Health Care company Oral-B in 1977
Link | May 22nd, 2010 at 10:20 am
Moonpig wrote,
I go to the school and i am in year 6
Link | November 24th, 2010 at 8:07 pm