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The Almshouses Chenies; a postcard. The almshouses were created in 1605, and provided social care to individuals until they were pulled down in 1888. Photograph sourced from the Bucks Archives
The Almshouses Chenies, 1605 – 1888. Photograph sourced from the Bucks Archives
The Manor, c.1812
Around 1890, Chenies school children posed for the camera. Edward George Cocks was in charge and Mary Ballenger looked after the infants. Photo credit: Rose Maling, Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Young ladies of the village, in their Sunday best, c.1890-1900. From the collection of Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
The Royal Oak, c.1900s. Photo from the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Chenies Hill, the butcher’s boy making deliveries. Photo from the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Lady Cheney’s Walk From the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Green Street, c.1900s. From the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Village Green and Old Well, c.1900s. From the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Village Green, c.1900
Claypits Lane c 1900s
The Well c.1900s
Old Elms, c.1900s
The Green c. 1900s
Tudor Houses, the Green, c.1900 (numbers 28-29)
Tudor Cottages, the Green
Old Well Cottage c.1900s
Old Well Cottage. Tudor Cottages (Nos 42 and), Village Green, c.1900s. From the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Old Well Cottage, c.1900s
Old Well Cottage, postcard (likely dated later than the photograph, as the trees are missing and gardens are present).
Chenies looking towards Latimer c. 1900s
Plough Cottage and Red Lion, c1900s
Plough Cottage and Red Lion, c1900s
Red Lion Cottages, c.1900s
Chenies HIll c.1900s
Village Green, c,1900s
The Well/Pump c.1900s
The Green
The Old Goat
The Green
Chenies Cottages, c.1900s
Cottages
Chess River Bridge, Mill Farm near Dodd’s Mill, c.1900s
The Village
Chenies, Top of Hill
The home of the Dowager Duchess Adeline, Woodside (House) was once a boarding school. Photo from the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Chenies House, by the Church, was home to Algernon Wriothesley Russell in 1887. By 1910 Miss Russell lived there, and then Lady Blandford. Mr Kilby was the butler. The Army took over during World War II and the death watch beetle after that. Post-war, the house was demolished, and a modern home stands on the site today. Photo from the collection of Clive Birch. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Chenies House, by the Church, was home to Algernon Wriothesley Russell in 1887. By 1910 Miss Russell lived there, and then Lady Blandford. Mr Kilby was the butler. The Army took over during World War II and the death watch beetle after that. Post-war, the house was demolished, and a modern home stands on the site today.
Woodside House. Alf Foote and his wife, Milly, plus their son, Ted, pose in the Duchess’s grand tourer. Photo credit Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Chenies, The Triangle
A. & C. Black’s painting of Chenies tudor cottages c.1920, from the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
The Baptist Sunday School was well attended, as this forty-plus turnout witnessed c.1905, when Rev Fursdon was the minister. From the collection of Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
The Baptist Church. From the collection of Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Baptist Chapel
Chenies Bakery and tea rooms, once opposite the Rectory. From the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
The Chenies Cricket Team, c.1900s. From the collection of Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
In the bath chair was Rector Rev Shann’s wife, and pushing it was Annie Ayres (then Bastin), c.1910. Photograph by J. H. Croft, From the collection of Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Mrs Puddephatt stands before No 9, New Cottages. The Bedford coronet marks the date of the building, 1867. From the collection of Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
The 11th Duke fishing, c.1900s. Photo credit: Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Launched in the ’20s by Mesdames Wishart and Charles, Chenies WI. From the collection of Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Photo credit: Rose Maling. Chenies WI, c.1920s. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Christmas Week at Chenies, 1928
Under the Elms. 1926-42. From the National Archives Catalogue reference: INF 9/1113/5
The Village. 1926-42. Available from the National Archives, Catalogue reference: INF 9/1113/4
The Village Pump. 1926-42. Available from the National Archives, Catalogue reference: INF 9/1113/7
The Village. 1926-42. Available from the National Archives, Catalogue reference: INF 9/1113/8
Latimer Road, 1926-42. From the National Archives Catalogue reference: INF 9/1113/6
Old Well Cottage, 1926-42. From the National Archives Catalogue reference: INF 9/1113/3
Old Well Cottage, 1926-42. From the National Archives Catalogue reference: INF 9/1113/2
The Village Green, 1926-42. From the National Archives Catalogue reference: INF 9/1113/1
Cattle grazing in Bucks, nr. Chenies. 1926-42. From the National Archives Catalogue reference: INF 9/1023/2
Cattle grazing in Bucks, nr. Chenies, 1926-42. From the National Archives Catalogue reference: INF 9/1023/3
The Old Berkeley Coach passes Miss Glenister’s home c.1910. From the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Mill cottages, later Mill Farm, 1930s. Mrs Rose Maling holds her son Kenneth; beside her, sister Hilda Bastin; David Maling stands on the bridge with cousin John Bastin. Photo credit: Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Joe Bastin of Chenies ploughs on Old House Farm, 1930s. From the collection of Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Old Well Cottage, Village Green, Children Playing, c.1900s
Best Kept Village
The Old Berkeley Hunt, kennelled on Chorleywood Common, on the road past the Red Lion. From the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
The Hounds
Hunt Meeting Chenies
This happy crowd left for Portsmouth in the early ’30s. From the collection of Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
AFS Chenies & Latimer, 1939-45. Sam Beeson, Fimmy Atkins, Alf Holloway and George Hearn. From the collection of Rose Maling.
Service of Thanksgiving for the end of World War II in 1945
(possibly) Chenies School Jubilee Celebrations
Pightle construction school visit, 1950
Pupils of Chenies School laying bricks personalised to themselves in the wall of The Pightle in 1951
The Pightle 1951
The Green
White Hill Cottage
Great House Farm – The Buildings – 1954.
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Great House Farm – The House – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Mill Farm – Looking South-East – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Mill Farm – Looking North – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Mountwood Farm – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Great Greenstreet Farm – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Little Greenstreet Farm – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Newhouse Farm – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Lodge Farm – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Sarratt Mill House – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
The Bedford Arms Hotel – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Woodside House – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Chenies Lodge – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Chenies – The Hillside Cottages – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
59 Chenies – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
2-7 Chesham Road – 1954
Photograph from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Shep Whites, c.1900. From the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Shep Whites, 1950’s
Shep Whites, 1950’s. Tim Ashby with his parents and a friend after shooting on the mud flats.
Shep Whites, 1960’s
Dodd’s Mill on the River Chess
Dodd’s Mill. Removal of the Waterwheel, 1966. credit: John Mullett (photographer)
The Manor House. Photograph sourced from the Bucks Archives
Chenies Manor c1900. From the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
The Manor House c1900s
The Manor House
The Manor House
The Manor House
The Manor House and Old (Royal) Oak
The Manor House
The Manor House Undercroft. Photograph sourced from the Bucks Archives
St Michael’s Church. Coles of Watford, from the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
The Manor House and St Michael’s Church
The Manor House and St Michael’s Church
St Michael’s Church
Greathouse Farm
Greathouse Farm
Greathouse Farm
Greathouse Farm
Dodd’s Mill, photo from the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
Dodd’s Mill, with permission from the Bucks Archive
From the Crest of Chenies
The pre-fire Bedford Arms in the 1930s. From the collection of Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
The Bedford Arms
The Bedford Arms
The Bedford Arms
The Bedford Arms
The Post Office, nos 30 and 31. From the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
H. W. Wilson was once in charge and ran tea rooms in the third and final Post Office, between the two pubs. Sub Postmistress Miss Phipps kept things going in the sixties, and the facility finally closed in 1975. From the collection of Colin Seabright. Also the Old Village Shop. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
49 Field Cottage and Old Shop, Home Close
The Red Lion (middle), cottages (left) and Manse (right)
Red Lion Cottages
Red Lion and Cottages
The Red Lion
The Red Lion
The Red Lion by Coles of Watford. From the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
The Red Lion
The Red Lion
Mill Farm
Chenies Bottom
Chenies Valley, 1911, photo from the collection of Colin Seabright. Used with kind permission from Carolyn Birch.
chess river bridge woodside, 9
River Chess
The Baptist Chapel, c.1980s
Sources:
Chenies & Chorleywood in Camera by Clive Birch. Photos from the collections of Clive Birch, Colin Seabright and Rose Maling. Used with kind permission from his widow, Carolyn Birch.
Photos used with permission from the Bucks Archive
Photos used with permission from the National Archives Catalogue
Photos taken by John Mullett and used with the permission of the Mill Archive
Photos from the Chenies for Sale Catalogue
Photos from the collections of Paul Wood and Martin Walker, Tim Ashby
contributor: Andy Homewood, Sandy Homewood, Rachel Bishop, Martin Walker, Paul Wood
date published: 10/02/2026