tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post6222552537764142978..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Cookham, Berkshire...and BuckinghamshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-29586552120535339112017-06-01T12:19:27.721+01:002017-06-01T12:19:27.721+01:00Luke: I'm not sure why the exclaves existed. I...Luke: I'm not sure why the exclaves existed. I think I read somewhere that they had existed for centuries as detached bits of hundreds (the next subdivision down from county, aka wapentakes, rapes, lathes, etc, the name varying in different counties) - but that only begs the further question, why were there detached bits of hundreds? <br /><br />A quick google reminds me that a lot of the exclaves were abolished in a tidying-up Act of Parliament of 1844, the Counties (Detached Parts) Act. Detached parts: dear me, there is something anatomical about that.<br /><br />Thank you so much for the tip about Hertfordshire House. I'll make a note of it. Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-69016995242253910722017-06-01T12:03:16.269+01:002017-06-01T12:03:16.269+01:00Philip: Many thanks. I will have a look. Do you kn...Philip: Many thanks. I will have a look. Do you know why the exclaves/enclaves existed? There’s also Ely Place in London, which I think belonged officially to the bishopric of Ely, although I need to check. But why would a small area of Buckinghamshire belong to Hertfordshire? <br /><br />By the way If you’re ever up that way, you can see Hertfordshire House from the road very clearly. There’s a small lane which meanders past it, with low hedging- between Penn and Coleshill. Rather lovely red-brick country house, I assume eighteenth century. Used to belong famously, to Laura, Duchess of Marlborough and features in her memoirs “Laughter in a Cloud”. There was a lead greyhound over the porch- copy of Prince Albert’s dog, Eos, at Osborne, but I think that’s now gone. Luke Honeyhttp://www.lukehoney.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-91149263977477544372017-06-01T09:21:50.207+01:002017-06-01T09:21:50.207+01:00Luke: Thank you for you comment. That's fascin...Luke: Thank you for you comment. That's fascinating about the bit of Herts deep inside Bucks - I didn't know about that one. A while back I did a post about one of the isolated bits of Worcestershire within Gloucestershire. Its <a href="http://englishbuildings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/on-a44.html" rel="nofollow">Here</a>, if my code for the link works - if not, search on this blog for Four Shire Stone. I call these isolated bits of counties exclaves, because they are outside their own county, but they are also enclaves too, looked at the other way: a bit like immigrants and emigrants. There were quite a few in the Glos/Worcs area, and they were tidied up in the 1930s, though some others may have been absorbed earlier, if I remember correctly. Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-48557785857951626642017-06-01T09:17:10.603+01:002017-06-01T09:17:10.603+01:00Joseph: Thank you (and for your photos). Traffic w...Joseph: Thank you (and for your photos). Traffic was plentiful - but I managed by getting into position and shooting in the gaps between cars. It took a few attempts to get a frame without any vehicles in it.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-10350873360960610202017-05-31T22:32:30.924+01:002017-05-31T22:32:30.924+01:00As ever, I enjoyed this post. It's fun to muse...As ever, I enjoyed this post. It's fun to muse over county boundaries, especially since the 1974 county boundary changes (or whenever it was)- so Slough, now, is in Berkshire and the Eton (which used to be Bucks) Thames county boundary with Windsor (Berkshire) is no more- I think, incidentally, the ancient border between Mercia and Wessex? <br /><br />Have you ever done a post on the old county enclaves? There's a small Georgian country house in Buckinghamshire, near Coleshill, called Hertfordshire House. The area around it used to be part of Hertfordshire (although deep inside Buckinghamshire) and I think that local criminals would escape there to evade the county sheriff who had no jurisdiction in Buckinghamshire. But I'm not sure when the detached enclaves were abolished. Any idea? <br /><br />Best wishes, LukeLuke Honeyhttp://www.lukehoney.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-51348191728945521132017-05-31T18:56:25.757+01:002017-05-31T18:56:25.757+01:00Once again I admire the angle and completeness of ...Once again I admire the angle and completeness of the photograph. No traffic! Did you have to wait long for that?Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.com