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STONOR, MAIDENSGROVE AND
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Overlooking
the hamlet is Stonor
Park, a landscaped deer park, and Stonor House which
has been the home of the Stonor family for more than eight
centuries. The
earliest part of the house dates from the 12th century,
whilst most of the house was built in the 14th century.
Historically Stonor has been a centre of Catholicism and
the Catholic Chapel at Stonor was used continuously through
the Reformation. Nearby is a 'pagan' stone circle. Behind
the main house, there is a walled garden in an Italianate
style.
From Stonor a single track lane leads up the hill through Maidensgrove and Russell's Water and meets the B481 just north of Cookley Green. The small hamlet of Maidensgrove could easily be missed as the houses are all off the road, mostly along a narrow winding lane which ends eventually at a farm and an entrance to the Warburg Nature Reserve. Maidensgrove is on the edge of the large area of common land known as Russell's Water and Maidensgrove Common.
The hamlet of Russell's Water too is on the edge of the large Russell's Water and Maidensgrove Common. A large pond complete with ducks gives Russell's Water its particular character, quite unusual I think for a village so high in the Chilterns. The pond featured in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and is where Truly Scrumptious drove her car more than once into the water.
Russels Water is about 6 miles north of Henley on Thames.
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