- Lacey Green
Infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Lacey Green
static_
static_image_caption= Lacey Green Windmill
latitude= 51.694203
longitude= -0.809818
civil_parish= Lacey Green
population = 2,413 [ [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792159&c=Lacey+Green&d=16&e=15&g=425262&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1216507051335&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census] ]
shire_district=Wycombe
shire_county=Buckinghamshire
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Aylesbury
post_town= PRINCES RISBOROUGH
postcode_district= HP27
postcode_area= HP
dial_code= 01844
os_grid_reference= SP8200Lacey Green is a
village andcivil parish withinWycombe district nearPrinces Risborough , inBuckinghamshire ,England . It is located in theChiltern Hills above the town.It was home to
Heston Blumenthal - whose parents used to own many local (to this area) amusement arcades. RAF Bomber Command commandeered some agricultural land for an airfield duringWorld War II . The land has now reverted to agriculture, the school playing field and the village sports ground. [ [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/laceygreen/airfield/index.htm Lacey Green Airfield] ]The village has lost its methodist chapel, shop and sub-post office but still retains a sports club, primary school, two pubs (three if you include The Pink and Lily at Parslow's Hillock), Village Hall and of course, the windmill.
The hamlet was known as Leasy Green in the early 19th century. It is twinned with
Hambye inFrance .The windmill
Dated to 1650 by leading authority
Stanley Freese , Lacey Green windmill is the oldest survivingsmock mill in England [ [http://www.laceygreenwindmill.org.uk/ Lacey Green Windmill website] ] and was restored from a state of almost total collapse by volunteers under the auspices of theChiltern Society . Though it is widely believed that the mill was originally sited in nearbyChesham and moved to Lacey Green in 1821, no primary sources have been found to substantiate this and the Chiltern Society has been unable to trace the story beyond 1932 [ [http://www.chilternsociety.org.uk/content/about-LaceyWind.htm Information of Lacey Green windmill at the Chiltern Society] .] A somewhat speculative theory to perhaps explain the story's origin has been advanced by Michael Highfield, author of the Chiltern Society's guide to the mill. He recounts a conversation with a 96 year old lady who had lived in the area all her life and remembered being chased away from "Cheshums Mill" as a child. The Mill had been in the Cheshire family since the 1860s and was sometimes referred to locally as Cheshire's mill, applying the Buckinghamshire dialect possessive suffix 'ums', Cheshire's becomes Cheshums! [cite book|author=Highfield, M|title=Lacey Green Windmill|publisher=The Chiltern Society|year=2003]References
External links
* [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/laceygreen/index.htm Walks near, and general details of, Lacey Green]
* [http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=704 Details of the windmill]
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