Monument record 0426300000 - CHENIES PARK

REFERENCES TO TWO PARKS Chenies; " ... here were two parks in the time of Leland; one is marked in Saxton's map but as neither are given by Speed we may suppose they were disparked before the reign of James I" (B1).
Leland describing the house of Chenies says "... there be about the house 2 parkes as I remember" (B2).
NO TRACE OF PARKS DURING FIELDWORK 1960. ESTATE PLAN OF 1735 SHOW 'PARK' ROAD NAMES WHICH SUGGEST THAT 2 PARKS LOCATED W AND SW RESPECTIVELY OF MANOR HOUSE (B3). There was a park here in 1335 when it was 60 acres in extent. The next reference we have found occurs in the 1530s when Leland mentions 2 parks which then belonged to the Russels, Earls of Bedford, who acquired the manor in 1526. Saxton shows a park here in 1574 but it does not appear on Speed's map of 1610 which may indicate that it was disparked shortly before that time (B4).


No trace of these parks found during fieldwork. Mr. MacLeod Matthews of Chenies Manor deduces from 'Park' road names on an Estate Plan of 1735 (photostat in his possession) that the two parks were situated due west and south-west respectively of the Manor House (B5).

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