Monument record 0703900000 - Penn Street

Conservation Area designated in 1992 (B1).
Penn Street, which is a hamlet of Penn and an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1850 out of the civil parishes of Penn and Little Missenden, lies about 2 miles north of Penn and contains 1,900 acres. The village is large and straggling and lies in one of the beautiful beech woods which cover the surrounding heights. This large wood called Penn Wood, contains in addition to beech many fine oak and ash trees. The church stands a little distance from the road with the woods stretching behind it. The vicarage, a modern building, lies opposite. The road leads past a group of small cottages, two of which, Ivy Cottage and the Forge, formerly forming one house, are of the 17th century, and turns south-east to Penn Street Farm and Penn House. The church of Holy Trinity, erected in 1849, is a cruciform building of flint and stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and central tower with spire containing three bells. It was restored in 1900 at the expense of Earl Howe (B2).
'Pen Street' and later 'Penn Street' is marked on OS maps from 1812 onwards (B3).