Wellingtonia 114

Spotted from the car park of the Denham Grove hotel and captured just inside the entrance to the Tilehouse of Tilehouse Lane.

One of a number of similar houses along the lane, most of them with a decent number of mature trees, presumably a good deal older than the houses. With a truly massive concrete yard for a chunk of the HS2 just a few yards further up the road. That is to say, a little to the north. But more of that in due course.

In the meantime, from the Scottish National Library, the original Tile House, presumably the planter of the trees. More detail to be found at reference 2, from which I learn that for a while the house was owned by a Drummond of the banking Drummonds. Burned down and completely demolished in the 1950s to make way for the hotel.

Tilehouse Lane - past and present - runs up between Great Halings Wood and Northmoor Hill Wood, lower right in the map above.

Notice also the Union and Rural District boundary running across the top - where the Union bit was recently parsed at reference 3.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/09/wellingtonia-113.html.

Reference 2: https://bucksgardenstrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Denham_Grove.pdf.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/08/church-one.html.

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