Horsleys Green

Horsleys Green is a hamlet located on the A40 between Piddington and Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire, England. It consists of a few houses situated either side of a narrow lane.GeographyHorsleys Green is located about 2 miles east of the village of Stokenchurch, in a group of four hamlets either side of the A40 known collectively as 'Studley Green' - the other three hamlets are Beacon's Bottom, Studley Green and Waterend. It lies amongst woodland, within the Chiltern Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: to the north is Third's Wood, with Fillington Wood to the east and Watercroft Wood and Dell's Wood to the south.HistorySettlement at Horsleys Green dates back to at least the seventeenth century, with some of these properties, such as Old Beckings and Horsleys Green Manor, still in use today. It was originally known as Ostlers Green, which suggests there may have been stables connected with the settlement (Ostlers being an archaic word for stablemen). The Captains Pond, which was located at the north of the hamlet, continued to provide refreshment to the horses of travellers staying at the Harrow, a nearby public house. By the 1880s, the name had changed to Horslers Green, and later it became Horsleys Green.During the Second World War, a camp school for disabled evacuees from London was established in Horsleys Green, run by the government-formed National Camps Corporation. After the war, such camp schools were offered for sale, and ownership of the school at Horsleys Green passed into the hands of Lancashire County Council in 1947. From April of that year the Lancashire Education Committee ran an all-boys boarding school on the site. Initially, this school was known as Stokenchurch School, but the name changed to Horsley's Green School in 1950Alan Nixon has produced a book about the school that is available from www.lulu.com/lowton.