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Bedford Road |
Sherington Nurseries is a long established plant nursery (Bernard Crook Garden Sercvices Ltd). It was run for many years by the Peach Family, with an old cottage residence lying a long way back from the road. | |
Carisbrook House, has had mixed fortunes in its recent past. The original house was owned and lived in by the Peach family. The house was then bought by a Middle-East family. After major renovations the house boasted a swimming pool and central heating but the family never moved in. It then lay empty for a number of years, almost being completely destroyed by vandals. |
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Planning permission was granted to demolish the old structure and to build a new mansion in its place by its new owners during the period 1999 - 2003. In the January 1999 issue of SCAN, the "little bird" wrote... | |
Lookout Hill; a mound built on the site of the council road repair dump. This had always been a bit of an eyesore and a source of annoyance. Now it is a vantage point with views of the Ouse Valley, Newport Pagnell and a vista over Milton Keynes. | During the second world war this was also used by the Home Guard as a look out post to look for enemy activity. |
Across the field to the west of the lookout (and north of Chicheley Hill) is an abandoned Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post, a relic of the Cold War. It was in use from 1964 to 1991. |
Photos taken during the construction of the Mound. Click on the photo to view full size