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Wisteria Cottage with Cobstone Windmill on the hill behind. Turville, Buckinghamshire

Part of a row of 17th century cottages facing the church.

 

The enormous leaning chimney is from a 'chair leg drying oven' according to British Listed Buildings. A reminder that the Chiltern Hills and their seemingly endless beech woodlands were the centre of the English wooden chair industry.

I should image that is a cottage of very low ceilings and challenging sloping floors!

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Uploaded on July 16, 2025
Taken on April 17, 2025