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The Camp in Bulstrode Park

By A. C.

Is there any published account of this camp having been opened? It is well worth the examination of a competent antiquary.... It is not even alluded to in Mr. Jesse's *Favourite Haunts*, nor does that gentleman appear to have visited the interesting village of "Hedgerley" (anciently *Hugely*), or Jordans, the Quakers' Meeting-house, and burial-place of Penn, between Beaconsfield and Chalfont. Chalfont was anciently written Chalfhunt, and is by the natives still called Charff[)u]nt; and Hunt is a very common surname in this parish: there was, however, Tobias Chalfont, Rector of Giston, who died…

Topics: Antiquarian Studies, Genealogy, Historical Customs

Locations: Bulstrode Park, Hedgerley, Jordans, Beaconsfield, Chalfont, Giston, Oak End