# Ley Hill > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ley_Hill > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ley_Hill.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Hill > Source revision: 1309447436 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Village in Buckinghamshire, England Human settlement in England Ley Hill Village sign and brazier Ley Hill Location within Buckinghamshire OS grid reference SP9901 East Civil parish Latimer and Ley Hill Unitary authority Buckinghamshire Ceremonial county Buckinghamshire Region South East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town CHESHAM Postcode district HP5 Dialling code 01494 Police Thames Valley Fire Buckinghamshire Ambulance South Central UK Parliament Chesham & Amersham List of places UK England Buckinghamshire 51°42′00″N 0°33′54″W / 51.700°N 0.565°W / 51.700; -0.565 **Ley Hill** is a Chiltern village on the [Buckinghamshire](/source/Buckinghamshire)/[Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire) border in south-east England, near the town of [Chesham](/source/Chesham). It is part of the [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) of [Latimer and Ley Hill](/source/Latimer_and_Ley_Hill), and comes under [Chiltern District Council](/source/Chiltern_District_Council) in the County of [Buckinghamshire](/source/Buckinghamshire). Ley Hill lies in the [Chiltern Hills](/source/Chiltern_Hills) and is contiguous with [Botley](/source/Botley%2C_Buckinghamshire). ## The Common The village has a large common, which is used by Chesham and Ley Hill Golf Club and Ley Hill Cricket Club. Golf has been played on the Common since about 1900. In 2000 a village sign was hung up on the Common which incorporates an owl as the unofficial village emblem. ## Pubs The Swan and The Crown There are two [pubs](/source/Pub) on the Common called The Swan and The Crown that both serve food. The Swan was built in about 1520, and takes its name from the symbol of the county of Buckinghamshire. In 1680, the timber-framed building consisted of three cottages with five extensions, oak-beamed ceilings and pillars, a kitchen range and an inglenook fireplace. It is reputedly one of the oldest pubs in Buckinghamshire. During the Second World War, the 'snug' was used as a sub-post office. Clark Gable and James Stewart were frequent visitors during World War II, and signed photographs were displayed in the bar for many years. They cycled from Bovingdon airbase. Further down Botley Road is also the Hen and Chickens pub. The former Five Bells pub in Tylers Hill has been closed for many years and has been converted into a private dwelling. ## Churches The first church in Ley Hill was the Baptist church which dates back to meetings in 1786. The Chapel was built in 1833, as a branch of the Lower Baptist Church in Chesham (now Trinity Baptist), and it closed in 1908 when the people joined the Methodist church. A Methodist society was first registered in February 1841 as part of the Primitive Methodist tradition and used to meet in local houses. It was started by the Rev Thomas Green from the Rickmansworth Mission, and has ever since been linked with Methodist churches in West Hertfordshire. The first chapel was built in 1846. The current chapel on the Green which was built in 1887 with 11 Trustees, and the land was given by Lord Chesham. Today the church has an evangelical congregation of all ages, with activities for young and old. The village has an [Anglican](/source/Anglican) Church called [St George](/source/St_George)'s at Tyler's Hill which was built in 1871. The Bangay Rooms, named after Miss [Bessie Bangay](/source/Bessie_Bangay), an active member of the church from 1910 until her death in 1987, are the location of the local Brownie meetings. Miss Bessie Bangay was one of the first female Anglican lay readers in England (called [Bishop's Messengers](/source/Bishop's_Messengers)). When she was licensed in 1917, she used to run a branch of the church at the Black Cat pub in [Lye Green](/source/Lye_Green). ## School In the Victorian era most people around Latimer and Ley Hill worked for the Cavendish family of Latimer House. Mrs Catherine Cavendish (from 1858 called Lady Chesham) arranged for schools to be built at Latimer, Flaunden and Ley Hill. The school at Ley Hill was built at the back of the Common in 1847, using local brick and knapped flint. The schools were known as “Lady Chesham’s Schools”. The first schoolhouse in Ley Hill was built in 1847 for local girls, and Latimer School was for boys. Boys were admitted to Ley Hill School from 1888. This former school was behind the Common and in the building called "The Old Schoolhouse", in School Lane. The current school building was built in 1927. [Ley Hill School](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ley_Hill_School&action=edit&redlink=1) is a primary school for boys and girls up to the age of eleven when they take the 11+ examination. ## Sport Most of the village common is used as a 9-hole golf course by Chesham & Ley Hill Golf Club. The common was given over to golf by Lord Chesham in 1900. Ley Hill Cricket Club is a village-standard club competing in the Mid Bucks League. The club has four senior sides, as well as junior sides from Under 9s upwards. In 2006 the club became the first in Buckinghamshire to receive Clubmark accreditation. ## Local industries Local industries include [agriculture](/source/Agriculture) and [brick](/source/Brick)-making. Historically the village also had tile making and pottery, which are remembered in the local names of Tyler's Hill and Kiln Lane. In the mid-1980s an extensive late medieval tile kiln (approx 1400) was found while excavating an extension in Joiners Close. Dunton's brickworks manufactured bricks until 2013. ## References - Gavin Darvell "John Wilson – Fact or Fiction" - Neil Rees "The Life of a Village Chapel – The History of Ley Hill Methodist Church", published 1987 - Sheila Hart & Neil Rees "The Church by the Woods - St Georges Church, Tylers Hill near Chesham" published 2011 (These booklets are available from Chesham Library.) ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Ley Hill](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ley_Hill). - [Ley Hill website](http://www.leyhill.info/) - [Ley Hill Methodist Church](http://www.leyhill.org/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070712063159/http://www.leyhill.org/) 12 July 2007 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) - [Latimer and Ley Hill Parish Council](https://web.archive.org/web/20140131091641/http://www.latimerleyhill.org/) - [Ley Hill School](http://www.leyhill.bucks.sch.uk/) - [The Swan, Ley Hill](https://archive.today/20130203073958/http://www.swan-ley-hill.com/) - [The Crown, Ley Hill](http://www.thecrownleyhill.co.uk/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100512112212/http://www.thecrownleyhill.co.uk/) 12 May 2010 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) - [Ley Hill Cricket Club](http://www.lhcc.org/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20060104011552/http://www.lhcc.org/) 4 January 2006 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) - [Chesham & Ley Hill Golf Club](http://www.cheshamgolf.co.uk/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20061028015117/http://www.cheshamgolf.co.uk/) 28 October 2006 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) - [St George's Church](http://www.greatchesham.org.uk/StGeorges/stgeorgemain.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20061021153139/http://www.greatchesham.org.uk/StGeorges/stgeorgemain.html) 21 October 2006 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) v t e Chiltern (former district) Buckinghamshire Unitary Council elections County Council elections District Council elections Chesham and Amersham Constituency Towns (component areas and hamlets) Amersham Woodrow Chesham Asheridge Vale Botley Chesham Vale Chessmount Codmore Great Hivings Hilltop Loundes Lye Green Newtown Pednormead End Pond Park Townsend Waterside Other civil parishes (component villages and hamlets) Ashley Green Ashley Green Whelpley Hill Chalfont St Giles Bottrells Close Chalfont Grove Chalfont St Giles Jordans Stratton Chase Chalfont St Peter Austenwood Chalfont Common Layters Green Chartridge Asheridge Bellingdon Chartridge Hundridge Pednor Pednor Bottom Chenies Chesham Bois Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards Buckland Common Cholesbury Hawridge St Leonards Coleshill Great Missenden Ballinger Ballinger Bottom Ballinger Common Bryant's Bottom Frith-hill Great Missenden Heath End Hotley Bottom Hyde End Little Wood Corner Mobwell Prestwood South Heath Latimer and Ley Hill Latimer Ley Hill Orchard Leigh Tyler's Hill Little Chalfont Little Missenden Beamond End Holmer Green Hyde Heath Little Kingshill Little Missenden Mantles Green Mop End Spurlands End Penn Beacon Hill Forty Green Knotty Green Penn Penn Bottom Penn Street Winchmore Hill Seer Green The Lee Lee Clump Lee Common Lee Gate Hunt's Green Potter Row Swan Bottom The Lee Former districts and boroughs Amersham Rural District Chesham Urban District Former constituencies Buckinghamshire County Constituency Amersham Constituency List of parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire List of places in Buckinghamshire List of civil parishes in Buckinghamshire --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ley Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Hill) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Hill?action=history)). 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