River Chess Chenies
River Chess The Chess flows eastwards TQ 01579 98408 Posh village with posh school, mill, manor etc in posh countryside Post to the west Latimer Post to the east Chenies Bedford Close 2 Old Well Cottage. This is a 17th timber-framed building Chenies School. A school was held in the Rectory kitchen of the vicar, Lord Wriothesley Russell. 1831 to 1846. In 1845 The Duke of Bedford arranged for an Infant School to be built at what is now 49 Chenies and the following year some of the present school was built to educate the estate children. In 1887 the school was taken over by a School Board and in 1957 it was extended taking in many children of the staff at Latimer House. Chenies Bottom Mill leat. Parallel to the Chess is a broad channel built to provide a head of water to the Mill. Dodds Mill. A mill at Chenies is recorded as a fulling mill in 1324 and was the property of Missenden Abbey. It also appears to have been a corn mill. There was a John Dodd her...