About Chenies
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The village sits in the very eastern part of south Buckinghamshire, near the border with Hertfordshire. It is situated to the east of Chesham and the Chalfonts. Until the 13th century, the village name was Isenhampstead. There were two villages here, called Isenhampstead Chenies and Isenhampstead Latimers, distinguished by the lords of the manors of those two places. In the 19th century the prefix was dropped and the two villages became known as Chenies and Latimer.
Chenies Manor House, is a Grade I listed building, known formerly as Chenies Palace, was owned by the Cheyne family who were granted the manorial rights in 1180. The current house was built around 1460 by Sir John Cheyne. His widow, Lady Agnes Cheyne, left the manor house in a contested will to her niece, Anne Semark, wife of Sir David Phelip in 1494.
Additions were made to the house in 1526 by 1st Earl of Bedford, and in 1560 it was restyled by Frances Russell 2nd Earl of Bedford, who had made it his principal home. Henry 8th was entertained here, as was Queen Elizabeth 1st in 1570. The manor remained in the possession of the Russells until 1954 and is now the Macleod Matthews family home.
The Manor is open to the public at limited times, being still used as a private house most of the time. It includes a medieval well, a dungeon and a reputed priest hole. In 2004 the British TV series, Time Team, undertook an archaeological dig here. It is noted for its surrounding gardens, including an extensive physic garden and two mazes (one open, the other with high hedges), set in an estate village overlooking the Chess valley.
The manor has been used many times in television programmes such as To Play the King and also Midsomer Murders. It has also been used for scenes in dramatizations of classic period novels such as by Jane Austen and more recently the TV serial Little Dorritt, based on the eponymouse book by Charls Dickens, in 2008.
The parish church of St Michael includes the Bedford Chapel, burial place of many notable members of the Russell family. The church is not of great architectural interest but stands in a delightful position in the Chess Valley near the manor house. "The fabulous series of monuments to the Russells, Dukes of Bedford, are according to the late Mrs. Esdaile one of the finest collections of tombs in England.
