About Jordans
Jordans has about 200 households and 700 residents. It has had an association with Quakerism since the 17th century when the village became a centre for Quakerism. One of the oldest Friends meeting houses in the country are in the village. The cemetery of the house is the burial place of William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, as well as other notable Quakers. Close by the Quaker Meeting House is Old Jordans, originally a farm house, sold by the Quakers to Rivercrest Investments for development in March 2006.
Jordans Friends Meeting House was built in 1688 shortly after the Declaration of Indulgence. The meeting room retains most of its original brick, including the bare brick floor, glass, panelling and benches.
The Meeting House suffered a serious fire on 10 March 2005. The modern extension was virtually destroyed and the roof of the original 17th century meeting room was severely damaged. The interior of the original meeting room escaped relatively unscathed, although it did suffer some water and smoke damage.
Within the grounds of Old Jordan is the Mayflower Barn, said to be built from the timbers of the Mayflower ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to America. The Mayflower Barn is situated on the edge of the Chiltern Hills in the South Buckinghamshire countryside, about midway between London and Oxford, in the small village of Jordans.
The name of the farm appears to date back into the late Middle Ages. The known history of the farm begins in 1618 when Thomas Russell bought it. Part of the present farmhouse was already there, and Thomas Russell added to it in 1624. At the same time, he built a substantial new main barn with timbers from a ship called the "Mayflower", purchased from a shipbreaker's yard in Rotherhithe. In the 1920s the antiquarian J. Rendel Harris concluded after meticulous research that the Barn was built with the timbers of the same Mayflower that carried the Pilgrim Fathers from Plymouth to New England. The well preserved structure is a tourist attraction, receiving visitors each year from all over the world and particularly from the Americas.
The village has a number of notable residents, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have a mansion just outside the village, Bill Turnbull a BBC news anchorman, Justin Sullivan the songwriter was born in Jordans.
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