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Walters Ash villagers save 100 year old tree from the chop

Residents are celebrating saving a beautiful 100-year-old oak tree from being felled as part of a nearby housing development.

Road closed in Naphill due to Affinity Water works

The amazing Bletchley Park codebreaker who lived in Naphill

Alfred Dillwyn Knox is not a widely recognised name, but his career as one of the UK’s leading cryptologists and codebreakers spanned some 30 years, and two world wars. For much of that time he lived in Naphill, and was a well-known and congenial figure in the locality. Dilly, as he was known, was born in Oxford on July 23 July, 1884, the fourth of six children of the Revd Edmund Arbuthnott Knox and his first wife, Ellen French. He went to Eton College as a King’s Scholar, became “Captain of School” and won the school’s main prize for mathematics. In 1903 he went to King’s College at Cambridge University, obtaining a first class degree of the classical tripos.

Fun and games for all during the 1950s

This largely unsung hero lived in Naphill from 1920 until his premature death in 1943. His home was Cournswood House in Clappins Lane, a house which since his death has been substantially modified and now provides office accommodation. So here we take a look at the social scene in Naphill in the 1950s: The cast of the play “The White Sheep of the Family” performed by Naphill Players at village hall, November 1954: BFP 02/04/2021 27 Page leader BFP68584 10 Members of Naphill Cricket Club and guests at the annual dinner of the club at the village hall, October 1954: BFP 02/04/2021 27 Page leader BFP72605 07 Some of the entrants in the fancy dress parade, one of the features of the fete held on the playing field, June 1954:

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