Tylers Green is a village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

of Chepping Wycombe,

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, England. The village is adjoined on one side by

Hazlemere Hazlemere is a large village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, northeast of High Wycombe on the A404 leading to Amersham, which intersects with the B474 at Hazlemere. To the north of the village is the hamlet of Holmer Green, whi ...

and on the other by Penn. "Penn and Tylers Green" are often referred to as one. Tylers Green centres on a village green where an annual

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is held. In one corner of the green is a duck pond. Artefacts have been found suggesting habitation in Penn and Tylers Green since the

Stone Age The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4,000 BC and 2,000 BC, with ...

. In the 12th Century, the village was known as Garretts Green. By the 14th Century, the name was changed to Tiler End Green as it became known for well-organized commercial tile workshops. The village is in the

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and from here there are many walks through

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woodland which once supplied the furniture industry in High Wycombe. The village has two schools, namely Tylers Green First School for children aged 4 - 7 and Tylers Green Middle School for children aged 7 - 11. It has its own football club, Penn & Tylers Green F. C, which was established in 1905. The

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of St Margaret was built in 1854 of flint and stone and is Grade II listed. The wooden bell-turret was added in 1891. The ashes of Arthur Whitten Brown, the navigator of the 1919 Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown, the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, are buried in St Margaret's churchyard. In 2006

Thames Valley Police Thames Valley Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the Thames Valley, covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. It the largest non-metropolitan police force in England and Wales, coverin ...

cordoned off the woodland between Tylers Green, Totteridge, Micklefield and

High Wycombe High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe ( ), is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England. Lying in the valley of the River Wye, Buckinghamshire, River Wye surrounded by the Chiltern Hills, it is west-northwest of Charing Cross in London, ...

(Kingswood) for a fingertip search for evidence linked to the

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. The woodland remained cordoned off for four months before being reopened in November 2006.Penn and Tylers Green News Website

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External links

Penn and Tylers Green village websitePenn and Tylers Green community websitePenn & Tylers Green Cricket Club
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