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ABOUT WOODROW - Activities - Conference - Facilities COMMUNITY - Woodrow swim school - Facilities - Camp site - Woodrow Astronomical Society CONTACT - Details BULLETIN
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History
The house was built in early 17th Century during the reign of King Charles 1st and was owned and occupied by the Drake family. During the civil war the Chiltern Hills became strategically important to parliament for the defence of London. The Royalists held Oxfordshire and the West Country. It was during this period the Oliver Cromwell first occupied Woodrow High House with his wife and daughters. It is known that he left from the house and dined at the Griffin in Amersham prior to meeting the King's commissioners at Uxbridge early in February 1645. The meeting broke down and the war was resumed to end on June 14th in the final defeat of King Charles 1st at Naseby. The Green Lady Fugitive from the fateful battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. Sir Peter Bostock sought refuge at Woodrow High House, the home of his beloved, Lady Helena Stanhope. Lady Helena hid him in the dark, remote grotto where the low ropes course now stands. Whilst taking food to him she unwittingly disclosed his whereabouts and there he was killed. Distraught with grief she fled back to the house and took her own life. She stills pays periodic visits to both the house and grotto in the form of the Green Lady. In 1909 the house was sold to Sir Nigel and Lady Campbell who lived here with their family and servants until the end of the 2nd World War. During the war a school, evacuated from Portsmouth, occupied the house. In 1945 a livery company called the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths bought Woodrow High House and gifted it to the London Federation of Boys Clubs, recently renamed the Federation of London Youth Clubs.
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