Welcome to Soulbury
Soulbury was in the Domesday Book of 1086, named ‘Soleberie’. It is an Anglo-Saxon name meaning ‘stronghold in a gully’. Quakers from Soulbury settled in Pennsylvania, America and named their new home, Solebury Township.
Liscombe Park is a 17th century mansion, originally belonging to the Lovett family. It was bought, and rebuilt, by the Bonsor family in the 1920s and they live there to this day. As a private residence, the property is not open to the public. The grounds are often the site for fairs and fetes.
In front of Lovett House, Chapel Hill, there is the Soulbury Boot. Local legend says it in fact the petrified foot of the devil, hence the name. It is a glacial erratic rock, which means a rock that was deposited from its original location, in this case from Derbyshire, by a glacier. It is said that Cromwell used the rock as a podium when the village church was under attack there during the English Civil War. The Boot pub is named after the stone.
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