_Castle Thorpe_[4], _Bucks._--A traditional rhyme is current at this place
which says that--
"If it hadn't been for Cobb-bush Hill,
Thorpe Castle would have stood there still."
or the last line, according to another version,--
"There would have been a castle at Thorpe still."
Now it appears from Lipscomb's _History_ of the county, that the castle was
demolished by Fulke de Brent about 1215; how then can this tradition be
explained?
Cobb-bush Hill, I am told, is more than half a mile from the village.