As a long established House Clearance and Probate Valuation Company based in Aylesbury we are able to provide our services anywhere within 20 miles of the HP20 postcode area.
The majority of our work is by recommendation, and we have been carrying out probate valuation work and house clearances in Aylesbury for many years. By reputation, and as a local company, we are regularly instructed by solicitors, executors and private clients to carry out all types of probate valuations and house clearance.
After valuing the contents and chattels of an estate for probate purposes, we are able to clear the house of furniture, personal effects and all residual contents, and arrange for items to be sent to auction, delivered to a location of your choice, donated to charity, recycled, or where necessary, disposed of, leaving it ready for sale or transfer to a landlord.
We also carry out house clearances in circumstances where there is no probate valuation involved.
We specialise in clearing large heavily furnished, cluttered or neglected properties possibly the result of ill health or compulsive hoarding (OCD). After receiving your instruction we can clear your property quickly and methodically, and during the process retain any personal items, documents or concealed valuables for your examination. Our experienced staff will make the whole process easy and stress free, even if you are organising the clearance from another part of the country or overseas.
We provide our own closed vehicles, (contents not visible externally, so as to ensure privacy) to clear away all household contents. Parking permits are arranged and included in all our quotes. Our aim is to assist you fully by taking care of the entire job from start to finish.
If you need a Valuation for Probate or a House Clearance in Aylesbury Call us now on 0800 567 7769.
For free advice and more detailed information contact Jeff Avery.
Our initial consultation and all our quotations are free and without obligation.
Private, trade or solicitors references provided on request.
Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire in south east England. In the 2001 census the Aylesbury Urban Area[1], which includes Bierton, Fairford Leys, Stoke Mandeville and Watermead, had a population of 69,021, which included 56,392 for the Aylesbury civil parish.
The town name is of Old English origin. Excavations in the town centre in 1985 found an Iron Age hillfort dating from around 650BC. The town is sited on an outcrop of Portlandian limestone which accounts for its prominent position in the surrounding landscape, which is largely clay. Aylesbury was a major market town in Anglo-Saxon times, famous in addition as the burial place of Saint Osyth, whose shrine attracted pilgrims. The Early English parish church of St. Mary (with many later additions) may be built over the remains of a Saxon crypt. At the Conquest, the king took the manor of Aylesbury for himself, and it is listed as a royal manor in the Domesday Book, 1086.
Market Square, Aylesbury.In 1450 a religious institution called the Guild of St Mary was founded in Aylesbury by John Kemp, Archbishop of York. Known popularly as the Guild of Our Lady it became a meeting place for local dignitaries and a hotbed of political intrigue. The Guild was influential in the final outcome of the Wars of the Roses. Its premises at the Chantry in Church Street, Aylesbury, are still there, though today the site is occupied mainly by almshouses.
Aylesbury was declared the county town of Buckinghamshire in 1529 by King Henry VIII: Aylesbury Manor was among the many properties belonging to Thomas Boleyn the father of Anne Boleyn and it is rumoured that the change was made by the king in order to curry favour with the holders of the manor. (Previously the county town of Buckinghamshire was Buckingham).
Statue of John Hampden in Aylesbury's Market SquareThe town played a large part in the English Civil War when it became a stronghold for the Parliamentarian forces, like many market towns a nursing-ground of Puritan sentiment. Its proximity to Great Hampden, home of John Hampden has made of Hampden a local hero: his silhouette is on the emblem used by Aylesbury Vale District Council and his statue stands prominently in the town centre. Aylesbury born composer, Rutland Boughton (1878-1960), possibly inspired by the statue of John Hampden, created a symphony based on Oliver Cromwell.
The Jacobean mansion of Hartwell nearby was the residence of Louis XVIII during his exile (1810 – 1814). Bourbon Street in Aylesbury is named after the King. Louis's wife, Marie Josephine of Savoy died at Hartwell in 1810 and is buried in the churchyard there. She is the only French Queen to be buried on English soil. The town's heraldic crest is the Aylesbury duck, which has been bred here since the birth of the Industrial Revolution.
The town also received international publicity in the 1960s when the culprits responsible for the Great Train Robbery were tried at Aylesbury Crown Court. The robbery took place at Bridego Bridge, a railway bridge at Ledburn, about six miles (10 km) from the town. The 7 July 2005 Piccadilly Line bomber Germaine Lindsay's home was in Aylesbury at the time of the bombings, though he was originally from Jamaica.
A notable institution is Aylesbury Grammar School, which was founded in 1598; other grammar schools now include Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School and Aylesbury High School. Other notable buildings are the King's Head Inn, which with the Fleece Inn at Bretforton is one of the few public houses in the country owned by the National Trust still run as a public house, and the Queens Park Centre, the UK's largest independent arts centre.
Chequers, the country residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1921, is just south-east of Aylesbury.
James Henry Govier the British painter and etcher resided at Aylesbury and produced a number of works relating to the town including the church, canal, Walton, Aylesbury Gaol, The King's Head and views of the town during the 1940s and 1950s, examples of which can be seen in the county museum in Aylesbury. Govier was born at Oakley, and was the etching demonstrator at The Royal College of Art.
The interesting facts on this page about Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 were derived from Wikipedia
Hidden London is also a useful source of information about most parts of Greater London.
Probate valuations (also known as valuation for probate) and house clearance services in London and SE England
Call us for more information on estate probate valuation, and house clearance, (including the clearing of very large properties with years of accumulated possessions): (24hrs) 0800 567 7769