The allotments and Hodding Wood make up some of the 14 acres of land originally donated for the benefit of the poor of the Village by John West. As a result of the amalgamation of local charities overseen by the Charity Commissioners, this land is now owned and administered by the Buckingham Almshouses and Welfare Charity. The Parish Council has a short lease of Hodding Wood and wishes to take ownership of the land, thereby returning it to the Village as intended by the original benefactor in the seventeenth century.