Forty Green, Marlow
| Forty Green | |
| Buckinghamshire | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU8386 |
| Location: | 51°34’18"N, -0°47’33"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Marlow |
| Postcode: | SL7 |
| Dialling code: | 01628 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Buckinghamshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Wycombe |
Forty Green is a small hamlet in mainly undeveloped agricultural countryside on the west side of Marlow in Buckinghamshire. It is barely marked on maps as Marlow's western edges reach out to meet it along Forty Green Drive.
The Forty Green Preservation Society, formed in 1984, has ensured that Forty Green, previously designated an Area of Attractive Landscape has been classified as green belt with designated use as agricultural land. Such has been the pressure for development that a speculator managed to sell a number of plots for development without planning permission in an entirely fictional "King's Estate", prompting the council to take the extraordinary step of erecting signs warning any visitor thinking of the same idea that the land is unsuited to development.