BUCKINGHAMSHIRE - 1899

DIRECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. PRINCE, RISBOROUGH. 145

PBESTWOOD is It village and ecclesiastical parish, a Maltese cross, was erected in 1863 near to Ronor
l.ormed .!.pz·i} 9th., 1852, out of portions of Great Mis- End farm, and bears the following inscription:-
spnden, Hughenden and! a. detached portion of St-oke
Mandeville parishes, 2l miles north-west from Great "' For these lands in Stoke Mandeville
Missenden station on the Metropolitan Extension rail-
way, II south from Aylesbury, 4! north from Wycombe, John Hampden
4! south-east from Princes Risborough, in the Mid divi- was assessed 20S.. ship money, levied by command of
sion of the county, petty sessional division of Desborough
2nd division, hundreds of Brands Fee and Desborough, the King without authority of law, 4th August, 1635.
unions of Wycombe- and Amersham, county court dis- By resisting this claim of the King, in legal strife, he>
.ricts of Wycombe and Chesham, rural deanery of upheld the rights of the people under the law, and
Aylesbury, archdeaconry of Buckingham and dioeesl' of became entitled! to grateful remembrance. His work
Qxford: the houses are very scattered and nearly all
.at modern construction. The church of the Holy Trinity, on earth ended after the conflict in Chalgrove. field,.
.erected by subscription at a cost of £1,400, and con- the 18th of Jun~, 1643,
secrated and opened for divine service in 1849, is an
edifice of flint with stone dressings in the Decorated And he rests in Great Hampden church."
style, and consists of chancel, clereiitoried nave of three
bays, aisles, small vestry, south porch and an open The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in lace making
western turret containing one bell; the chancel 'was and chair turning. Denner Hill stone is dug here.
raised and enlarged in 1885 at a cost of £300, defrayed
almost entirely by the Rev. Harry Morland Wells B.A. Lord Dormer, who is lord olJ the manor, Arthur LaseIlJby
vicar 1873-92: the stained east window was presented, Liberty esq D.L. of The Lee, Gt. Missenden, and William
at a cost of £85, by Mrs. Busk, of Codicote, and there Henry Trafford esq. of Brundall house, Norwich. are the
are two others, one in the chancel and another in the principal landowners. The soil is principally clay, with
'lIorth aisle, erected to the memory of his mother (d.
1857) by the Rev. Thomas Evetts, first incumbent of some loam andl flints; subsoil, chalk. 'fhe chief crops
this church, 1849-63: the chancel rail originally be- are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 2,II3 acres;
longed to the church of Little Gidding, Hunts: there
are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year the population in 1891 was 958.
1850. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £80, Great Kingshill, in the civil parish of Hughenden,
with 33 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of
Coningsby Ralph Disraeli esq. M.P., D.L., J.P. and held is partly included in this parish.
-since 1892 by the Rev. John William Watney Booth M.A.
of Pembroke College, Oxford. The Baptist chapel, rebuilt Sexton, Thomas Cummings.
in 1870, is a small edifice of flint and brick, seating Post Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Grover, sub-postmistress.
250 persons. The Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1863, will
seat 130; and the Primitive Methodist chapel at Le-tters by foot messenger from Great Missenden
'Eryant's Bottom, built in 1871, has 120 sittings. The
Hampden memorial, a plain stone, surmounted by R.S.O. arrive about 8.30 & 11.45 a.m.; dispatched at;
8.5 & II.40 a.m. & 4.50 p.m. we~k days; on sun-
days at 1.30 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but
not paid. Great Missenden is the nearest money order

& telegraph office, 3 miles distant
Wall Letter Boxes, Chequers P.H. cleared at 8 & 11.30

I,a.m. & 4.45 p.m. week days; 1.20 p.m. sundays; &

Royal Oak, Great Kingshill, cleared at .5. p.m. & at
Cross Roads at 10 a.m. & 5.50 p.m. week days only
National School (mixed), built in 1849 & enlarged in
188o; it will now hold 94 children; average attend-
ance, 94; ·Wm. Henry Pitt, master; M1sos Boddy, mist
Carrier to London.-Alfred Tompkins, wednesday morn-
ing, returns thursday

PRE8TW00D. Groom Herbert, baker Stevens Cornelius, butcher

'Booth Rev. John William Watney M.A. Groom Solomon, shopkpr. & brick ma Taylor Charles, Traveller's Rest P.II.

Vicarage Grover Bros. farmers, Post office & chair turner

"Bovill Mrs Hannell Charles, pheasant breeder Tompkins Alfred, higgler & carrier
Clarke Mrs. The Roses
Hildreth Benjamin, blacksmith Tomkins John, chair turner

"Gardner Allan Cameron,The Chestnuts Hildreth Geo.blacksmth. Knives lane Ward Thos.King's Head P.R. assist.

Hannell Mrs. The Firs Honor Hy. shopkpr. Bryant's bottom overseer for Hughenden & surveyor

Hawes Mrs. Mill house Humphrey William, Gate P.H. Wright Oliver, fruit dlr. & shopkeeper

Hayward Thomas Bryant's bottom Wright Waiter, chair turner

Humphreys Thomas Ives Ellen (Mrs.), chair turner Wright William, wheelwright
Pitkin Alfred, Whitehouse J enning William, chair turner

Way Hy.Edward Hugh, Prestwood Idg Mason George, farmer & chair turner GREAT KINGSHILL.

lVilliams A. E. Stoney Green hall Mason Harry, farmer, Hampden farm (Letters are delivered through High
Nash David, farmer, Nanfans farm )
Adams FrankC, ObMeM~rERreCtI.AL&. chair turnr. Page Richard, farmer, Atkins' farm Wycombe.

Denner hill Parsons George, beer retailer, wheel- Groom Alfred, baker •
llabb George, baker
Bedford Daniel, farmer, Nives farm wright & builder Janes George, chair turner

Redrup Charles, farmer Janes Peter, wheelwright

Beeson Mrs. farmer, Warren farm Saunders Jabez, farmer, Denner hill Leslie George, farmer

Clark Samuel, farmer Sewell John Morley, Polecat r.H Nash John, beer retailer

Clark William, farmer, Moat farm Sills Joseph, George P.H Phillips James, beer retailer

Cox Ruth (Mrs.), Chequers P.H. &; Smith Alfred, stone cutter Purssell Richd.frmr. Niney Wood frm

chair turner Smith George, farmer, Denner hill Simmonds William, Royal Oak P.H
Davis Arthur, farmer, Denner hill Stevens Alfred, cowkeeper West Albert, shopkeeper & haulier

PRINCES RIS:BOROUGH is a. parish and market in the south aisle are four recessed canopies, once
enclosing tombs, an aumbry and a. piscina niche: a.
town, with a: station about i of a mile west on the window of three lancet lights, with elegant columns of
Purbeck marble, has been filled with stained glass at
'Maidenhead and Aylesbury section of the Great West-ern
railway, which is also the junction of branches to the cost of Mr. F. Barraud: in 1892 an organ was erected,
at a cost of £320, and a new oak lectern and a litany
Watlington and Oxford, and is 37 miles from London by
~ad, 42! miles by Great Western railway, 8 north-llorth- desk were provided in 1898 by the rector: in 1867-8 the
west from High Wycombe, 8i south from Aylesbury, 6~ church was enlarged and thoroughly restored at a cost of

east-by-south from Thame and I1! south-west from upwards of £2,200, under the direetion of Sir .A. W.

Tring, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and Blomfield A;R.A. architect, of London: there are 410 sit-
petty sessional division of Aylesbury, union and county tings. The registers date from the year 1561, but during
court district of High WycomJ:>e, rural deanery of Ayles- the period of the Commonwealth there are no entries.
bury, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of The living, formerly a perpetual curacy, was declared a-
Oxford; the town is lighted with gas by a. company
rectory February 25th, 1868, under the" Church District
formed in 1865 and supplied with water from springs.
Tithes Act," 1865 (28 and 29 Vict. C. 42), net yearly value
The new line about (1899) to be constructed by the £196, with residence, erected in 1865-6, in the gift of th&
Great Central Railway Oompany from near Quainton Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Josiah
Road to High Wycombe, will pass through the town. Mander. The Baptist chapel, in Bell street, erected in
17°7, is a plain edifice, seating 600, and has a small burial
The church of St. Mary, built in the reign of Henry ground attached to it and a residence for the minister

VII. is an edifice of stone and flint, consisting of chancel, adjoining. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel, in Station
road, built in 1869, is of brick ~md will seat 100. The
clerestoried nave of seven bays, aisles, south porch and Mission hall, on the Aylesbury road, and the property of

a western tower, with octagonal spire, 100 feet in T. Parsons esq. is an iron str?cture, .built in 1870,.and
will seat 360 persons. The Princes Rlsborough Agrlcul-
'height, and containing 2 bells and a clock: the present
spire replaces (me which fell in 18°3, MdJ greatly BUCKS. 10

damaged the fabric: the sacrarium is laid with mosaic
pavement, the gift of Capt. Jones, of Gerrard's Cross:

146 PRINCES RISBOROUGH• BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [KELLY'B

• tagenet, Earl of Cornwall and Count of Poitou, hi. •
eldest brother, and it was held by his son, Edmund.
tural Association holds a show every year of roots an<l Earl of Cornwall, until his death, at Ashridge Abbey,
vegetables, and there is also an annual dinner in the I Oct. 1300, when it reverted to the Crown and was
month of October, held alternately at the Cross Keys and settled in dower on Queen Margaret; the rector h~
George hotels. The Literary Institute and Reading Room, in his keeping an iron chest containing several very
in the High street, the gift of Lord Rothsehild. was interesting documents, including a mutilated copy ~j
opened in 1891. The Market House was built by John letters dated June 12th~ 1597, under the great seal ot
Grubb esq. a former lord of the manor, and has a clock Elizabeth: the charter granting immunity to Princes
erected by the subscription of the inhabitants. Fairs are Risborough from serving on juries and paying tolls,
held annually on the 6th of May (St. John the Evangelist dated 39th year of Queen Elizabeth (1598), is now in
ante Portam Latinam) and on the 21st of October. A the possession of Mr. George Stratton of High Street.
market is held on Thursday for corn and cattle. The Lord Rothschild, Leonard Jacques esq. of Horsenden, the-
charities include £40, left by William Smith in 1616 Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, Georg&
for the poor; £13 yearly by Mrs. Chibnall, in 1646; Stratton esq. and Miss Farrer are the chief landowners.
£100 by Thomas Meade, of Princes Risborough, in 1783, and there are many smaller owners. The soil is very
for apprenticing poor children; a portion of an estate variable, but generally light and chalky on the hills; OD
left by Mrs. Katherine Pye, of Bradenham, in 1733, for the lowlands loamy, some parts strong clay; subsoil, chalk
the education chiefly of children here and at Hughenden, and clay. The chief crops on the light lands are barley,
Bradenham, Towerseyand West Wycombe, but also for oats and turnips; low lands, wheat, beans and barley.
the relief of six poor widows; one nomination to Christ's The area is 4,693 acres of land and 4 of water; assessable-
HQspital, left by Richard Stratton in 1772; a meadow, value £9,263; the population in the civil parish in 1891
(including the ecclesiastical parishes of Lacey Green,
bequeathed by Mrs. Elizabeth Eustace, in 1784, to Loosley Row and Speen) was 2,318, and of the eeclesias.
provide "lots of linen" for the poor; an allotment of tical, 1,269.
30 ,perches to provide funds for repairs to the
chtirch '; and 40 acres granted to the poor in lieu of LONGW'ICK is a hamlet 2 mil~ north-west, neal"
common rights; the total sum amounts to about £36 the Icknield way, and has Baptist and WesleyaD
yearly. Several trenches and banks, on the west side chapels. A Church of England service is conducted iD
of the churchyard, called "The Mount," and inclosed the schoolroom on Sundays.
with a moat are popularly supposed to be the site of
a palace of Edward the Black Prince, but called by the Sexton, John Barnard Bailey, Church street.
Rev. F. Wise RD. the antiquary, a Saxon camp. Henry
Ill. gave the lordship of Risborough to Richard Plan-

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIQ,NS &;c.

Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel PUBLIO OFFIOERS.

Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Market pI. Assistant Overseer, John R Bailey, Church street
(Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O. Bucks added.- Assessors & Collectors of Taxes, Thomas Parsons, Lion
Samuel Adcock, postmaster. Letters arrive from Tring
by mail cart at 6.45 a.m. & a direct mail from London brewery &; John B. Bailey
by rail at 10 a.m. & 7,.3° p.m.; dispatched H.40 a.m. &; Certifying Factory Surgeon, Frank Spencer Watson
6 & 6.45 p.m. via Oxford week days; on sundays arrive
at 6.45 a.m. only; dispatched at 4 p.m M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond. Chiltern house
Wall Letter Box, at Parkfield, cleared at 10.25 a.m. &; Medical Officer &; Public Vaccinator, 5th District, Wy,
5.35 p.m.; sundays, 8,45 a.m
Wall Letter Box, Longwick, cleared at 7.35 a.m. & 5.15 combe Union,Joseph Bayle McKayM.D.,M.Ch.MarketpI
p.m. week days only Registrar of Births &; Deaths, Princes Risborough Sub-Dis-

OOUNTY MAGISTRATES trict &; Relieving &; Vaccination Officer, No. 3 District,
Wycombe Union &; School Attendance Officer, Harry
George Wood, 2 Hampden villas
Sanitary-Inspector to Wycombe Rural District Council.

Acting for Princes Risborough Division of the Petty Ses- John Pope Fordom, Parkfield cottage

sional Division of three hundreds of Aylesbury. PLACES OF WORSffiP, with times of Services.
Jaques Leonard esq. Horsendon house, Princes Ris-
St. Mary's Church, Rev. Josiah Mander, reetor; 10.30
borough S.O. chairman a.m. &; 6 p.m
Buckinghamshire Earl of D.L. Hampden house, Great
School Chapel, Longwick; 3 p.m
Missenden R.S.O Baptist, Bell street, Rev. John Hawley Markham; 10.30
Forrest John esq. Grimsdyke, Lacey Green, Princes
a.m. & 6 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m
Risborough S.O Baptist, Longwick; 2.30 & 6 p.m
Gibson-Craig Henry Vivian esq. lAdy Mede, Little Wesleyan, Station road; 3 & 6 p.m
Wesleyan, Longwick; 2.30 &; 6 p.m
Kimble, Tring Mission Hall, Aylesbury road
Griffin James Whitehouse esq. Towersey manor,Thame
Hewett Maj. John Maddy Moore, Uplands, Hughenden,

High Wycombe SCHOOLS.
Wykeham Philip James Digby esq. D.L. Tythrop ho.
National (mixed), erected in 1841, for 140 children;
Thame average attendance, 84; James W. Royston A.a.p.
master; Mrs. Royston, mistress
Clerk to the Magistrates, Fredk. B. Parrott, Aylesbury

Petty sessions held monthly on the third thursday at British (mixed), erected in 1836, for 139 children; aver-

the Literary Institute, High street, at H. The age attendance, 90; AIDos Mellers, master

places in the division are :-Askett, Ellesborough, National, Longwick, erected in 1874, for 100 children;

Great Kimble, Kimblewick, Lacey Green, Little Kim- average attendance, 8o; Charles Oswald Ayres, master

ble, Longwick, Loosley Row, Marsh, Meadle, Monks Railway Station.
Risborough, Owlswick, Princes Risborough &; Speen
Great Western Railway, Frederick John Buckland, station

PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. master; John William Dover (exors. of), agents

Assembly Rooms &; Lecture Hall, High street, Herbert CARRIERS TO : -
Robert Button, proprietor

Inland Revenue Office, George inn, Alphonso Ball, Ayles- Aylesbury-William Coles, from his house, to I Hull's

bury, supervisor; officer, John Eckersley, Wellingtonia. Head,' wed. &; sat

Princes Risborough London-Absolom Lacey, passes through on thurs. for

Literary Institute &; Reading Room, High street, Charles I The Lamb,' Old Bailey

Bloss, soo Thame-William Coles, from his house, to I Cross Keys:

Princes Risborough Agricultural A.ssociation, W. G. Hum- tues

phreys, Owlswick manor Wycombe-William Coles, from his house, to CThreq

Volunteer Fire Brigade, Geo. Stratton, captain, &; II men I Tuns,' mono &; fri

PRINCES RISBOROUGH.

PlUVATE USID:BNTS. Clark Mrs. High street Farrar Miss, High street
Dell Mrs. Bell ,street Grange Mrs. Bell street
Barlow Mrs, Bardolph villa. King Mrs. Wardrobe9
Bell John, 5 Hampden villas East John, Manor farm
Benning Mrs. High street East Thomas, Culverton Looseley J oseph, High stree~
Burch Mrs. High street East Timothy, Ohurch street
Chilton Allan GeclTgp, Parkhurst East William, Chestnut villa Mander Rev. Josiah (rector) .
Eggle,ton Mrs. Aylesbury road Markham Rev. John Hawley (Baptist),

The Manse

DIRECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. PRINCES RISBOROUGH• 147

. Watson Frank Spencer, Chiltern ho
\Vhite Mrs. The Chilterns
McKay Joseph Boyle M.D. Market pI Shelton Mrs. The Butts lVilliams Mrs. Berryfield house

Meecham Alfred J oseph, Parkfield Silsby Mrs. Aylesbury road

Pearce Mrs. High street Stratton George, High street

Philps Miss, High street

COMMERCIAL. Hopcroft 1Yilliam, baker, Duke street
Horwood Alfred, corn dealer, High street

Adcock Samuel, grocer &; stationer, Post office,Market pI Jackman William Edward, butcher, Duke street

Assembly Rooms & Lecture Hall (Herbert Robert Button, Jacobs George, cycle maker, High street

proprietor), High street Jacobs James, blacksmith, Duke street

Ayres Charles, grocer &c. High street Jacobs William, blacksmith, High street

Bailey John Barnard, assistant overseer, sexton & asses- Jor,es George, draper, High street

sor & collector of taxes, Church street Lacey George, builder & ironmonger, Duke street

Bailey Maria (Miss), dress maker, Church street Law Edwin, beer retailer, Church end

Bailey Thomas, grocer & provision dealer, Bell street Literary Institute & Reading Room (Charles Bloss, sec.),

Baldwin Richard, higgler, Church street High street

Barnard Emma & Rebecca (Misses), dress mas.Market pI Mansbridge Henry, Rising Sun P.H. Church street

Barnard Edward, builder, Hampden villas Maunders ·Wm. manager at Lion brewery, Market place

Batting John, builder, High street McKay Joseph Boyle M.D., M.Ch. surgeon to Oddfel1ows'

Beisly George, carpenter, New road &Bledlow Friendly Societies, & medical referee to Pru-

Benning William, dairyman, Station road dential Assurance Co. &;. medical officer & public vac-

Benyon Frederick, wheelwright, Bell street • cinator, 5th district, Wyeombe union & medical officer
Bloss Charles, clothier & draper, Duke street to the Union schools, Bledlow, Market place

Brown David, gardener, High street Morris Thomas, Crown P.H."'&--boot & shoe maker,Duke st

BUITJWS J. Cross Keys P.B. High ~treet Nash John, White Hart P.H. High street

Busby Charles, plumber & glazier, Duke street National Agricultural Union, Princes Risborough &; Dis-

Bushby Henry, butcher, 6 Hampden villas trict (branch)

Button Herbert Robert, George hotel, High street Nottingham Henry, boot maker, Duke street

Callam Emma (Mrs.), dress maker, Hampden villas Oakley Alfred, boot maker, Parkfield

Capital & Counties Bank Limited (sub-branch), High st. ; Parsons Thomas, brewer, wine & spirit merchant &;

draw on head office, 39 Threadneedle st. London E 0 assessor & collector of taxes, Lion brewery

Oarey Matthew, coal merchant, High street Pearce Anne (Mrs.), dress maker, High street

Castle Joseph Farrington, boot & shoe maker, High st Princes Risborough Agricultural Association (W. G.

Chester James, baker & Gonfectioner, High street Humphreys, OwIswick manor, sec)

Chilton Allan George (late Benjamin Chilton), hay &; Princes Riilborough Volunteer Fire Brigade (George-

straw merchant & cake & manure merchant, Parkhurst Stratton, captain)

Chilton Jabez, hay, straw &; manure merchant, Ayles- Purssell Ernest Albert, farmer, Alscot farm

bury road Ridley Horace, chemist & stationer, & agent for W. &; A•.

Clarke Edward, clerk at brewery, Brewery house Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit merchants, Market place

Coles William, carrier & beer retailer, High street Roberts Daniel, insurance agent, Parkfield

Cook D. W. farmer, Market place Roger!: Giles, hairdresser, Duke street

Darvill Annie (Miss), baker, High street Rogers Herbert, farmer, High street

Dorsett George, grocer, Bell street Rogers Luke, beer retailer, Parkfield

Dover John William (exors of), Railway hotel &; coal Royston J ames W. schoolmaster, The Butts

merchants, Station Rutland Henry James, Buckingham Arms P.H. Duke st

East John, farmer, Manor farm Saw Alfred Albert, Black Prince P.B. Parkfield

East Thomas, miller, Calverton mill Short Edgar, Wheat Sheaf hotel, Market place

East Timothy, coal merchant &; hide &; skin dealer, Silsby William, miller (steam & water), Park mill &;:

Church street Saunderton mill

East Wm. M.R.C.V.S. veterinary surgeon, Aylesbury I'd Society for the Protection of Property (Arthur Ives,sec)

Eckersley John, inland revenue officer, Wellingtonia Smith Ellis James, beer retailer, Parkfield

Edmonds Frederick, Pink &; Lily P.B. Parslow's Hillock Thompson Simeon, farmer, Summerly's farm

Eggleton Joseph (Mrs.), farmer, Culverton Tilbury John, pheasant breeder, Pink & Lily

Eggleton Mrs. farmer, Wardrobes Watson Frank Spencer M.R.C.S.Eng. & L.S.A.Lond..

Floyd James, nurseryman, High street surgeon &; certifying factory surgeon, High street

Floyd Thomas, nurseryman &; seedsman, 3 Hampden vils West Jane (Mrs.), White Lion P.H. High street

Fordom John Pope, inspector of nuisances, Wycombe 'West, Owen, baker, High street

rural District Council, Parkfield cottage Weston &; Co. drapers & grocers, High street

Foster George, tailor, Bell street Wheeler Thomas & Co. bankers, now The Capital & Coun-

Gas Light & Coke Co. Limited (George Lane, manager); ties Bank Limited

offices, Literary Institute White Thomas Henry, hay &; straw salesman & manure

Gomme Sa1'8h & Sons, ironfounders &; cake merchant, The Chilterns

Gower Joseph, china & glass warehouse &; furniture Williams Arthur, hay & straw nealer, High street

dealer, High street Williams Harriet (Mrs.), apartments, 4 Hampden villas

Gregory Jeremiah, farmer, Lily Bottom Wood Harry George, registrar of births & deaths for

Hagmaier Joseph Lewis, Bell inn P.H. Bell street Princes Risborough sub-district (Wycombe) &; relieving
Harris William, saddler & harness maker, Market place & vaccination officer No. 3 district, Wycombe union et,

Hickman Herbert, greengrocer, High street school attendance officer, 2 Hampden villas

Hill William, butcher, High street Woods Albert, shoe maker

Hillsden George, shopkeeper, Duke street Wright Thomas, jeweller, BeImont house

Hopcroft Job, tailor, High street Wright Thomas, plumber &; glazier, Market place

LONGWICK.

COMMERCIAL. Goodchild Ebenezer, farmer Smith Thomas, farmer, Anderton frm

Goodchild In.watercress grwr.&; farmr Smith William, farmer, Rag farm

Bass George, farmer Goodchild Thos. frmr. & mrkt. gardnr Stratford Frederick, poultry breeder

Bass James, farmer Hayhurst Stephen, White Horse P.R Walker James, wheelwright, black-

Bass Joseph, faMller Kingham James, farmer smith, timber merchant &; farmer

Claydon John Thomas, grocer Paine Edwin, miller (water), Long- Walker Maria. (Mrs.), Sportsman'~

Claydon Thomas, grocer wick mill ArmS! P.H

Foster George,Duke of Wellington P.H Pauling Leonard, farmer Webb George, beer retailer

Fry Edward, Red Lion P.H Rogers Fre"derick Jehu, beer retailer White Thomas, farmer

QUAINTON, or, as it was originally called "Quain- of the Great Central Railway from Nottingham to Lon-
ton Mallett," including the hamlets of Shipton Lee, don runs also with the Metropolitan Extension: Quain-
Denham and Doddershall, is a township and large and ton is 4 miles north-west from Aylesbnry, in the Mid
widely scattered village and parish, with a. station called division of the county, hundred of Ashenden, Winslow
"Quainton Road» on the Metropolitan Extension rail- petty sessional division, union and county court district of
way, I mile south-west from the Tillage, from which Aylesbury, rural deanery of Claydon, archdeaconry of
there is a tramway to Wotton and Brill: The new line Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St.

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148 QUAI~TO~. BUCKI~GHA~1SHIRE. [KELLY'S

Mary is a building of stone in mixed styles, consisting of and there are other educational charities amounting in
chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, vestry, south porch, the aggregate to £60, beside £3 a year for bread. In
and an embattled western tower with turret containing a the village, at the north end of the square, are the re-
clock and 5 bells with chimes: in the chancel is a monu- mains of an ancient stone cross, consisting of a portion
ment to the learned Orientalist, Richard Brett RD. one of the shaft, on a square base, elevate<1 on three steps.
of the translators of the Bible in 16°4, and rector here Doddershall House, the residence of Captain WiIIiam
from 1595 until his death, 15th April, 1637: there is also
a magnificent tomb with effigy to Robert Dormer, a Rarvey Pigott R.N., J.P. has been the seat of the Pigott
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, d. 18 Sep. 1726;
two other figures, life-size, one standing and the other family trom the year 15°3; the mansion is an ancient
Kneeling, are respectively at the head and foot of the structure, seated in a park of 120 acres and com~anding
tomb: there are brasses, in excellent preservation, to a beautiful view of the surrounding country. The prin-
John Spence M.A. rector, 1845; and one with demi- cipal landowners are the President and Fellows of Corpus
effigy to J ohane Plessi, 136o: in the vestry is a finely Christi college, Oxford, A. Mead esq. Mrs. Lambert, the
executed table tomb of white marble to Richard Winwood Duke of Leeds, Capt. W. Harvey Pigott R.N. Messrs.
esq. 1689, with a recumbent effigy in complete armour Michael John Gibbs, Edward Hill, and Warwick Woods,
except the head; on the wall hangs his helmeli sur- the trustees of Winwood'SI Charity and the Ironmongers'
Company. The soil is stiff clay; subsoil, loam and clay.
mounted by a crest; behind him rests his lady in an The land is principally pasture. The entire area is
attitude of grief and on the sides stand his four children; 5,337 acres of land and 9 of water; assessable value,
at the base of 1,h6 tomb is the sculptured figure of a £7,534; the population in 1891, including the hamlets,
human skeleton with an hour-glass: another monument was ·885.
of heavy design commemorates Sir Richard Pigott,
Shipton Lee is about I mile north-west from the viI-
knighted- at Theobalds, Herts, 9 July, 1630, ob. 1685: lan-e. This place was by Local Government Board Order
the church was restored in 1877, at a cost of £2,600, 19,623, dated March 25, 1886, amalgamated with Quain-
llnder the direction of Mr. William White, architect, of ton.
London: there are 350 sittings. The register dates from
t he year 1599. 'I'he living is a rectory, net yearly value Denham is half a mile north-east and Doddershall 1
£35°, with four acres of glebe and residence, in the gift mile west.
,of and held since 1890 by the Rev. Proby Littler Cautley
M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. The Baptist chapel, Parish Clerk, George Uff.
built in 1894, has 2'50 sittings. The old Baptist chapel,
erected in 1819, is now used as a Sunday school; the Post &; M. O. 0., S. Jl. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office.-
Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 187'2, was rebuilt George Read, jun. sub-postmaster. Letters are re-
1892, and will now seat 250 persons. There are eight ceived through Aylesbury at 7.55 a.m. &; 1.35 p.m.;
nlmshouses for poor widows and widowers, erected dispatched at 12.50 &; 5.15 p.m. The nearest telegraph
in 1687, by Richard Winwood esq. Ion of Sir offiee is at Waddesdon, 3 miles distant

Ralph Winwood knt. principal secretary of state Wall Box at west end of village cleared at 1.0 p.m. &; 5.0
·to King James I.; these have an annual income p.m
of about £220: there is also a charity, now
producing £366 yearly, left in the last century by Schools.
.Christabella Thlwager Viscountess Saye and Sele for Parochial, erected in 1898, for 266 children; average at-
apprenticing poor boys of this and the adjoining parish
.-£If Grendon Underwood and for educational purposes; tendance, 170; Ernest William Ashley A.-C.P. master;
Mrs. Alice Lay, mistress
Police Station, James Jakeman, sergeant
Quainton Road Station, Alfred Webb, station master
Carriers to 'Aylesbury.-Mrs. Edmund Warner, mono
wed. &; sat.; Joseph Bailey, wed. &; sat

QUAINTON Gibbs Michael In. farmr. Cross farm Ufl1 George, saddler &; parish clerk

Ilro;.wley Robert, Rosehill Rammond Jaml's, Railway Arms P.R Woods Warwick, farmer, The Laurels

Burridge Mrs Hill Edward, farmer SHIPTON LEE
CaRuetlcetyoryRev. Proby Littler Ingram Joseph, baker
M.A. Ingram Lucy (Mrs.), dress maker Curt'IS J {)h n, far m I The W. 00dlands
COMMERCIAL.
er,

Jewry William, Swan &; Castle P.R Curtis Joseph, farmer, Grange fum

Keen Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lester Leonard, farmer, Dry ~y farm

Anstiss Thomas, White Lion P.R Kibble George, farmer Woods Mary (Mrs.), farmr.MIddle frm

Bailey J oseph, carrier King Edward, builder DENHAM

'Baker John, farmer KisntgorGeseorge,tinplate worker &; general Cox Mrs. farmer, Denh'am 1 dge
Ilanks Mari{)fi (Miss), draper
Bradbury Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper 0

Markham George, farmer Dic~ins ~o~n, farmer, ~~dy mead

Ilrown Edward, farmer Martin Lewis boot &; shoe maker Kmbb WIllIam, farm baIliff to Robert

J3urnell John &; Ann (Miss), George &; Poyntz David, Sportsman P.R Curtis esq. Denham farm

Dragon P.H Read Frederick Goorge, shopkeeper Tomes John Dover,farmr. Denham hI

Cannon James &; Sons, builders Read George, farmer DODDER SHALL.

Cannon Thomas, White Hart P.R Read Geo.jun.grocr.postmstr.&; farmr Pigott Captain William Harvey R.N.,

Casemore John, coal dealer Roades John, carpenter J.P. Doddershall house; &; Junior

Cross William, blacksmith Rose Frederick, baker United Service club, London SW

Culley Joseph, sllOpkpr. The Green Bose George, shopkeeper Cooper William &; In.frmrs. North frm

Curtis George, farmer Simms Benjamin, Boot inn Read Edward, farmer

Fox Annie (Miss), grocer Simms James, wheelwright Walker Robert, farm bailiff to War-

Franklin John, tailor Slade Zachariah, baker &; grocer wick Woods esq

Garner Chas. Rehd. boot &; shoe ma Uff H~mry, carpenter lroods John, farmer, Benwell lane

QUARRENDON, or Quarrington, is a secluded vii- a l'mall meadow, have an extremely picturesque ap-
lage and parish, 2 miles north-west of Aylesbury, and pearance: the chapel was used for occasional services
lies between the Bicester and Buckingham roads, in the some time after 1720; a marriage was solemnized here
Mid division of the county, hundred of Ashendon, petty Dec. 22, 1746, and burials have taken place in the ad-
,sessional division, union and countY' court district of joining churchyard during the present century. There
Aylesbury, rural deanery of Wendover, archdeaconry of is no church in the parish. The living is a vicarage an-
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. Here are the ruins nexed to that of Bierton. William Baring Du Pre esq. of
,of an ancient and once splendid chapel dedicated to St. Wilton Park, is lord of the manor and sole landowner.
Petl'r; the remains exhibit portions of the Early English The land is fine pasture and extends over an area of
and later styles: though the edifice is nOW completely 1,942 acres of land, nearly the whole of which is devoted
dilapidated, the arches which supported the nave roof I to grazing, and 5 of water; assessable value, £2,578 j the
are of fine stone and in excellent preservation; the re- population in 1891 was 52.
mains of mullions and corbels, especially those of the
eastern wmdow of the chancel, proTe it to have been Letters arrive at Berryfield through Aylesbury about 7-15
originally adorned with great architectural skill: the a.m. which is the nearest money order &; telegraph
ruins, as they at present exist, situated in the midst of office

Clarke John Sanrlers,farmer, UppingslSimons Alfd.jun. frmr. Fincher's farm Terry Jsph. Pitches, farml'. Berryfie:d
King In.W. grazier,White's Field frm Simons John Rchd. grazier, Berry field

RADCLIVE is a parish on the rIver Ouse, a mile and in the hundred, petty sessional division, union and county

a half west-by-north from Buckingham station on the court district 'Of Buckingham, and in the rural deanery
"Bletchley and Banbury section of th~ London and North of Buckingham (first portion), archdeaconry of Bucking-
Western railway, in the Northern division of the county, ham and diocese of Oxford. The parish was enclosed

DIRECTORY. ] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. RA VENSTOKE. 149

by Act of Parliament in 1773. The church of St. and 6 of water; assessable value, £1,819; the population
J{lhn the Evangelist is an ancient building of in 1891 was 321.
stone in the Transitional Normm and Early English
styles, consisting of chancel, nav~ south porch and an Chackmore is a hamlet one mile north-west from
embattled western tower containing 3 bells: the windows Buckingham, close to the avenue whIch leads from
in the nave are Decorated with the exception of one Buckingham to Stowe. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. In
which is Perpendicular: in the chancel there are two the National School here, the schoolroom holding gQ
Early English windows besides the Decorated east win- persons, church service is held at 6 p.m. sundays.

dow: the south doorway is a beautiful example of Parish Clerk, William Welch.
Transitional Norman with great delicacy of detail: there
are 140 sittings. '1'he register dates from the year 1597. Post Office, Chackmore.-Thomas Judd, sub-postmaster.
The living is a rectory, net yearly value £295, with 172 Letters through Buckingham arrive at 6.45 a.m. &;
acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Warden and 12. IS p.m. Box closes at 1.50 &; 5.45 p.m. week .days
Fellows of New College, Oxford, and held since 1887 by only. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid.
the Rev. Herbert John Dale M.A. of that college. '1'he Buckingham, 2 Iniles distant, is the neare~t money
Warden and Fellows of New CollelIe. Oxford. who ar!' order &; telegraph office

lords of the manor, and the Baroness Kinloss are the Wall Letter Box, Radclive, cleared at 5.55 p.m. week
principal landowners. The soil is mixed, principally days only
gravelly; the subsoil, various: the land, arable and
pasture in about equal proportions. The chief crops are National School, Chackmore, built in 1884 and enlarged
in 1886 for church services; average a.ttendance, 34;
wheat, barley and beans. The area. is 1,178 scres of land Miss Bessie J ane Reed, Inistress

RADCLIVE. Rogers Alfred Charles (Waiter Hyde, Osborne Mrs. N

Dale Rev. Herbert John M.A. Rectory manager), miller (water) &, farmer Hall Etlwin, beer retailer

Higgens Frank, The Cottage CHACKMORE. Jarvis R. T. plumber
MoncktoIII Mrs Ketehendorf Ernest de, horsebreaker

Wolff Mrs Adams George, shopkeeper Salmcrn Perridge, farmer

Swain George, farmer, Manor house HpnSlllun M1'8 Tew George Edward, shopkeeper

RAD N A 0-E is a pll;rish and village on the borders of There are two small Primitive Methodist chapels. The
Oxfordshirb, 4 miles north-west from West Wycombe inhabitants are occupied in the manufacture of chairs
station on the Wycombe, Thame and Oxford section of and in agriculture. There are 29£1. 31'. 32P. the rent
of which is divided for the church, school and distri-
the Great Western railway, 5! north-west from High bution to the poor. The lordship of the manor is
Wycombe, 5 south-west from Princes Risbcrough, in vested in the Crown. The principal landowners are
the Mid division of th~ county, hundred of Desborough, Mrs. Birch-Reynardson, of Adwell House, Tetsworth,
petty sessional division of Desborough 2nd division, the Rev. Henry Savill Young' M.A. rector of Englefield,
Berks, ~Ia.ior John Augustus Fane, of 13 Woodlands road,
union of Wycombe, county court district of High Wy- Barnes Common, London S.W., Es,r! Carrington P.C.,
combe, archdeaconry of Buckingham, rural deanery of G.C.M.G., William Ayres esq. of Chawley Manor, West
Wycombe and diocese of Oxford. The village lies in a Wycomhe and Col. Oughton-Giles, of Radnage House.
va[ey hemmed in by hills of considerable height, from The soil is chalky; subsoil, light loam and clay. The
chief crops are arable. The area. is 1,369 acres; a"sessable
the summits of which an extensive view is afforded value, £1,398; the population in 1891 was 452.
of the richly-wooded country around. The church of
Sexton, John Avery.
St. Mary, probably erected in the early part of the 12th
century, is a building of flint and rubble stone, chiefly Letters through Tetsworth arrive about 8.30 a.m.
in the Early English style, with traces of Norman work, Stokenchurch is the nearest money order &; telegraph
and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a cen- office, about I! miles distant. Wall Letter Box, near
tral tower containing 4 beLs: there are two ancient the church, cleared at 5.15 p.m. &; sunday at 8.40 a.m
brasses, and in the chancel a piscina and hagioscope:
the church affords II5 sittings. The register dates School (mixed), built in 1862 &; enlarged in 1885; for
from the year 1574. The living is a rectory, net incume 100 children; average attendance, 75; James Henry
£H)O, with 8i acres of glebl.' and residence, in the gift of Evans, master
the Lord Chancellor, and held since 18186 by the Rev.
Rodolph Agassiz M.A. of St. John's College, C• ambridge.

•

Agassiz Rev. Rodolph M. A. Rectory Hunt Thos. farmr. &; sh,Jpkpr. Corn Stone Jabez, farmer, Bottom farm

Bennett Henry, Bennett end Hunt James, farmer, Grange farm Stone James, chair turner, Common

Oughton-Giles Col. Radnage house Morris Harry, farmer, Town end StoneJn.chair turner &; carrier,Commn

COMMERCIAL. ~ewe:l Geo. chair turner, The City StJne Robert, shopkeeper

.Avery Wil;iam, chair turner Pitcher James, farmer, Bennett end Stone Thomas, blacksmith, Common

Bowden William, assistant overseer, & Redrup Abei, frrilr. & wheelwrt. Com Stvne Tom, Three Pigeons P.H.

shoe maker, The City Springell Alfred, beer retai:er & chair Common

Butler George, chair turner, The City turner, City Stratford Frdric. chair turner, Commn

Dormer Ernest, chair turner, Common Stevens Albert, farmer, Ward's farm Stratford William, chair turner

Heathers Thomas, farmer, Holly lodge Stone George, B:acksmiths' Arms P.H. Styles E:izabeth (Mrs.), chair turner

Hi;} John, chair turner &; blacksmith, Common & laundress, Town end

Holland Owen, bricklayer, The City Stone Alfred, chair turner, Common Taylor Thomas, farmer, Bennett enel

Howlett John, carter, Spriggs Ally Sto;le Heery, butcher West Robert, farmer

RAVENSTONE is a parish and village on the stored in 1885 and the mortuary chapel or vestry in

Northamptonshire border and bounded on the south by 1892: there are 250 sittings, 100 being free. The

the river Ouse, 3 miles west from O:ney station on the register dates from the year 1568. The living is a

Bedford and Northampton branch of the Midland rail- vicarage, net yearly value £95, with residence, in

way, 8 north-east from Stony Stratford, 5 north-west the gift of George Henry Finch esq. M.P. of Burley-

fI'om Newport Pagnell, 14 west from Bedford and 12 on-the-Hill, Rutland, and held since 1897 by the Rev.

south-east from ~orthampton, in the Northern division Edward Lewis Lloyd B.A. of Jesus College, Oxford. Bere

of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union are twelve almshouses, founded by a former Earl of

and county court district of Newport Pagnell, archdea- Winchilses. and Nottingham, for six single men and

conry of Buckingham, rural deanery of Newport Pag- six single women; an allowance of Ss. 9d. per week

nell and diocese of Oxford. The church of All Saints each and firing is given by George Henry Finch esq.

is a building of stone in the Norman style, consisting M.P. lord of the manor and principal landowner. The

of chancel, nave, ais;es and a low tower containing- a soil is clay; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are.

clock and 3 bells: in the church is a recumbent marble wheat, oots and roots. The area. is 2,069 acres of land

effigy, of exquisite workmanship, representing Sir Hene- and 6 of water; assessable value, £1,715; the population

age Finch kt. first earl of Nottingham and keeper of in 1891 was 300.

the Great Seal, ob. 18 Dec. 1682: on the east side of Sexton, Joseph Smith.
the churchyard is a plain stone with Latin inscription,

to the Rev. Thomas Seaton, formerly fellow of Clare Post Office.-M. A. .AlIen, SUb-postmaster. Letters

HaJ, Cambridge, and founder of the annual Seatonian through Newport Pagnell arrive at 8.30 a.m. Box

prize at Cambridge, who died in 1741: there are two cleared at 7.45 a.m. &; 4.45 p.m. week days &; 9.10 a.m.

lltained windows in the north aisle, one the gift of Mrs. on sundays. Postal orders are issul.'d here, but n()t

Godfrey in memory of the late vicar, and another to .paid. The nearest money order and telegraph office is
WllIiam Godfrey esq.: the church was thoroughly re-
at Olnev, 4 miles distant

150 RAVENSTONE. BUCKINGHAl\lSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

The Rev. Robert Chapman, a. former vicar of this amounting to £150 yearly, is derived from invested
parish, left property for building & endowing a school funds
with salary & house for the master, for an unli.nited
number of boys & girls & for apprenticing out to Endowed School (boys &; girls), founded in 1787 &; re-
trades three boys-two natives of this parish &; one built in 1862, for 100 children; average attendance,
from the parish of Little Woolston; the income, 54; Miss Hoyle, mistress

Eyles Miss Mary Co-operative Stores Limited (William Mead John, farmer

Lloyd Rev. Edward Lewis B.A.(vicar), Nicholls, manager) Mortimer Robert, farmer, Abbey fann

Vicarage Eyles William Godfrey, farmer Nichols George, farmer

Hammond Daniel, Wheatsheaf P.H. &; Richardson Jacob, shopkeeper

COMMERCIAL. grazier Watson Joseph, Horseshoe P.H.k frmr

Alcock Oharles, farmer Kightlpy Edwin, bldr. & stone mason Whitmee Geo. farmer, Parkf1eld farm

Bates Richard, blacksmith Kightley John, wheelwright
IST. LEONARDS is an ancient chapelry and was are 130 sittings. The register dates from the year
formed into an ecclesiastical parish August 28, 1860, 1737. The living is a titular vicarage, net yearly value

from part of the civil parish of Aston Clinton; it is on £222, with residence and 8 acres of glebe, in the gift

the Herts border, 6 miles south-west from Tring station of the trustees of the chapel, and held since 1895 by

on the main line of the London and North Western the Rev. William Evans, of St. David's, Lampeter. The

1"a.ilway, 3 north-west from Wendover station and 6 principal landowners are Lord Rothschild, Alfred Charles

miles north-west from Chesham station, both on the de R'othschild esq. of Halton, the trustees of St. Leonard's

Metropolitan Extension railway, and 8 south-east from chapel, and Stewart William Jenney esq. of Drayton

Aylesbury, in the Mid division of the county, hundred Lodge, Drayton. The soil is chalk and loamy; subsoil,

-of Aylesbury, petty sessional division, union and county chalk and gravel. The area is 993 acres; the population

-court distmct of Aylesbury, rural deanery of Wendover, in 1891 was 147.

archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. Perish Clerk, Samuel Gilbert.
T~e village is supplied ~th water. from the Chiltern
Hil~s by the company WhICh supplies Aylesbury. The Letters through Tring arrive at 8.30 a.m. The nearest
ancle~t chapel,. former~y a chantry chapel to th~ ~bbey money order office is at Aston Clinton & telegraph
of Mlssenden, IS an edIfice of rubble stone, conSIsting of
-chancel and nave under one roof, south porch and a office at The Lee about 2 miles distant
'
Wall Letter Box at the school, cleared at 5. 15 p.m. week

western belfry containing one bell: there are two hand- days only

some tablets to the Wood family, one of which, with a National School, built in 1862 & since enlarged at vari-

marble bust, commemorates General Cornelius Wood, ous times, it will now hold 175 children; average at-

'8. distinguished officer of Queen Anne's reign, who died tendance, 138; Charles Wescombe, master; Mrs. E.

in ]712: new choir stalls were erected in 1889: there Wescombe, mistress

Evans Rev. William, Vicarage Brackley George, carpenter &; farmer Gilbert Samuel, shopke£per

Brown George,jun. farmer,TheCoppice Keedle Thomas, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Brown Geo. sen. farmer, Milesfield Neary William,Old Swan P.H.Kingswd

"Bailey Thos. farmer, Dundridge farm Dunton Joseph, farmer RJdwell Richard, Plougoh P.R

Bishop George Henry, White Lion P.H Gilbert Henry, baker Saunder" Wm. farmer, Old Brun's frm

SAUNDERTON is a parish and small village, ] landowner. The soil is light and shallow; subsoil, rubble

mile south-west from Princes Risborough station on the and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, peas, beans

Wycombe, Thame and Oxford branch of the Great and oats. The area. is 1,721 acres; assessable value,
Western railway, in th~ Mid division of the county, £1,713; the population in t891 was 313, including 9
hundred of Desborough, petty sessional division of Des- officers and 147 ;inmates in Wycombe Union Workhouse.

borough 2nd division, union and county court district of Sexton, Richard Hutchinson.

High Wycombe, rural deanery of Aylesbury, archdea- Letters through Tring, via Princes Risborough, by foot

conry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The messenger arrive at about 8 a.m. The nearest money

<church of SS. Mary and Nicholas is an edifice of flint order &; telegraph office is at Princes Risborough, about
and stone, chiefly in the Decorated style and consisting I~ miles distant
of chancel, nave, south porch and a low wooden turret Princes Risborough is the nearest post office for Saun-

at the west end containing 3 bells: the chancel has a derton; Loosley Row is the nearest post &; money

piscina and a stained east window erected in 1888: the order office for Sanderton Lee, about one mile distant;

font probably dates from the end of the 12th century: dispa,tches at 10.55 a.m. & 4.55 p.m

the church was thoroughly restored and almost rebuilt Wall Letter Box, near the church, cleared at 4.40 p.m.

during- the period 1888-91, at a cost of £1,295, under week days only

the direction of Mr. J. S. Alder, architect, and affords The "children attend the schools at Princes Risborough,

100 sittings. The register dates from the year 1729. Loosley Row &; Lacey Green .

The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £210, with Wycombe Union Workhouse, at Slough, 3 mdes south-

404 acres of golebe and residence, in the gift of the east, is a structure of brick, flint &; slate, erected in

President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, and 1843, for 450 inmat-es, letters for the Workhouse

held since 1876 by the Rev. Oliver James Grace M.A. of through Wycombe; Joseph Simcox, master; Mrs.

Jesus College, Cambridge and chaplain of Wycombe Annie M. Simcox, matron; Rev. Oliver James Grace

union. Lord Dormer is lord of the manor and principal M.A. chaplain; W. Fleck M.D. medical officer

Grace Rev. O1iver James M.A. (rector Gurney Richd. Clare,farmer,Frogmoor Read Stratfold J.P. frmr. Church farm

& chaplain of Wycombe union), Gurney Thos.P. farmer,Parsonage frm Silsby William, miller (steam &i

Rectory Hoare Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Slough water), Saunderton mill

Read Stratfold J.P. Church farm Martin John, Golden Cross P.H.Slough Silvey Samuel, Rose &; Crown P.H.

Ayres Wm. farmer, Slough Glebe frm (postal address, High Wycombe) Sau'ldprton Lee

Gunn George, Carpenters' Arms P.R. Pearce CaJ"Oline (Mrs.), farmer, Planet Warren Wm. Three Horseshoes P.H

Saunde.rton Lee Wood farm

SEER GREEN, a parish, formerly a chapelry of Farn- John Marratt Taylor M.A. of Magdalen College, Cam-
.ham Royal, was constituted ecclesiastically distinct in bridge. The Baptist chapel here, built in 1857, affords
i847; it is 2 miles north-east from Beaconsfield and 140 sittings. Pond Farm is the residence of J. Mitchell
5 north-east from Woburn ,Green station on the Wy- Bruce M.D. and F.R.C.P.Lond. The Duke of Leeds is
combe, Thame, and Oxford branch of the Great West- lord ()f the manor and principal landowner. The $Oil is
ern railway, and is in the Southern division of the gra,vel; 'Subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are oats, wheat,
county, hundred of Burnham, union of Amersham,
county court district of Chesham, rural deanery of and barley. The area is 889 acres; assessable value, •
Amersham, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of
Oxford. The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in £1,7°5; the population in 1891 was 284.
1846 on a site given by the Duke of Leeds, at a cost of Parish Clerk, William Boddy.
about [1,7°0, is a building of flint and stone in the
Gothic style, consisting of chancel. nave, north porch Post Office.-Mrs. Sarah Watson, sub-postmistress. Let-
and a western turret containing one bel~ the seats ters through Beaconsfield R. S. O. arrive 7.30 a.m. &i
and pulpit are of oak: there are 200 sittings. The
register dates from the year 1846. The living is a 5 p.m.; dispatched 7.30 a.m. & 5 p.m. week days
only. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The
vicarage, net yearly value £100, including 108 acres of nearest money order & telegraph office is at Beacons-
glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Provost and Fel-
lows of Eton College, and held since 1870 by the Rev. field, 2 miles distant
National School (mixed), erected in 1859 &; enlargM

1893, for 95 children; average attendance, 75; Miss
Amelia Yates, mistress; Miss Ida Phillips, assistant

mistress

DIRECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. SHENLEY CHURCH END. 151

SHENLEY CHURCH END is a township, parish stone, pleasantly situated near the church, and approached
and scattered village, partly on the great Holyhead through an avenue of lime trees. The chief landowners
road, 4 miles north-west from Bletchley Junction sta- are William Selby-Lowndes esg. of Whaddon Hall, William
tion on the main line of the London and North Western George Grimwood esq. and Charles Morrell esq. of Mil-
railway, 4 south-east from Stony Stratford and 6 ton Hill, Berks, the trustees of the late Mr. W. Battams
'ilouth-west from Newport Pagnell, in the Northern divi- and the rector in right of hig glebe. The soil is alluvial
'Sion of the county, hundred, union and county court and clay; subsoil, stone and clay. The land is mostly
district of Newport Pagnell, Stony Stratford petty ses- pasture, with some wheat, oats, barley 2nd beans. The
t'llonal division, and in the rural deanery of Buckingh2m area is 1,662 acres; assessable value, £2,009; the popu-
(second division), and arf'hdeaconry {)f Buckingham lation of the township in 189J was 18o; entire parish,
-and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary
is a building - of stone in the Early English and 395·
Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of five
bays, aisles, transept, south porch and a fine central SHENLEY BROOK END, a hanLet to Shenley
Church End is situated on a green, three-quarters of
tower containing a clock and 5 bells: in the chancel are a mile south from Shenley, in the hundred of CDttesloe,
tablets to the Knapp family and a monument to the union of Winslow and Buckingham county court district.
Ashfield family; there is also a very fine marble monu- The area is 1,658 acres; rateable value, £1,475; the
ment in the south aisle to Thomas Stafford esq. of population in 1891 was 215.
'Tattenhoe, founder of the almshouses here, who died
in 1607: the church was restored in 1888-90, at a cost Post Office.-Mrs. Henry Shouler, sub-p()stmistress. Let·
(If £1,997, and affords 300 siUings. The register dates ters arrive from Bletchley. Box cleared at 7.35 a.m. &;
'from the year J652. The living is a rectory, net yearly 6.20 p.m. & sundays at 9 a.m. Postal orders are issued
-value £315, including 212 acres of glebe with residence, here, but not paid. The nearest money order -offire is
at Loughton. Bletchley ~nd Stony Stratford, each about
in th~ gift of and held since 1890 by the Rev. Edgar 4 miles distant, are the' nearest telegraph offices

Astley Milne M.A. of Trinity College,_ Call1bridgll. There Wall Box'1tt Shenley Brook End, cleared at 6.50 a.m. &;
-are a1mshouses for three poor men or women, founded 5.20 p.m.; sundays at 9.25 a.m
by Thomas Stafford esq. of Tattenhoe. Shenley House,
the prope,ty (}f James WOOdell esq. but at present occu- A. School Board of 5 members was formed 25 Nov. 1873
for Shenley & Loughton;, J. Morris, clerk to th~ board;
pied by the Hon. Mrs. Isted, is III handsome mansion of Henry Shouler, attendance officer

152 SHENLEY CBURCH END. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Board School (mixed), erected in 1869, for lIO Cbil-, . &; is lent by the rector for school purposes only to the-

dren j' average attendance, 80 j it is the property of Shenley &; Loughton School Board; Harny Malins. mast.
,
Hedges John, farmer, Shenley grange Fountaine John, farmer'
SHENLEY CHURCH END.

Jsted Hon. Mrs. Shenley house Jenkins George, milk dealer Grace Thomas, farmer

Milne Rev. Edgar Astley M.A. (rector) Masters Henry, farmer Hooten J olm, farmer

f:f::Morris John Perry Alfred, shopkeeper King Thomas, farmer
'{astRl'9 Henry, farmer
y.Jf~;lrederick, Shenley house ~HENLEY BROOK E~D. Ormond Mary Sophia (Mrs.), farmer;.

Barrett George, farmer, &; overseer, Caple Wil:iam, IIhopl.eeper Dovecote

Shen1ey grange Emerson Jane (Mrs.), Crown inn &; Wilks Thomas, farmer, Lodge farm

Barrett William, farmer butcher

SHERINGTON, in Domesday" Seritone," is a parish 1491; the church was restored in 1870 at a cost of
and village on the road from Newport Pagnell to Olney £1,200, and affords 300 sittings. The register dates
Bnd separated from Lathbury and Newport Pagnell by
the river Ouse which is crossed by a bridge of five from the year 1698. The living is a rectory, net incoIDa
arcIies, 2 miles north from Newport Pagnell station on
the W()lverton and Newport Pagnell branch of the Lon- £290, with residence and 17 acres of glebe, in the gift of
don and North Western railway and 3 south from Ollley the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1898 by the Rev.
station on the Bedford and Northampton branch of the Richard Freeborn Mallam M.A. af Christ Church, Oxford.
Midland railway and I I west from Bedford, in the Here are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. Fuller"s
Northern division of the county, hundred, petty ses-
sional division, union and county court district of charity of £5 yearly is distributed as follows, viz. =
Newport Pagnell, archdeaconry of Buckingham, rural
deanery of ~ewport Pagnell and diocese of Oxford. The £1 for a sermon; Ss. each to the churchwardens and!
(:hurch of St. Laud the Martyr, seated on an eminence, 26 half-crowns to the poor. George Alfred U. Nelson
is an edifice of stone chiefly in the Decorated style, and
.consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, esq. is lord of the manor j and Roger William Giffard'
aisles, south porch with parvise, and a central tower
with small spire containing 5 bells and a c:ock: the Tyringham esq. of Revethoe, Lelant, Cornwall, is the
nave arcades have circular pillars on the north and principal landowner. The Mercers' Company of the City
octagonal on the south side, in both cases with moulded of London also have land here. The soil is various; sub-
capitals j the tower is good Perpendicular, and there is soil, limestone and clay. The chief crops are wheat,
a fine west wind()w of five lights of the same date j the
east window is Decorated, others are Perpendicular; in barley, beans and roots. The area is 1,799 acres of land'
the church is a shield of white metal with the arms and 6 of water; assessable value, £2,431; the populatioUl
of Catesby, being all that remains of a brass t() a
civilian and his wife and children, with a marginal in- in 1891 was 566.
scription, c. 151o; other brasses are 'I'ecorded to Robert Parish Clerk, Joel Attwood.
Yonge and Ada his wife, 1517; and to Richard Mareot,
Post Office.-David Feasey, sub-postmaster. Letter!F
arrive from Newport Pagnell at 6 a.m. &; 12 p.m.;
dispatched at 9.25 a.m. & 7.10 p.m.; snndays, box
closed ab 11.4° a.m. Postal orders are issued here~
but not paid. The nearest money order &; telegrapB.

office is at· Newport Pagnell, 2 miles distant
School, built in 1872, at a cost of £900, for 105 chil-

dren; average attendance about 75 j Frank Collettr
master j Miss Eleanor Burchell, infants' mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Clark Joseph, farmer, Gowells farm Joyce James, Crown &; Castle P.B. &i.
graZI• er
Em.erson Hobert" boot maker

Estcourt Sydney, Sherington lodge Feasey David, corn merchant &; poor Lawes Edward, White Hart P.H

Mallam Rev. RiChard Freeborn M.A.. rate collector, Post office Line Charles Edward, carpentelt

Rectory Field Fredk. John, maltster &; farmer Line Frederick, beer retailer

R:>gers Mrs Field John. grnzier Looms Wi:Iiam, shoe maker

Smith Mrs. High street Fleet George, horse dealer & butcher Lucas Isaiah, farmer

Starer Mrs Gardner Henry (exors. of), farmer McDonald Percy, farmer,Yew Tree fm

Taylor Wellesley, Manor house Graves "\Villiam J. farmer, Water lane Oldham &; Co. non-intoxicating ale-

Tompkins Mrs. Sherington bridge Groom William, blacksmith brewers

Wilmer Mrs. Ash cottage Harding Daniel, farmer O:dham Owen, baker

COMMERCIAL. Hickson Wm. 'rhos. butcher &; grocer Rose Abraham, tailor

Hine George James, wheelwright &; Hose George, matting maker

Boone FrE'derick, shopkeeper coach builder Rose Henry Geo. carpenter &, builder

Eright WilIiam, farmer Hine J ames, farmer Rush SmI. carpenter &; hurdle maker

Bunker Joseph, matting maker J efferron Eliza (Mrs.), farmer Sharman George, Swan P.B

SIMP SON, see Lympson.

SLAPTON (anciently Slepet()ne) is a village and, Wesleyan chapel, built in 1817 will seat 170 persons.

parish on the river Ouse and Bedfordshire border, 2 A charity left by Sir Thomas Knyghton, consists of

mees north-west from Cheddington Junction on the property of the yearly value of £66 6s. ancI is for the

. Main line of the London and North Western railway repair of two tenements under one roof, called the-

and 3~ south from Leight()n Buzzard, in the Mid divi- "Town House" j a sum of 16s. Id. called "headi

sion of the county, hundred of Cottesloe, petty sessional silver," is due to the lord of the manor for defrayin~

division of Linslade, union and countv court district of the expenses of labourers' funerals; the residue being

Leighton Buzzard, rural deanery of Ivinghoe, archdea- distributed on the Monday before old Christmas day:

conry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The among all the poor of the parish, in sums varying from.

Grand Junction canal passes on the west. The church IS. to 8s. according to the size of the families, but a-

of the Holy Cross is a building of stone in the Early new scheme for this charity has been lately drawn up'

English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch by the Charity Commissioners. Slapton former:y be-

and an embatt:ed western tower containing 5 bells, 2 of long-ed to the Benedictine Convent of SS. Mary and'

which were recast, the whole rehung and the tower Etheiburga at Berching-es (Barking), in the county of

:restored in 1889: the font dates from the 13th century Essex, and was a royal manor in the time of Edwardl

and there are brasses to Reginald ManseI', dated 1462; VI. and Elizabeth; it afterwards passed to Thomas

James Tornay, yeoman-at-arms to King Henry VIII. Rowe, !Subsequently to J. Theed, and in 1724 became the-

1519 j and to Sir Thomas Knyghton, 1522: the church property of Scroope, 1St Duke of Bridgewater. EarIl

was restored in 1878 and 1889 at a total cost of £1,800, Brownlow P.C. who is lord of the manor, the Earl of

and affords 120 sittings. The register dates from the Rosebery K.G., P.C. and Lord Wantage K.C.B. are th~

year 1653. The living is a rect<>ry, net yearly value, principal landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay.

derived from 190 acres of glebe, £165, with reSiidence, The chief crops are wheat, beans and hay. The are..
in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held 8in~e is 1,396 acres of land and 17 of water; rateable value,

1892 by the Rev. James Henry Francis Hope M.A. £7,386; the population in 1891 was 223 in the civil and!

<If Oxford University. The advowson of the church 214 in the t'cclesiastical parish.

was separated fr()m the 'manor in 1720 and purchased Horton, 8 hamlet I mile south, partly in this parish..
by James, 1St Duke of Chandos, who transferred the will be found under Ivinghoe.
patronage in 1720 for £630 to Christ Church, Oxford.

One of the rectors, John Kempe, who resigned the liv- Parish Clerk, William George Sma:Ibone

ing in 1407, was lJishop of Rochester, 1419; Chichester,
1421; London, 1422; Archbishop of York, 1426 and Post Office.-Richard Turney, sub-postmaster. Letter..

Archbishop of Canterbury, 1452; :'le died in 1454. The through Leigbton Duzzard arrive at 8.15 a.m.;. dis-

DmECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. SLOUGH. 153

patched at 6.20 p.m. Postal orders are i'Ssued here, but Church of England School, built in 1846 &; enlarged in

not paid. Cheddington is the nearest money order &; 1876, for 100 children; average attendance, 46; :Miss

telegraph office, 3 miles distant Mary A. Steptoe, mistress

Buckmaster AIbert Alfred, The Bury Hing Willi&m, Carpenters' Arms P.H. Smallbone John, farmer

Gurney Miss Mary, The Villa & shopkeeper Turney Joseph, farmer

Hope Rev. James Henry Francis· M.A. Roberts &; Wilson, brewers, maltsters Vasey Thomas, farmer, Hill farm

(rector), Rectory &; ~pirit merchants \Yarren Fra.nk, farmer & miller (stm)

Buckmaster Albt.Alfd.frmr.Bury frm Roff George, farmer, Whaddon farm

SLOUGH, with UPTON-cum-CHALVEY and SALT HILL.

SLOUGH, which forme"'ly consisted only of a few inns ing opposite the station, which, with the grounds, wu

on th.~ High road from London to Bath, is now a well- I purchased for the charity in 1863, the late Edward

built ~md rapidly increasing town, and an impol'tant Mackenzie esq. of Fawley Court, in this county, con-

station on the Great Western railway, being the junction tributing the sum of £14,000. The building has since

c;f the Windwr branch; the stati.:>n was rebuilt in 1882, been considerably enlarged and a swimming bath

on the Widening' of the line from Paddington to Maiden- was added in 1881; there are at present (1899)

head. The town is 20 miles west from London by 220 orphans within its walls; the institution first

road and 18! miles by rail, I! north from Eton, 2 founded in 1827, has no endowment and depends upon

north from Windsor, and 6 east from Maidenhead. The the voluntary offerings of the public for its main-

Grand Junction Canal Company, under an Act of Par- tenance.

liament passed in July, 1879, have constructed a branch The Leopold Institute and Public Hall, in the High

from Cowley to Slough. The town, Slough, originally in street, is a structure of red brick, with Bath stone

the parish of Upt{)n-cum-Chalvey (with the exception of dressings, and was ('rected 1887 at a COllt of £4,000, in

some houses in Stoke Poges), has under the provisions of memory of H.RH. the late Duke of AIbany K.G. and

Section I. of the" Local Government Act, 1894 ,. (56 and was opened by H.RH. The Duchess of Albany 6th Dec.

57 Vie. c. 73) been c{)llstituted a civil parish; it is in the 1887. The building consists of a large public hall 6J

&uthern d~vision of the county, hundred and petty by 42ft. seating 600 persons, with a stage and dressing

sessional division of Stoke, union of Et{)n, county rooms; there is also a smaller hall seating 200 per-

court district of Wind'sor, rural deanery of Burn- sons, and retiring rooms, reading rooms, billiard room,.

ham, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Ox- library, lavatories and the usual offices. The library

ford, The town waS' controlled by a Local Board contaInS about 2,000 volumes, and the reading rooms

from July 14, 1863 until the establishment by the are supplied with the daily papers and periodicals.

"Local Government Act, 1894" of an Urban Dis- The halls are let for meetings, concerts and theatrical

trict Council; it is lighted with gas by a Company purposes.

al1d well supplied with exceHent water from an artesian A weekly cattle market is held in William street,.

well bored through the chalk at Datehet, the property opposite the" North Star" on tuesday.

of the Slough Water Works Co. An efficient system of The Volunteer Fire Brigade, established in 1874, occu·

drainage has been carried out at a cost, including the pies premises in Mackenzie road, erected in 1898: the

irrigation ground, of upwa.rds of £20,000; the sewage brigade consists of 12 firemen and 3 officers and has a

reaches the pumping station at Cha.Jvey by gravitation manual engine.

and is there pumped through an iron main a distance of Slough is the head quarters of E Company 1st Bucks

2 miles westward. The church of St. Mary, in Church Rifle Volunteers, the depot of which is at Marlow.

street, originally built in 1837, the foundation stone 'fhere is a sum of £10 yearly for apprenticing,.

being laid by H.RH. the Duke of Cambridge K.G. was Lane's charity of £20 yearly for clothing and Thomas'

greatly enlarged in 1876-8, from the designs of Mr. of £12 for food. Mrs. Beauchamp, in 1879, gave £20C>

John OIdrid Scott, architect, at a cost of £12,5°0: the to be distributed in meat, coals and bread yearly, on

foundation stone of the new work was laid by H.RH. 24th December. Mrs. Mason, in 1859, bequeathed £766

Princess Christian, May 1876; the enlarged church, Consols, the interest to be distributed in beef and coal§

consecrated September, 1878, consists of chancel, with in December and January every year, among deserving

aisles, nave, transepts and a tower containin2' 6 bells: poor.

there are 1,030 sittings, 500 being free. 'fhe old parish The Eton Union workhouse, a structure of brick,.

church of St. Laurpnce, Upton, restored in 1851, and erected in 1836 at a cost of £5,35°, will hold 44C>

~nlarged by the addition of a south aisle at a cost of inmates.

[,2,000, raised by subscription, is a small but ancient On 1he Datchet road is an astronomical observatory.

edifice consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, south Upton Court, a fine old house near the church, and

aisle with north porch and a central tower containing now the residence of Mrs. Burton, was formerly a

one bell; the oldest portion of the building presents a religious house attached to the convent of MerWIl io

very perfect specimen of the Norman style; the roof Surrey.

of the chancel is groined in stone and retains much of Observatory House, on the Windsor road, was fo~

its original colouring: the two small east windows are many years the residence of Sir Friedrich Wilhelm

8tained and there are four memorial windows to the Herschel K.H.. F.RS., F.A.S. the celebrated astronl)-

Bonsey, Sullivan and Perette families and tablets to Sir mer, who settled here in 1781, and died 25th August,.

WilIiam Herschel K.H., F.RS. d. 25 Aug. 1822, his wife, 1822; here also lived his son, Sir John Frederick Wil-

and the Bulstrode family; at the east end of the lLam Herschel bart. D.C.L., F.RS. who was born 0.\

60uth aisle are several brasses with effigies to Edward I Slough, 71h March, 1792, and died at Collingwood, near

Buls~rode esq. his wife and children, dated 1599: the Hawkhurst, nth May, 1871, and was buried in West-

church affords 380 sittings 194 being free. The re- minster Abbey on the 19th May following; here the

gister dates from the year 1539. former erected his large telescope, and made most 01

St. Peter's church, at Chalvey, is a small but elegant his discoveries.

building erected in 1860-1 from the designs of the late Upton Park contains some good residences, and affords

Mr. G. E. Street RA. at a cost of £2,270, on a site good views of Windsor Castle.

given by the late Mrs. Beauchamp, of Finefield, and Henry Darvill esq. of Windsor, is lord of the manor;

consists of chancel, nave, north porch and a western and the Earl of Harewood, the Duke of Leeds and Lady

bell-cote, containing 2 bells: there are several stained Ramsden, of Bulstrode park, are the principal land-

windows, and about 280 sittings. OWUf'rs.

The living of Upton-with-Chalvey is a rectory, net The ar~ of Slough parish and Urban District is 51&

yearly value £320, including 23 acres of glebe, with resi· acres; assessable value, £33,861.

dence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxfo.rd, and held since The population in 1891 was 5,426, including the officers

18g6 by the Rev. Philip Herbert Eliot M.A. of Oriel and inmates in Eton union workhouse.

College, (hfo~d and su:x-ogate. . . The area of the parish (If Upwn-cum-Chalvey is 1,347
The Catholic chapel III Herschel street, bmlt III 1885, acres' assessable value £10 575 The population in 1891
i. dedicated to St.. Ethelbert, and has 250 sittings. was ;,5 17. ".

The CongregatIOnal Chapel, Church street, was S lt H'll tl' th P . h 0pfr~tSttI?1kye P b\
erected in 1853, and affords 450 sittings, and there is . a . 1,. par y III earls. .oges, u
a Congregational chapel at Cha.lvey, seating 120 per- prInCIpally III Farnham Royal, IS sItuated OD
sons; a Wesleyan chapel in Herschel street, built in the Bath road, at the west~rn extr~mlty of Slough an.cI
C1m. 8b4a7Wlv'eiwlyll,'iatwhmit2h0s0t1r5es0eitt,stiitnwtignhs-gi1'-csh.a Primitive Methodist cha el forms part of the town; It contams some good re91-
seats 150, and another Pat tdheencessc.eneTh0ef mo uannCd .Iehnet rea~kunoawl.nfetsa"sIVt"I'yM, ohnetIedmb,"y wtha.I.I
an
The B1'1'tI'Sh 0 rph an Asy1um, MackenZ'le park, orI.- boys of Eton college, but dIscontInued SInce 1847.

ginally the Royal hotel, is a large and handsome build- Parish Clerk, Willia~ Bargeant.

154 SLOUGH. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

OFFICIAL BST.A1lL1SHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c.

Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Woodbridge Henry William esq. The Lodge, St. Andrews,

Post, is. B. & Annuity &; Insurance Office, High street, Uxbridge

Thoma9 Doddrell, postmaster & stamp distributor. The Chairmen, flor the time being, of the Slough &1

There Me four deliveries in Slough daily, 7 & 10.15 a.m. Eton Urban District Oouncils are ex-officio ma.gistrates

3.15 & 6.25 p.m.; sundays, 7 a.m. Mails outwards on Olerk to th~ Magistrates', George Henry Oharsley, XI

week days-Box closes: London, 10.10 a.m. 12.30, 2.10, Mackenzie street, Slough

5, 8,30 & IO·30 p.m.; Slough & district, 3.5, 6.55 &1 10 Petty Sessions are held at the Police Station every wed.

a.m. & 3.10 &.6.10 p.m.; Windsor, 3 a.m. &.12:40 & nesday at II a..m. & at !ver every alternate saturday

5.10 p.m.; MaIdenhead, 12.40 & 8.30 p.m. & Illidmght; at IO.30 a.m

Uxbridge, 3 a.m. & 12·40 & 4.30 p.m.; West of Eng- The places in the petty sessional division are:-OoIn.

land generally & South Wales, 8,30 p.m.;. Ascot, brook, Datchet, Denham, Eton, Fulmer, ber, Langley,
Am~rsham & Chesham, 3 a.m. Sundays MaIdenhead Hedgerley, Stoke Poges, Slough, Horton, WraysbUl'f
& "est of England, 8.30 p.m.; London &c. IO.30 p.m. & Wexham

The office is open for general business from 7 a.m. till

9 p.m.; for telegraph & telephone business, 8 to 9 PUBLIO ESTABLISHMENTS.

week days, & on sunday, from 8 to 10 a.m. for sale of Bible & Domestic Mission, Hel'lschellstreet
stamps & telegraph
Diamond .Jubilee ~iemorial Nursing Home, Osborne st.;

Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Offiee, R. H. Ba1'll'ett, sec. to trustees

Chalvey.-George iBragg, sub-postmaster. Letters Leopold Institute & Public Hall, George Young, sec. to

through Slough arrive at 7.20 & II a.m. &; 7.40 p.m. ; the Institute; Geo. Gallop, caretaker, High street

dispatched IO.55 a.m. & 7.40 p.m.; sundays, 10.15 a.m Police (Oounty) Station &, Sessions House, Bath road,

Town Sub-Post Office, Salt Hill.-Henry Martin, sub-post- Geo. Sutton, superintendent; 2 sergeants &, 5 con·

master. Box cleared at 9 & 11.20 a.m. & 7.15 p.m.; stables

sundays, IO.35 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but Slough Oattle Sale (opposite North Star inn, William

not paid street, established 1850), Buckland & Sons, auc-

Town Sub-Post Office, Stoke road. James Paterson, sub- tioneers ; sale every tuesday at I; offices, High

postmaster. Box cIea['ed at 8.30 & IO.40 a.m, &; 12.25, street, Windsor
3.20, 8.15 & 9.30 p.m. ; sundays, 8.15 p.m. Postal orders Stamp Office, Thomas DoddreU, distributor, Post office
Volunteer FirE> Brigade, Royal hotel & Mackenzie street,
are issued here, but not paid

URBAN DIS'DRlor COUNOIL. Arthur Turner, capt.; W.W. Pope, hon. sec. &; I4men

Offices, Mackenzie street. VOLUNTEERS.
Meeting day, second monday in the month, at 6 p.m.
1st Buckls, Rifles (E Co.), Drill hall, The Royal hotel;
• Members.
Capt. A. J. de Winton, officer commanding; Sergt. J.
Chairman, Charles Godfrey. Kimherley, drill instructor

., LRetire in April, 1900. PUBL]O OFFICERS.

Captain C. O. Higgins H. J. Daw Assistant Overseer, Arthur Thomas, High street
J,t. S. Charsley G. P. 'Fisher Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment & School At-
•

Retire in April, 1901. tendance Committees of Eton Union & to Eton Rural

H. W. Bowyer IT. Perrin District Council, Richard Henry Barrett, High street;
C. Godfrey G. Thibberd assistant clerk, H. L. C. Barrett
Retire in April, 1902. Collector of Poor's Rates, Edward Sargeant, Church st
Collector of Taxes, Arthur Thomas, II9 High street

H. M. Bakell IR. V. Elvey Deputy Steward of the Manors of Datchet, Ditton "
John Baker O. West Steward of the Man()r of the Rectory of Old Windsor.

Officers. Richard Henry Barrett, High street
Clerk, George Henry Charsley, Mackenzie street Inland Revenue Officer, John Millar,4 Upton Park terrace,

Treasurer, Edmund John Craske, London & County Hencroft straet
Inspector of Factories, John Brickwell, High street
Bank, High street
Medical Officer of Health, Edmund 'Weaver Adams Medical Officers, Eton Union, Stoke District, John
F.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond., D.P.H.Lond. Church st Brickwell, M.R. C. S.Eng. High street; Slough District,
Surveyor & Inspector of Nuisances, William White Theodore Hugh Egbert Meggs L.R.O.P.Lond. Pinwell,
Mackenzie street
Cooper; office at Board room
Public Vaccinators, Eton Union, Stoke District, John
Collector, Arthnr Thomas, II9 High street
Brickwell M.R. C.S.Eng. Upton villa, High st.; Chalvey
COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR STOKE 'HUNDRED.
Harvey Sir Robert Grenville bart. Langley park, Slough District, Herbert Fraser L.R.C.P.Lond. The Thm'Ils,
Allhusen Allgmtus' Henry Eden esq. D.L. Stoke court,
High street
Stok'3 Poges R.S.O
Registrar of Births & Deaths, Eton Sub-district., &; Marn.
Pigott Sir Chas. Robt. bart. D.L. Wexham park, Slough
Bennitt Col. William Ward, Stoke Green house, Slough . a.g-es, Eton District, Richard Hancock, 2 Cornwall villas,
Bryant Wilberforce esq. Stoke park, Stoke Poges R. S. 0
de Salils Henry Rodolph psq. Ivy 10. her Heath, Uxbrdg Hencroft street; deputy, James Paterson, Jun. Pas.
Dent Edward esq. M.A. Fernacres, Fulmer, Slough
Dickson James esq. Larchmoor, Stoke Poges R.S.O office, Stoke road
Freeman Georg-e Mallows esq. Q.O., RA. The Grange,
Relieving' Officer, 1st District & Vaccination Officer, Eton
Wraysburv, Staines
G-ilbey William Crosbie esq. The Lea, Denham, Uxbridge Sub-District, Eaton Union, Richard Hancock, 2 Corn.
Good William esq. Churchmead, Datchet, WindsoI'
:aig~ins Captain Oharles Oarke, Upton park, Slough wall villas, Hencroft street
Horlin John Hy. esq. Heath lodge, !ver, Uxbridge
Howard-Vyse Howard Henry esq. D.L. Stoke Place, Sanitary Inspector of Nuisances to Eton Rural Distrie_

Stoke Poges R. S. 0 Council, Richard Hallum, Harewood place
Little Robert esq. Oakley house, Slough
Meeking- Lt.-Col. Ohas. Richings park,Colnbrook,Slough Stamn Distributor, Thomas Doddrell, Post office

Superintendent of County Police & Deputy Chief Con·

stable, George Sutton, Police station, Bath road

Superintendent Registrar of Eton Union, Richard Henry

Barrett, High street; deputy, WaIter Henry Bar..

rett, High street

Surveyor of Hig-hways, Eton Rural District Council, Mho

Gladwell, William street '

Mosley Tonman esq. Bangors, !ver PLAOES OF WOThSHIP, with times of services.
Nash John Hartopp esq. D.L. Wellington lodge, Slough

Osborn Samuel esq.· F.R.C.S.Eng. Maisonette, Datchet, :Parish ("hurch, Church street, Slough, Rev. Philip Her-

Windsor bert Eliot M.A. rector; Rev. Francis John 13adcock M.A.

Prior Hv. Laurence esq. RA.The Priorv,Datchet,Windsor Rev. William C-arter M.A. Rev. Arthul' Bideaux Dncan8'
B.A. & Rev. John Bishop Marsh M.A. curates; 7, 8 Ii
Seeker Edward Onslow esq. Denmark "house, 'Slough

Swithinbank Harold Wm. esq. Denham Court, Uxbridge II a.m. & 3.30 & 6.30 p.m.; daily at 8, &, IX.3D a.m.

Taylor Oharles esq. Horton manor, Slough & 7 p.m
Taylor Richd.Stephens esq.Huntsmoor park,Iver,Uxbridge St. Peter's, Chalvey; 8 & I I a.m. & 3 &; 6.~0 J?m. ~
Tompson Major Edward Carrier Smith M.A. Mansfield, wed. 7.30 p.m
St. Laurence, tJpton; II a.m. &; 6.30 ll.m.; "'''ld. ~
Iver Heath, Uxbridge

Tompson .Tohn Alfred esq. Dromenag-h, Iversteath fri. la a.m

Watson .Tames esq. I Clifton crescent, Folkestone Mission Han, Salt hill; served by the clergoy of Upton·

Willes 001. Geo. Shippen, Oippenbam house, Burnham cum-Ohalvey; 7.30 p.m. &: thurs. during winter only

DIRECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. SLOUGH. 1.15

London City Mission, II a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m National (infants), Herschel street, built in 1869, &;

St. Ethelbert (Oatholic), Herschel street, Rev. J. Ole- enlarged in 1886, for 209 children, average attend-

mente, priest; 8,3° &:, II a.m. &; 6.30 p.w.; daily at ance, 200; Miss Minnie Schultz, mistress

8.30 a.m :Xational, Chalvey, built in 1868, for 155 boys, 130 girls

Baptist Chapel, Windsor road; II a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; &; 118 infants; average attendance, 140 boys, 120

tues. 8 p.m girls &; lI8 infants; Leopold Hewitt Etchells, master;

Baptist Mission, High street, l:I a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; Miss J ane Mite-hell, mistress; Miss Rose Smith, infants'

thurs. 8 p.m mistress

Congregational, Church street, II a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; wed. British, Herschel street (mixed), built in 1873, &; sub-

7 p.m sequently enlarged, for 219 children; average attend-
Congregational, Chalvey, II a.m. &; 6.30 p.m ance, 195; John Clegg, head master

Primitive Methodist, William street, Rev. T. S.Bateman; British, Herschel street (infants), built in 1873, for

11 a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; tues. 7.30 p.m 100 children; average attendance, 91; Miss Florence A.

Primitive Methodist, Ohalvey; II a.m. &; 6 p.m.; Cantrell, mistress

thurs. 7 p.m St. Ethelbert's (Catholic), Victoria street (mixed), built

Wesleyan, Herschel street; l:I a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; tues. in 1885 &; rebuilt in 1894, for 130 children; Miss L.

7 p.m Woodall, mistress
Railway Station, Albert Pearse, station master
Plymouth Brethren, Hencroft street, 6.30 p.m

SCHOOLS. Omnibuses from Slough station to Burnham Beeches,
three times daily; also from The Grove, Slough, to Eton
British Orphan Asylum, Mackenzie park, O. T. Hoskins, &; Windsor daily, IO.30 a.m. 2, 3.3°, 5.30, &; 7.30 p.m. ;
secretary; office, 62 Bishopsgate street within, Lon- returning from Castle hill, Windsor, via Eton, 11.30
don E (); Miss East, matron; Robert Henry Hill, head
mast,!lr ; Miss Ethel ~cLeod, head mistress; Miss a.m. 2.45, 4.15, 6 &; 8,3° p.m
Catherine Bligh Caithness, junior boys' superintendent;

Robert -Stephen Cha1'lsley RA., L.R.a.P.Lond. medical OARRIERS.
officer

Natio:lal (boys), Osborne st. built in 1869, &; enlarged To Londou-Globe Parcels Express, receiving house,

in 1887 &:, 1895, for 26o; average attendance, 220; Geo. 'Grapes,' High street. Morgan, through Windsor,

Young, master from the C Grapes,' High street, tues. wed. &; fri

National (girls), Herschel street, built in 1869, for 205 To Farnham Royal-Oharles Green, from the C Grape.,'

children; average attendance, 194; Miss Jane Membery, daily, at 1 p.m

mistress To Windsor-James Langley, daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Butt Miss, 6 Upton Park villas, Dymock James,3 Sussex pI.London rd

Hencroft street Eagle Samuel, Weymouth, Curzon st

Adams Edmund Weaver, Church set Carrington Charles, 8 Sussex place, Eliot Rev. Philip Herbert M.A. (rector

Alington Gervase O'Bryen,6 Upton pk London road &:, surrogate), Rectory, Charlbury

Allaway Frederick, 120 Windsor road Carter Rev. William M.A. (curate of Elliman Jas. Lancaster ho. High st

Allen William, Ledger lane, Chalvey St. Mary's), Rectory, Chalvey Elliman Mrs. Quainton house, Mac-

AllenWilliam,IPatrick vils.Diamond rd Carter John D. 184 High street kenzie street

Allright Mrs. Bath villa, Salt hill Chaplin Mrs. 240 High street Elvery Robert, 1 Upton park

Appleyard The Misses, Upton park Chapman Mrs. 2 Eton villas, Park st Emery Mrs.r Herschel pk.Windsor rd

Applin Henry Warren, 108 Windsor rd Charsley George Henry, Monkestone, Etherington Miss, Upton ho.Upton rd

Badcock Rev. Fras. .Tohn M.A.(curate Mackenzie street Evans Mrs. r6 Sussex pI. London rd

of St. Mary's), Rectory, Chalvey Charsley Robert Stephen RA. The Fawkes Mrs. 25 Upton park

Badcock Charles Frederick, Gothic viI. Old Barn, Mackenzie street Fawkes Mrs. H. 25 Upton park

Chalvey place Cheer Miss, Fifield, Wexham road Fenton Misses, IS Upton park

Baker Hugh, 26 Upton park Clark Henry, 3 Linsdale viIs. High st Ffolks Everard, 8 Upton park

Baker John, Silsoe Cottage, High st Clark Mrs. 52 Wellington street Field Mrs. 17 Upton park

Barefoot R. E. Baltic ho.Wellington st Clark Mrs. 96 Windsor road Fisher Mrs. Upton grove

Barr Mrs. The Hollies, London road Clarke Mrs. Church street Fowler Mrs. 2 Cavendish villas, Hen-

Barrllltot Richard Henry, Grove iodge Clay WaIter, Deighton, Windsor road croft street

llateman Rev. T. S., B.A. (Primitive Clemente Uev. Joseph (Cath.), Frail John Ernest, Kent 10. London rd

Methodist), lI5 Wellington street Elmers, Victoria street Francis John Badcock M.A. Rectory,

.Battram Miss, 46 Alpha street Colmer Fredk.Normanhurst,Curzon st Chalvey

Bayley Fredk. Chas. Foxley, Curzon st Colmer Mrs. 206 High street Fraser Surgc-on-Gen. Archibald Henry,

Beavan Mrs. 30 Church street C{){)ke Mrs. 2 GOllville vIs. Hencroft st The Grove

Bennett Goorge Richard, 2 Uxbridge Cooper William, 22 Mackenie street Fraser Herbert, 'fhe Thorns, High st

villas, Uxbridge road Cox Thome.s, II Sussex pI.Lcmdon rd Frost Alfred, 4 Harewood pI. Upton rd

Bennett William Stephen, Tower ho. Cozens Mrs. 4 St. Leonards, High st Frost William, 30 Alpha street

Chalvey park Craft Walter,2Patrick vils.Diamond I'd Garner F. J. Gains, Mackenzie street

Eenson Frederick, 32 Church street Craske Edmund John, High street Garner Mrs. Gordon ho. Albert street

Bent Mrs. St. Denys, London road Creak William, Montem, Salt hill GaskillErnest:fetsworth vil.London Id

Bentley George, Upton Creasy Leonard, 9 Upton park Gatward Louis William, I Uxbridge

Berry John, Harrietsham villa, Vic- Cridland Joseph John, I Cotswold villas, Uxbridge road

toria street villas, Upton Gibson 'fheodore Francis, Hollydale

Biffen Miss, 7 Sussex place,London rd Crisp Fredk. Fairmead, Wellington st Gibson Thomas James, I Clifton gro.

Biggs WaIter, Homestead, Diamond rd Cromwell John Gabriel, 10 Upton park Uxbridge road

Bishop John, Sussex place,London I'd Crook Mrs. 15 Sussex pI. London I'd Gilbert Benjamin, lI8 Windsor road

Bourn Joseph, I Laurel villas, Cuvelier Jean Philippe Auguste,Arbor Gladweil John, 3 Upton Park terrace,

William street vale, Windsor road Hencroft street

Bowden Elijah, Victoria street Dally James, Montem lodge Glanfield Edward Ernest, Fairholme,

Bowen John Evan, Becton house, Wel- Drmico Carmen De Piro, r3 Sussex Chalvey park

lingtoID street place, London road Glover Robert, 31 Church street

Brickwell John, Upton villa, High st Deane Mrs.Hawthorndene, High street Goddard Harry, Lynton, Curzon street

Bridge Mrs. Mackenzie street Dedman Joseph, 6 Harewood place, Gra('e .Tames, Victoria street

Brook-Hunt Mrs. Merton gnge, Upton Upton road Gr'lnt Lady, 7 Upton park

Brookes Alfred, The Grove D('\,ereux Emest Cecil, Hill crest, Grant Mrs.2 Herschel park,Windsor rd

Brookes Jehu, 40 Alpha street Windsor road Griffith Wm. Hazlehurst. Uxbridge rd

Brooking Arthur William, 5 Herschel Deverill Edward, 32 Alpha street Grignon Herbert, 3 Belgrave place,

park, Windsor road Deverill .Tohn, Jersey house, High st Uxbridge road

Brooks Mrs. Brieford, Wexham road Deverill Miss, Ivy cottage, High st Guest WaIter, 10 Wellington street

Brown Misses, The Lawn, High street de Winton Arthur .Tohn, Sunnymede, Gutteridge William, Uxbridge road

Budgen Sidney, Mavenby, Windsor rd Upton park Hall John .lames, Observatory cot.

Buee William Urhan, The Cedars, Dodd Mrs 10 Sussex place, London I'd Datchet

William street Doddrell Thomas, Bradgate, High st Halliday Rowland,Kent viI.Diamond rd
Bullard Frederick, 1 St. Leonard's, Ducane Arthur Prideaux RA. (curate Hamb~en Miss, Dresden house, Mac-

High street of St. Mary's), Rectory, Chalvey kenzie strpet

Burfoot Fredk. Cotswood, Chalvey rd Duffield Mrs. Victoria street Hammond Edgar Rodger, 29 Welling-

Burgess WaIter R. 103 Wellington st Dnnham Thomas, 3 Laurel villas, ton street

Burton :Mrs. Upton court William street Harris Edward, 34 Mackenzie street

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Harrillon Robt.Geo.Milford,Windsor rd Marsh Rev.John Bishop M.A.(curate), Smaul Alfrpd Joseph, Herscht'l street

Han-ey Col. Hy. I Belgrave place, Rectory Smith Arth.2 Victoria vils.Victoria sI;

Uxbridge road Martin Arthur George,I28 Windsor rd Smith Frank, Hazelmere, Windsor rd

Hrward WaIter, 4 Herschel park, Martin Fredk. Lucine, Curzon street Smitt. Miss, Mackenzie street'

Windsor road Martin Richard, Castle view,Raystone Smith Miss, 3 Pxbridg~ villas

Ha"kins Mrs. I Harewood pl.Upton rd road, Chalvey Smith Mrs. 242 High str-eet

Haynes Mrs. Sefton ho. Uxbridge rd MaUhews Henry Arthur, The Grove, Smith Septimus S. Winklt~y.TheGrO'Ve

Herschd Alexander Stuart M.A., Upton grove Sotheby William Edward, Sussex ID.

F.R.S., D.C.L. Observatory house, Maul Mrs. 8 Upton park London road

Windsor road Meggs Theodore Hugh Egbert, Pin- Sprigge John Joshua, 56 Alpha street

Hewitt Geo.Fras.Birchwood,Victoria st well, Mackenzie street Squelch Edward, 58 Windsor road

Riggins Capt. Charles Clarke J.P. Miller Richard Shalders M.B. 26 Stil:man AugustuS1 Oetavius, llrightoft

20 Upton park Mackenzie road villa, Alpha street

Hill Mrs. Manor \Oillas Moore Jsph. In. Upton 10. London rd Stone George Luther, 2 Cautley viIs.

Hill Rbt. Hy. Merton viI. Victoria st Moore "\'rm. 3 St. Leonard's, High st Diamcnd road

Hoare Geo. Thos. 2 Clifton grove Mor.ecrofb Mrs. Ohalvey Stone Henry, 4 Kelson place, Welling.

Hcllis Charles Thomas, 2 Clifton vils. Morning William Charles, Corowdy ton read

Alpha street villa, Diamond road Str~bling James,Heathcote,Windsor rd

Hollyer Fdk. Edwd. 32 Mackenzie st Moses Hy. John,Clifton ho.Clifton gro Taplin Miss, Arborcroft, "\Yindsor rd

Rolmes Mrs. 4 Sussex pI.London road Nash Herbert, Sussex ho. London rd Thomas Mrs. Milton 10. Windsor rd

Holmes Rd. Rivington F.R.S.Southwd Nash John Hartopp D.L., J.P.Welling- Thompson Col. Henry, 2 Cotswolll

Holt ·Wm. 2 Harewood pl.Upton rd ton lodge, Wellington street villas, Upton

Holtking Lambert Ha:nersley, Hazel, Nash Mrs. 16 Mackenzie street Thumwoou Charle~, I Gonville villa,

hurst, Uxbridge road Nelson Misses, Upton park Heneroft street

Holton Chas. 5 Harewood pI. Upton rd Newton John,Vale cot.147 Windsor rd Timber William, Field house, Chalvey

Howard Thomas, 183 High street Newton-King Mrs. 5 Upton park Travis Mrs. 4 "Lpton park

Howse Charles Hy. 54 Alpha street Parke Mrs. 98 Windsor road Truman Chas. Edwin,18 Mackenzie st

Hughes George, Brookside, Salt hill Parrey Philip, White ho.Wellington st Turner Arthur, High stree.t

Hutton Misses, Church street Perkins Capt. Chas. Gabriel, Heather- TUl'D!'lr Joseph, Railway approach

Hydte Capt. John, 4 Clifton grov>c dene, The Grove Tuson Miss, Charlemont, Windsor rd

J ackaman _'Ufred, Highfield, Salt hill Perry Louis, 12 Mackenzie street Venab:es Mrs. Finefield, Salt hill

.Tackaman Charles, Highfield, Salt hill Phillips Th'ls.St.Leonard's viIs. High st "\Yadley Mrs. South view,Diamond rd

Jervis Mrs. 112 Windsor roadn Physic Mrs. AtheJstan, Diamond rd Wagstaff Jas. Beech "iew,Windsor I'd

Joll Mrs. Littlecot, Wind,sor road Pike Edmd. Hy. Clovelly, William st Walker Chas. Brunswick viI. High st

Josey James, 186 High street Pope Wm. WaIter, Hatfield, The Grove 'Walker Mi,s, 4 Linsdale viIs. High st

Jubb Edward George, 94 Park street Power Alfred, 9 Sussex pI. London rd Walker £mI. 4 Lonsdale viIs. High st

Kennedy Lady, Chelvey park Power Mrs. 12 Upton park Ward Col. Michael Foster,I6 Upto~ pk

Kimpton Edward Thomas, 5 Sussex Quick Mrs. 5 Sussex pI. London rd Ward Walter James, I Cautley villas,

place, London road Ramsey Capt. George Graham, 12 Diamond road

King Miss, 196 High street Wellington street Warner Spencer Evelyn, Rochdale vil.

King Miss, Manor villas "leade Alfred, lver h{)Use, Salt hi] Diamond road

Knapp C. 17 Sussex place,London rd Redrup George Bong, Salt hill "Van en Francis Robert, 16 Upton park

Langfield Wm. R!bt. Filbert'S, Park s' Rendell Thos. Hy. Woodstock,High st Waterman Misses, 6 Wellington street

Law Thomas, Wi~liam ~tr~et 'lichardson Chas. Strome, Blairthorpe, Watson Miss, 14 ('pton park

Lee Col. Arthur, Morcott, London re London road Webb Thomas Ch:.rles, Wellington st

Le Gros George John, I Cornwall viIs 10bart'l Mrs.Hillersden'4IWindsor rd West Charles, 101 "'ellington street

Hencroft street Roe Col. Robert, 3 Upton park Westmacott William, 115 High street
Lindsay William Hy. ?15 Mackenzie st 'loe George Wm. 11 Hencroft street Wharton John, I Suffolk viIs. Park st

I.Jtkie Capt. M. M. Upton Lea Rolfe 'rhomas, Montern view, Chalvey White Edwin, 48 Alpha street

Little Lieut.-Gen. Hy. Alexander C.B. Rushworth Sergt.-Major George Hy. Whitley Mrs. Braemar,lO Mackenzie st

Fairfield, Windsor road 110 Windsor road Whitney .o\lbert. 102 Windsor road

LIttle Miss, Holmstead, Chalvey park 3ale Mis,s, Montrose. Salt hill Williams In.Alfd.Hale,I06 Windsor rd

Little Robt. J.P. Oakley ho. High st San Rev. George Wi11iam (curate-in· Williamson James Bell, 44 Alpha sf!

Lovegrove Miss, 4 "\Vellington street charge o()f Stoke Poges), Ravens- Willis Miss, 'l'he Grove

Lucas Arthur, York viIs. Hencroft 8't wood, Windso::.- road "" ilson John Geo. Kylassa, C;;helvey pk

Lucas Edwin, 100 "\Vindsor road Salmon Mrs. 56 Alpha street Wimperis Edmund W. Hemingford.

Lumby John, Eversley, London road Sampson W. H. Sharrow, London rd Upton road

McCol'mack William, I Upton Park Seeker Edward Onslow J.P. Denmark Winch Thomas Dodd. I St. Leonard's
Woollett William, Bank hO.30 High st
villas, Hencroft street house, Windsor road

Macleod Miss, 2 Upton park Seymour In. Brown, Wellington st Wnght Robert A. A. Beechwood,

Major Mrs. 29 Church street Sigman Benjamin, Lydale,Wexham Id Windsor road

Marshall Mrs. 30 Mackenzie street Slocock Banj. Frank, Upton Crt. frm Yardley Mrs. Darenth, Uxbridge road

COMMERCIAL Barker John, boot maker, High street, Chalvey

Ablet.t George, grocer, 78 Albert ,s·treet Bames Edward, Windmill P.H. Salt hill
Abraham Richard, grocer, High street
Adams Edmund Weaver F.R.C.S.Eng., D.P.R.Lond., Barrett H. Leslie C. assii'tant clerk to guardians of Eta)!
union & to Eton Rural District Council, The Grove ldg
L.R.C.P.Lond. medical officer of health Slough urban
district, Church street Barrett Richard Henry, solicitor, commissioner for
Adams James, fiy proprietor, Church street oaths & perpetual commissioner,clerk to the guardians
Aldridge John, saddler, William street & assessment & school attendance committee of Etolll
Allder Edwin, shopkeeper, High street
Allen Edwin, beer retailer, Albert street union & to Eton Rural District Council, deputy steward
Allen Emma (Mrs.), laundry, Chalvey
Amos .Tames, White Hart. P.H. High street, Chalvey of the manors of Datchet &, Ditton, steward of the manor
AndrelN• .John "" Son, drapers & milliners, High st of the Rectory of Old Windsor, & superintendent regi~
Andrews G~orge, coffee house, Stoke road
Amold George, Eagle hotel, High street trar of Eton union, agent for the Law, Union & Crown,
Ashby Frank & Chas. W. chimney sweepers, Herschel st
Alkin;; John H. R. builder, contractor & decorator, , County, the London Guarantee & Accident & the Im·
Ledger's lane, Chalvey. See advert
Atkins Joseph, builder, Park street perial Live Stock Insurance Co. High street
Barrett Walter, painter, Regent place, High street
Austin Lottie ,Mrs.), shopkeeper, Ledger's la. Chalvcy
Bailey Alfl'8d, farmer, Chalvey Barrett WaIter Henry, solicitor & deputy superintendent-
Baker Alice (Miss), milliner, 87 Park street regi~trar for Eton union, High stre~t

Baker Juhn ASlSoc.M.Inst.C.E. architect, surveyor, house. Bartlett George, shoe maker, 94 H~gh street
land & estate agent, High street. Telegrams," Baker, Bateman George, carman, Chalvey
Slough." See advert .uea,sley Alfred Grace, cooper, Windsor roau

Baker John, plasterer, Alpha street Bennett George William, builder, 23 William IItreet
Ball Henry, Crown hotel, High street Bible &; Domestia Mission, Herschel street
Barber ~f:aria (Mrs.), secondhand clothes dlr. William st Bi~g8 Edward Thomas, watch maker, High street
Barclay William, boot maker, Chalvey vale Bingle Charles, laundry, 28 Alpha. s.treet
Birdseye Joseph, gas fitter, Herschel ~treet
Birtehnell Arthur, hair dresser, High street

Blanchett Walter Taylor &; Son, pianoforte d:rs. High si

Blanchett Clarenee, teacher of music, 99 lligh street

Blanchett Harry, teacher of music, 99 High street
Bowden Hy. Thos. universal provider,see But:er&Bowden

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Bowgen Philip, shopkeeper, High street D·Amico Carm~n De Piro, physician &; surgeon, 13 Sussex

Bowyer Harry. D. builder, house decorator, sanitary plaee, London road

plumber, building material dealer &; sand &; gravel Darvill Harry Lake, grocer, Church street, Chalvey

merchant, 25 )1ackenzie street. See advert Darvill Henry, furniture dealer &; remover; furniture

Bradfield Laura (:\11'8.), dres·S' maker, 28 Church street warehoused, Church street, Chalvey

Bragg Richard, apartments, High street Dash Georg-e, oilman, William street

Bragg Wm. Geo. grocer, Post office, High street,Chalvey Daverley Jsph. White Hart P.H. High st. Chalvey

Bramble Charles, photographer, Ambleside, Park street Davis Frederick, meSlSenger, 22 Alpha street

Brickwell John ~I.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon &; medical officer Daw Henry Jas. grocer &; drain pipe mercht. William st

&; public vaccinator Stoke district, Eton. union, &; in- Daws Amos, beer retailer, 'Wellington place, Chalvey

spec-tor of factories, High street Dawson William, family chemist, High street

British &; Foreign Bible Society's Depot (Griffith &; Deverill .John, builder, contractor, decorator &;c. High st.

Walden, agents), High street See advert

British Orphan Asylum (C. T. Hoskins, sec.; Miss de Winton Arthur John, preparatory school (boys).
East, m3tron; Robert Henry Hill, head master; Miss Sunnymede, Upton park

Ethel McLeod, head mistress; Miss Catherine Bligh Diamond Jubilee Memorial Nursing Home (R. H. Barrett,
Caithness, junior boys' super~ntendent; Robert Stephen sec. to tI'us~es), Osborne street
('harsley B.A., L.R.e.P.Lond. medical officer), Mac- Dickinson Thomas &; John R. P. builderS! & plumbers.

kenzie park; office, 62 Bishopsgate st.within,London EO 52 Alpha street

Brooks William Hy. &; Sons, oil &; color men, High street Dix Charles, draper, High street

Brown &; Son, carriage builders, 9 Windsor road Dodd Edward &; Co. coal dealers, High street

Brown Joseph, apartments, 24 Church .street Dodd Joseph, ~and surveyor, Hencroft street

Bryant Harry, banjo teacher, 23 Church street Doddrell Thomas, postmaster &; stamp distributor, Post

Bubb William, grocer, Church street, Chalvey office, High street

Bucks (1st) Rifle Volunteers (E Co. Capt. A. J. de Dodswl'll E. M. (Mrs.), servants' registry office, 2 Nelson

Winton, officer commanding; Sergt. J. Kimberley, place, 'Velliugton street

drill instructor), DriH hall, Royal hotel Colphin Hotel &. Athletic Grounds (Herbert George

Bunby (Ellen) &; Ashby (Vashti) (Misses), dress makers. Wilson, proprietor); parties catered for; new manage-

Chandos street ment entirely, Uxbridge road

Burge .John, boot maker, 97 Park street Dowding John, corn, coal &; coke merchant, 17 Windsor I'd

Burgess Thomas, beer retailer, 5 'Windsor road Duffield &; Co. ironmongers, 124 High street

Burgess Thomas, tailor, Chalvey road Dunsdon Charles, greengrocer High street, &; coal mer·

Burke Edward, tailor, II4 '\Vell~ngton street chant, Station yard

Butler &; Bowden, universal providers, High street Dyson Albert, ,\Vhite Hart hotel, High street

Caledonian Confection Co. shopkeepers, II3 High street Eagle Mary Susan (iMrs.), beer retailer 1& aerated water

Caley Henry, boot &; 'shoe maker, II '\Vindsor road manufacturer, Wellington street

Campkin Frederick William, stationer, 13 William st Earl Sarah Jane (Mrs.), nurse, lH~gh street
Eden Alfred, green~rocer, High street, Chalvey
Cantrell Henry S. farmer, Baylis court

Capes Athenacs ()1adame), costumier, East 10. High st Elliman, Sons &; Co. embrocation manufactory. High st

Carter James, bill poster, Herschel street Elston Richard, dairyman, Bath road

Casbourn &; Son, greengrocers, 41 Park street Emanuel .Bros. coach builders &; carriage huilders &c.;

Castle Charles, painter, 4 Cambridge viIs. Hencroft st orders solicited, High street. See advert;

Cattermole James, jun. builder, Herschel street Evans Mary (Mrs.), laundress, Salt hill

Cattermole J ames, wheelwright, 47 Park street Eyles William, baker, William street

Chadwell Artbur, confectioner, 43 Park street Figures Louisa (Mrs.), dress maker, 13 Alpha street

Chalk William Hampden, Pied Horse P.H. High street Fisher Fred, butcher, High street

Chalvey Village Gub &; Library (Rev. J. R Marsh, hon. Fisher George Parkins, school, Albert street

sec.), Chalvev Ford James, florist, Myrke nursery, Upton

Chandler Henry, furniture broker, William street Foresters Ancient Order of (A. R Batten, sec.), North

Chapman Charles, secretary of Odd :Fellows' Society, Star, William street

Hencroft street Fox Charles, plumber, Salt hill

Chapman Hor-ace, carpenter, 28 Park street Fraser Herbert M.R.C.S.Eug., L.R.C.P.Lond. physician

Charsley George Henry, solicitor &; commissioner for &; surgeon &; public vaccinator, Chalvey district, Eton

oaths &; for taking- acknowledgments,clerk to the justices union, The Thorns, High street

of Stoke hundrl'd,&; clerk to the Slough &; Beaconsfield Fricker Henry, beer retailer, Herschel street

'Grban District Councils,agl'nts for the Phrenix,the Law, Fripp Jane (Mrs.), confectioner, High street

Union &; Crown, &; the Sun Insurance Companies, Mac- Frost Daniel, greengrocer, 7 Windsor road

kenzie street; &; at Beaconsfield &; Eton Fry Henry, shopkeeper, 82 Albert street

Charsley Robert Stephen RA., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P. Fulke Henry, grocer, Albert street

Lond. surgeon, &; medical officer of British Orphan Fullbrook J. &; Co. mechanical engineers; motor car

Asylum, The Old Bam, Mackenzie street work a speciality; cycle manufacturers, &; orders

Chittenden Latham, beer retailer, High street solicited &; promptly attended to, Slough engineering &;

Church Rooms ('W. '\Yoodley caretaker), Church street cycle works, High street. See advertisement

Chutter Jonathan Albert, builder, Montem viIs. Salt hill Fuller, Smith &; Turner (Frederick Bullard, manager),

Chutter Thomas, toy dealer, Alpha street brewers, High street

Clayton William, hair dres~er, High street Fu'.ler Thomas, baker, Alpha street

Clements John, greengrocer, Herschel street Gamble William, baker, High street

Clilverd Benjamin, boot maker, High street Garner Br. Co. auctioneers, architects, surveyors,

CoIl'S, Shadbolt &; Co. cement merchants, Stoke road valuers, land &; estate agents & civil engineers,Mackenzie

CoIlins Bros. confectioners, 86 High street street, Slough; 0& 10 Union street, Old Broad street,

Cooper William 'White, surveyor &; sanitary inspector to London E C

Urban District Council, 21 Mackenzie street Garraway Edward Thomas, shopkeeper, Chalvey vale

Corbin Mary (Mad'lme), costumier, High street Gates James, grocer &; provision dealer, High street

Corder Emma (~irs.), tobacconist, High street Goorge John S. shopkeeper, 232 High street

Cornish Bros. butchers, High street George Samuel, boot &; shoe maker, High street

Cornish Frederick, shopkeeper, Ledger's lane, Chalvey Gerrard Jas. beer retlT. Park st. &; carpntr. Herschel st

Cornish George, fancy repository, 3 William street Gibson Robert, beer retailer, 26 Alpha street

Cowlman &; Sons, paperhangers, 93 Albert street Gibson Theodore Francis, miller (steam), Station

Cozens Henry, farrier, Crown hotel yard Gibson Thomas James, grocer, 90 High street

Craske Edmund John, manager of London &; County Giles Charles, outfitter, High street

Bank & treasurer to the UI1ban District Council, to the Gill Samuel, baker, Wellington street

Sloul!'h union &; Rural District Council, High street Gillham Samuel, coal dealer, Church street, Chalvey

'Crisp Frederick, tailor, High street Gladwell John &; Son, tailors, High street

Croft Thomas, ('ab proprietor, 10 Park street Gladwell Arthur, highway surveyor to the Eton Rural

Cross Emily (Mrs.), laundress, Ledger's lane, Chalvey District Council, William street

Cross Mary (Mrs.), drl'ss maker, 68 Windsor road Glass Alfrl'd, beer retailer, Ohurch ·street, Ohalvey

Crc,wn hotel ('Henry BaJl, proprietor), High street Globe Express Delivery limited (James Langley, agent),

Cullingham Henry &; Son, furniture removers, High st. ; William street &; receiving house, Grapes, High street

&; Ledl!'er's lane, Chalvey Goddard Lucy (Mrs.), upholsterer, Alpha street

Curr William, collector & sub-manager to Water Works Goddard Robert, dealer in all kinds of secondhand &

Co. 4 Herschel street new furniture, china &c. High street

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Goddard Rose Hannah (Mrs.), beer retailer, High street Kent Richards (Mrs.), dress maker, Chalvey road

Godfrey Charles, clothier, High street King Alfred, butcher, Church street, Chalvey

Goodacre &; Harrison, solicitors &; clerks to the school Kirtland William, smith, Herschel street

wards for united district of Dorney &; Boveney, High st Lamb ThomBls, beer retailer, Church street

Goodochild James, beer retaLer, Chalvey Lancaster Stephen, cabinet maker, 5 Mackenzie street

Grace Thomas, tablllCco'nist, High street Langley James, carrier, William street

Graveney William, ironmonger, High street Langton James, Cross Keys P.B. High street, Ohalvey

Greenaway Alfred, shopkeeper, Park street, Lavington George, basket maker, William street

Gregory WiEiam. baker, Mackenzie street Le Gros George John, private tutor, I Cornwall villas,

Griffith &; Walden, pharmaceutical chemists, depot for Hencroft street

mineral waters, High street Leopold Institute &; Pub:ic Hall (George Young, sec. to

Grove Ernest, baker, Stoke road the Institute; George Gallop, caretaker), High stree\

Guest Charlotte (Mrs.), girls' school, 2 Welle,sley villas Lewis Edward &; Fredk. furniture brokers &; d1rs. High s\

Guppy William George, newspaper reporter, 34 Alpha st Lewis Frederick, furniture dealer, High strllet

Gurney Ezra, baker, Chalvey road Liberal Club (H. C. Cox, sec.; Alfred Spreadbury,

Hal~ Wilbam, boot maker, 15 Park street steward), William street

Halfacre Alfred, boot maker, 106 High street Lidstone &; Co. corn merchants, hay, straw, oil cake,

HaU Henry, watch maker, Chalvey road agricultural &; horticultural seedsmen, High street

Hallam Richard, sa'nitary inspector, Eton rural district Lloyd Alfred, saddler, High street

couIllCil &; deputy registrar of marriages, Eton union, Locke Charles, fancy dealer, 66 High street

3 Harewood place, Upton road London &; County Banking Co. Lim. (branch tu) (Edmund

HaUett Henry, greengrocer, 59 Park street John Craske, manager), High street; draw on head

HaUey Richard, mineral water manufacturer, High at office, 21 Lombard street, London E C

Hambleton Alfred, draper, 9 William street Looker John Willis, architect &; surveyor, 23 Alpha street

Hammond Richard, nurseryman, Rencroft street Lovegrove Henry Fry, optician, 3 Park street

Hammond William John, watch maker, Alpha street Lucas Edwi'n, North Star P.R. William street

Hancock Richard, registrar of births, deaths &; marriages Luff Charles, bookseller, High street

&; vaccination officer for Eton sub-district i& relieving McClure Thomas, china. dealer, 78 High street

officer 1st district, Eton union, 2 Cornwall villas, McGregor David Benjamin, grocer, Stoke road

Hencroft street Mackenzie Fine Art Company, 7 Mackenzie street

Harbert Jewry R. fruiterer, Il7 High street McLeod William, boot &; shoe maker, Chalvey

Harding James Albert, butcher &; grazier, 174 High street Macrill Charles, cabinet maker, 77 Albert street
Harding John, pork butcher, High street
Marchant Robert, draper, Mackenzie street

Hare George, builder, undertaker &; carpenter; orders Marshill Mrs. Elizabeth, wine &; spirit mer. High street

solicited &; promptly attended to, Regent place, High st Martin George Matthew, Red Lion P.H. High street

Harley Alfred J ames, stone, marble &; monumental Martin Henry, post office, &; shopkeeper, Salt hill

mason, Church street Maxim Alfred, florist, Montem villas, Salt hill

Harman Frank, Queen of England P.H. 54 Park street Meggs Theodore Hugh Egbert L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.

Hart Charles, chimney sweep, 17 Park street Eng. medical officer &; public vaccinator Upton district,

Hsrvey Frank, baker &; corn dealer, High street, Chalvey Slough union, Pinwell, Mackenzie street

Haskins William, boot &; shoe maker, High street Millar John, inland revenue officer, 4 Upton Park terrace

Hatch &; Millea, picture frame makers, carvers &; gilders, Miller Richard Shalders M.B., E.S., F.R.C.S.Eng. phy-

77 High street. See advertisement sician &; surgeon, 26 Mackenzie street

Hawkins Samuel, baker, High street Mines George, confectioner, Chalvey road

Hayward Edward, photographer, Chalvey Mitchell John Hansom, solicitor, High street

Headington &; Son, corn dealers, High street Montgomrey James, Sons &; Co. timer merchants,

Hearn George, builder, Stoke road Wellington street

Herbert Edward, printer &; stationer, High street Morgan James, carman, 73 Wellington street

Herrieff Thomas, outfitter, High street Mumford Henry, boot maker, Stoke road

Hetherington John Hillman, cabinet maker, Windsor Id Mu'nday Ann (Miss), dress maker, 9 Castle street

Hiatt George, florist, High street Musk Stephen, beer retailer, William street

Hibberd George, builder, 7 Hencroft street Napper Samuel, baker, High street, Chalvey

Hibberd Stephen, builder &; decorator, High st. Chal~ey Napper iSimeon, baker, High street

HibbeJ:'t George, b:.acksmith, High street National (The) Telephone Co. Limited (H. Meade, mana-

Higgin John, Three Tuns P.H. Salt hill ger), Wellington street

Hill Nathalie &; Cec~ia (Misses), ladies' school, Cedar Nash H. &; J. Limited, brick makers

'house, Salt hill Nelson J effrey, dairyman; speciality, sterilized &

Hill Henry Mortimer, oilman, High street humanized milk; cyclists accommodated, The Creamery,

Hissey Thomas, boot maker, Stoke road 162 High street

Holland &; Barrett, grocers, High street Nevill Edward, butcher, William street

HoL:.is Charles Thomas, artist, Alpha street Nevill William, dairyman, Salt hill

Hopkins Henry, hosier, hatter &; outfitteJ:'; orders solicited, Neville W. &; Son, dairymen, 84 High st. &; 21 Park st

97 High street Neville Thomas Herbert, com. traveller, 130 Wellington d

Hopkins Joshua, The Grapes P.H. High street, &; but- Newbury William, coal dealer, High street, ChaIvey
cher, Windsor road; agent for Thomas Wethered et Newman Witiam, grocer, High street

Sons, brewers Nixey George, wheelwright, smith &; garden implement

Houghton Francis Charles, coal merchant, William stree't. manufacturer, 218 High street. See advertisement

Howard Charles Neville, shopkeeper, Salt hill Norris Robert, builder, Herschel street

Howden Edward, tailor, Herschel street Norsey James, grocer, William street

Howes George Charles, market gard'nr. High st. Chalvey Nottage, Lee & Farr. auctioneers, land &; estate agents,

Hucker Charles, painter &; decorator, High street architects & surveyors, valuers &; sanitary engineers,

Hughes John George, beer retailer, .Albert street Ihgh street

Humphrey Hugh, ~rooer, High street Odd Fellows' (M. U.) Society (Charles Chapman, sec.),

Humphries Maria (Mrs.), laundress, Ledger's la. Chalvey Hencroft street

International Tea Co.'s Stores Limited (Charles Jones, Ottley Moses James, basket maker, 30 Park street

manager), 36 High street Owen Edward John, builder, 13 Hencroft street

Isaacs Sarah (Miss), pawnbroker, 170 High street Palmer & Sons, cowkeepers &; dairymen, High street

Isbell Charles, Wellington P.B. Wellington street Palmer Charles, printer, stationer &; fancy dealer, 146 ~

!vall Thomas, baker, Church street, Chalvey 148 High street

Jackaman &; Son, railway &; bridge contractors, High street Palmer Esther (Mrs.), coffee rooms, High street

J ames J ames A. leather cutter &; seller &; ooot &; shoe Palmer William, dining rooms, William street

makers, High street Parker Charles E. greengrocer, High street &; 36 William st

Jeayes, Kasner & Co. coal merchants, & G. W. Railway Parker F. cycle &; motor works, 57 High st. Sell advert

agents, Mackenzie street Passmore James Francis, boot maker, IX William stree&

Jones Edward, boot &; shoe maker, High street, Chalvey Pearse Albert, refreshment rooms &; station master, Rail·

Jordan Henry &; Son, boot &; shoe makers, High street way station

Josey James, commercial traveller, High street Paterson James, grocer, Post office, Stoke road

Judd John T. saddler, High street Pay'na Alfred, beer retailer, High street

Jupp George, plumber, William street Perrin Thomas, builder, contractor &; decorator; orders

Keen Thomas William, shopkeeper, Salt hill attended to, Windsor road. See advertisement

Keeping John, Greyhound P.H. Albert street Phillips & Son, builders' merchants, sanitary &; horticul-

Kent J. beer retailer, High street tural pGtters. T.A" Potteries," Slough. See adver&

DIRECTORY. ] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. SLOUGH. ' Ib9.

Pilgrim William, plumber, Montague road SInith W. H. &; Son Limited (James Gover, clerk), Book

Pimm Mary Ann (Mrs.), stay maker, Park street stall, Railway station

Pond Charles, baker, Albert street Smith Ellen (Mrs.), bepr retailer, Church street

Pond W. (Mrs.), dress maker, 50 Alpha; street Smith Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Salt hill

Poole William Thomas, beer retailer, Windsor road Smith Frank, boot maker, 5 Willianl street

Pope W. & Son Limited, iron founders, Gotha iron wks Smith. George, ironmongtr, Park street

Porrie Archibella (Mrs.), apartments, Alpha street Smith Henry Jame~, grocer, 23 Par~ street

Poynter, Carter & Co. saddlers, 152 High street Smith John, painter, William street

Purser Edmund & Alfred, butchers & fishmongers,High st Smith John, tobacconist, William street

Purser William,builder &; contractor,Myrtle ho.Diamond I'd Smith Mary (Mrs.), coffee house, Windsor road

Pusey Jabez, blacksmith, Salt hHl Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge depot,

Putnam Edward Salisbury, cabinet ma. II4 Windsor I'd High street

Rabbitt Edward Dawson, general & furnishing ironmonger, Spearpoint John, boot &; shoe maker, Stoke road

gas & hot water engineer &c. High street Sprigge John Joshua, solicitor, High street

Rainer Frederick Napper, greengrocer, William street Stamp Office (Thomas DoddreE, distributor), Post office

Rawlings Hy. John, Rein Deer inn, High street Stanley Ann (Mrs.), laundry, Chalvey road

RawJnson James, fly proprietor, Herschel street Stannett Caleb, jobbing gardener, 49 Wellington street

Redrup &; Dally, Royal Windsor embrocation manufac- Stannett Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundress, Belgrave road

turers, Salt hill. ,See advertisement Stannett Elizabeth Kate (Miss), midwife, 49 Wellington si;

Rees Ellen (Mrs.), apartments, Ferncote, Windsor road Stapleton Joseph, gasfitter, Church street, Chalvey

Refuge Assurance Co. Limited (Herbert Ernest f'rancis, Steadman Percy George, hair dresser, 15 Windsor road

district manager), Victoria street Steel Annie (Mrs.), apartments, 26 Church street

Reid Nev'ile & 00.'8 malt houses, Alpha street Stribling James &; Sons, grocers &; agents for W. &; A.

Rich Thomas James, plumber, High street Gilbey Lim. wine & spIrit merchants, High street

Rich William, builder, Alpha street Sutton George, supt. of county police .& deputy chief con-

Robinson Harry, hair dresser, II William street stable, Police station, Bath road

Robinson Martin, boot repairer, Hencroft street Taylor A. E. &; E. (Misses), shopkeepers, Wellington

Roe Edward, toba.cconist, High street place, Ohalvey

Rogan James, boot maker, 45 Park street Taylor John, coal dealer, Stoke road

Rogers George Henry, carriage builder, Churoh street Thirkettle Annie (Mrs.), apartments, Hencroft street

Rohde Carl, watch maker, Hligh street Thomas Arthur, assistant overseer, collector of taxes &;

Roll George, chair caneI', 40 Chandos street of rates to the Urban District Council, &; clerk to Wrays-

Rolph A., A. E. & C. (U\Iisses), art needle work depot, bury school board, High street

Mackenzie street Thomas Lemiul Richard,draper &; milliner, 96 & 93 High s1;

Rolph George, fly proprietor, 180 High street Timber Joseph, butcher, High street, Chaltey

Romier Henry, beer retailer, 131 High street Trimby Oharles, carpenter, Hencroft street

Rowley Minnie (Mrs.), boot & shoe dealer, William street Tubey Samuel, bricklayer, Wellington &treet

Royal hotel, PO!lting house & hunting establishment; Tull Henry, flOrIst, Cha:.vey road

opposite the station (Samuel Vallis, proprietor). See Turner Chas.nurseryman,seedsman & florist, Royal nursry

advertisement Turner David, Swan P.H. Salt hill

Royal South Bucks Agricultural Association (R. H. Bar- Turtan Frederick, beer retailer, High street, Chalvey

rett, sec.), High street Universal Supply Stores, universal providers (Butler &;

Ruby George, beer retailer, 'Wellington place, Chalvey Bowden, proprietors), High street

Sargeant & Son, arclutects & surveyors, 106 High street VaUis Samuel, Royal hotel & posting house & hunting

Sargeant Edwd. mason, & poor rate collector, Church st establishment. See advertisement

w.Schmid Christian Frederick, watch maker, I William st Volunteer Fire Brigade (Arthur Turner, captain; W.
Scrivens Sarah (Mrs.), dress maker, 146 Windsor road Pope, hon. sec.), Rayal hotel &; Mackenzie street

Scruton John, grocer, Alpha street Wait John, furniture broker, High street

Seagrave Mary Ann (Mrs.), confectioner, 13 Windsor roJad Walden Henry Ernest. pharma.ceutical chemist, see

Seymour Willia:n, shopkeeper, Church street, Chalvey Griffith &; Walden

Sharp Henry Caldecot, undeJ.'taker i& mason, Alpha street WaI.'.ington &; Son, bakers, Albert -street

Shelton W'illiam Samuel, farmer, Ohalvey Manor farm Wallis Page Sargeant, Prince of Wales P.H. Windsor road

Shorter Fanny (Mrs.), boarding house, Hencroft street Ward William Henry, pianoforte tuner, William ctreet

Simm(}DS Choarles, builder 1& contractor; orders solicited Warner John Alfred, painter, 132 Wellington street

& promptly attended to, Stoke road Watson Noah Thomas, beer retailer, 149 High street

Slmonds Henry & George Limited, brewers & wine West London Daary Co. Limited (Henry John Coulter,

&; spirit merchants (James D. Carter, manager), High st manager), Upton dairy, Upton

Simpson Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments, 36 Church street West Tom, beer retailer, Alpha street

Slocock Benjamin Frank, farmer, Upton Court frm.Upton Waston Alfred, mineral water manufacturer, Stoke road

Slough &; District Co-operative Society LiInited (A. Wol- Wethered Thomas & Sons Limited(Joshu8 Hapkins,agent),

sey, sec.), High street brewers; stores, Windsor road

Slough &; District Liberal &; Radical Club (Thomas Cox, Wheeler John, Bla.ck Boy P.H. High street

sec.), William street Willis Arthur Thomas, butcher, Hligh street

Slough &; Eton Permanent Building Society (A. Thomas, Wilmot James, jobbing gardener, High street

sec.), High street Wilmott -, upholsterer, 49 Park street

Slough, Eton &; Windsor Observer; Charles LUff, pro- Willmott T. J. &; Son, upholsterers, 49 Park street

prietor & publisher; publIished sat.; High street Wilson Herbert George, Dolphin hotel, Uxbridge road.

Slough Gas &; Coke Co. (incorporated 1866) (Thomas Chas. Withers John, Brickmakers' Arms, Stoke road

Webb, manager; G. Cornish, collector); office, Wel- Woodbridge, Lacy, Hartland, Hibbert &; Co. bankers

lington; works, Chandos street (William Woollett, manager), High street; draw on

Slough Sewage Pumping Station (Percy Smith, engineer- Glyn, Mills, Currie &; Co. London E C

in~harge), Ohalvey Woodbridge William, boot &; shoe maker, Alpha street

Slough Water Works Co. (R. G. Harrison, sec.; E. O. Woollett Wllliam, manager to Messrs. Woodhridge, Lacy,

Decker, manager; William CUIT, collector &; inspector), Hart~and, Hibbert &; Co. bankers, High street

4 Herschel street World's Tea Co. (The), 152 High street

Smith E. M. (Miss), ladies' school, Mackenzie street Young Isaac, shopkeeper, Stoke road

SOULBURY is a village and large parish 4 miles in late Mr. G. E. Street R.A. at a cost of £1,400: in the
length, 2 Iniles nOl-th-west from Leighton Buzzard sta- chancel is a vault of the Lovett family, and there are
tion on the main line of the London and North Western three brasses recording the possession of the Liscombe
railway, in the Mid division of the county, Cottesloe estate by that family since 13°4: there is also a brass
hundred, Linslade petty sessional division, Leighton to Col. John Lovett M.P. 1710, his wife the Hon. Mary
Buzzard union and county court district, rural deanery Verney, 1769, and their sons Verney M.P. 1771, and
of Ivinghoe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of John, 1758, all of whom 'are buried here: there is a
Oxford. The Grand Junction canal, the river Ousel and piscina and a hagioscope in the south aisle, a low-side
the London and North Western railway pass through window, two piscinre and double sedilia in the chancel,
this parish. The church of All Saints is an edifice of and a piscina in the north aisle: the ancient rood stairs
atone chiefly of the Decorated period, with Perpendicular remain: there are 320 sittings. The register dates from
alterations and additions, and consists of a fine chancel, the year 1676. The living is a vicarage, without house,
clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled net yearly value £90, in the gift of the trustees of the
Liscombe estate, and held since 1899 by the Rev. Fredk.
western tower containing a clock and 6 bells: the whole William Linton BogIe, of Univer~ity College, London, and
fabric was restored in 1863, under the direction of the

160 SOULBURY. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [KELLY'S

St. Aidan's. The Wesleyan chapel here holds 100 picture of the Eddystone rock, the fee of which belongs
persons. The Stapleford Bridge charity, adminis- to the Lovetts. Stockgrove, the property of Sir Wynd.

tered under a scheme promulgated in 1858, pro- ham Charles Henry Hanmer bart. of Whitchurch, Salop,
vides yearly £5 for the repairs of the bridge across now occupied by Joseph Trueman Mills esq. is an elegant
the river Ousel, £2 2S. for the Aylesbury Infirmary and modern mansion of white brick, situated on the hills on
the balance for the erection and repair of cottages for the borders of the parish and county; the grounds are

the poor: Lovett and Sambee's charity supplies £100 well wooded and afford extended views, richly varied
yearly for educational purposes: Harris's charity of with plantations. In the parish is a drinking fountain

£7 10S. is for distribution and Tarbuck's of 12S. for a and cattle trough, erected in 1887 by Capt. Phillips Cosby
sermon. Liscombe Park, the property of Percy Cosby Lovett, d. 1891. The principal landowners are Percy C.
Ernest Lovett esq. and now occupied by James Wyld E. Lovett esq. and Sir Wyndham Charles Henry Hanmer
Brown esq. has been the seat of the Lovett family for bart. The soil is light sandy; subsoil, sandstone and

between five and six centuries; the present mansion is gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans and bar-
a large quadrangular structure of the Elizabethan ley. The area is 4,201 acres of land and 45 of water;
period; one side of the court is occupied by an ancient rateable v-alue, £13,224; the population in 1891 was 510.
chapel, dating from the middle or end of the 14th Sexton, William Andrews.
century, with part of an ancient stained window, and in Hollingdon is a hamlet in the parish of Soulbury, 3~
the courtyard is a magnificent old yew tree; the kitchen miles north-west from Leighton Buzzard.
gardens are large and ancient; the park, extending over
about 200 acres, abounds in oak and other timber; the Post Office. John Thomas Mead, SUb-postmaster. Let;..

house contains portraits of members of this family by ters through Leighton Buzzard arrive at 7 B.m. &;

Sir Godfrey Kneller and Sir Peter Lely, and there are 3.40 p.m. Box cleared at 12·45 &; 6.30 p.m. week
tlesides portraits of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk days only. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid.

K.G. d. 1545; John Russell, ISt Earl of Bedford. d. 15th Linslade is the nearest money order &; Leighton Buzzard
March, 1555; Sir Nicholas Crispe; Sir Edmund Verney is the nearest telegraph office, 3 miles distant

kt. standard bearer to King Charles I. who fell at the National Endowed School, erected in 1863 from the
t:attle of Edgehill, 23 Oct. 1642; William Sancroft, accumulated funds of Lovett's charity; it will hold go

Archbishop of Canterbury, 1677-91; Titus Oates, the children; average attendance, 85; an Infants' School
notorious originator of "the Popish Plot," d. 17°5; and was established at Michaelmas, 1876; Miss Mary Sim.

Nell Gwynne, mistress of Charles n. d. 1687, and a mons, mistre!s

SOULBURY. Deverell Thomas, farmer, Chemscott Scott George, shopkeeper

BogIe Rev. Fredk.Wm. Linton (vicar) Faulkner John, farmer, Dean farm Souster John, farmer

BroWl1J James Wyld, Liscombe park Holmes John F. Boot P.H Walker George, farmer

Mills Joseph Trueman, Stockgrove Holloway Mrs. Elizabeth, farmer Ward George, blacksmith

Lo,-ett Percival Cosby Ernest J.P Janes William, farmer, IsEp farm HOLLINGDON.
Tucker Mark, The Cottage
McBain David, farmer
COMMERCIAL.
McGouran John, steward to P. C. E. Bellgrove Henry, farmer

Lovett esq Blackford Jesse, Red Lion P.R

Andrews William, baker Mead William, farmer Corkett J')hn, farmer

Anstee Oharles', farmer Newens Fredk. Jas. miller (water) &; Edwins William, farmer

Arnold Joseph, farmer farmer, ~tapleford mill &; New inn Home Edwin, farmer, Valley farm

Bliss George, farmer, Church farm Presswell Joseph, Henry &; James, Mead John, farme.r

Bliss Robert, farmer farmers, Dollar farm Sirutt Noah, farmer

STANTONBURY is a parish in a most productive net yearly value £246, including 2 acres ot glebe,

Talley on the river Ouse, and abutting on the road from in the gift of :Earl Spencer, and held since 1891 by the

Newport Pagnell to Wolverton, l i miles north-east from Rev. Arthur Chorley Woodhouse M.A. of St. John's

Wolverton station on the main line of the London and College, Cambridge, who resides at New Bradwell. The

North Western railway, and 21 west from Newport Pag- Baptist chapel, erected in 1843, holds 40 persons. Earl

neIl station on the Wolverton and Newport Pagnl'll Spencer K.G., P.C. is lord of the manor and the prin-

branch of the same line, 14 from Bedford and 4 north- cipal landowner. 'l'he soil is graTel and sand; subsoil,

east from Stony Stratford, in the Northern division of clay. The land is chiefly pasture. The area of the

the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and parish is 789 acres of land and 17 of water; assessable

cGunty court district of Newport Paguell, and in the rural' value, £1,014; the population in 1891 was 29.

deanery of Buckingham (second portion), archdeaconry of Parish Clerk John William Pidgen ..
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The Grand Junction '
canal passes through the parish. The church is a small Letters through Wolver.ton :a.S.D.. arl'lve at 8 a.m.

edifice of stone in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, 'Volverton, about 2 mIles dIstant, IS the nearest money

nave and south porch, but is not used; the parishioners order &; telegraph office

&ttend the church at New Bradwell. The living is a The nearest Letter Box is at New Bradwell, about I mile

vicarage, with that of :J'\ew Bradwell annexed, joint distant

Selby Thomas Millin, farmer

STEEPLE CLAYDON, see Claydon.

STEWKLEY is a village and parish S miles west a triplet, with similar mouldings and slender shafts, the
from Leighton Buzzard station on the main line of the centre opening however alone being pierced; on the north

London and North """estern railway and 6 east from side of the chancel is a plain, oblong recess, perhaps an
'Winslow, 12 miles south-east from Buckingham, in the aumbry: in the south wall is a plain piscina, below which
Mid division of the county, hundred of Cottesloe, Lins- is a stone seat running all along the south side, the
lade petty sessional division, union of Winslow, Bucking- eastern end being elevated and the western end termin-
ham county court district, rural deanery of Mursley, ating in a massive elbow rest~ the roof is groined: the
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. tower, rising almost from the centre of the building, is

The village is nearly 2 miles long and lies 500 feet above supported on massive semi-circular arches, springing
the sea, on the high ground which divides the drainage from piers nearly 4 feet in thickness, with rounded
of the Ousel and the Thames. The church of St. columns at the angles and richly carved on the western
Michael and .All Angels is one of the most complete side: the belfry story of the tower is surrounded on the
and remarkable examples of the Norman style now exterior by an arcading of interlaced round-headed
extant in this country, dating, as far as can be ascer- arches with zigzag mouldings, on short columns, with
tained, from the close of the IIth century, since it is plain caps: the nave has two windows on each side

certain that in 1170 it was given by Geoffrey de Clinton similar to those in the chancel, under all the windows
-to the Priory of Kenilworth, but Mr. Parker assumes there runs externally a string-course of zigzag mould-

its date to be about II50: the ground plan forms a ing: the west front is a curious and interesting example
'parallelogram of four squares, of which two belong to of Norman work, and exhibits an arcade of three arches.
the nave, one to the chancel and one to the tower, each the centre arch forming the entrance being recessed with

being about 21 feet long, the nave .21 feet 6 inches and three rows of zigzag moulding: above there is a single

the tower and chancel 18 feet wide; the church there- window like the others: the font is plain and cylindrical,
fore consists of chancel and nave, south porch and a splaying out considerably towards the top: the north
massive central tower with pinnacles, about 57 feet in door of the nave, hitherto blocked up, is ornamented

height, containing 5 bells: the chancel has a window on with double chevron moulding, on single shafts with
either side, splayed towards the interior and adorned carved caps: the south door has similar mouldings,

with zigzag mouldings: the east window is, externally, with shafts in pairs and richly carved caps: the whole

DIRECTORY. ] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. STEWKLEY. 161

()i the chu·rch is Norman with the exception of the Methodist chapel, built in 1839, has 400 sittings. The

.priest's door in the chancel, which is Early English: the charities amount to £26 yearly, which sum is applied to

l'oofs seem to ha.e been lowered in 1684: in 1844 the the purposes of the church and the school and to tlw

chancel was repaired and the stone vaulting partly re- relief of the poor. Sir Wyndham C. H. Hanmer bart. of

moved and renewed with brick: in 1862 a completE.' Whitchurch, Salop, is lord of the manor. The landowner~

restoration was carried out, under the direction of the are Leopold de Rothschild esq. of Ascott Park, Leighton

late Mr. G. E. Street R.A. when the roofs were raised Buzzard, the trustees of the late William Thomas Caven-

to their original pitch, the stucco removed from part of dish, Mrs. James Vere Woodman, and Messrs. John Chil-

the walls and the western entrance cleared of plaster: lingworth, George Windsor, W. R. Rowland, of Creslow,

new buUresses had also previously been supplied to the John Hedges, Thomas Kibble, Charles Palmer and :1". A.

chancel wall: the church has also been reseated with Bliss. The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, clay. The

Q~n benches and stalls placed in the choir, a massive chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and some land in pas-
stone pulpit, new communion table introduced, and a ture. The area is 3,980 acres; rateable value, £7,329;

reredos of alabaster and marble erected, the east win- the population in 1891 was 1,328.

aow being at the same time filled with stained glass: Stewkley Dean is a hamlet of the parish of Stewkley,

during the progress of the works, a rude carving in about I! miles west, consisting of three farm houses.

marble, representing the Virgin and Child, with atten- Littlecote is a hamlet of this parish, about 2 miles

dant angels, was found buried in the step of a doorway, south-west from the village, also consisting of three

Ilome ancient tiles were also met with, and a coffin slab farm houses.

bearing a fioriated cross: there are monuments to the Parish Clerk, Richard Grace.
Rev. Charles Ashfield M.A. vicar here 1802-3°, and to
his widow: in 1885 a new organ was erected by sub- Post, M. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
licription: in 1888 a handsome brass lectern was pre- Post, S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office. William
sented in memory of the Rev. Charles Henry rrravers Dickens, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through
~I.A. vicar 1859-70, and the Rev. Charles Leslie Leighton Buzzard at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 12 noon &i
Alexander, vicar 187°-81: there are 312 sittings. ThE.' 5.40 p.m
register dates from the year 1545. The earlier portion
trom 1545 to 1653 has been repaired and bound at the Wall Letter Boxes, south end of village, cleared at 5.15,
p.m.; &; north end of village, cleared at 5.15 p.m

expense of the present vicar. The living is a vicarage, Schools.
net yearly value derived from glebe £286, with resi-
dence, erected in 1861, in the gift of the Bishop of Ox- National, erected in 1860, &; since enlarged for 350 chil-
ford, and held since 1890 by the Rev. Robert Bruce dren; average attendance, 60 boys, 60 girls &; 108
Dlckson M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and surro- infants; Arthur George Dale, certificated master;
gate. The church of the Holy Trinity, built in 1866, at Miss Euphemia Lowen, mistress

the south end Qf the parish by the Rev. C. H. Travel's Carriers.

mentioned above, is a small and plain building, consisting John Chappell, to Leighton, daily

£Jf a simple nave, with a bell cote over the western en- rrhomas Tofield, to Leighton tues. &; fri. &; A.ylesbury.

trance, and will hold about 80 persons. The Wesleyan wed. &:i sat

chapel, built in 1839, ,seats 500 persons; the Primitive Stephen King, to Leighton, tues. &; fri

STEWKLEY. Cox George, Red Lion P.H Keen Edmund, bricklay~r

Bates Thcmas Davey Sophia (Miss), shopkeeper Keen .Tames, bricklayer &; shopkeeper

Dickson Rev. Robert Bruce 1\I.A. DD~('Jk~ns ARobe(r;~ bu)tchehr 1 . 1 ~een JJarnes, farlmedr, _~he &;Clfack
(near & surrogatE'), Vicarage lC ~ms' nn mrs., W ee wrIg It
L\.een 0 h n, catt e ewer armer

Hedges' Thomas, Heywood hou!>e Dickills WiHiam, grocer, Post office Keen Richard, farmer
H ( . .. Dickins Wi11iam, s·boe maker Kibble Thomas,farmer,Stewkley Dean
Kuibnbtleer rRrhevo.mGaseorge PrmlltIve Meth) Do.e Elizabeth Ann (Miss), ladies'schl Mabutt Arthur Wm. Old Swan inn
1'Iayne Luke Elmer William, beer retailer Mayne Wil1iam &; Sons, plumoers

Palmer Montague, The Grange Faulkner Fred, baker &; miller (wind Ma)r.e John, plumber '

Windsor (reorge &; steam) Mc-ad Eamund. farmer &; dealer
Faullmer Thomas, farmer,Manor farm Mead John, baker

COMMERCIAL. Forster Thomas, Bull P.R Meld Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Angood Charles H. grocer &; draper Garner .Toseph, coal dealer Mead Matthew, farmer

Barton John, faImer Grace Frederick, farmer Mead Thomas, chimney sweep

Barton Richard, coach builder Grace Frederick, shopkeepr. &; corn dlr Mead Thomas, hair dresser

Beasley]enathan, shoe maker Grace \Yilliam, falmer Mead William, farmer

Beasley Thomas, hawk!'r GrE.'en Gt'Dl ge, gE'neral dealer Nash John, tailor

IIliss Arthur, blacksmith Griflm Wil1iam, farmer Randall Jane (Mrs.), farmer

Bliss Elizh. (Mrs.), farmr.Potash farm Hankin James G.Carpenters' ArmsP.B Rowe Charles, Rose &; Crown P.H

Bliss Elizabeth (Mrs.), brick, tile & Harrup John, farmer &; wheelwright Sirett Thomas, shopkeeper

drain pipe maker Heady Edward, baker Smith DaniE.'l, shopkeeper

Bliss George, blacksmith Heady Fredk. hawker & hardware dlr Smith William Thomas, shopkeeper

Yodsworth Brothers, saddlers &; har- Hedges Fdward, shopke.eper Steele John J. White Horse inn

ness maktrs Hedges Frederick, farmer Stone George, farmer

Bonham Frederick, farmer Hedges Frdk. In. frmr. Wing Rd.frm Stonhill Richard Hedges, King's Head

13ricknall Robert, farmer Hedges John, brick, tile &; pipe maker, P.H. &; coach bui:der

Capp George, carpenter &; farmer, The Warren Tolfield 'lhcmas. carrier

Chandler George, butcher Hedges John, farn:er, Stewkley Dean Willis George, shoe maker &; farmer

ChappeH John, carrier Hedges John C. poultry dealer Windsor George, farmer &; grazier

Chappelil Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hedges Joseph, farmer,Vicarage farm

ChesHre ThQmas, marine stQre dealer Hedges Wm. jnn. farmer, Kiln farm LITTLECOTE.

Claridge Thomas, tailor Hedges William Charles, corn dealer (
Clarke Robert, Cricketers' Arms P.R Reley George, bldr.,carpenter &; frmr Marked * shruld be addressed

Cl-trke William, builder Hounslow John, blacksmith Winslow.)

Coleman Retty (Mrs.), groer.&; draper Illing Charles, beer retailer Grace William, farmer

Colemalll Arth.threshmg macho I·ropr TIling Ezra, boot maker *Hedge'l William, farmer

Coles Thoma.s, coach builder &;c Keen Alfred, bricklayer Keen Eliza (Mrs.), farmer

STOKE GOLDINGTON is a parish and village on tower containing 5 bells: there are 300 sittings, ISO
the road from Newport Pagnell to Northampton; from being free. The register dates from the year 1538. The

the former it is 41 miles south-west and the latter 10 living is a rectQry, consolidated with Gayhurst, joint net

south-east, and 4 east from Olney station on the Bed- yearly value £286, includin~ 236 acres of glebe, with resi-
ford and Northampton branch of the Midland railway, dence, in the gift of J. W. Carlile esq. and held since 1865

in the Northern division of the county, hundred, petty by the Rev. Charles Jerdein M.A. of Trinity College,

sessional division, union and county court district of Dublin. The Congregational chapel erected in 1819 will
Xewport Pagnell, archdeaconry of Buckingham, rural seat 300. The Workin~ Men's Club here was erected in
deanery of Newport Pagnell and diocese of Oxford. The 1885 at the expense of James William Carlile esq. lord of
church of St. Peter, seated on an acclivity, is an ancient the manor and principal landowner. The soil is various,
-edifice of stone in the Early English strle, consisting of principally stiff clay and limestone; subS()il, clay and

ckancel, nave of six bays, aisles and a low embattled limestone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and

BUCKS. 11

162 STOKE GOLDINGTON. BUCKINGHAl\iSHIRE. [KELLY'S

beans. Bricks are made here. The area is 2,346 acres Post Office.-Alfred Clarabut, sub-postmaster. Letters

of land and 6 {)f water; assessable value, £2,229; the arrive from Newport Pagnell at 7.50 a.m.; dispatched

'Population in 1891 was 767. at 5.20 p.m.; on sunday at II a.m. Postal orders are

Sexton, Thomas Linas. issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order &;

telegraph office is at Hanslope, 3 miles distant

Gorefields, a place of 65 acres with no resident popula- National School (mixed), built in 1837 &; enlarged in

tion and formerly extra-parochial, was annexed to this 1870, for 180 children; average attendance, 165; Wm.

parish in 1865 by an order of quarter sessions. Steventon, master

Dawkes :Misses CIl:'1'abut Alfred, grocer &; general Roddis John, farmer, r.ecto)ry farm

Riggins Mrs draper, Post office Smith Edwin, farmer

Jerdein Rev. Charles M.A. Rectory Clarke Charles, George &; Dragon P.B Smith Thomas, builder

Moncreiff G.W.TheGrange,Eakeley Ius Davis Mrs. Sarah, Lamb P.H Waite Joshua, Coach &; Horses P.H

COMMERCIAL. Dowdy :Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Wesley Frederick, coach builder

Amos Elizh.(Ml's.),farmr.Eakele)tlanes Edmunds Thomas, boot maker WEsley William, carpenter

.Armstrong Charles, shopkeeper Harris Josiah, White Lion P.H Whiting George Benjamin, mr.chin&

Botterill George, baker & beer retailer Higgins Hugh, jun. farmer proprietor, farmer &; maltster

Bull G. &; Co. brick &; tile makers Hinson William, falmr. Eakeley lanes Working Men's Club (Wm. Steventon,

Bull J. &; G. builders Kilpin George. fal"mer &; farm bailiff sec. &; treas)

Bull John, beer retailer to Jamoil EdmundSl Wrighton Thomas, frmr. Eakeley lu

STOKE HAMMOND is a parish and village on the Fountaine family. The register dates from the year
river Ouse, 3 miles south from Bletchley Junction sta- 1534. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £160,
tion on the main line of the London and North Western with residence, in the gift of Edward Hart esq. and held

railway and 4 north-west from Leighton Buzzard, in the since 1869 by the Rev. Edmund Pain B.A. of Emmanuel
Northern division of the county, hundred and petty ses- College, Cambridge. There is a Wesleyan chapel here.

sional division of Newport union, and county court dis- The principal landowners are Bernard Thomas Fountain&

trict of Leighton Buzzard, rural deanery of Bletchley, esq. who is lord of the manor and resides at Stoke-
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. House, and Leopold de Rothschild esq. of Ascott, Wing.

The church of St. Luke, which dates from the early part The soil is light clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. The-

of the 13th century, is a small cruciform building of chief crops are wheat, oats, beans and barley. The area
sandstone, approached through an avenue of lime treps, is 1,551 acres of land and 15 of water; rateable value,
and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch, £9,369; the population in 1891 was 312.
and a central tower containing 3 bells: the roof is Parish Clerk, Thomas Stevens.
panelled in oak, and the fittings and furniture of the
same material; the font is Norman: in the course of Post Office. Mrs. Happy Keen, sub-postmistress. Let-
the restoration in 1852, finely decorated sedilia and a ters through Bletchley arrive at 7.30 a.m. for first de-
piscina were discovered in the south wall of the chancel: livery, second delivery 5.45 p.m. Box cleared at 8.10>
on the west wall of the north transept is a stone tablet a.m. &i 6,4° p.m. &; on sundays at 10 a.m. Postal
with inseriptions to members of the Fountaine family orders are issued here, but not paid. Great Brickhill
from 1650 to 1690: there is a curious poor-box dated is the nearest money order office, & Fenny Stratford
1619, and some ancient stained glass: the stained east the nearest telegraph office, 3 miles distant
window was given by the present rector: there are 150 National School, erected in 1844, for III children;
sittings. In the churchyard is a. tomb erected to the average attendance, 6o; Miss Kate Haviland, mistress

Adams George Peach, Mount I'lfa~ant Collier Abraham, farmer Keen Mrs. Happy, shopkeeper,Post oB

Fountaine Bernard Thos.J.P.Stoke ho Curtis Harry, Dolphin inn &; shoe ma Scott Ann (Mrs.), llhupkt:epl\r

Pain Rev. Edmund B.A. (rector) Faulkner William, farmer Simmons William Bernard, farmer

COMMERCIAL• Fountaine Charles, farmer Stevens Samuel, farmer

.Adams George Peach, landoY'"ner &, Gale George, farmer Willison Alpheus, farmer

farmer, MOl1Illt Pleasant Gee George, Bell P.H Willison John, farmer

STOKE MANDEVILLE is a parish and small on the Chiltern Hills, 6 miles from the parish church.
village on the road from Aylesbury to Princes Ris- Edward Munday Major Lucas esq. who is lord of the
borough, with a station on the Metropolitan Extension manor, Lord Rothschild, Mrs. Bennett, of Aylesbury, th&

railway, and 2! miles south from Aylesbury railway trustees of the late Hans Sloane-Stanley, Frederick Whit-

station, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and church, of Culver Lodge, Sandown, I.W., Jeffery Gadsden,
petty sessional division of Aylesbury, union of Wycombe, of Weston Turville, and Richard Clare Gurney esq. of

county court district of Aylesbury, rural deanery of Saunderton, are the principal landowners. The soil i&

Wendover, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of stiff wet clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat,

Oxford. By a Local Government Board Order, March beans and oats. The area is 1,498 acres; rateable value,
25, 1885, a part of Stoke Mandeville parish was amal- £2,800; the population in 1891 was 356.

gamated for civil purposes with Great and Little Hamp- Parish Clerk, James Foster.

den. The church of St. Mary, er~cted in 1886 on a Letters through Aylesbury, delivered by foot messenger
new site near the centre o~ the vIllage,. about half. a
about 7.30 a.m. &; 4.30 p.m. Wall Letter Box cleared
mile fro.m tJ;1e old church, IS ~ small bUlldin~ ~f flmt I at 8.30 a.m. &; 6.40 p.m. week days only. Aylesbury
and brICk m the Early EnglIsh style. CORsIstmg of is the nearest money order &; telegraph office, about 2~
chancel, nave, south porch, and an embattled western miles distant

Of 01'tower with pinnacle~ containing 5 bells: in the churc~ is

now placed a beautIful marble mon~ment t? three chIld-
ren who were killed by Cromwellian soldIers, removed
here by faculty in February, 1899: there are
A School Board of 5 members was formed 24th Jan.
189d3;S George Fell, Aylesbury, clerk to the board
B ~h It d · 8' dS
erec e I 43, IS now
ID use as a un-

300 sittings. The old church of St. Mary the A ay sc 0 0 .childr~n .was opened Jan. 1895,•
Virgin, which is still standing, is occasionally new school for 80
used. The register dates from the year 1612. The living averag~ attend~nce, 66; ChrIstopher Edward. Arn.old;
is a vicarage, net yearly value [240, with residence, in master, there IS a house for the master, built smc

the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, and held since 1882. . .
1879 by the Rev. Meyer Mensor D. Theol. of the Dni- MetropolItaIli Railway StatIOn, John Sutherland, statiOl1

versity of Berlin. The vicarage house was built at a cost master
of £1,200, on a site g-iven by the then vicar, who also Carriers from Prince9 Risborough to Aylesbury pus

gave a site for the schools. The Wesleyan chapel, built through on wed. &; sat
in 1818 and enlarged in 1868, will11eat 150 persons. There Carrier from Stoke Mandeville to Aylesbury, John North,

is a llmall chapel of ease in a detached part of the parish wed. &; sat

Downs James Henry, The Limes Davis David, farmer, Stoke house Payne Charles, farmer, Brook farm

Mensor Rev. Meyer D.D. Vicarage F.dwards Jsph. Emanl.frmr.Timms fm Pursseli Pder. farmer, Stoke grange

Sutherland John, Bushey cottage Eldridge Alfred James, farmer Reynolds Robert, Bell P.H

OOMMERCIAL. Eldridge WaIter, blacksmith Seaton Tom, farmer, Moat farm

Baker Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Fleet Amol Chas. farmer, Bells farm Smith Edwin, wheelwright

Barrett William, Bull P.H Frpebourn Florence (Miss), farmer, Smith Josiah, !!eneral dealer

Brown Ebenezer, frmr.Swallow La.frm White Thorn farm Wyatt George, farmer, Hall End farJO

llunce George, Wo{)lpack P.H North In. marine itol'e dlr. & carrier

-1DIRECTORY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. STOKE POGES. 163

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STOKE POGES is a parish and village, including, 5 March, 1572, and is endowed with £137 yearly; it
Ditton, 81 portion of Slough and part of Salt Hill, 2 I was rebuilt in 1765 by the late Mr. Penn, and is now

miles north from Slough station on the main line. of llo structure of brick, containing a chapel and apa.r1i-

the Great Western railway and 3i north from Eton, ments for three men and three women, each of whom

in the Southern division of the county, hundred and receives 7s. per week from the funds of the. charity:

petty sessional division of Stoke, union of Eton, county the vicar is the present master. Lady E. Hatton's

court district of Windsor, rural deanery of Burnham, charity of £24 yearly is for clothing, and Gardner's

archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The of £3 yearly for bread; there are also charities produc-

church of St. Giles, now almost entirely covered with ing about £1 10S. for apprenticing and of £7 for the

ivy, is a large and ancient structure in mixed styles, benefit of the poor. In 1810 an allotment of the common

consisting of chancel, with Hastings chapel on the south of 200 acres was made for the benefit of the poor.

side, nave of three bays, aisles, a massive wooden south Baylis House, the property of the Duke of Leeds, was

porch with pierced tracery and feathered! gable, and an rebuilt by Dr. Gregory Hascard and has for some

embattled tower with wooden spire at the east end years been a Catholic boarding school; in the house

of the north aisle containing 6 bells: the tower and is a chapel. Stoke Park, the seat of Wilberforce Bryan~

nave arcades a.re Early English, the chancel a.rch Nor- esq. J.P. was once the seat of Lord Chief Justice Coke;

man, and there are some Decorated windows; the east the mansion, designed by Wyatt, is in the Italian style--

window and south chapel, erected in 1557, are Per- and has a. very fine interior, the library in particular

pendicular: in the north wall is a. fine ogee arch over being a noble room 140 feet in length and extending-

an ancient tomb, supposed to be that of Sir John along the whole south front; the park, of about 500 acres,

Molyns, treasurer to Edward m.; in the chancel are is well wooded, stocked with deer, and ornamented with.

tombs with brass effigies to Sir William de Molyns, a handsome sheet of water 10 acres in extent; Sir Edward

who fell at the siege of Orleans in 1429, and his wives Coke entertained Queen Elizabeth in the old manor house,..

Margaret and Eleanor, 1425; there are also 15th century which was built in 1555, in great style in 1601; he died

brasses to Edward Hampden and his wife; llo brass to 3rd September, 1633, and there is a monument in the

James Edward Coleman and his wife, of Hollenden park to his memory, with a colossal statue by Rossi, on

Park, Kent, 1869; and a tablet t() several members of a fluted pedestal 68 feet high; his only daughter married

the Pe.nn family, descendants of William Penn, f{lunder Sir John Villiars, who was created (19th July, 1619)

of Pennsylvania, who were buried in llo vault in Baron Villiers of Stoke Poges and Viscount Purbeck, d.

the church from 1775 to 1869, the founder him- 1657. Ditton Park was until recently the residence of
self being buried at the Friends' Meeting house at Charlotte ~ Duchess of B~ccleuc~ (d. Marc?, 1895);
Jordan, Chalfont St. Giles; in the Hastings chapel, ~he house, Sal? t? have been bmlt by SII' Ral~h Wmwoo? kt.

built by Sir Edward Hastings, Baron Hastings, IS a square b.1ll1dmg surrounded by a moat WIth drawbndge,
of Loughborough, who died 5 March, 1572, as a place and st~uds III a finely wooded pa.rk of 260 acres. Stoke
of interment for his family, is a monument to Gregory Place IS the seat of How.ard Henry HowardloVys~ esq.

Hascard D.D. dean of Windsor, 1708 ; 011 the north- D.L., J.P. Stoke Court IS the property and reSIdence
west side is a private entrance, through the cloisters, of Augustus Henry Eden Allhu.sen esq. M.P., D.L., J.P.
from Stoke Pa.rk: there are eight windows, containing The ~anor. of Sto~e. danves l.tS name of Sto~e Poge!!;,
ancient stained glass, and displaying the arms of f~om Its heIress .AmlCla,. or AmICe de. Sto~e, havmg mar-
former owners of the pa.rk, and six other stained rled Ro~ert POgIS, ~ knIght of t~e shIre III the 12th cen-
windows of modern date; the chancel contains a rich tury. ~efton Park lIS now o~cupled by J()hn George Bul-

sedile and piscina' there are 450 sittings 150 being teel esq; the house stands III Its own grounds of about

free. The churchyard, the scene of Gray'~ celebrated 170 acres, and affords. fine views of Windsor Castle.. 'Yil-

"Elegy in a Country Churchyard," has some fine yews berforce Bryant esq. IS lord of the mano~. The pnnClpal'
and cypresses, and is visited by the admirers of the landowners are the Duke of Leeds, FranCls Molyneux, H.

poet from all parts; a plain flat stone covers the remains H. Howard-Vyse esq. A. H. E. Allhusen esq. M.P. the
trustees of t?e. late Du?hess o~ Buccleuch and ~rs. Eas-
of Gray and his mother and aunt, and bea.rs an son. The soil IS gravel, subsoil, grav~l. The chIef crops

epitaph to these relatives written by himself; in the are wheat, oats and barley. .The. area IS 3,15 8 ; assessable

wall beneath the east window of the Hastings chapel, value, £13,471 ; the populatIOn m 1e8i9v1il
't t h' . 11 t . di t' th Slough, formerly partly in this was 2,113·
0PPOSl e o. I.S grave, IS 80 sI?a SS one III ca mg . e parish, has been
place of his. mterment, and III toke ~ark, OppOSIte constituted a separate parish.
the church, IS a monument erected to hIS memory by D~.tto.n l~ .
Mr. Penn, and inscribed with lines from the" Elegy" and a hamlet, II mIles north-east from Datchel

other poems; the poet died 30th July, 1771. The register stabon, WIth an area. of 435 acres.

of baptisms and marriages dates from the year 1563; West End is part of the parish, three quarters of •

burials, 1564. The living is a discharged vicarage, net mile north. Here the poet Gray resided.

yearly value £500, with residence and glebe, in the gift Parish Clerk, William Baldwin.

of the Duke of Leeds and held since 1866 by the Rev. Post, M. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
yernon Blake M.A. of Wadh~ C,ollege,. Oxford, w~o
IS als? master of Lord HastIllgs hOSpItal, domestic Post, S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office (Railway
chaplam to the Du~e of Leeds, and surro~ate. The Sub-Office. Letters should have R. S.O. added).-
chapel of ease, at. Dltton, near Langl~y,. 5 mIles south- Joseph Squibb, sub-postmaster. Letters are received
east from the p.arlsh church, was orlgmally a. chan~ry at 4.30 &; 10.40 a.m. &; 6.45 p.m.; dispatched at 10.50
chap~l, .and conSIsts only of ch~nce.l and nave,. affordmg a.m. 3.45 &; 8 p.m.; sundays, 8 p.m
80 slttings; at Holly Bush hill, about 80 mlle and a Wall Letter Boxes. West end, cleared 7.45 p.m.; sun-
half north-east from the parish church, is another chapel days, 11.45 a.m.; Wexham street, 12.30 &; 7.15 p.m.;
of ease, re-opened, after enlargeIIlent and complete sundays, 8 a.m

restoration, on Sunday, August 21, 1870; it was origi- Schools.

nally a dissenting place of worship, but was purchased A School Board of 5 members was formed 27 Aug.
for church purposes by the Rev. John Shaw, a former 1874, for the united district of Stoke Poges with
Wexham; Goodacre &; Harrison, Slough, clerks to the
vicar, and entirely rebuilt by the present vicar, and board; Thomas Jones, Burnham, attendance officer

'lOW consists of chancel, nave and a western turret Board, huilt in 1876, for 108 boys; average attendance,
88; Albert Prewett Batten, master; 100 girls, average
containing one bell: there a.re 200 sittings. The Mission attendance, 95; Mrs. Mary Batten, mistrel>s

Hall, in the Stoke road, erected in 1884, includes a Infants'. built in 1876, for 130 infants; average attend-
Sunday school, reading room and 80 room for mothers' anc~. 65; Miss Anna Bailey, mistress
meetings; Rev. George William Sall has been curate
The schools are in part supported by a. yearly endow-
in charge since 1892. The hospital nea.r Stoke Park
was founded in 1557 by Sir Edward Hastings, 1St and ment of £40
only Baron Hastings, of Loughborough, who died here

(Marked thus t shonld be addre~sed Bryant Wilberforce J.P. Stoke park; Dickson James J.P. Larchmoor bous~.

Slough.) &; Brooks' &; Wellington clubs, Common

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. London SW Easson Rev. Utten J'J.mlls M.A.

Allbusen Augustus Henry Eden M.P., Bulteel John George, Sefton park (curate), Framewooo

D.L., J.P. Stoke court; &; Ca.rlton Burt Frederick. Upla.'lds Easson Mrs. Frame wood

&; White's clubs, London SW tRutt William Henry, Baylis house Gilliat Algernon, Duffield

Bennitt Col. Wm. Ward J.P.Stoke gm Cantrell Henry Seward, Baylis court Howard-Vyse Howard Henry D.L' I
Blake Rev. Vemon M.A. (vicar &; sur- Cbarsley Frederick Willillm. Pinewood J.P. Stoke Place

rogate), Vicarage Clifton Wm. Charles, The Bungalow BUCKS. 111=

164 srOKE POGES. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Marston Edward Pratt, Vicarage farm Coast Percy J. builder, contractor, Newell Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer

Ma.son WilIiam, Clock house builders' merchant, sanitary work Paxton J oseph & Son, blacksmiths

Mitchell Mrs. Commoll in all its branches. T .A. "Coast, P;umridge Edwin, br-er retailer

Munt Arthur, Temple wood Stoke Common." See advert Putman Alfred, market gardener,Com

Paxry Edward H., M.A. Stoke house, Coast Percy J. smith, wheelwright, Ridgley Amlls, Fox & l'heasant P.R.

St.oke green farrier, coal & coke merchant; Common

Piner Francis, Rickmans hill orders promptly attended to. T.A. tRoberts George,Montague Arms P.E

Robson Mrs. Clevehurst "Coast, Stoke Common." See advt Ditton

Ry• an John, The IIious tCooper Edward, steward to the trus- Rose WiIliam R. One Pin inn
Savory Rev. Sir Borradaile, bart. M.A. tees of the Duchess of Buccleuch, Saunders Alfred, beer retailer

Woodlands Ditton park Smith Geo. baker & grocer, Common

Sutton J['mes Bryan, The Hollies Dainton William, farmer, Bumtry Irm Squibu Joseph, grocer, draper &; post

Fisk WiIliam, beer retaile.r office; also retailer of british &;
Gough Wi~Ii!lm Hy. farmer, Berry frm foreign wines & bottled beer
COMMERCIAL.

Allen Henry, baker, Common Johnson Alfred, farmer, Plough Lees Stevenson William, Sefton Arms P.R

Ayre!! John, m~rket gardener Kingross George, farmer, Ditton farm Sutton James Bryan L.R.C.P. Lond.,

Ea:dwin 'Ym. Hy. boot ma. West end Langley Benj. & Son, grocers,West end L.S.A. physician & surg.TheBollies

Ba.stin William, boot maker, Common Langley Benj. assist.overseer,West end ValIis Henry, Red Lion P.B

Brown WiIIiam, shopkeeper Lawrence Daniel, butcher IWebb Mary (Mrs.), Dog &; Pot P.R.

Butt WilIiam Henry, Catholic Lucey Charles, land steward to A. H. I We"t end

academy, Baylis house E. AlIhusen esq Withers John, Brickmakers' Arms, I

Cantrell Hy. Seaward, farmr.Baylis crt tMajor AI'Ithur C. farmer, nitton Stoke road

C~rter Jeren..iah, bricklayer Marston Edwd.P.farmer, Vicarage frm YandelI Borace, Plough P.B
Carter Wil~i8m, beer letailer,1Yest end IMIller John, shopkeeper, Wexham st Yeatman Chas. beer rtlr. Wexham st

STOKENCHURCH is a large village and parish lin 2 miles south-west from the village, is at present un-

the Oxon border, 3 miles south-east from Aston occupied. Mallard's Court, the seat of Mrs. Flower,
Rowant station, on the Princes Risborough and 'Watling- stands in extensive pleasure grounds about a quarter of

ton branch of the Great Western railway, 7 north-west a mile from the village. Henry Clerke Brown esq. J.P.
from Wycombe, and 5i east from Watlington, in the of Kingston Blount, is lord of the manor. The landowners
Southern division of Oxon for parliamentary purposes, are Major Timothy White, Major John Augustus Fane,

Watlington union, county court district of Wycombe, of 13 Woodlands road, Barnes Common SW, and the

rural deanery of Aston, archdeaconry and diocese of Ox- Rev. B. Savill Young M.A. rector of Englefield, near

ford. From its position on the lofty ridge of the Reading, with some smaller proprietors. The soil is stiff

Chiltern Hills, it enjoys a bracing and healthy atmosphere, loam in parts; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat,
and commands extensive and beautiful views of the sur~
oats and barley. The area is 5,918 acres; assessable
rounding country.
By the County of Buckingham (Stokenchurch) Order value, £5,379; the popUlation in 1891 was 1,780 in the

1895, this paris~ was transferred, M.arch 31, 18g6, from civil, and 1,603 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Oxon to Bucks, ill pursuance of SectIOn 54 of the" Local
Government (England & Wales) Act, 18·88" (51 & 52 Vict. Beacon's (or Bacon's) Bottom and Water End are

hamlets in the parish of Stokenchurch 1 1 miles south-

east, on the borders of Oxon. ' "2"

C. T4h1e.) church of SS. Peter and Paul is an ancient strnc- Pan.sh Cler1--, Frederl'Ck ButIer.
ture of flint in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, Post, M. & T. 0., T. ~. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
aisles, south porch and a low western tower, with shin-
glel spire, containing a clock and 3 bells: the chancel, Post, S. R &; AnnUlty & Insurance office.--George
-restored about 1850, is Decorated, and retains a piscina
and two brackets; and on the north side is an ancient BritnelI, sub-postm'lster. Letters through Tetsworth

arrive at 7.35 a.m. &:. 12.30 p.m. (delivery in village

only); dispatched at 6,3° p.m. ; dispatched on Sunday

.t;omb-stone, discovered at the restoration of the church: at 6.30 p.m
'the chancel arch is Transition Norman and has a Letter Box, Water End, cleared 3.30 p.m

hagioscope on the north side: the chapel has a good Schools.

wooden ro?f, aJ:.ld retains a piscina and traces of an A School Board of 5 members was formed 30 Oct. 1875;
altar, but Its wl~dows are of a .debased character: the W. T. Pycraft, High Wycombe, clerk to the board;
G~uth doorway IS Early Enghsh; the fo.nt PerpeJ:.l- Richard Timberlake, attendance officer
dlCular: there are brasses to Robert Morley, 1410, ill Boa d aSgcehootlts ~nbdual'lte i 8 (b ') f h'ld'
nrmour, with inscription in Norman French; and to a: e n 1 ;7.7Thoomysas , AOdrk.l00 c 1 rten,
ne, 7 I ms, mas er;
Robert Morley, 1412, and similar to preceding: the (g.l rrls' ) , aalso for 100
1h th hI t d' 8 aal~sd~e, ' chIldren; average attendance,
c lUre: was oroug y res O);e. ill Ino4r7t,~ 74; Mrs. Annie Bates, mistress; (infants'), for 102
1893 It ill
was enlarged by the addItion of a children' averaO'e attendance 8' Mrs Maude Adkins
at
a cost of £727, defrayed by voluntary contrIbutIOns: . fa ts' m''st ,., ,9,· ,
t here are 420 SI·tt·mgs. Th.e regI.St;ar proper d at es from Boilalrdn Beac1on:'rsesBs ottom for 70 children' average at-
1a.h~bv.omubgte~t1.hn1> eamyaveld.aCera·~1ma7ge°t,7h;eneerntetgrIIy.Seestaerprlsyrev0vIfOalAUuSest, to tRhat datte hTahv~- t end'anc e, JohnH. ' DaV'les, mast-er '
ow an.. I E ndowed, w ,r',4; an income of £48 yearly, from Tipping's
on WIth x:es1- ith boys are
£ 1$0,
charity; Arthur H. Tranter, master; 12
dence, ill the gIft of the ~~rd Ohan~elIor, and held sl~ce educated & clothed & 2 are apprenticed annuall
18<}8 by the Rev. John Wllliam OrUlkshank M.A. of Lm- .y

coIn Oollege, Oxford. The Congregational chapel here Oarrlers to:

was built in 1820; and there are Primitive Methodist London-Fred Way, thurs. returning sat
chapels in the village and at Beacon's Bottom. A con- Thame Sworder, tues. returning same day

siderable trade is carried on in chair-making. Worms- Wycombe-Alfred Witney, John Hoskins, daily; Amos

3ey park, lately the seat of Major J. A. Fane, and about Witney, tues. &; fri.; -& WilIiam Biggs, tues. & fri

STOKEXCHURCH. Biggs WilIiam, chair turner & earrier Green Thomas, farmer

Avery Frederick B~llington Henry, farmer, Penley farm Gr~ffiths Cha~.. beer retlr.& chair ma

:Ba-yspoole Charles Bud Alfred, baker Gnmsdale Wllham, farmer &; butcher

Gruickshank Rev. John William M.A. Britnell George, grocer &; ironmonger Harding Ernest, saw mill proprietor

Vicarage &; postmaster Harding Thomas, chair maker &; saw

Plower Mrs. Mallard's court Britnell WilIiam, wheelwright, ma- mill proprietor

Pridham Cha.rles Fortescue RA chinist & sm[th Holland Edward· WaIter, builder
Buckland Henry, Red Lion P.H Holmes Wm.plumber,painter & glazier

COMMERCIAL. Butler James, woodman to Rev. H. S. Hosden Fl'ederick, Five AIls P.H

JJarney Ann (Miss), dress maker & Miss Youn,g Judge Annie (Miss), draper, Common

Barney George, blacksmith Bywater James, beer retailer Judge Edwin, chair turner

Barney Joseph, boot maker Carpenter Chas.B.farmer,Pophleys fm Judge Joseph, boot maker

Barra.tt George, tailor ChamberlayneGeo.beer rtlr.& wheelwt Judge Thomas, chair turner

'Bates John, chair t1ll'ner CockeriIl WiIliam, Barley Mow P.H Judge William (Mrs.), grocer

Be-ison Thomas, King's Arms hotel Oocks John, harness maker Larner John, farmer

DenneD Edwin, beer retailer Dean Jarres, chair maker Larner Jonah, chair turner

,BN;t Charles Henry, relieving officer, Deane Elizabeth (Mrs.), steam threshr Messenger Herbert, chain maker

No. 4, vaccination officer No. 5 dist. Eggleton John, farmer, Home farm Moore Daniel Fleur-de-Lis P.B

& registrar of births & deaths for Enoch Thos.Capel,Coach&Horses P.B Munt WiIliam, farmer

Princes Risborough sub-district, IFarey Jl;lmes, wheelwright Plumridge Edmund, wood bailifi to H.

Wycombe union \Frost Frederick, fanner C. Brown esq. J.P

DffiECTORY.] BUCKINGHAl\tlSHIRE. STONE. 165

Painter WaIter, miller (wind) & Syred Geo. coal merchant & builder Witney Amos, chair turner & fa,rmer

registrar of marriages for Princes Tappin John, farmer & carrier

Risborough sub-district, "Vycombe Timberlake Richad, school attendance BE..:\.OON'S BOTTO)!.
um•on
officer

plumridge William, farmer,Dell's fm Towerton William (~'1rs.), chair mkr Green James, chair turner
Pridham Charles Fortescue RA. Can- Tranter Alfred, beer retailer
StratfJrd Caleb, chair turner
tab. L.R.C.P.Land., M.R.C.S.Eng. Tranter Arthur Harry, land surveyor, Way F. & T. farmers & chair makers
surgeon & medical officer & ma,ster of endowed schools & assis- Way Fred, carrier &; beer retailer
public vacoinator, districts Nos. 10 tant overseer
Way Thomas, grocer
& II Wycombe union Tranter Henry, baker White J anathan, chair turner

Priest John, baker West George, farmer WATER &~D.
Saunders Robert, beer retailer Withers Albert Thomas, draper

Stone Alfred, grocer & chair maker Witney Alfred (exors. of), farmer & Neighbour George, farmer

Styles Henry (Mrs.), beer retailer chair turner & carrier Saunders Robert, beer retailer

STONE is a. parish and village on the road from nursing staff, and new workshops in 1898; there is also a

Aylesbury to Thame, 3 miles south-west from Ay~es­ chapel with sittings for 200 persons. The number of

bury, which is the nearest railway station, and 7 north- patients in January, 1899, was 498. In the course of

liast fr::>m Thame, in the Mid division of the county, making excavations for the foundations of tbe chapel

hundred, petty sessional division, union and count.y various Roman remains were discovered; a bronze

court district of Aylesbury, rural deanery of Aylesbury, fibula of the Anglo-Saxon period has also been

archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. found in the village, and a labourer, while working in

The church of St. John the Baptist, erected iu the his garden here, hoed up a gold ring set with a red

reign of King Stephen (II35-54), is a cruciform build- stone in its rude state; in March, 1862, a skeleton,

ing of stone in the Early English style, consisiing of with a spear head and knife blade, were found in a.

chancel, nave, north ,aisle, small transepts, south porch sand pit on the glebe, about two feet below the sur-

and an embattled! western tower containing a clock face; in January, 1.866, various Anglo-Sax-on remains,

and 6 bells: the church has considerable remains of consisting of several skeletons, portions of shields, flpear

Norman work, especially in the nave arcades, and a heads, a knife and fibula were exhumed from a pit

very good doorway in the south porch: the chancel of red sand in Causeway Field, on the east side of

and transepts are Early English: the tower is of three the road between Stone and Bishopstone; all these

stages, with double buttresses at the western angles, and relics are now in the museum of the Bucks Archreol()gical

has 3 parapet with a cornice of masks and a gabled roof: Society; Plomer's charity of £3 yearly is distributed

at the south-east angle is' a large square turret, with to the sick poor in bread or meat. Peverel Court, the

pointed! capping, surmounted by a vane: the font, residence ,of Mrs. Bartlett, is a mansion of red brick,

brought from a garden at Lewisham, in Kent, and said erected in 1862 and is about 2 miles from Aylesbury.

to have originally belonged to the church of Hampstead Col. Edward Dyke Lee, of Hartwell House, is lord of

Norris, Berks, whence it was removed about 1780, is the manor and principal landowner. The soil is loam

circular and bears rude sculptures of a salamander and and sand; subsoil, clay and limestone. The chief cr<lps

other figures: in the south porch are the remains of are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is

3 stoup: there is a palimpsest brass inscribed on the 2,641 acres; assessable value, [6,979; the population in

one sid'e to Christopher 'fhorpe, <lb. 28th September, 1891 was 1,433, including 47 officers and 415 inmates in

1514, and the other to Thomas Gurney and Agnes his the asylum.

wife., 1520; and one with a. Latin inscription tro William BISHOPSTONE is a hamlet, 2 miles south from Stone
Gurney, dated 1475; othe" brasses, placed in the vestry vi:lage, and has a chapel of ease erected .on a site givi!Jl.

during some restoration of the church, have been lost: by the late vicar, Dr. Booth; it is a building of :flint

the chancel was rebuilt and the nave reseated about and brick with stone dressings in the Gothic style,

1843: a gallery has also been removed, and a stl:dned and will seat 100. The Wesleyan chapel here was built
west window inserted by a former vicar: in the church-
yard are the remains of a stone cross: the church was in 1877.
restored in 1883 and 1885-90, when the nave and aisle
were new roofed, and a clock presented by Mrs. Bartje.tt, Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
of Peverel Coud: the total cost amounted to £1,997: Post, S. B. & Annuity &, Insurance Office.-Richard
there are 265 sittings. The. register dates from the Beechey, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through
year 1538. The living is a vicarage, with Bishopstone Aylesbury & are delivered at 7.15 a.m. & 12 p.m.;
annexed, joint net yearly value £303, including 130 sundays, 8 a.m.; dispatched at 9.45 a.m. & 1.10 & 6-
acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Col. E. D. p.m. Wall Box, Bishopstone, cleared week days only
at 11.35 a.m. & 5.40 p.m

Lee, J.P. of Hartwell House, but pro hac vice the Royal S"hools.

.Astronomical ,society of London, the late patrons, and National (mixed), el'ected in 1871 & enlarged in I8B6,
held since 1879 by the Rev. James Law Challis M.A., for the parishes .of Hartwell & Stone, at a cost of
F.R..A.S. of Trinity College, Cambridge and rural dean about £1,200, for 200 children; average attendance,

of .Aylesbury, who is also rector of HartweIl. There is 1'50; Charles Richard Beard, master

a Wesleyan chapel. The Bucks County Lunatic Asylum, Bishopstone (infants), erected in 1876 by the late

which stands on the high road from Aylesbury to Thame, vicar, Dr. Booth, on a site given by Lord Carrington.

is a structure of red brick with stone dressings, erected for 50 children; average attendance, 25; Mrs. Kloer.

in 1852, at a cost of £22,400 for 200 patients; it bas mistress

since been enlarged at an additional cost of £23,000, for Carriers.

480 patients; in 1892, a new block was added for the Bishopstone, Elijah Carter, to Aylesbury, wed. & sat

STONE. Bourchier Wynyard, poultry farmer & Martin Saran (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Bartlett Mrs. Peverel court duck breeder Miles Leonard, market gardener

Baynes Miss, Stone croft Carter Edward Charles,market gardnr ~Ionk Wil1iam, market gardener

ChaIlis Rev. Jas. Law M.A.• I".R.A.S. Curter Samuel, market gardener Moscrop John,farmer,Hartwell End fro
(vicar & rural dean), Vicarage
Lurter William, market gardener Piddington Emily (Miss), beer reUr.
Hobley .Arthur Thomas Castle Charles, market gardener
Humphry John (supt.), Lunatic asylm Clark Richard, market gm'dener & grocer
Kerr Hugh M.A., M.B. Lunatic usylm County Lunatic Asylum (John Hum-
Olliffe Mrs Plested Bros. coachbuilders, wheel-
phry M.R.C.S.Eng. medical supt.;
Smyth Gen. Sir Henrv Augustus Hugh Kerr M.A., M.B., C.M. assist- wrights, blacksmiths, builders, car-
K.C.M.G., R.A., J.P. St. John's 10 ant medical officer; William
penters & undertakers
Todd James William. The Firs Crouch. clerk to committee of visi-
tors; Charles Edward Cobb Ayles- I'lestprl George, market, gardener

Sare Rowland, frmr. Whaddon Hill fm

Seaton Tom, farmer, Manor. farm

Turnham George, butcher .

COMMERCIAL. bury, treasurer; Arthur Thos. Hob- Turnham William, jun. head gardener

Baker Albert Stanley, Bugle florn P.B ley, house steward & clerk of asylm) to Mrs. Bartlett
Bates Charles, market gardener
Harris John, hoot & shoe maker & Turnham Waiter, beer retailer
Bates William John, market gardeJl~r repairer & parish clerk
'Waine Arthur Croxton, farmer

Beechey Jose1'h, grocer Herhert Henry, beer retailer White William, farmpr,Littleworth fm

Beechey Richard, draper, Post office Hoblev Art·hur Thomas, house steward ""-oodford Frederick HOTwood, butcher

Beecbey Wm. F. coal merchant, as- & clerk of Burks County Asylum Woodford Geo. f~lTInf'\r, Vicarage farm
sistant overseer & collector of taxes H():lowav Jl1s~rh. blacksmith
Woodward George, baker to Bucks

Box William, County Arms P.R Locb Rob"rt WiIliam, miller (wind) County A;:ylum

166 STONE. BUCKINGHAl\iSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

BISHOPSTONE. Crook Oozens, farmer Plested Bros. blacksmiths &c

Bishop Thomas Keinch Thomas Bishop, farmer Saunders Thomas, beer retailer
Carter Elijah, shopkeeper & ca.rrier
Clarke Thos. Edwd. & Wm. farmers Miles Richd. carman & market grdnr Smith Susannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Miller Charles, carman & duck breedr Thorne Thomas, farmer, Standals

Plater Joseph, shopkeeper Thornton Jane (Mrs.), Harrow P.R

~TONY STRATFORD is a parish snd small market ford, and stands upon the site of a monastic house, por-

town and the head of a petty sessional division, on the tions of which have been built into the courtyard walls.
Northamptonshire border of the county, comprising ...!he The Church Institute, in Vicarage lane, was bought in

united parishes of St. Giles and St. Mary Magdalene, 8 1897, as a church jubilee memorial. The Cemetery, at

miles north-east frQm Buckingham, 6 south-west from Calverton End, one acre in extent, was formed at

Newport Pagnell, 11 west from Wolverton station on the the expense of the parishioners in 1856; the entrance is

main line of the London and North Western railway and through lit lych gate, and there are two morluary chapels

5d from London by rail and 5 I by road; it is in the in the Gothic style: it is controlled by the Parish Council.

Northern division of the county, hundred of Newport, The County Police C<>urt, in th8 Market square, is an

union of Potterspury, county court district of Newport -edifice of red brick and stone, erected in 1865. Stony

Pagnell, and in the rural deanery of Buckingham (second Stratford is the head quarters of the 1st Squadron

portion), archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of .Buckinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry (Royal Bucks

Oxford. The town consists mainly of one long ,Hussars). The corn market is held on Friday, and the

street and the Market square, and is built on cattle market ()n the first Monday in every month;

tb.e old Roman road called Watling street, which passes the fairs, which are only pleasure fairs, take place on,

through this county in a direct line from Little Brickhill August 2, and the Friday following October 10. The

on the. Bedfordshire border into Northamptonshire. In engineering works of Mr. E. Hayes, at the south end of

1886 a tramway was laid between here and Wol- the town, are principally occupied in building small steam

'Y"erron. This place is supposed to nave been the Roman launches and tugs. A weekly newspaper, "The North

station" Lactodorum," and a Roman urn and a number Bucks Advertiser," is published here on Friday. The

()f Roman coins have been discovered here. In 1464 Provident Dispensary, Calverton End, was established in

Edward IV. appears to have left this place for Grafton 1866; the average number of patients is usually

Regis, Northants, where he privately married Elizabeth about 3,000; the number of- in-patients in 1898 was 25.

Woodville; the Qak, under which tradition says the) There are charities of £300 a year, left by John Whalley,

first met, is still standing, and is known as the" Queen's of Cosgrove, in 1670, and by Mr. Arnold, of Furtho, about

Oak." At an inn in the town the youthful and unfor- 1689, for the apprenticing of boys; the Bridge and Street

tunate monarch, Edward V. is said to have slept on his charity, derived from 140 acres of land, producing £200

journey to London to be crowned, a circumstance to which yearly, is for lighting, paving and cleansing the town:

Shakespeare alludes in his tragedy of Richard ill. Act the Bradwell charity, of £80 yearly, left by Simon

.2" Scene 4. One of the memorial crosses erected by Bennett, of Beachampton, is distributed in clothing to

Edw. I. to Eleanor, his queen, on the removal of her aged men of Stony Stratford, Beachampton and Calver-

remains in 1290 from Harby, Notts, where she died, to ton: John Oliver, of Stony Stratford, by will in 1856,

Westminster, stood at the west end of the town, but was left £500 invested in Consols, the interest of which is

demolished about 1646. In the year 1736 a destructive given in money to IO men and IO women: Whitnell'.

fire occurred here, which burnt down fifty-three houses, benefaction consists of land realizing £20 yearly, which

.and in May, 1742, another lamentabl& fire destroyed a is given in bread every week: William ParroWs charity,

large portion of the town and part of the church of St. the interest on £297 14s. consols, is expended on cloaks

iMary Magdalene, occasioning damage to the extent of and bonnets for poor widows: the Bell rope charity, the

£IO,OOO: the tower of this church, which still reml!ins, interest on £182 10S. 7d. consols, is for providing new bell

has a saddle-back rQof and is considered a particularly ropes for the parish church. About 17 acres of allot-

good specimen of the Perpendicular style. The town is ment ground have been appropriated for the use of the

lighted with gas supplied by a company formed in 1837 poor at a low rental. William Selby-Lowndes esq. J.P. of

and water is derived from three artesian wells at Cal- 1Yhaddon Hall, is lord of the manor (west side). The

verton, the property of the Local Sanitary Authority. area of Stony Stratford is 70 acres; rateable value,

At the west end of the town, and cQnnecting it with Old £5,921, viz. east side, £2,497, west side, £3,424;

Stratford,' in Northamptonshire, is a handsome stone and its population in 1891 was, east side, £59, west side,

bridge of three arches spanning the river Ouse. The 1,160, making a total of 2,019. .

church of St. Giles, originally a chantry chapel, founded

about '<1:45°, and endowed in 1482, is an edifice ()f stone, CA1..VERTON END is at the south-east extremity of

rebuilt in 1776 by Mr. Hiorne, of Warwick, in a debased the town, but in Calverton parish, and contains some good

Gothic style, and subsequently enlarged: the tower, the villa residences; WOLVERTON END, in Wolverton

only part of the original structure now remaining, is of parish, is also an important addition to the town of Stony
Perpendicular date, and contains 6 modern bells: the Stratford, and constitutes the ecc!esiastical parish of
church was reseated in 1866, and in 1876 the interior was Wolverton St. Mar}", formed November 29, 1870. The
restored, new side galleries replacing the former heavy church of St. Mary the Virgin, erected in 1864, is a
ones, the groined ceiling and pillars decorated, and a building of stone, in the Early English style, after a
chancel formed by the erection of screens, at 8. cost of design by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A. and consists
£1,600: there are various memorial windows: the of apsidal chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch
church affords 630 sittings. The register dates from the and a turret with 2 bells: the north aisle was added in
year 1613. The united livings of the two parishes of St. 1867, chiefly at the cost of the Rev. William Pitt Trevel-
Giles and St. Mary Magdalene form a vicarage, net yan M.A. Lady Mary Russell and the RadcIiffe trustees:
yearly value £305, with residence and 5 acres of glebe, the interior was decorated in 1886 from designs by Mr.
in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1895 E. S. Harris F.R.I.B.!..: there are 280 sittings. The
by the Rev. John Herbert Light, Theol.Assoc.K.C.L. register of baptisms dates from the year 1864, marriages
The Baptist chapel has sittings for 500 persons. The 1867, and deaths 1871. The living is a vicarage, net
Congregationel chapel in Wolverton road, erected in yearly value £150., with residence, in the gift of the

1823, will seat 250 persons; the Wesleyan chapel, erected Radcliffe trustees, and held since 18<)7 by the Rev. Oliver
in 1844, affords 200 sittings. The Retreat, erected in 1893, Partridge Henly B.A. of Keble College, Oxford. The
at t.he sole cost of Mr. Frederick William Woollard, and area of Wolverton End is 330 acres; the population in

presented by him to the town, consists of five cottages, 1891 was 1,056.

for the use of the aged and worthy p<lor of Stony Strat-

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c.

Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Telegrams, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Parcel Post dispatched,
Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, High st.- week days only, at 10 a.m. 2.30 &;, 7.40 p.m
Samuel Calladine, postmaster. Letters are dispatched:
London & places through 8.30 a.m.; London &;, South COUN'fY MA.GISTRA'lES FOR ST01'4'Y STRATFORD
& North 10 a.m.; London & South & Wales 2.45 p.m.; PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION.

London & South, 7.45 p.m.; London &;, all parts, 8.25 Grafton Duke of K.G., C.B. Wakefield Idg.Stony Stratfrd
p.m.; local posts, 5.30 a.m.; Deanshanger, IO.45 (chairman)
a.m.; Wolverton 10 a.m. 4.1S &;, 8.25 p.m. The de-
livery commences-from London &;, all parts at 7 &;, Byam-Grounds Thomas esq. Passenham manor, Stony
Stratford
II a.m. & 6 p.m. Sundays, dispatch to all parts, 8.45
p.m.; delivery commences, 6.45 a.m. Money orders Hall MUligrave Robert egq. Foxcott manor, Buckinghalll
are granted & paid at this office from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

DIRECTORY.] B UCKINGHA~:1SHIRE. STONY STRATFORD. 167

Selby-Lowndes Rev. Charles William RA. Rectory, North Superintendent Registrar of Potterspury Union, William

Crawley, Newp<lrt Pagnell R&se Parrott, 96 High street; deputy, James Edward

Thorold Alexander William Thorold Grant- esq. Cos- Wright, High street

grove hall, Stony Stratford Inland Revenue Officer, Edward Court, 78 Wolverton road

Watts Edwd. Hanslope esq. Hanslope pk.Stony Stratford Town Crier, John Elstone, Church street

Willes Rev. George Edward RA. Rectory, Calverton. PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services.
Stony Stratford
The chairmen for the time being, of the Stratford and Church of St. Giles, High street, Rev. John Herbert Light
A.K.O. vicar; Rev. Herbert Orawford Izard B.A.curate;
Wolverton and Potterspury Rural District Councils, are the 2nd, 4th &; 5th sunday at 7 a.m. & 8 & II a.m. &;
ex-officio magistrates 2.30 & 6.30 p.m.; 8 a.m. & 8 p.m. daily; fridays,
4.30 p.m
Clerk to the Magistrates, Edward Thomas Worley,
25 High street St. Mary's Church, Wolverton End, Rev. Oliver Partridge
Fetty Sessions are held at the Police Court, Market Henly RA. vicar; 8, IQ & 11.15 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; 7.15
&; IQ a.m. &; 7.15 p.m. week days
square, every alternate friday at 12 o'clock. The divi-
sion comprises the following places :-(In Bucks),

iEleachampt<lll, Bradwell Abbey, Calverton, Castle Baptist, Horse fair, Rev. Stephen Cheshire; 10.45 a.m.

'Thorpe, Loughton, Shenley Brookend & Shenley & 6 p.m

Churchend, Stony Stratford East & Stony Stratford I CongregatiO'Ilal, ; Wolverton

West &; Wolverton. (In Northampton), Alderton, Ash- road L 10.45 a.m. &; 6 p.m.; mono &; wed. 7.30 p.m

ton, Cosgrove, FurthD', Grafton Regis, Hartwell, Pas- Wesleyan, Silver street; II a.m. &; 6 p.m.; wad.

senham, Potterspury, Wicken &; Yardley Gobion . 7.30 p.m

STRATFORD AND WOLVERTON RURAL D1STRICT SOHOOLS.

COUNCIL. St. Paul's College, founded in 1863 as a middle-class
proprietary school, after having been closed in 1882 &
Meet at the Parish room, Wolverton St. Mary on every re-opened in 1888 by a new company, is now (1899) again
closed; it occupies one of the old inns of the town, but
fourth Wednesday at 2.45 p.m. has been repeatedly enlarged; the chapel, built from
designs by Messrs. Goldie & Ohild, is a fine building,
Clerk, William Rose Parrott, 96 High street & there is a spacious dining hall, library &; reading
room, carpenter's shop &; other rooms; the college will
Treasurer, Henrv Hearn, Bucks &; Oxon Union Bank, hold 80 boarders &; has 9 acres of playing fields a.t the
Buckingham • .. back.

Medical Officer of Health, Thomas Stephen Maguire M.D., National (Endowed), rebuilt in 1858, for 450 children;
average attendance, 106 boys, 7S girls &; 89 infants;
L.R.C.P. &; S.Irel. Wolverton road, Wolverton St.Mary George Edward Willoughby, master; Miss Helena
Fryer, girls' mistress; (infants), Miss Miriam Rogers,
Surveyor &; Sanitary Inspector, Alfred Ernest Abbott, 3 mistress

:Market square, Wolverton British, erected in 1844, at a cost of £800, for 220 chil-
dren; average attendance, 60 boys, 40 girls & 65 in-
YEOMANRY OAVALRY. fants; above the school-room is a large room for
public meetings, which will hold 2S0 persons; David
Buckinghamshire (Royal Bucks Hussars) part of at Jones, master; Mrs. Tucker, assistant mistress
Squadron, Hon. Major R. R Loder, commanding;
Sergt.-Major F. Plaxton, drill instructor Wolverton End (boys, girls &; infants), built chiefly by
the liberality of the Rev. W. P. Trevelyan M.A. in
PUBLIC ESTABL1SHiMENTS. 1867 &; enlarged several times since, for 250 children;
average attendance, 60 boys, 72 girls & 75 infants;
Cemetery, Calverton End, William J. O. Ray, clerk to William Samuel Keeler, master; Miss Lydia Jane Hayes,
mistress; Miss Eleanor Amos, infants' mistress
the joint burial committee, 20 Homelands
Kewspaper.-North Bucks Advertiser, High street; Mrs.
County Police Station, Market square, Thomas Gascoyne, Leah Walford, proprietor &; p:ublisher; published fri

sergeant, &; one constable Conveyance.-A tramway from High street to Wolverton

Fire Brigade, Silver street, George Downing, .supt.; at frequent intervals

William Downing, engineer .

Provident Dispensary, Calverton End, William Henry

Bull L.R.O.P.Lond. &; Thomas S. Maguire M.D.

medical officers; Miss Ellen Glidewell, sec

Stamp Office, High st. Samuel Calladine, sub-distributor

Weighing Machine, Market square, Edward Arthur,clerk

Public Officers.

Assessors of Taxes, W. H. Robinson, High street & Wm. OARRIERS to:-

H. Sansom, assessor &; collector of taxes, The Green Alderton 'Jelly, fri. 'Crown'

Clerk to the Potterspury Board of Guardians & to the Hanslope &; Castle Thorpe Eakins, fri. 'Crown'

Potterspnry Rural District Council, William Rose Par- Deanshanger, Passenham, Wicken &; Buckingham-Mab-

rott, 96 High street butt, mono &; thurs

Coroner for Newport Pagnell Division of Bucks, John London-London & North Western Railway (The Wol-
Worley, 2S High street; deputy, Edward Thomas Wor· v~r~n &; Stony Stratford District lNew Tramway Co.
lev. 2S High street LImIted, goods &; parcels agents, "olverton St. Mary)

:Medical Officer of Health for the Potterspury Rural Dis- I Loug-hton-Capell, fri. 'White Horse'

trict Council, Medical Officer &; Public Vaccinator, 1St Nash-Collier, fri. 'Orown'

.& 2nd Districts & Medical Officer to the Workhouse, Newport Pagnell-Mabbutt, fri

Potterspury Union, Thomas Stephen Maguire M.D. Northampton-Mabbutt, wed. &; sat. to Hitchcock's. St.

Wolverton road, Wolverton St. Mary John's street, Northampton

Believing Officer. Potterspury Union, Georg& Holman, Paulerspury-Elliott, tues. &; fri. 'King's Head'

Wolverlon road Shenley-Capell, fri. 'White Horse'

Sub-Distributor of Stamps, Samuel Calladine, Post Towcester-Mabbutt, tues. 'Dolphin'

office, High street Whaddon-Masters, tues. &; frL 'White Horse'

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Cheshire Rev.Stephen (Bapt.),The Grn Hailey John, New street

Allt Terence T. St. Olave ho. High st Collins Mrs. Wolverton road, Wol- Hamilton Mrs. Wolverton road, Wol-

Atkins Mrs. 37 Wolverton road, Wol- verton St. Mary verton St. Mary

verton St. Mary Orake Douglas H. Oalverton lodge Harris Edward Swinfen F.R.I.B.A.

Aveline Mrs. :19 Wolverton 1'0ad,Wol- Crisp WaIter John, St. Athelstane, II7 High street

"erton St. Mary Calverton End Hassall Harry, 4 Clarence road

llallyn Richard James, 2 Clarence rd. Dickie Mrs. ;le; Wolverton road, Wol- Hayes Edward C.E. Mansfield, Wo]

Wolverton St. Mary verton St. Mary verton End, Wolverton St. Mary

Barker Miss, 27 \Volverton road, Wol- Emerton George James, 21 \Yolverton Hemmings Waiter George, London rd

verton St. Mary road, Wolverton St. Mary Henly Rev. Oliver Partridge RA.

llenson George, Calverton End, 'Wol- Evans Trevor Halket M.A., M.B. St. (vicar of St. Mary's), Wolverlon St.

verton St. Mary Oswald's house, High street ~I ary

llenson John, Oalverton End, Wolver- Fiennes Gerard Yorke Twisleton- Hickson WilIiam, 49 Wolverton road,

ton St. Mary Wykeham-, Market square Wolverton St. Mary

lJulI George \V. High street Gikes. Mrs. 23 Wolverton rd. Wolv~r- Izard Rev. Herberl Crawford RA.

Bull Wm. Hy.St.Oswald's ho.High st ton St. Mary (curate of St. Giles'), Market square

Calladine Thomas Henry, High street Glidewell Mrs. 27 Wolverton rd. Wol- Light Rev. John Herbert A.K.C.L.

Chester Mrs. 2S Wolverton rd. Wol- verton St. Mary . (vicar of St. Giles'), Vicarage

varton St. Mary Gotto Frederick Edward, 80 High st

168 STONY STRATFORD. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [ KELLY'S.

Linford Arthur, 47 Wolverton Toad, Stockings William, 45 High street Wilson John Edllfin, The Chestnuts~

"olverton St. Mary Tomkins Miss, The Green Silver street

Linnell Miss, 17 WOlverton road, Wol- Trevelyan Rev. Wm. Pitt l\LA. Cal- Woollard Charles, Chul"C'h sbeet

verton St. Mary verton St.Mary, Wolverton St.Mary '\Voollard Frederick Ulph, The Retreat~

Maguire Thomas Stephen M.D. Wol- Underwood George Clark, 4i Wolver- High street
Woollard Frederick William, Ousedale~
verton road, Wolverton St. Mary ton n.ad, Wolverton St. Mary

Mountain Mrs. Calverton St. Mary Wace Mrs. Calverton house Calverton End

Parrott William Rose, 96 High street Walker William, 13 London road, Wol. Woollard Ottiwell Elliott, Park hOUile.

Read Edwin, Calverton St. Mary verton St. Mary Calverton End, Wolverton St. Mary

Redgrave Mrs. Prospect house, W01- Weston Mrs. 15 \Volverton road, Wol· WorIey John, 25 High street

verton End, Wolverton St. Mary verton St. Mary Wright Thomas, 45 WolveYlon rold,.

Hooke Samuel Rigg, Ouse bank Wilkinson Miss, 48 High street 'Wolverton St. Mal'•v

COMMERCIAL. Elliott J oseph, baker, Silver street

Abbott Alfred Ernest, surveyor & sanitary inspector to Elmes Arthur Reuben, draper, 52 High street

the StraHord & Wolverton Rural District Council, 3 Elmes Joseph, glass, china &; hardware mer. 92 High st

Market square, Wolverton Elstone John, town crier, Church street

AlIt Terence Thomas L.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.Edin. surgeon, Elstone Kate (Miss), milliner, Church street

St. Olave house, High street Elstone William, shopkeeper, Horsefair green
Amos Thomas, White Swan P.H. High street Emerton George Jones M.R.C. V.S.L. veterinary ~l:!a'­

Ancell Frederick, builder, 33 High street goon, 21 'Volverton road, Wolverton St. Mary

Arthur Edward, Crown P.H. Market square Evans Trevor Halket M.A., M.B. &; B.C. surgeon, St.

Asher Caroline (Mrs.), Rising Sun P.H. HIgh stre.:t Oswald's house, High street

Barley George &; Son, tailors, 7 High street Fancutt Francis George, King's Head P.H. Silver stnel;

Barlow George, reporter for" North Bucks Advertiser," Fiennes Gerard Yorke Twisleton-Wykeham (sec. North

High ~tri'et Bucks Conservative Association), Market square

Beg-Iey William, chimney sweeper, 85 Wolverton road, French &; Spencer, grocers &; agents for W. & A. Gilbey

Wolverton St. Mary Lim. wine &; spirit merchants, High street

Benbow Nimrod Charles, confectioner, 40 High street Gee Thomas, Royal Oak P.H. Calverton End, WolvertOR>

Betts Thomas, plumber, painter &; glazier, 28 High street St. Mary

Blackmore Joseph William, grocer, 93 High street Gidman John, watch ma. &; tobacconist, 42 &; 44 High st

Blake Elizabeth (Mrs.), Duke of Edinburgh P.H. Wol- Goddard &; Bull, surg.-dentists, 73 High st.; attend f6

verton road, "Volverton St. Mary Godfrey William, greengrocer, 130 High street

Blunsom Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 88 Wolverton rd. Gosling &; Co. drapers & outfitters, 84 High street

Wolverton St·. Mary Grafton Cycle Co. cycle agents, 16 High street

Bond William, commission agent, The Green Hailey John, consulting builder, New street

Bradbury John, Foresters' .Arms P.H. 'Yolverton road, Hall Arthur, grocer &; provision merchant, 9 High street"-

Wolverton St. Mary Harris Edward Swinfen F.R.LB.A. architect, 117 High st

Braggins Edwin, traffic manager to the WQlverton & Harrison Clara (Mrs.), Barley Mow inn P.H. High street

Stony Stratford District New Tramway Co. Limited, Haseldine George, shopkeeper, 23 High street

31 Wolverton road, Wolverton St. Mary Hassall Frank, glass &; china dealer, 12 High street

Branston & Son, bakers, Wolverton rd.WolvertQn SLMary Hawley Harry, Bull commercial hotel, High street

Bridgman Benjamin, stationer & printer, 88 High street Hawley Thomas, jobmaster, High street

Bryant George, meal & flour dealer, 39 High street Hayes Edwd. engineer, steam yacht, tug & launch bldr~

Buckinghamshire (Royal Bucks Hussars) Yeomanry WaUing works, Wolverton End, Wolverton St. Mary

Cavalry (part of 1st Squadron; Hon. Major R. B. Loder, Haynes Betsy (Mrs.), laundress, 5 I Wolverton road, Wol-

commanding; Sergt.-Major Plaxton, drill instructor) verton St. Mary

Bucks &; Oxon Union Bank Limited (branch) (George W. Higgins John &; George, furniture dealers, Church streei

Bull, manager), High street; draw on London & West- Higgs Edwin, hair dresser, High street

minster Bank Limited, London E C Higgs WilIiam John, butcher, Market ~quare

Bull Benjamin, fishmonger, 97 Hig-h street Hill Elizabeth (Miss), dress maker, High street

Bull Goorge W. branch manager of Bucks & Oxon "Cnion Holland Samuel &; Son, furniture removers (under per-·

Bank Limited, High street sonal supervision), furniture .&c. warehoused on reason-

Bull William Henry F.R.C.S.Edin., L.R.C.P.Lond. sur- able terms; estimates free, Vicarage road. See adven

geon, St. Oswald's house, High street Holman George, relieving & inquiry officer & collector

Buttrum Henry, cabinet maker, 100 High street to Potterspury union, "Volverton road, 'Wolverton St.
CaGadine & Son, boot & shoe makers, 38 Hig-h street Mary

Calladine Samuel, postmaster &; sub-distributor of Holman Eliza (Mrs.), beer retailer, Mill lane

stamps, Post office, High street Hopkins John, l"hopkeeper, Market square

Canvin &; Sons, butchers, I High street Hurst Alice (Miss), draper, Market square

Cemetery (William J. C. Ray, clerk to the joint burial Jackson William Oliver, trade printer, rubber stamp manu-

committee), Culverton End, Wolverton St. Mary facturer &c.; trade work a speciality; silmples & par-
Chaplin Horace Charles, ironmonger, Market square ticulars free, 67 Wolverton road, ",,"olverton St. Mary

Chapman Edwin, tailor, 65 High street Jefcoate Frank, ironmonger &; draper, 145 & 147 High st.

Church Institute (William Stockings, sec.), Vicarage lane Jennings Richard, shoe maker, Market place

Clarke Thomas, baker, Church street J ones &; Son, greengrocers & fishmongers, 6 High street

Court Edward, inland revenue officer, 78 Wolverton road, Jones Job &; Son, boot makers, 47 High street

Wolverton St. Mary Jones Thomas AlIen, Coach & Horses P.H. High street

Cowley Daniel, baker, Market square Judge John, coach builder, High street

.cowley In. S. (Mrs.), registry office for servants,71 High st Kibble Brothers, boot & shoe warehouse, 3 Market squaw

Cowley John Stears, builder, 71 High street Kitchen Philip L. teacher of music, 17 Homelands

.cowlev Richard, monumental ,'0; general mason,High street Knock Richard, news'agoent, 15 High street

Cox & Robinson, chemists .& druggists, 75 High street Lane Sarah (~frs.), shopkeeper, 143 Hig-h street

Cripps - (Miss), dress maker, Market square Lever George Thomas, baker, 63 Woh'erton road, ·Wolver·

Curl Joseph John, florist &; seedsman, Market square ton St. Mary

Dickens Frederick Charles, grocer, 87 Wolverton road, Lines William, greengrocer & fruiterer, :Market square

Wolverton St. Mary Littlechild William Frederick, George hotel, High streell.

Dimond Mary Anne (Mrs.), dress maker, 143 High street London &; County Banking Co. Lim. (~Ilh-branch), open

DowninlJ' William &; Son, blacksmiths, Church street on tuesdays &; fridays only (Edward Herbert CarneD..

Downing Edwin, art metal worker & blacksmith. Sole manager), High street; draw on head office, 21 Lam-

maker of "Mumford's Patent Cramp" for picture bard street, London E C

framing & joinery purposes. The Green Luck Thomas, blacksmith, New street

Downinr Elizabeth PHss), shopkeeper, Church street Mabbutt Robert, carrier, High street

Downing- George, blacksmith, Calverton End, Wolver- Maguire Thomas Stephen M.D., L.R.C.P. & S.lrel. 8ur~

tOil St. Mary g-eon & medical officer &; public vaccinator, 1st &I 2nd'

Downing- Sarah (Miss), dress maker, Church street districts. medical officer to workhouse. Potterspury

Dumbleton Samuel 'Villiam P. grocer, Prospect road union, & mprlical officer of health for Potterspury k

Durham, Gotto & Samuel, land agents, valuers, surveyors Stratford & Wolverton Rural District Councils, Waiver-

&; auctioneers, 60 High street; &; at Newport Pagnell; ton road, Wolverton St. Mary

I Derngate, Northampton MaI'kham Wm. Jas. agent Prudential Assnrance, Mill 111

Eaton Marie Cecile (Mrs.), fancy repository, 20 High st Meadows WaIter William, linen draper, 3 High street

Egle",field Henry, White Horse P.H. High street Meakins Thomas C. writer, gr8lioo:r & gilder, 5 High stree~

DIRECTORY. ] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. STOWE. 169

Morgan Emma. (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 54 Wolverton road, Sharman William, greengrocer, 90 High street
~harp &; Woollard, curriers &; leather wareho. Church s\
Wolverton St. Mary

Negus Arthur John, wheelwright & cycle agent, London ~harp James, china dealer, High street

road, Wolverton St. Mary Skevington Frank, butcher, High street

Northampton Brewery Co. Stores (John Hilton, agent), Slade Adeline Agnes (Mrs.), ladies' school, York house,

Market square High street

North Bucks Advertiser (Mrs. Leah Walford, proprietor SmallJames,beer retailer,83Wolverton rd.WolvertonSt.Mry

&; publisher; published friday), High street Smith Frederick George, photographer &; picture frame

Odell James, ironmonger, 62 High street maker; photographic enlargements a speciality, 54 &;

Osborn &; Co. drapers, 50 High street 56 High street

Oswell Oliver, toy dealer, 98 High street Smith James William, chemist &; druggist, 14 High street

Pacey Anne Jane (Miss), shopkeeper, 8 High street Speaks Charles, Angel P.H. 11 High street
Packwood Joseph, butcher, 126 High street Stamp Office (Samuel Calladine, sub-distributor), Pos~

Parcell Thomas, shoe maker, 53 High street office, High street

I'arcell Thomas, grocer, Russell street Stockings William, insurance agent, 45 High street

Parrott Wil:iam Rose, solicitor, &; clerk to the Potters- Stony Stratford :Fire Brigade (George Downing, supt.;.

pury board of guardians &; supt. registrar of Potters- Joseph Elmes, foreman; 'Yilliam Downing, engineer),.

pury union, &; derk to the Potterspury &; the Stratford Silver street

&; Wolverton Rural District. Councils, 96 High street Stony Stratford Gas &; Coke Co. (WaIter George Hem-

Perrill Mary (Miss), dress maker &; draper, 104 High street mings, sec.), High street

Perrin Henry Stratton, saddler &, harness ma. 2 High st Stony Stratford Industrial &; Provident Society Limited

Pimbley Elizabeth (Mrs.), Plough P.H. London road (James White, chairman), London road. Wolverton

Pimbley Kate (1\1rs.), dress maker, Wolverton road, Wol- St. Mary

verton St. Mary Stony Stratford ·Working )Ien's Club (John Gidman,

Playfoot John, draper, 18 High street sec.), High street

Plumb &; Son, plumbers &; glaziers, Mal'ket square Stubbs &; Brown, coal &; builders' merchant, High street

Pollard Henry, tailor, 117 High street Sykes Frederick, hairdresser &; tobacconist, 78 High streei

Pratt Andrew, boot &; shoe maker, 135 High street Tarylor F. &; Sons, watch &; clock repairers, 61 High streei

Provident Dispensary (William Henry Bull F.R.C.S., Tibbetts John Smith, grocer &wine &; spirit mer. High si

L.R.C.P.Lond. & Thomas S. l\faguire M.D. medical Tilley Robert John, Prmc~ of 'Yales P.H. Wolverton road,.

officers; Miss Ellen Glidewell, sec.), Calverton End, Wolverton St. Mary

Wolverton St. Mary Tomlin Thomas,grocer,59 'Yolverton rd.WolvertonSt.MarY'

Reed Charles, beer retailer, 87 High street Tucker Edmand, news agent, High street

Reeve John, grocer & wine merchant, High street Valentine & Sons, butchers, 46 High street

Reeve John Attwood, iron fencing &; roofing con- '''aliord Leah (Mrs.), printer & bookseller, & publisher

tractor; every description of iron fencing, railings &; of the" North Bucks Advertiser," High street

gates; fireproof &; sectional buildings, hay barns &c. '''arr William, coal merchant, 112 High street

Wolverton road, Wolverton St. Mary "\Vatkins James, hair dresser, 22 High street

Revill Mrs. Cock hotel & posting house, High street Wilson John, saddler &; harness maker, 59 High street

Reynolds William Samuel, house decorator, Church street Wolverton & Stony Stratford District ]';"ew Tramway Co.
I Lim. (The), waiting room & parcels offlCe, corner of
Richards George, furniture dealer, 26 Church street

Robinson William Henry, as'Sessor of taxes, High street High street

Robinson T. P. &; Sons, furniture dealers, 37 High street Worley Edward Thomas, solicitor, &; deputy coroner for

Rogers James, miller (water & steam), Stratford mill ]';"ewport Pagnell division of Bucks &; clerk to magis-

RoUe George Cowley, butcher, 57 High street trates, 25 High street

RoUe William, baker, 119 High street WorIey .Tohn, solicitor, & coroner for Newport Pagne]}

Roll Susan (Mrs.), draper & milliner, 10 High street division of the county, 25 High street

Sanson William H. assessor & collector of taxes, The Green Wright James Edward, deputy supt. registrar for Potters-

Savage Caleb, grocer, High street pury union, High street

Sayers Samuel, tinplate worker, 101 High street Wright William, shopkeeper, 99 High street

IScrivener Elizabeth (Mrs.), confectioner, High street Yates Harry, confectioner, 36 High street
Yates Thomas, l'hopkeeper, 157 High street
Sewell George, gardener &; seedsman, Mill lane

Sharman Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 163 High street Yates William, baker, Church street

STOWE is a parish 3! miles north-north-west from <:olossal figures of lions; in front are lawns diversified

Buckingham station on the Bletchley and Banbury sec- with lakes; the north or park entrance of the mansion

tion of the London and North ·Western railway, in the is an elaborate architectural work with a portico of four

Northern division of the county, hundred, petty ses- Ionic columns, open colonnades and another flight of

Isional division, union and county court district of Buck- steps: the chief apartments include the saloon, the hall,

ingham, and in the rural deanery of Buckingham (first painted by Kent with allegorical representations of tha
portion), archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of seven planets; that of Mars being a portrait of William

Oxford. The church of St. Mary, situated in the private Ill.; the Egyptian hall, which is decorated with hiero-

grounds of Stowe House, is a building of stone in glyphics; the chapel, wainscoted with cedar, and con-

mixed styles, consisting of chancel, inave, aisles" taining the colours of the Third Provisional Battalion of
north porch, and a western tower
containing 5 ~{ilitia, 1814., and an organ, formerly belonging to James

bells: a stained window was inserted in 1890 by the I1.; the music room, the state drawing-room, which hart

Baroness Kinloss C.r. as a memorial to her parents the semicircular recesses and fluted pilasters, supporting a

3rd and last Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, d. 26 cornice, and coved ceiling, panelled and decorated; the-

March, 1889, and Caroline (Harvey) his 1st wife, d. 2g dining-room, the tapestry room, the state bed-chamber

Feb. 1874: there are 250 sittings: the burial ground and closet, the jewel room, the armoury, containing

has been enlarged by the addition of a piece of ground some valuable specimens of arms and armour, the-

near the village, with porch for funeral services. The library, 75 feet long, and comprising about 20,000 vols.

register dates from the year 1568. 'fhe living is a and many valuable portraits by Rubens, Vandyck, Lely,

vicarage, net yearly value £110, including 61 acres of Kneller, Vanloo, Gainsborough and others: H.R.H. thlt

glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Baroness Kin- late Comte de Paris died here, 8 Sept. and was buried'

loss, and held since 1875 by the Rev. John Warren M.A. at the Catholic Church of St. Charles Borromeo, a~

of St. John's College, Oxford. Stowe House, the property Weybridge, 12 Sept. 1894. The ornamental gardens.

of the Baroness Kinlo.ss C.r. but at present (1899) un- occupying nearly five hundred acres, were laid out by

occupied, is a noble mansion of stone, the front ele- the celebrated Lancelot (" Capability") Browne, and

vation exhibiting a central block, with wings united exhibit in the disposition of the grounds, the endless:

to it. by buildings of inferior height; the base- variety of their culture, and in their connection with and

ment IS rusticated throughout and the principal floor, contrast to the various buildings with which they are-

well lighted by lofty windows, is entirely surrounded by adorned, the perfection of a gardener's art: the entrance

pilasters supporting a frieze with cornice and balustrad- to. the park from Bu?kingham is by a beautiful Corin-

mg; a noble ascent of 31 steps conducts to the grand thian arch, 60 feet high and of the same width, at the

portico, formed of six Corinthian pillars, supporting a end of an avenue 2 miles in length; the park extends'

frieze and pediment; the front, including two colonnades over 800 acres and to the north are Stowe woods.

and two pavilion wings, is 916 feet in length: on each Boycott Manor House, erected by the late Charles

side of the principal entrance is a flower garden, ex- Higgins esq. J.P. but at present (1899) unoccupied, is

tending along the front and inclosed by a balustrade of a handsome mansion of red brick with Bath ston.

iron and Portland stone, surmounted at intervals by dressings in the Elizabethan style; it is situated on an.

"a8es, and at the foot of the steps are pedestals, with eminence a short distance from the old house, and com-

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170 STOWE. BUCKINGHkMSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

mands a beautiful view of Stowe Park. The Baroness Boycott is another hamlet, 21 miles north-west from

Kinloss C.I. who is lady of the manor, Sir Edmund Giles Buckingham. The area is 775 acres.

Loder bart. of Whittlebury Park, Northants, Capt. Lamport is also a hamlet occupied by a few cottagers.
Charles Clark Riggins J.P. and Earl Temple, of Wotton Sexton, Philip Hawkins.
House, Aylesbury, are the principal landowners. The

soil is gravel and clay; subsoil, various. The chief I Post, ~elegrap~& Express De~,.lvery Office, Dadfor~.-Mrs.
crops are wheat, barley, beans and oats. The area is
3,045 acres of land and 43 of water; assessable value, AnDl~ Hawkms, sub-postmIstress. Letters. arrIve from
£3,39°; the population of the parish in 1891 was 311 , Buckmgham at 8 a.m. & 1.10 ~.m.; dIspatched at
including Boycott.
1, ~o & 5 p.m. Postal orders are ISS~ed here, but not

Dadford is a hamlet, 4 miles north-west from Buck- paId. The nearest money order office IS at Shalstone

ingham, and containing the greater part of the inhabi- School (mixed), built in 1843, for 60 children; average

tants of the parish. attendance, 25; Miss Heloise Williams, mistress

STOWE. Treadwell Tom, farmer, Bycell farm Hill Charles Boyce

Fitt William Wallen William, farmer, New inn Warren Rev. John M.A. Vicarage

Bennett William, farmer, Castle farm BOYCOTT COMMERCIAL.
Morgan Thomas Chandos Chardin, .
steward to the Baroness Kinloss, Rogers AI!. Chas. farmer,Boycott frm Harris J ames, shopkeeper

Boycott DADFORD. Haskins Frank, assistant overseer

Oxley John Thomas, land agent to Gresson Charles Richard Haygarth, Inns Phillip, architect

Earl Temple, Home farm The Woodlands

SWANBOURNE is a village and parisL with a sta- gift of Lord OJttesloe, and held since 1879 by the Rev.

tion, about one mile north from the village, on the Ox- William Miles Myres M.A.. of Brasenose College, Ox-

ford and Bletchley branch of the London and 1\"orth ford, rural dean of Mursley and surrogate. The Baptist

\Vestern railway, 21 miles south-east from Winslow, 9 chapel, erected in 1863, will seat ISO persons. The Primi-

south-east from Buckingham, 9 west from Leighton tive Methodist chapel at Nearton, erected in 1858, has 50

Buzzard and 9 north from Aylesbury, in the Northern sittings. There is a poor's allotment of 9a. or. 37P. pro-

division of the county, Cottesloe hundred, Winslow petty ducing £12 a year and land of £7 yearly value for church

sessional division and union, Buckingham county court purposes. Swanbourne House, the seat of Lord

district, rural deanery of Mursley, archdeaconry of Cottesloe D.L., J.P. situated on an eminence, is a

Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. spacious mansion of white brick, surrounded by well-
Swithun is an ancient fabric of stone, consisting of chan- planted ground-s and a picturesque park of about 80

cel, c1erestoried nave of three bays, north aisle, south acres, and commands very extensive views of the sur-
porch, and an embattled western tower containing 6 rounding country. Lord Cottesloe is lord of the manor

bells: the chancel is Early English and has good lancet and principal landowner. The soil is loam and ~avel;
windows; the rest of the church, with the exception of subsoil, iirne and lias. The chief crops are wheat, beans
the lower part of the tower, which is also Early English, and pasture. The area is 2,550 acres; rateable value,
may be regarded as rather Late Perpendicular: the east £4,047; the population in 1891 was 429.

window was filled with stained glass by members of the Ne1rton End is part of Swanbourne.
Fremantle family to commemorate the golden wedding of Parish Clerk & Gerk to Parish OJunciI, George White.

the first Lord Cottesloe in 1874: and there is a memorial Post Office. John Boughton, sub-postmaster. Letters
window to Sophia Elizh. Barnes d. 1859: the church con- are received through Winslow at 7 a.m.; dispatched
tains an ancient wall painting, with accompanying inscrip- at 8. IS a.m. & 4.45 p.m.; sundays at 12.10 p.m.
tion in Latin, and the interior generally seems to have been Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The
much coloured, especially in the north aisle: there are nearest money order & telegraph office is at Winslow, 3
some monuments of the Adams family, a memorial to miles distant

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Mr. JosiM Askew, who died in 1750 at the age of 94, and

brasses in memory of Thos. Francis, 1St baron Cottesloe, Schools.

d. 1890, Louisa Elizab.eth (Nugent) his wife, d. 1875, and
other members of the family: the chancel retains a piscinn National, established in 1706, rebuilt in 1838, &; enlarged
and aumbry: the church was restored and repaired in in 1872, for 100 children; average attendance, 37; it

1864 under the direction of Mr. G. Wilkinson, architect, has an endowment of £21 yearly

and affords 220 sittings: the churchyard was enlarged in Infants', established in 1871, for 50 children; average

1890, half an acre of land having been given by the late attendance, 34; Mrs. Margaret Augusta White,mistress

Lord Cottesloe for this purpose. The register dates from Railway Station, Joseph Kirk, station master

the year 1565. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value- Carrier. John Morris, to Aylesbury, wed. &; sat. k to

£196, including 33 acres of glebe, with residence, in the Leighton Buz7.ard on tues

SWANBOURNE. IBragger Alex. George, Red Lion P.H Laker Ernest William, Swan P.H

Cottesloe Lord M.A., D.L., J.P.Swan- Brooks William, undertaker & bldr Lee Sarah (Mrs.), laundress

bourne house; 43 Eaton sq.; & Colg-rove Cornelius, farmer, Dodley Morris John, carrier

Carlton & Travellers' clubs Lon- Hill farm PhilIips John, farm bailiff to Lord
I~o-operative Stores (Geo. White, sec) Cottesloe
don S W '

Fremantle Hon. CeciI J.P Cox Jesse, farmer Price Williafn, Boot P.H

Fremantle Hon. Reginald Scott M.A Dancer Henry, farmer, Holcomb farm Turvey James, blacksmith

Fremantle Hon. WaIter Fairman Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Ayles- Wilmore William, farmer

Myres Rev. William Miles M.A..(vicar, bury rT!?a~. NEARTON END.
rural dean & Slll'l'oO'atfl) Vicarage Gates "llham, vermm destroyer Ash Joseph, farmer
Ramsay J. R. Swanb~urn; cottage Gran~e Arthur ~ames, farmer Ash Reuben, farmer
Hardmg James, Jun. shoe maker Colgrove Hugh, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Holdom In. frmr. Above Mead farm Colgrove John, butcher

.Ash Geo. & Harry, farmers, Moco frm Holtham William, baker &c Gadsden James, farmer

Ash Thomas, head gardener to Lord Kibble Edwin, farmer, Church farm Harding William, farmer

Cottesloe Kibble William, farmer &; grazier, Hurst Abraham, farmer

Boughton John, boot ma. Post office Buckslow farm Taylor Wm. shoe ma. & shopkeeper
ISYMPSON (or Simpson) is a parish and village on c. 73). The church of St.'Thomas the Apostle is an ancient
the Grand Junction canal, I mile north from Fenny cruciform building of stone, in the Perpendicular and.

Stratford and 2 miles north-east from Bletchley Junc-'j Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts,

tion station on the main line of the London and North south porch and a central tower containing 4 hells; in

lVestern railway. in the Northern division of the eounty, the church are monuments to the Hanmers, including one

hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court by Bacon to Sir Walden Hanmer bart. d. [783:

district of Newport Pagnell, rural deanery of Bletchley, the chancel was restored at the cost of the late Sit

archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Oxford. Wyndham Edward Hanmer bart. of Stockgrove (d.

A portion of the town of Fenny Stratford is in this 1887), in 1873, when the transepts were restored and the

parish, which is supplied with water from Great Brick- tower underpinned: there are 120 sittings. The presen~

hill by the Fenny Stratford Water Works. The river register dates from the year 1718; the earlier ones have

Ousel forms its eastern boundary. been lost. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £lfJO,

This parish is governed by the Fenny Stratford Urban derived principally from 225 acres of glebe, with residence,

District Council, formed in 1895, under the provisions built in 1872, in the g-ift of Sir Wyndham Charles Henry
onf the" Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. Hanmer bar~. and held since 1891 by the Rev. WiIIiaDl

DIRECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. TAPLOW. 171

• Rice RA.. of St. David's College, Lampeter. The Wesleyan &; 12.30 p.m. Box cleared at 11.35 a.m. &; 6.35 p.m.
Methodist chapel, built in 1842 and rebuilt on a new site
week days only. Postal orders are issued here, but

in 1870, has 100 sittings. Pigott's charity of £14 17s. not paid. The nearest money order &; telegraph office

IOld. a year is given in coals to the poor. The manorial is at Fenny Stratford, 2 miles distant

rights have ceased for ISO years. The principal land- This place is included in the United School Board dis..

owners are John Sipthorp, and Francis Farnborough trict of Woughton-on-the-Green &; Sympson, formed

esqrs. and Miss Pinfold, of Walton. The soil is light, 19 Jan. 1875

some clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are Frederick Bodley, clerk &; attendance officer to the

wheat, oats, beans and barley. The parish contains School Board

1,347 acres of land and 19 ()f water; assessable value, Board School, erected in 1876 for the parishes of Symp-

[,6,071; the population in 1891 was 727, of which 477 son &; Woughton-on-the-Green, &; situated midway

are in Fenny Stratford. between the two villages, for 145 children; average

Post Office.-Mrs. Mary Jane Bodley, sub-postmistress. attendance, 72; Edward Bevan, master; Miss Rebecca

Letters through Bletchley' station arrive at 6.35 a.m. R Barrows. mistress

Fitt Mrs. Sympson house . agent to the Atlas Insurance Co. Matthews John, carpenter

Farnborough Francia (fire &; life) Oliver Thomas, wheelwright

Hazlewood George Austin George, blacksmith Page James 'l'homas, boot maker (at-

Rice Rev. William B.A. Rectory Bramley Albert, coal &; lime merchant tends tues. &; fri)

Sipthorp John Davis Oliver, Plough P.H Sipthorp John, farmer &; landowner

Stevens Robert Farnborough Francis, landowner &; far- Stevens Albert John, baker

mer, Wood farm (The remainder of the names in this

COMMERCIAL. Heady William, farmer parish will be found under Fenny

Bodley Frederick, grocer, provision .Janes John Charles, farmer &; sheep Stratford)

dealer, assistant overseer, farmer &; dealer, Charity farm

TAPLOW is a parish and village, on the banks of the Museum, where they are now deposited. Cliveden, now
Thames, with a station three-quarters of a mile from the seat of the Hon. William Waldorf Astor, is situated in
the village on the main line of the Great Western rail- this parish, about 2! miles north from the village; the

'Way, 2 east from Maidenhead, 6 north-west from mansion, a splendid structure in the Palladian style,
Windsor and 22! from London, in the Southern division erected from designs by the late Sir Charles Barry kt.
of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of stands in a beautiful park of 300 acres, on high ground
Burnham, union of Eton, county court district of on the south side of the rrhames, and is a conspicuous
Windsor, rural deanery of Burnham, archdeaconry of object from the railway; it has successively been the
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford; a bridge of stone residence of the witty and profligate Duke of Bucking-
and brick with 13 arches here crosses the river Thames ham, Frederick Prince of 'Vales, during the infancy of
to Maidenhead. The church of St. Nicholas, erected in George the Third, the Earl of Orkney, the late Duke and
1828 at a little distance from the site of the former Dowager Duchess of Sutherland and of the Duke of
edifice, is a small and plain structure of brick, in the Westminster K.G. of whom the house and estate were
G-othic style, consisting of chancel (added in 1865), nave purchased about 1890 by the present owner: the
and a low embattled western tower containing a clock south front includes a lofty terrace 433 feet in length,
and 3 bells: the reredos is of alabaster: on the north erected on arches, the prospects from which, including
side of the nave is a pew belonging to the Grenfell the valley of the Thames, are of great beauty; the former
family, and containing a brass to Capt. Charles William mansions were twice destroyed by fire. Glenisland is the
Gl'enfell, d. 4 May, 1861, and on the south side is a seat of Lt.-Gen. Sir Roger William Henry Palmer bart.
large brass to Pascoe St. Leger Grenfell, d. 1882; and stands on an island below the lock. Taplow Court,
Katherine (Dupre), his 1st wife, d. 1844, and Penelope the seat of William Henry Grenfell esq. J.P. a stately
Frances (Madan), his second wife, d. 1868: in the nave mansion of red brick with Bath stone dressings in the
are a large number of ancient brasses, Ilome of which Tudor style, contains a fine saloon built by tha Earl of
are palimpsets, removed from the old church, including Orkney; the situation of the mansion is commanding,

one to Nicholas de Aumberdene, dated 1350, and one and the park and grounds of 200 acres are planted with
with three effigies of Richard Manfeld, his sister and the choicest shrubs and contain a long avenue of large
brother, ~465: there are 400 sittings, 150 being free. cedars of Lebanon. The bank of woods which
The register dates from the year 1710. The living is 11 runs along the river side for a mile and a half is well
rectory, net yearly value £450, including 190 acres of known for its beauty. William Henry Grenfell esq. who is
glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, lord of the manor, Mrs. Whitlaw, of Amerden House, and

and beld since 1897 by the Rev. Nicholas Thomas Garry the Hon. W. W. Astor are the principal landowners. The
M.A. of Queen's CQllege, Oxford,' and hon. canon of Christ soil is loam; subS<:lil, chalk and gravel. The chief crops
Church. There is a village reading room, erected are wheat and barley; the area is 1,726 acres of land and
in 1894, and containing a library. The poor's 36 of water; assessable value, £16,160; the population in

allotment of 3 acres with 6 'COttage produces £36, 1891 was 1,029 in the civil and 961 in the ecclesiastical
which is distributed in fuel; Sharp's charity, bequeathed parish.
in 1797, consists of £1°5, invested in £3 per Cents.
the interest of which is given away twice yearly in Pari!lh Clerk, James Rutland.
bread; Mrs. Morris, of Birmingham, gave £50 in 1784 Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Ex£ress Delivery, Parcel
to be invested in £3 per Cents. for educating two poor
Post, S. R & Annuity &; Insurance Office. Miss Kathe-
children: Ashford Moore's charity, bequeathed in 1867, rine Gurney, sub-postmistress. Letters delivered from
consists of £6II 9s. 4d. invested in £3 per Cents. and
the interest is distributed yearly in food and clothing. Maidenhead at 7 &; II.45 a.m. &, 7.40 p.m.; dispatched
In October, 1883, a tumulus in the old churchyard was at 12.10 noon &; 3, 5 & 7.5 p.m. &; on sundays at II a.m.
opened by permission of the Rev. Charles Whateley, There is also a telegraph office at the railway station.
then rector, by Mr. James Rutland, hon. sec. of the Wall Letter Boxes: Taplow Common, cleared at 2.35 &;
Maidenhead Field Club, and various Anglo-Saxon objects, 6.30 p.m.; sundays, 7 p.m. Dumb Bell, 8.10 a.m. &;
a gold buckle, gold fibulre, silver armlets, two iron um- 12.25, 3.40 & 7.30 p.m.; sunday, 7.40 p.m. Taplow
bone., an iron sword, four glass vases, two large silver- Hill, 7 a.m. & 12 &; 3· 10 p.m.; sunday, 7.30 p.m. Great
mounted drinking horns, and upwards of 30 barrel-shaped Western Railway station, 8 a.m. &; 12.30 &; 7.35 p.m. ;
pieces with silver ends, probably used in some game of sunday, II.35 a.m
skill or chance, and various other interesting items were National School (mixed), built in 1872 & enlarged in 1897,
then discovered and presented by the rector to the British for 200 children; average attendance, 18o; John Joseph
Sig-gers, master; Mrs. Julia Siggers, mistress
Railway Station, John R L. Grigg, station master

PFIVA.TE RESIDEKTS. Casberd-Boteler Commander William Hoare Henry, Thames bank

Astor Hon. Wm. Waldorf, Cliveden John R.N. The Elms Hole Mrs. Church cottage

Elaldwin Waiter, Rectory farm C.arke Rev.Rupert (curate),Laurel vil Kennedey Arthur, River bank

Barron Mrs. Taplow house Coleman John, Kenmore Lambourn Miss, Acacia villa

Batchelor Rev. Alfred W., M.A.,RC.L. Fearon Capt. Frederick, The Ruins Litwson Harry Lawson Webster M.A.•

Taplow Grammar school Freeth Caston, Riverside J .P. Orkney cottage

Benson Mrs. Millstream Friend Henry William, Rosemead Lowe Alex.M.A.Taplow Grammar schl

Blaks WaIter, The Cedars Garry Rev. Canon Nicholas Thos.M.A. Lubbock Edgar, Springfield

Elond Mrs. Brookside (rector), Rectory Millington WaIter S. The Knowles

1J0urk~ Ven. Archdeacon Cecil Fredk. Grenfell Charles Seymour, Elibank ho Needham Maj. Hon. Robert, Berry hl

Joseph M.A. Hill house Grenfell William Henry RA., D.L., O'Conor Arthur, Barge farm

Butler Charles M.D. Charlton J.P. Taplow court Palmer Lieut.-Gen. Sir Roger William

Cail Christopher, Mill house HarvfY Mrs. Lansdo"\Vne house Henry bart. D.L., J.P. Glenisland

172 TAPLOW. BUCKINGHAl\fSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Praed Mackworth Bulkeley, The Cot Buckland Frederick James, smith Maquay George (private secretary to

Reid Sir Henry V. Rae bart. Amer- Butler Charles M.D. physician,Charltn the Hon. W. W. Astor), Cliveden

den lakes Butler Geo. assist. overseer, The Keuk National (The) Society for Preserving

Rutland James F.G.S. The Gables Clarke WiIIiam, shopkeeper the Memorials of the Dead (James

Serocold Charles Pearce, Taplow hilI Cleare Frederick, fly proprietor Rutland F.G.S. hon. sec. for county

Serocold Oswald Pearce, Taplow hiE Collett Henry, carpenter of Bucks), The Gables

Sowler Arthur, Amerden bank Fenner WiIIiam, beer retailer Payne Alfd. beer ret. & rfrshmnt. rms.

Tatton-Egerton Hon. Alan de M.P., Gurney Edwd. Okey, baker & grocer Payne John, Dumb Bell hotel

J.P. Taplow cottage; & 9 Seamore Harris William, blacksmith Preston Joseph, boot & shoe maker

place, Mayfair W & Carlton club Hodgson James, Skindle's hotel Rance WiIliam, farmer & butcher

S W & Bachelors' club W, London Hooper WiIIiam, smiih Reading Room & Library (Rev. Canon.

Whaley Mrs. Taplow lodge Hyde Fredk.1'YilIiam,Queen'sHead P.H N. T. Garry M.A. pres.; John Sig-

Whitlaw Mrs. Amerden house James Wiliam, cycle agent & .repairer gel's, sec)

Wilson Miss, Fairview Jaycock Hannah (Mrs.), laundress Taplow Cricket Club (In. Siggers,sec)

Womack John G. The Walnuts Lodge Edward, bailiff to ·Wm. Henry Taplow Grammar School (Alexander

Woolfryes Arlett Henry, Well bank Grenfell esq. D.L., J.P Lowe M.A. & Rev. Alfd.W. Batchelor

COMMERCIAL. Maidenhead Gas Co. Liro. works (Geo. M.A., RC.L. principals)

Andrews E. &; Son, boat builders Wood, manager) Venables Charles & Co. Taplow brown

Daldwin Henry, beer retailer Maidenhead & Taplow Field Club & paper works

Bond Jonathan, boat builder Thames Valley Antiquarian Society Wakeman Philip, builder

Dullard Robert, coach builder, see (James Rutland F.G.S. hon. sec) Webster George, coal merc.hant

Whitlock & Dullard Moore Henry, baker "'hitlock & Bullard, coach builders

TATTENHOE is a parish, 2~ miles west from Bletch- consists of an octagonal basin, well carved, supported on

ley Juuction station 011 the main line of the London and four clustered shafts, rising from an oval base: the church
~orth Western railway and 3! west from Fenny Strat- was partially restored in 1892, and affords 50 sittings. The

ford, in the Northern division of the county, Cottesloe register of baptisms dates from the year 1733; marriages,

hundred, Winslow petty sessional division and union, 1765; burials, 1755. The living is a donative, net yearly

county court district of Buckingham, rural deanery of value £40, in the gift of W. Selby-Lowndes esq. and held
Mnrsley, ar~hdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of, since 1867 by the Rev. Kitelee Chandos Baily RA. of Uni-

Oxford. The church of St. Giles occupies a retired versity College, Durham, who is also vicar of Bradwell,

situation on the site of the ancient manor house, the where he resides. WiIliam Selby-Lowndes esq. of

moat belonging to which now partly surrounds the Whaddon Hall, is lord of the manor and sole landowner.

churchvard; the existing fabric was rebuilt in 1540 from The soil is stiff c:ay, some gravelly; subsoil, clay and

the ruins of the neighbouring priory of Snelshall, in gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans and

\Vhaddon parish, and having been for some time disused barley. 'fhe area is 645 acres; rateable value, £623;

and desecrated, was reconsecrated in 1636; it is a build- the population in 1891 was 45.

ing of stone, supported by brick piers, and consisting of Parish Clerk, John Hooton.

chancel and nave under a single roof, south porch and a ..
small western turret containing one bell: the chancel re- Letters through Bletchley, whlCh IS also the nearest money

tains a piseina, and has a single east window of three order & telegraph office

lights, on either side of which is a stone bracket; the font The children of this place attend the school at Whaddon

Clarke Thomas, farmer I Monk John Edward, farmer

THORNBOROUGH is a large village and parish in' Steadman, of Trinity College, Dublin. There is a Wes-
the Northern division of the county, on the river Ouse, leyan chapel, built in 1832, and seating 60 persons; a
which is here crossed by a stone bridge of six arches, Congregational chapel, built in 1877, with sittings for 5()
and on the Buckingham and Leighton Buzzard road; it persons, and a Baptist chapel, built in 1829, with 70 sit-
is 2! miles north-east from Padbury station on the tings. The :Manor House, which stands in the
Illetchley and Banbur)" section of the London and Korth centre of the village, is an ancient building en-
Western railway, 4 east from Buckingham and 4! closed by a high brick wall, and just outside it is.
west-by-north from Winslow, in Buckingham hundred, the old tithe barn. The poor's allotment consists of 16.
petty sessional division, union and county court dis- acres. There are sand, stone, clay and gravel pits here.
trict, and in the rural deanery of Buckingham (second Kear the river Ouse are two tumuli. Some bronze
portion), archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of vases of exquisite form, glass cinerary urns, a bronze
Oxford. 'rhe church of St. Mary is a building of stone, lamp and other remarkable remains have been met with
consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle. in a tumulus near here, and were placed in the collection

south porch. and an embattled western tower containing of the late Lmd Braybrooke. Sir Edmund Hope Verney
a clock, with chimes made and presented by John Sike" bart. of Claydon, is lord of the manor; the trustees of the-
esg. in commemoration of Her Majesty's Jubilee 1887, late William Thomas Cavendish, Lewis John Chapman,
and 5 cast steel bells, taken in exchange for an older Messrs. G. D. E. Wigley, J. T. Harrison, and the trustees.
peal of 4 bells, two of which were dated 1610 and ITI6: of the late Mr. James Ridge, the trustees of the late Geo.

the chancel is the property of the trustees of the late Wilkinson, the trustees of the late Dr. Clark, and the Presi-
Dr. Clark and the trustees of George Wilkins esq. wh~J dent and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, are the
are the lay rectors: the tower is Decorated, and has a princip:tl landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, various.

Ivery good west doorway, but Perpendicular windows The land is arable and pasture, in about equal portions.

have been inserted: the piers and arches of the nave are The area is 2,382 acres of land and 10 of water; assessable
also Decorated and the south porch is of like date, but value, £2.724; the population in 1891 was 564.
nearly all the windows are Perpendicular: the east win- Parish Clerk, Frank Capel.
dow was destroyed by a hail-storm in 1887, but has Post Office. James Griffin, sub-postmaster. Letter~
been replaced: there are brasses with effigies to William through Buckingham, arrive at 8 a.m.; dispatched at

Barton and his wife, 1389; and inscriptions on brass to .'(.10 p.m. wepk days only. Postal orders are issued here,.
John Crowche. chaplain, "who celebrated here for the but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph

souls of John Barton, senior and junior," 1473; Dorothy. offioee is at Buckingham, 4 miles distant
successively wife of John Butcher and John Stevens, A School Board of 5 members was formed here 24 Mar.
1685; Elizabeth, wife of John Woolhed, 1696, and John 1893 ~ Thomas Bonner, I High street, Buckingham,.
Woolhed, 17°9: there are also memorials to the Wool- clerk t,o the board & attendance officer

noths: the church affords 300 sittings. The register dates Board School (mixed), erected in 1894. for 120 children;
from the Joear 1."97. The living is a vicarage, net yearly average attendance, 8o; Mrs. :Margelina Hallidey, mist
value, £120, with residence, in the gift of Sir Edmund H. Carriers to Duckingham.-William Smith & J ames Buck-

Verney bart. and held since 1880 by the Rev. William ingham, mono wed. fri. & sat

EIliott Joseph Dutchcl' Stcphen, butcher Frost Amos, Swan P.H

Frost Mrs Capel James, King's .Arms P.H Graingel' Frederick, farmer

Radford Henry Capel Robert, farmer Green William, wheelwright

Ridge Mrs Chapman Lewis John, brick maker, Griffin David, shopkeeper

Steadman Rev. William, Vicarage lime burner & farmer, The Coombes Hatton Harry, farmer, Upper Shelspi"

Tillotson Mrs Clark Mary (Miss), shopkeeper Jackman Joseph, blacksmith

COMMFlRCB.L. Dormer Edwin, hay dealer .Tudd Isaae, farmer, Manor house

Dormer Hy.frmr.&miller,Low.Shelspit King Stephen, carpenter
~o\nstee Elizh. (Mrs.), Two Brewers P.H Fountaine .Tames, Lone Tree P.H
King Thomas, sen. stonemason

Brooks J oseph, shopkeeper Franklin Wm. beer raUr. & hricklyr Madkins Geo. frmr. Nash End farID

DIRECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. TINGEWICK. 173

Matthews Jabez,carpntr. & whlwrght Ridge Edward James, baker Seaton Harry, baker

Ormond Stanley, farmer IRidge William John, farmer Tompkins Thomas James, farmer,

Pauling Laban, farmer IRoads Joseph, farmer, Grange Lower End
Rhodes Alfred, farmer
Sare Mary (Mrs.), frmr. Manor farm Whitehall James, carrier

THORNTON is a parish and village, separated from the body of the church and the chancel, to the west end,

Xorthamptollshire by the river Ouse, 4 miles south-west where they were placed on either side the entrance:
from Stony Stratford and 4~ north-east from lluekiuj;{- there are 120 sittings. The register dates from the year
ham station on the Bletchley and Oxford section of the 1562. '1'he living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Nash
London and North Western railwaY', in the Norlhern annexed, joint net yearly value £168, with 11 acres of
division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, glebe, in the gift of H. S. H. Cavendish esq. and held since

union and county court district of Buckingham, 1897 by the Rev. Charles Clare Dawson-Smith, who resides
and in the rural deanery of Buckingham (second at Nash. H. S. H. Cavendish esq. is lord of the manor and
portion), archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese sole landowner. Thornton Hall, rebuilt in 1850 by the late
of Oxford. The church of St. Michael, rebuilt, Hon. Richard Cavendish, d. 19 Nov. 1873, and now the
",ith the exception of the tower, about 1850, is an edifice of residence of Fitzhugh Whitehouse esq. is a noble and
\Stone, picturesquely situated in the grounds of Thornton spacious mansion, with a lofty tower, in the Tudor

Hall, and now covered with ivy; it consists of nave. style, and is situated in a park of 181 acres; the
-aisles and an embattled western tower of Perpendicular approach from the Beachampton road is through an
date, containing a clock and 3 interesting bells, with in- avenue of fine elm trees. The soil is stiff clay; sub-
scriptions, the lower stage of the tower forms a porch: soil, clay, gravel and limestone rock. The chief crops

the chancel has been pulled down; the interior was re- are wheat, oats, barley and beans. The area is 1,339
fitted at the beginning of the present century by Thomas acres of land and 8 of water; assessable value, £1,391;
Sheppard esq. then lord of the manor, when two altar the population in 1891 was 80.

tombs, with brasses of the Ingletons, were removed, and Letters through Stony Stratford, arrive at 8 a.m
the brasses placed on the floor; these still remain and
represent-I, Robert Ingleton esq. in armour, with his Wall Letter Box, cleared at 5.30 p.m. on week days;

three wives, 1472; 2, Jane, daughter and sole heir of on sundays, 10·30 a.m. Deanshanger is the nearest

Robert Ingleton and successively wife of Humfrey Tyrrell money order office & Stony Stratford the nearest

and Alexander Seynct Johns; she died in 1557; 3, telegraph office, 4 miles distant

George Tyrrell, her son: there are also effigies in Parish School, erected in 1860, at the expense of the

-alabaster of John Barton, founder of a chantry here, ob. late Hon. Richard Cavendish; this school is not at

1443, and of his wife Isabella; these were removed at present in use; the children attend the schools in the

the time above-mentioned from under an arch between neighbouring villages
IWhitehouse Fitzhugh, Thornton hall 1Hobbs }Iatthew, farmer
Verey John, farmer, Hall farm

Fountaine Wm. farmer, Furzenfield Powell David, farmer

TINGEWICK is a parish, on the borders of Oxford- £1 4S. are distributed yearly. Lace making is carried
,»hire, and bounded on the north by the river Ouse, 3 on by the poor to a small extent. in 1860-2 remains of
miles west from Buckingham station on the Bletchley some Roman foundations, bronze instruments and orna-
and Banbury line of the London and North 'Vestern ments, pottery and coins were discovered in a field
railway, in the Northern division of the county, in the called" Stollidge," a quarter of a mile north-east of ths
hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court village, then the property of the late :Mr. R. P. Greaves;
tlistrict of Buckingham, and in the rural deanery the coins dated from A.D. 218 to A.D. 395 and were
of Buckingham (first portion), archdeaconry of Buck- almost wholly of brass. The warden and fellows of New
ingham and diocese of Oxford. The parish was College, Oxford, are lords of the manor. ThPl rector,
inclosed by Act of Parliament passed in 1773. The the trustees of the late Mr. R. F. Greaves, Mr. Henry
church of St. Mary Magdalen is a building of stone, A.rnatt and Mr. Shadraoeh Tompkins, of Leckhamstead, are
consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south the principal landowners. The soil is principally gravelly
porch, and an embattled western tower containing 6 loam and clay; subsoil, various; the land more arable than

bells: the nave is Early English, its arcades having pasture. The area is 2,173 acres of land and 5 of water;
plain arches on circular piers: the south side has been rateable value, £3,367; the population in 1891 was 714.
rebuilt in a modern imitation of the same style: the Parish Clerk, Frederick Ridgway.

chancel and tower are good Perpendicular, the latter Post, M. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
having a very good doorway on the west side: the Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office & Office for
{'hancel retains a small piscina and a curious brass to issue of Inland Revenue Licences. John Thos. Barnes,
Erasmus Williams, rector of this parish, who died in sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Buckingham at 7

1608; it includes a demi-effigy, habited in a gown and a.m. & 12.30 p.m.; dispatched at' 1.20 & 6 p.m

on either side a pillar, hung with astronomical, mm,ical, Wall Letter Box, Little Tingewick, cleared at 1.15 & 5.50
a. nd geom. etrical instruments and other articles; below p.m. ; sundays, 9.45 a.m
IS an epItaph, supposed to have been written by Dr.
Richard Haydock, the physician: in 1867 a south porch A School Board of 5 members was formed 13 Nov. 1873;
was added, the chancel restored and the church re- Robert Dudley, clerk to the board; George Heritage,

&eated, and in 1893 a stained east window was placed in attendance officer
the chancel by the present rector, and a new oak Board School (mixed), built in 1873, for 166 children; aver-
reredos, the gift of Miss Moorsom, erected: there are
age attendance, 126; William Stanley, master; Miss
26-1- sittings. The register dates from the year 1560. Amelia Gomme, mistress
The living is a rectory, net yearly value £360, with The Rev. Francis Edmunds, about the middle of the
residence, in the gift of the 'Varden and Fellows of New last century, endowed a charity school with £15 a
College, Oxford. and held since 1855 by the Rev. John year, for teaching & clothing 6 boys & 6 girls; but
Coker M.A. and formerly fellow of that college. The Con- the children on this foundation are now educated at
gregational chapel, built in 1875, will seat 100 per- the board school on condition that they attend the
SuDS; the Wesleyan chapel. built in 1863, affords 120 church ~unday school
sittings, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel, Carriers to Buckingham.-Edwin Allen Judd, mono wed.
seating 100. Longland's charity of £10 and N"orth's of fri. & sat.; Mrs. Berkin, daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Floyd Wm. frmr. Tingewick Wd. frm

.A.rmstrong Mrs. Cedar lawn, Little A.rnatt Henry, farmer & landowner Gardner Jas. frmr. Grove Hill farm

Tingewick Barnes John Thomas, grocer & sta- Giles Frederick, shoe maker

Borlase Capt. Henry R.N.R tioner, Post office Grantham Edmund, Red Lion P.H

Coker Rev. John M.A. Rectory Barnes 'Villiam, gravel merchant Green Thomas, harness maker

Daniel Miss, Bicester house Barrett Frederick, blacksmith Hadland John Toppan & Frederick,

oGreaves Mrs. The Laurels Bourton Matthew Wm. beer retailer Crown P.H. &; brewers

Hancock Rev. William John Beck Clarke James, farmer Harvey Thomas Barker, bricklayer

T.A.K.C.L. (curate) Coates Miss Mary Ann, shopkeeper Riggins John, machine owner, Little

Low Rev. Charles M.A. (curate in Coates Richard, grocer &; painter Tingewick

charge of Chetwode & Barton Harts- Collingridge John, machine owner Holton Benjamin, butcher

horn), Little Tingewick Cross George, bricklayer Ibell Benjamin, tailor &; shopkeeper

Lucy Ml'8 Cross Harry, bricklayer Jones Wm. Jas. baker & beer retailer

Moorsom Miss, Tingewick house Dew & Co. grocers & drapers Judd Edwin, shoe maker

Steeden Mrs. Church view Durrant Ambrose, insnrance agent Judd Edwin Allen, carrier

Stevens Charles Dudley John & Son, butchers Judd Herbert Owen, shoe maker

Thcmpson Misses, Rose cottage Furlt>r Theresa (Mrs.), butcher Kingham Joseph, Royal Oak P.ll

174 TINGEWJCK. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Kingham William Charles, cycle repl' Miller William, builder Richardson James, market gardener

Lever Mary (Mrs.), private school for Nelson Geo. farmer, Parsonage farm Roots William John,farmer &;game da

boys &; girls Pollard Elizabeth &; Sons, farmers &. Smith Thos.. basket maker &; drap"l"

Lovell David, shoe maker millers, Tingewick mill Steeden Newltt, carpntr. &; whlwrgJr.

Lucas Jesse, chimney sweeper Pollard Ebenezer, shoe maker Timms William, White Hart P.H

Lucas William, baker &; mealman Pollard George, farmer Tow George, farmer

Markham Arm (Mrs.), laundries Price Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Williams Ann (Mrs.), dressmaker

Markham Richard, thatcher Little Tingewick Woodman Samuel, draper

Marshall James, haulier Read Thos. Stockley, butcher &; grocr Worvill Julia (Miss), dressmaker

TOWERSEY is a parish on the borders of Oxford- of £25 yearly, left by Mr. Christopher Deane, for appren-
shire, one and a quarter miles east from Thame station ticing poor boys and for elementary education, another of
on the Wycombe, Thame and Oxford branch of the £5 a year for the vicar of the parish, and one left by Dame
Great 'Western railway, and 9 south-west from Ayles- ' Catherine Pye, of Braddenham, Bucks, for the benefit of
bury, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Towersey and four other parishes, and consisting of the rent
Ashendon, petty sessional division of Aylesbury, Thame of a farm in this parish, which is expended in providing
union and county court district, rural deanery ~f Ayles- I elementary education and in doles given to poor widows.
bury, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Ox- Towersey Manor, the seat of James Whiteh{)use Griffin

ford. 'fhe church of St. Catherine is a small edifice of esq. J.P. is a handsome building in the Italian style, plea-
stone, chiefly in the Decorated style, but with traces of 8antly seated in well-kept grounds. James Whitehouse
13th ,century and earlier work, and consists of chancel Griffin egq. who is lord of the manor, and Philip James
and nave, and an embattled tower with pinnacles, on the Digby Wykeham esq. of Tythrop House, Thame, are the

south side of the nave added in 1854, at the sole ex- chief landowners. The soil is strong loam; subsoil, clay,
pense of the late Edward Griffin esq. and containing 4 gravel and limestone. The chief crops are wheat, beans,
bells, a sanctus bell, and a clock, presented in 1887 by barley, clover and grasses, and there is much pasture

Mr. S. Lacey, of Thame, it had previously been for 100 land. The area is 1,378 acres; assessable value, [,2,016;
years in the 'fown hall at Thame, and for 200 years the population in 1891 was 349.
prior to that at Rycote chapel, but was renovated Sexton, William Williams.
and re-constructed by Sainsbury, of Walthamstow, for Pos~ Office. John Bowden, sub-postmaster. Letters are
this church; the hexagonal and richly carved pulpit is received from Thame by foot messenger at 7.30 aom. ;
Jacobean, and there is a very good piscina in the chan- dispatched at 6 p.m.; sundays arrive 7.30 a.m.; dis-

eel; the font is reputed to be of Saxon date. A new patched 10.15 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but
organ was presented in 1887, at a cost of £65, and a not paid. The nearest money {)rder &; telegraph office

brass lectern in 1892, at a cost of 50 guineas, by Mr. S. is at Thame, 3 miles distant
Lacey, of Thame: the church was thoroughly restored National School, built in 1848 &; supported in part by a

in 1850, and the interior in 1877: there are 225 sittings, moiety of the rent of Quash farm, left by the late
100 being free. The register dates from the year 1580. Dame Catherine Pye to five parishes, for the education
The living is a vi~arage, net yearly value £85, including of the poor, &; also, under a scheme of the Commis-
57 acres of glebe, with residenl'e, in the gift of the sioners, by a moiety of the late C. Deane's charity; the
trustees of the late W. B. Slater M.D. and held since school will hold 84 children; average attendance, 66;
1885 by the Rev. Robert Parglter. The Baptist chapel, John Widdicombe, master; Mrs. 1. C. Widdicombe,

erected in 1837, will seat 100 persons. The charities, one mistress

Griffin James Whitehouse J.P.Tower- Bowden In. assist-overseer, Post office Pollicut James, Black Horse P.H

sey lnanor Collins Alfred, 'White Hart P.H Rose Geo. Pitt,Three Horse Shoes P.B

Pargiter Rev. Robert, Vicarage Grange Thomas Alfred, farmer Saund6'l's John, farmer

Stevens James Sheen, The Walnuts Jackman Thos. gamekeeper to James Stanley Thos. &; Wm. In. stone haulrs

COMMERCIAL. Whitehouse Griffin esq. Pen farm Stevens Edward, farmer, Quash farm

Andrews Wm. farmer, Grange farm King Edmund Thos. baker &; grocer White Rerbert, dairy farmer

Baverstock Thomas, farmer North Jane (Mrs.), farmer Williams William, boot ma. &sexton

Biggs Raymond &; Samuel, farmers I North William, g-razier Wright George. farmer & coal dealer

TURVILLE (anciently called Turfield) is a parish the church school; Beisley's charity {)f 1896 produces an
and village on the Oxfordshire border, 7 miles north annual income of £18 14s. 8d. which is distributed in
from Henley terminal station on a branch of the Great coals. Turville Park, the seat of Stafford O'Brien
Western railway, and about 6 south-west from West Hoare esq. D.L., J.P. is a place of historic in-
Wycombe station on the Maidenhead and Oxford section terest: the mansion is an ancient and picturesque
of the same line, 7~ west-by-south from High Wycombe, building seated on an eminence and commanding exten-
and 7 north-west from Marlow, in the Southern division sive views of the surrounding country; it was formerly
of the county, Desborough hundred, 1st division of Des- the residence of the late Lord Lyndhurst and was built
borough petty sessional division, union and county court by William Perry esq. of Wormington, Glos. who married
district of Wycombe, rural deanery of Wycombe, arch- about 1653, Elizabeth, second daughter of Col. Thomas

deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford; part of Sydney, and eventual sole heiress of the Sydneys, Earls
the village is in Ibstone parish. The church of St. Mary of Leicester. Turville Court, the residence of Clifton Bran-
is a small building of stone in the Norman style, con- don esq. is a plain brick building standing on an eminence,
sisting of chancel, nave, north transept, south porch and commanding a fine view of the surrounding country. Lord
an ivy-clad tower, built of flint and containing 4 bells: Glanusk, of Glanusk Park, Brecon, Lord Camoys, S. O'B.

attached to the church is a private aisle belonging to the I Hoare esq. and Ri,chard Ovey esq. of Badgemore. Henley-

Turville Park estate, the pews in which are occupied by on-Thames, are l{)rds of the manor and principal land-
Stafford O'Brien Hoare esq. and his family: the east owners. The soil is chalk and gravel; subsoil, light in th&

window is stained, and there is a good Norman font, and valley. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. Th&
several mural monuments in the transept to the Sydney, area is 2,327 acres; assessable value, £l,goO; the popul

East, Butlin, King and Perry families: the organ was tion in 1891 was 468.

presented by Stafford O'Brien Hoare esq. of Turville Sexton John Sewell.
Park: the church was restored in 1722 and again in '
1876, at a cost of £150, and aff{)rds 225 sittings. The re·
Post, rr:e1egraph &; Express Delivery O~ce, Turville Heatn.
gister dates from the year 1582: about forty years are .Mlss Ehza Morgan, sub-postmlst~ess. Letters re·
missing previous to 1660. The living is a vicarage, net
celved from Henley at 8.50 a.m.; dIspatched at 5. 15
yearly value £85, including 40 acres of glebe, with resi- :pom.; sundays, II a.m. The neares~ money order offic&
IS !it Hambledon. Postal orders are ISSUed here, but not
dence, in the alternate gifts {)f Lord Glanusk, Lord Camoys

and Richard Ovey esq. and held since 1897 by the Rev. paId

Michael Graves BoD. of the University of Durham. The Wall Letter Box in Village cleared at 5.50 p.m.· sun-
church of St. Saviour, in Turville Park, erected
in 1898 on a .site pres.ented by. S.. O'B. Hoa:e days, 10.15 p . : n ' ,
esq. D.L., J.P. IS an edifice of flint ID the GothIC
style, consisting of chancel and nave, and affords Sub-Delivery Office, North End. Letters arrive from Hen-
120 sittings. At Turville Heath is a Primitive ley at 9 a m
.

Wall Letter Box, cleared at 4·50 p.m.; sundays, 10.15 a.m

Methodist chapel, erected in 1872. Rool's charity produces Schools

£8 yearly, and there is also a charity of £1,100 bequeathed A School Bo~rd of five • formed 3 June,
by Miss Tempero in 1885, the interest of which is for the members was

maintenance of the church and for the poor of the parish. 188o; Edwm J. Vernon, clerk to the board

Butlin's charity consists of the interest of £40, and is for There is a red brick school in the village for the dis-

church expenses; Bartlett's, the interest of £500, is for tricts of lbstone, Fingest &; Turville

DmECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMt;HIRE. TWYFORD. 175

Board, North End, built in 1861, for 80 children; aver- Carrier to Henley. Edwin Almond, thurs. 9.30 a.m. re-

age attendance,S 8; Allan Etherington, master turning same day; to Wycombe, Harry White, weds. &;

Village (mixed). built in 1873, for So children; average fris. returning same days

attendance, 39; Miss Mary Eleanor Genner, mistress

Ash Mrs. Grange, Heath Ayres Robert, chair turner Hawkes George, shoe maker

Brandon Clifton, Turville court Bartlett James, farmer, North end Horwood John, farm bailiff to R. Ovey

Graves Rev. Michael RD. Vicarage Bartlett In. chair turner, North end esq. Kimble

Hoare StaJ'ford O'Brien D.L., J.P. Carpenter Henrie<tta (Mrs.), beer retlr Lane Thos. Hampton,grQCer,North end

Turville park; Junior Carlton, Hur- Dell Jesse, chair turner Langford Jas. beer retailer, North end

lingham & Nimrod clubs, LondQn Dent Matthew, shopkeeper Nash William, farmer, North end

Law Arnold William, White house, Denton Wm.WhiteHart P.H.North end Rockall SI. chair turner, Summers htb

North end Goodson John Henry, farmer, Turville Sherville Richard, Bull P.H

Morison Mrs. The Hut, North end Valley farm Simmons Joseph, farmer, South end

Stevens Charles William, 'Dhe Kestrels Hamilton Robert, builder, North end Webb George, chair turner

Barman Edwin, farmer, Turville hth White Harry, chair turner, carrier &;
Hatfield WaIter, Drover P.H. & shop- shopkeeper
COMMERCIAL.

Almond Edwin,frmr.& carrier,Rose fm keeper, South end

TURWESTON is a parish on the river Ouse, which by the Rev. George Albert Browning M.A. of King's

here divides the county from Northamptonshire, half a College, Cambridge.. The rectory house, built in 1855.

mile north from Brackley station on the Great Central is pleasantly seated on an eminence a short distance

railway, 2 miles north from Brackley station on the Bletch- from the church. Here is a Wesleyan chapel built in

ley and Banbury line of the London and North Western 1861, and seating 100 persons. Fairfax's charity and

railway, 7l north-west from Buckingham and 63 from the Town plot and Constable's Stock now (1899) produce
London, in the Northern division of the county, £4 16s. a year for educational purposes. There is an
hundred and petty sessional division of Buckingham, allotment of IIa. 2r. 26p. awarded in 1814, and let at £4
union and county court district of Brackley, and yearly, which amount is distributed in fuel. Turweston
in the rural deanery of Buckingham (first portion) and House is the seat of John Locke Stratton esq. J.P.
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford!. The The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor.
church of St. Mary the Virgin, erected in 1694, is a J. L. Stratton esq. Mr. Alfred Hopcraft, of Brackley, are
building of stone, consisting of chancel with aisle, the chief landowners. The soil is various; subsoil,
clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and a western various. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans.
tower with saddle-back roof, containing 2 bells; the The area is 1,291 acres of land and 4 of water; rateable
piers and arches ()f the north arcade are very good value, £1,589; the population in 1891 was 269.
Norman, with a variety of enriched capitals; those of
the south arcade are Early Decorated: in the chancel Sexton, Frank Blackwell.

is a piscina and Easter sepulchre, both of the same Post Office. Alf. Law, SUb-postmaster. Letters arrive
period: the east window is Perpendicular: there is a through Brackley at 6.30 a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; sun. 6.30
brass effigy of a priest, c. 1450, inscription lost, and
a small brass to Thomas Grane and his wives, J oan and a.m.; dispatched at 9.15 a.m. & 6 p.m. week days only.
Agues, c. 1490: the church was restored in 1863, and Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest
affords 287 sittings. The register of baptisms dates money order & telegraph office is at Brackley. 2 miles
from the year 1695; marriages and burials, 1696. The distant

living is a rectory, net yearly value £170, including Parish School (mixed), erected by deed in 1860, for 84

314 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the children; average attendance, 6o; Miss Sal'ah Green,

Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and held since 1890 mistress

Browning Rev. George Albert M.A. Blackwell Frank, farmer &; assistant' Hinson William, farm bailiff to Rev.

Rectory overseea- G. A. Browning, Rectory farm

Stratton John Locke J.P. Turwestoll Chapman Richard, farmer Law Alfred, shopkeeper, Post office

house Course Thomas, miller (water) Lidington Mary Ann (Mrs.), beer re-

Yates Richard Crossby Charles, farmer wiler & shopkeeper

COMMERCIAL. Geary J ames, farm bailiff to A. Hop- Olliver William, sihoe maker

craft esq Seaton William, faxmer

Blackwell John, carpenter Law In. farm bailiff to H.Holton, esq

TWYFORD is a parish and small village, watered by the Rev. Henry Campbell Collier, of Queen's College,.
by a feeder of the river Ouse; in the parish, which ex- Birmingham. The Congregational chapel, built in 1897 at
tends to the Oxfordshire border, and 2 miles south-west a cost of £400, adjoining the former chapel, erected in
from the village, is the Marsh Gibbon and Pound on sta- 1850, is of red brick and smne, and will seat about 200
tion, on the Bletchley and Oxford section of the London persons. 'rhe principal landowners are the rector of
and North Westem railway. The village is also about 2~ Lincoln Oollege, Oxford, Edward James Athawes, of Nevill
Iniles west-by-north from Calvert station on the Great House, Chatham, and Owen Clark and Walter Wood esqrs.
Central railway, 6 south-west from Buckingham, 8 west The land is all freehold, and is principally a heavy clay;
from Winslow, 8 north-east from Bicester and 61 from about two-thirds of the land is pasture, the remainder
London, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, arable; there are about 200 acres of woodland. The area
petty sessional division, union and county court district of of Twyford is 1,562 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable
Buckingham, rural deanery of Claydon, archdeaconry of value, £2,259; the population in 1891, 349, and of the
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. ecclesiastical parish, including Charndon and Poundon. in
Mary is an ancient edifice of stone consisting of 1891 was 554.

chancel, nave of four bays, aisles. south porch CHARNDON is a hamlet of Twyford, about 2 miles
and an embattled western tower containing a south. Here is a Congregational chapel seating ISO per-
clock with chimes and 6 bells: the chancel SQns. Some land here is let in allotments, and a barn has
retains sedilia, piscina and an aumbry: the font, been erected by subscription for the storage of crops. The
restored in 1877~ is Norman, and the south porch has area is 1,9II acres; assessable value, £1,781; the popu-
a doorway -of the same date: the tower was rebuilt and lation in 1891 was 131.
the nave and chancel restored in 1887 at a cost of Poundon is a hamlet of Twyford, about one mile
£1,448, and in 1897 the south aisle and porch were restored and a quarter south-west, and has a Mission Room, erec-
at a cost of £587: in the church is the monument of a ted in 1877, and seating about 60 persons; services are
knight supposed to represent one of tl},ll Gifford family, who conducted here by the vicar Qn Thursdays at 6,3° p.m.
held this manor from 1340 to 1550, when it passed during the winter months. Wenman Aubrey Wykeham-
by marriage to the Wenmans: there is also a tomb Musgrave esq. J.P., D.L. of Thame Park, Oxford, is
with effigy in armour to Thomas Gifford of T"Wifford principal landowner of Charndon and Poundon. The
esq. 1550, and Mary (Stavely) his wife; and another area is 950 acres; assessable value, £1,203; the popula-
with demi-effigy to John Everdon, rector, 1413; be- tion in 1891 was 74.
sides a fine monument belonging to the Wenroan family, Parish Clerk, Walter Ans.
of Thame Park, Oxfordshire: the church affords 230 Post Office. Miss Elizabeth Cross, sub-postmistress.
sittings. The register dates from the year 1558; ma.r- Letters received from Buckingham at 8,40 a.m.; dis-
rillges and burials, 1561. The living is a vicarage, net patched at 4.40 p.m. week days only. Postal orders are
yearly value £247, with residence, in the gift of the issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order &;

Rect.or of Lincoln College, Oxford, and held since 1814 telegraph office is at Steeple CIaydon

176 TWYFORD. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [ Kl<.:LLY'S

Charndon &; Poundon letters through Bicester arrive &; llupported by subscription; average attendance,
87; Samuel Hanks Looker, master; Mrs. EDen
st 9 a.m. Marsh Gibbon is the nearest money order Looker, mistress
&; telegraph office, about 2 miles distant Railway Station, Hy. Chas. Batchelor, station master
Carrier. Charles Haynes, to Buckingham, mono wed. &
Wall Letter Box at Charndon cleared at 3.40 p.m. &; at sat. at 9 a.m. returning at 6 p.m
Marsh Gibbon &; Poundon station cleared at 7.55 p.m

N~ti<lUal School (mixed), built in 1839, for 100 children,

TWYFORD. Cross James. blacksmith Hebditch Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkpr

Bolton Miss, Marianne house Dudley George, butcher &; shopkeeper Kinch Richard, farmd &; landowner

Clark Owen, Twyfordl house Hall Charles, baker &; grocer Plant John Rogers, haulier

Collier Re-v. Henry Campbell, Vicarage Harper George, farmer, Twyford lodge Smith Thom8JS, farmer

G€'€'ves Thomas Haynes Charles, carrier Stopp Frederick, Roebuck P.H

Harper Mrs. Church view Hill J08eph, Red Lion P.H Tompkin.s J()Seph, farmer &; grazier

Halt John, The Bench Hodges Harry, farmer Wootton Anp (.\frs.), farmer
North George, coal merchant Wootton Thomas Henry, farmer
COMJ1IERCIAL.

Alien Henry, farmer Tew Albert, haulier Young John, farmer, Dunsty hill

AlIen Hughman, carpenter Walker Alfred, miller, Twyford mill POUNDON.
Aris Waiter, carpenter Whiting Thomas, shoe maker

Dryan Felix, Seven Stars P.H Wood WaIter, farmer, Portway farm Deeley Thomas Barnett, farmer

Chapman George, Crown P.H CHlARNDON. Harper Thomas, farmer

Clark Owen, grazier Benfield Alfred, farmer Tew Owen, Sow &; Pigs P.H

TYLER'S GREEN, a hamlet of High Wycombe, during the winter months as a" soup kitchen. The
was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1863 out of Working Men's Club was e.rected by the late Sir Philip
the civil parishes of Chepping Wycombe and Penn; it Rose bart. at considerable cost, and has a dwelling
'is situated on high upland, almost surrounded by house attached, but is now (1899) closed. Rayners, the
tJeautiful woodlands, and is 2! miles north from Loud- seat of Sir Philip Frederick Rose bart. D.L., J.P. is a

'Water station on too Maidenhead snd Oxford section mansion of red brick in the Early Tudor style, erected

of the Great Western railway, and 4 north-east from in the year 1847 by Sir Philip Rose, 1st bart. and stands
High Wycombe, in the Southern divisi<lU of the' county, in 81 well-wooded park of about 70 acres, surrounded
2nd division of Desborough petty sessional division, by well laid out pleasure grounds and gardens, contain-
county court district of Wycombe, rural deanery of ing a small orname.ntal piece of water; its position on one
Amersham, archdeacomy of Buckingham and diocese of of the highest points of the Chiltern hills, affords a very
Oxford. The church of St. Margaret, erected in 1854, extensive prospect, said to extend into seven counties,
is a building of flint and stone in the Gothic style, con- and embracing the Surrey hills, the Crystal Palace,
sisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a tower Windsor Castle and the Hampshire hills. The late
on the north-east; the lower portion IQf flint and the Earl of Beaconsfield K. G. was a frequent visitor here
upper portion of wood, and containing 8 tubular bells: during the lifetime of the first bart. who was his
ilie tower was erected in 1889 by Sir Philip F. Rose bart. intimate friend, and subsequently executor, and 3 chest-
of Rayners and Bateman Lancaster Rose esq. M.A. nut tree on the terrace of the south side of the
in ml'lDory of their mother, Margaretta (Ranking), wife mansion was planted on the occasion of one of these
of the late Sir Philip Rose bart.: she died 13 March, visits. In the grounds stands a small g'll'anite obelisk
1889: the baptistery at the west end was also erected recording the passage of her Majesty Queen Victoria
in memory of Lady Rose, by the vicar and parishioners along the private road' through the estate, from Loud.
and friends: the east window was erected' by the late water to Hughenden, on the occasion of her visit to
Sir Philip Rose bart. of Rayners, as a memorial to the tomb of Lord Beaconsfield, on the 30th April, 1881;
his father, William Rose esq. d. I July, 1846, and the route from Windsor was taken by her Majesty's
Charlotte (Baly) his mother, d. 31 July, 1869: he also special command, as being the route traversed by his
presented the organ as a memorial to his son, and a lordship on the occasion of his last visit to Windsor
handsome reredos of Caen stone, marble and mosaic, Castle, when he drove that way in order to take
erected 16th Sept. 1877, as a memorial to his wife: the luncheon at Rayners. The mansion contains a chapel,
stained west window is a memorial to Sir Philip Rose licensed by the Catholic Bishop of Northampton for
bart. who died 17 April, 1883, and there are three others divine service, and open to the public; the Rev. James
erected to the memory of James Plaistowe, of Loud- Flint, of High Wycombe, is domestic chaplain. The entire
water, to Miss Rose, and Mrs. Sainte Croix: other estate comprises about 1,200 acres. The principal land-

memorial windows have been placed by B. Lancaster owners are Earl Carrington p.a., G.C.M.G. Sir Philip

Rose esq. to his mother, and a chancel screen and sane- Frederick Rose bart. Earl Howe G.C.V.O., C.B. and Sir
tuary lamps have been presented by the parishioners, and George Grove C.B., D.O.L. of Penn. The soil is clay;
the organ enlarg-ed by the vicar: the church was enlarg-ed subsoil, clay, sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat,
during the period 1873-90, and affords 300 sittings. barley, oats and beans. The area is 1,200 acres; the
'The register dates from the year 1855. The living is population in 1891 was 834.
a vicarage, net yearly value £275, including 5 acres Sexton, A. J. Edwards.
of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Earl Howe, Letters arrive from Amersham at 8 a.m. &; 1.20 p.m.;
and held since 1883 by the Rev. Robert Franklin Ashley dispatched at 1.25 &; 5.10 p.m.; sunday, 12 noon. Penn
Spencer M.A. of Oxford University. St. Margaret's is the nearest money order &; telegraph office, about half
Parish Room, a spacious building near the church, a mile distant
erected at a total cost, including enlargement, of Board School (under the Wycombe School Board), built

nearly £1,000, and holding 200 persons, is used for in 1875, at a cost of about £2,000, for ISO children;
meetings, entertainments, and the Sunday school, and av~rage attendance, 145; Turner Jordan-Rees, master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. OOMMERCIAL. Griffin Thomas &; Son, builders &; con-
tractors & horticultural builders
BeaJe Henry, nurseryman

Bartlett Edward Noel Napier, Beacon Beale William, Horse &; Jockey P.H Grover George, boot &; shoe maker

house, Beacon hill Beckett Thomas, farm bailiff to Sir Hancke William, beer retailer

Bryan Rev. W. B. Moulds villa Philip F. Rose bart. D.L., J.P. Cole- Holdaway Alfred, police constable

Heap Mrs. The Firs hatch farm King Thomas, farm bailiff to E. N.

King B~hell, St. Margaret's house Bowdrey James, hay dealer N. Bartlett esq. Ashwells

Munn Mrs. The Cottage Cakebread Henry,steward to Sir Philip Langston Joseph, baker

Nevins Mrs. Eaglesfield cottage F. Rose bart. D.L., J.P Pusey Ephraim, boot & shoe maker

Rose Sir Philip Frederick bart. D.L., Canty John Robt. butcher & grocer Ross James, Sportsman P.H.Beacon bl

J.P. Rayners Carter Thomas, Horse & Groom P.H Slade George, beer retailer

Spencer Rev. Robert Franklin Ashley Dennis Jabez, beer retailer Sutton Waiter, Bell P.H

M.A. Vicarage Finch Ellen Mary (Mrs.), draper Woodbridge Albert, Queen's Head P.R

"TYRINGHAM-cum-FILGRAVE is a parish Northern division! of the county, hundred and! petty
bounder! en th~ north, west and south by the river sessional division, union and county court district of
Ouse and abutting on the road from Newport Pagnell Ne.wport Pagnell, archdeaconry of Buckingham, rural
to Northampton, 41 miles south-west from Olneyon the deanery of Newport Pagnell and diocese of Oxford. The

Iledford and Northampton branch of the Midland rail.- c.hurch of St. Peter is a small edifice of stone, rebuilt,
'Way and 4 north-east from Newport Pagnell station with the exception of the. tower, in 1871, in a modern
"On the Wolverton and Newport Pagnell branch of the style of Gothic, and since thoroughly restored at a cost

London and! North Western railway, 12! south-east of [2,000, defrayed! by the widow of W. B. Tyringham

from Northampton and 14 west from Bedford, in the I esq.: it consists of chancel, nave, organ chamber,

DIRECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. WADDESDON. 177

chantry, south porch and a western toWel' containing mansion of stone, with massive pillars in front, SUPPOI't-

5 bens: the tower, which is the only remaining portion ing a pediment, over which is an open balustrade:
of the ancient church, dates from about II20, the lower among the objects of interest preserved here is an

portion being Norman; the upper part is Perpendicular autograph letter of King Charles 1. written from the

work of the time of Henry VII.: there are brasses to Isle of Wight, April loth, 1648, to William Tirrinham
Mary, wife of Anthony Catesby, and daughter of John
Tyringham, 15°8, and a scroll inscribed.' "Domine accipe esq. requesting a remittance of £5°0: the park, of
meum spiritum," the effigy and the emblem of the
Holy Trinity, to which it belonged, being now lost, about 100 acres, is studded with forest trees and slopes
date c. 15°°; both these are now in the chantry: in to the river Ouse, over which is a modern stone bridge
the church is a brass of a knight wearing a tabard with of one arch. R. W. G. Tyringham esq. of Trevet~oe,
the arms of Tyringham, c. 1490, and other brasses are Lelant, Cornwall, is lord of the manor and sole landowner.
recorded here to John Tyringham esq. and John Tyring- The soil is mixed; subsoil, oolite and clay. The chief
crops are wheat, barley, beans and oats. The area is
1,757 acres of land and 35 of water; assessable value,

ham esq. 1595, and his wife Parnell (Goodwin) 1594: £2,550; the population in :r891 was 155.
there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year Parish Clerk, John Eaton.

1629. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £"280, with Letters through Newport Pagnell arrive at 7 a.m.
residence and 15 acres of glebe, in the gift of Roger Wm. Wall Letter Box cleared at 6 p.m.; sundays at 12.30

Giffard Tyringham esq. and held since 1850 by the p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is
Rev. Joseph Tarver M._-\.. of ·Worcester College, Oxford, at ~ewport Pagnell, about 4 miles distant
and J.P. Tyringham House, the proper;y of Ro~el' Village School, .Filgravt', erected, with house for mis-
William Giffard Tyringham esq. but at present the tress, in 1856, for 45 children; average attendance,

res'idence of Henry C. Bucknall esq. is a handsome I 27; Miss Elizabeth Pruden, mistress

Bucknall Henry C. Tyringham home Law WilEam, farmer, Filgrave management of agricultural pro-

Ta.rver Rev. Joseph ~L.A.,J.P.Rector~·, Blobimon James Charws Hiensman, perty undertaken & reported upon;
.sales of all sorts of property con-
Fi~grave auctioneer, valuer. arbitrator & land

Bazeley John, farmer agent; fire, life & hail insurance ducied; attends Bed'fOTd market

Digby Joseph, shopkeeper agent; as"es<;or of agricultural, fire every saturda,y at the Swan hotel,
Eaton John, blacksmith, Filgrave & hailstorm losses; valuation of a:l Filgrave
Harris Matthew Major, steward to R. farming & agricultural matters &c. Smith Thomas Brooks, farm€r,Tplng-
va:uation for prO'bate, entire ham farm
G. W. Tyringham eoq

UPTON-cum-CHALVEY, see Slough.

WADDESDON is a township, parish and village, on Dull.e's first wife· (who died Feb. 28, 1874), by 111e

the Bicester road, and on the Roman Akeman street, 4-l tenants of the Wotton estate. The Baptist chapel at

miles from London, I! miles west from Waddesdon Manor Waddesdon Hill was erected in 1788, and there is an()ther

station on the Metropolitan Extensiun railway, 5! in Waddesdou village.; the Wesleyan chapel was rebuilt

north-west from Aylesbury, and 12 south from in 1877, and the Primitive Methodist chapel in 1876.

Buckingham, in the Mid division of the county, G,)odw:n's almshouses, entirely rebuilt in 1894 by the late

hundred of Ashendon, petty sessional division, Baron Ferdinand J. de Rothschild, is for 6 aged "",omen,
union and county court district of Aylesbury, rural e~1Ch of whom receives £5 a year; Turner's charity yields
deanery of Waddesdon, archdeaconry of Buckin~ham about £100 annually, and is distributed amongst the

and diocese of Oxford. The Wotton tramway, from poor of the parish; Fettoe's and Beck's charities produce

Quainton Road station to Brill, passes through this together about £25 yearly. This parish and Wescott

parish and has two stations called Waddesdon Road and each receive. 7s. from Nash's (Quainton) charity for

Wescott. The church of St. Michael is an ancieut bread. The Five Arrows hotel, rebuilt by the late Baron

building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, Ferdinand J. de Rothschild, from plans by W. Taylol' and

aisles, south porch, and an embattled western tower Son, architects, of Aylesbury, is of local stone and

containing a clock and 6 bells: the earliest portion of red brick with Monk's Park stone dressings, in the. Old

the structure, comprising one or two piers of the nave, English Domestic style, and includes concert and audit

and the inner doorway, is Norman; the tower, south rooms, a dining room seating 100 persons, commercial

porch, and piers and arches of the nave are generally and bath rooms and 10 spacious bedrooms: there are

good plain Early English, and some parts of the chancel two entrances with smoking balconies over each: the

are Decorated: the clerestory is entirely Perpendicular, stables and yard buildings are in the same style as

and windows of that date have been inserted iu other the house. Waddesdon village hall was erected in 1897

parts of the church; there are three piscinre, one in at a cost of £3,000, from designs by W. Taylor and Son,

each aisle and one in the nave; the font is Decorated, architects, of _-\.ylesbury, at the sole cost of the late Baron

octagonal in shape and panelled: in the chancel are Ferdinand de Rothschild. The Philharmonic Society was

some brasses to Robert Pyg.ott and his wife; there is inaugurated in 1884, and is principally supported by Miss

also the figure of a knight in armour, lying upon a Alice de Rothschild; conductor, Mr. S. C. Camp A.R.e.O.

raised table tomb at the east end of the south aisle; The Club and Reading Room, built in 1883 by the late

a monument to Guy Carleton, a veteran soldier, ob. Baron F. de Rothschild, for the use of the parish, com-

June I, 1608; a brass with effigy in shroud to Hugh prises a coffee bar, reading and lecture rooms, and a

Bristow, rector of the first portion to which he was library owf it2h00~hivsoliu~msteist,utfioorn the u~srieckoeftmcelumbb, emrsa;inilyn con-
nection is a
elected ill 1548, and· another, with vested effigy, to 1>l1p-

Richard Huntingdon, a priest, 1543: affixed to the wall ported by MISS Ali?e de Rothsc~ild; se~retary.and trea-
surer, Mr. G. A. S~ms .. The ChIltern :aills ~prmg Water·
is a brass to William Turner, who len £3,625 to the Co: s~pply the parIsh WIth water. ~ISS Ahce de Rothc-

poor of the parish,: the chancel was restored in 1877, the chIld IS lady of the manor and the chIef lando~ner.. Wad-

rest of the fabric having previously been restored at a desdon ~an?r, the seat an~ property of MI~S Ahce de

cost of £1,650, and in 1891-2 the church was further ~othschIld, IS a ~tructure m the Fre~ch chat~au s~yle,

restored, and the tower entirely rebuilt, at a total cost SItuated on an e~mence and comman~Illg beautIful Yle""s

of £2,300 : there are 589 sittings. A coffin, discovered of the surroundmg co~ntry; the ad]acen~ groun~s and
some time since at Eythrope, and containing the remains park, abou~ 800 ~cres III extent,. are beautifully I~I~ onto

of Sir Roger Denham kt. who died in 1490, was re- In. 1883 ~ISS ~hce ~e Rothschild ere<;ted a p~vihon at

moved to Waddesdon churchyard and reinterred on Eythrope, m thIS parIsh, on ~he south SIde of whI~h.a lake·

the east side of the south porch by Miss Alice d" has been formed from th~ rIver. Thame. The so~ IS clay-

Rothschild. The register of baptisms dates from the
0:ruIy.bSeyaararne1c5t4~o1rr.•dye, mrf a~'rnrIaeCgrIoeyusn',ICll1;Il5t3hd8rae;tee.bdpuor'1rIt.8aI7los6n,,s,1.n5be3ut8t. The .h.v.mg and clayey loam; subSOIl, varIOUS. The area 18 4,985.',
acres 0 f 1and and I8owf at er, t wo-tbirdsofwh1'Ch are pas-
yce.oan~sloylivdaaltuede ture and the remainder arable; assessable value, £10,254;

£650 , WIth reSIdence, erected m 1.869, m -the gIft of the the population in 1891 was 1,610 in the civil and 1,959 in'
Duke of ~~rlborough, and held Slllce 1898 by the Rev. the ecclesiastical parish.
Henry Willia~ Yule RD.,. D.C.L. of Wadham 0>llege,
Oxford, who IS also chaplam to the Duke, and VIcar of Woodham is a parish. The area is 838 acres; aseess-
Over Winchendon. The church of St. Mary, West- ab!e value, £.7 16'• the population in 1891 was 61.
. .
Eythrope IS a hamlet 4 miles south-east.

cott, erected in 1867 from designs by the late G. E. West<:ott is a parish, about 1 mile west, with a statio)) OD
Stre.e~ esq. M.A. at the sole expense of the last Duke the Brill tramway line. The area is 1,4II acres; assess-
of Buckingham and Chandos P.C., G.C.S.I. consists of able value, £1,464; the population in 1891 was 2B2.

chancel, nave and aisles and a bell turret·: a memorial W ()l"Il1 ~tone is a hamlet half a mile south-east.

window has been erected to Caroline (Harvey), the Parish Clerk, Jonas Crippe.

BUCK8. 12

178 WADDESOON. B UeKINGHAl\iSHIRE. [KELLy'e

fost, M. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Schools.
British (mixed), rebuilt in 1897, at a cost of £z,ooo, fo~
Post, S. B. & Annuity &; Insurance Office, Waddesdon. 250 children; average attendance, 197; Philip GrahaDJ.
-Phillip G. Dodwell, sub-postmaster. Lett~rs arrive
thrpugh the Aylesbury office at 7 &; ~0'45 .a.m. & 4·45 Lane, master; Mrs. Jan8 Stonehill, mist~ess; Misa
p.m. week days; sundays, 7 a.m.; dIspatched at 12.30 Rarriet Tooby infants' mistress

& 6 p.m. on week days; & at 12.20 p.m. on sundays. National (mixed), built in 1845, for 150 -children raver.
Letter Box, Aylesbury road, cleared 12·30 & 6.25 p.m. I age attendance 133' Samuel Cuttill Camp A.R.e 0
week days & 12.30 p.m. sundays I master " .,

Post Office, Westcott.-John Dymock, sub-postmaster. .. .
Letters from Aylesbury arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 1.15 p.m. Wes~ott, built m 1870, &; enlarged m 1892 , fo~ 8G
week days & 7.30 a.m. sundays; dispatched 12 noon &; chl1dren; average ~ttendance, $0; su~ported entIrely

.5.45 p.m.; sundays, II.55 a.m. Postal orders are by Earl Temple.; .MISS Mabel WIlkes, mIstress

liisued here, but not paid. Waddesdon is the nearest Carriers to Aylesbury. L. Crook t& Son, wed. &; sat.;

money order &; telegraph office, 2 miles distant James Roads & Sons. daily

WADDESDON. Jacques John, head gardener to Miss Taylor Joseph, miller (steam) & corn

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Alice de Rothschild & flour dealer
Keedle Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper 'l'horne Geo. farmer, Blackgrove Upp
Crook Mrs. J Kibble John; carter Thorp George, boot maker
Lander George, White Lion P.R
CUJ:tis Miss, Bicester road 'rreadwell Samuel, frmr. Windmill hI

Duntling Obadiah, The Grove McKiernan Miohael Peter, fQore.m.an to Turnham Henry, Five Arrows

Gibbs Richa.rd Miss Alice de Rothschild hotel, family & commercial, livery

Holbrooke Rev.Sidney William Briscoe Moberley William, assistant overseer, & bait stables

B.A. (curate) street collector of Queen's taxes &; clerk to Venemore William, licensed hawker

.Tones Mrs. High parish council '"\Talton Richard, watch cleaner
MKiobrbrliesoJno.hAn..:exander Thomson M.B
Moscrop William, shopkeeper & baker Waddesdon Philharmonic Society (S,
Morr~son Alexander Thomson M.B., 0 .Camp A.R.C.O. conductor)
Rothschild Miss Alice de, Waddesdon B.Ch., RA.O. surgeon & medical Waddesdon Town Band (Eli Cripps,

manor; & 143 Piccadilly, London W officer to NO.5 (Waddesdon) district, conductor)
Shaw James M.D
Wood Mrs. High street· Aylesbury union & medical officer Waddesdon Wesleyan Temperance
Yule Rev. Henry William RD., D.C.L. of health to Aylesbury rural district Brass Band (George Biswell, sec)
council Ward George, blacksmith

(rector), Rectory Newman George Hall, butcher Ward William, estate blacksmith

COMMERCIAL. Price & Sons, butchers Webb Frederick, draper

AdaIlU! Geo.frmr.Wormstone PkJarm Provincial Ga.s & Lighting Worlus Lim. West Frederick, hair dresser & toy

Alcock John, farmer (Percy Potter, local manager) dealer, High street

Alien Jasper, chimney sweeper Puddefoot Henry, stud-groom to Miss Wheelton David, stationer & tobccnst

BOoarder Jesse, shopkeeper, Fredrickst 'Alice de Rothschild Wood Wm. cattle dlr. Up. Blackgrove

Olub &; Reading Room (George Alfred Ridgway Maria (Mrs.), farmer, Upper
~ims, sec. & tre-llJSurer)
Blackgrove EYTHROPE.

Oollyer Alfr~d, tailor Roads James & Sems, carriers & coal Flowers Wm.&Sons, farmers,Beachntn

Oook David, chimney sweeper merchants Gibbs Edward, land steward to Miss
ICreed Ebenezer, bricklayer, New street Robinson John James, Bell P.H
Alice de Rothschild

Creed Sarah (Mrs.), dress ma.New st Ragers Charles, fMmer, LiUleton, Monk Charles Hy. farmer, Sheepcote

Oripps Sarah (Mrs.), butter vendQor Manor farm Rose John, frmr. Eythrope Park frm

Crook L. & Son, egg & butter dealers Rolf Elizabeth (Mrs.), coffee house

& carriers Saunders Herbert John, draper &c WESTCOTT.

Crook & Sons, builders Sayer Arthur, gamekeeper to Miss Cripps Thomas, grazier

Crook Edwin, groeer &; baker Alice de Rothschild Dennis Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer

Dodwell &; Son, grOoCers··& bake.rs, Sharp George, wheelwrighb Evans Albert, gas engineer to Miss

Past office ' Sharp Thorna,s James, wheelwright Alice de Rothschild

Dymock John, BakeroS' Arms P.H Shaw James M.D., C.M., D.P.iH.. Goss .Tas.Seamons,frrnr.Chureh frm

Englefield Esther (Mrs.), beer retailer physician & surgeon &; medical Goss Joseph & Sarah Jane (Miss), far-

& shopkeeper to No. 7 (Waddesdon) district,Ayles- mers, Manor, Westcott &; Ford frms

Evans Frederick, seedsman, Wood st bury union Goss Joseph William,farmer,Upper fro

Figg Harry, The Ship P.R- Sherwin Henry Hayles, builder Goss Thomas, farmer, Lower farm

Figg William, plumber Siros George Alfred, land steward to Gudgeon George, shopkeeper

Fowler J Otseph, cowkeepeJ.'· . Miss Alice de Rothschild Marriott Keturah Ann (Mrs.), White

Franklin James, g"l'()ce·r & baker Southam Susan (Mrs.), dressmaker Swan P.H

Garner Ediwin, shoe maker' Southam Wm.bricklayer,Frederick st Uff Richard, farmer

Garner Esther & Susanmih (Misses), Steele H. practical joiner, cabinet

. shoe makers . maker; estimates given for all WOODHAM.

Oilson & Son, blacksmiths kinds of joinery & builders' work, Brett William, farm bailiff .to Georg9

Goes Lucy (Mrs.), frmr. Rectory frm painting & glazing & general repairs, Horwood esq

GOlilil Thos. Griffin, saddler, High st Frederick street Goss Wm. farmer, Oving Hill farm

Gr~e EH, grocer &; beer dealer Strathdee Charles, farm bailiff to. Griffin John, Crooked Billet P.B.

Herring Henry James, baker &i grocer, Miss Alice de Rothschild Ham green

Frederick street Ta-ylor Henry, house steward ta Miss Griffin William, farmer, Ham green

Holland J"oseph, builder r Alice de Rothschild Smith Edwin, farmer
IWALTON is a parish on the river Ousel, 21 miles a.nd his wme: the church affords 107 sittings. The re-
~orth from Fenny Stratford statio'n on t'he Cambridge, gister of baptisms and burials dates from the year 15gB;

'Eedford and Bletchley branch of the London and N9rth marriages, 1633. The living is a rectory, net yearly value
'Western railway and 4! mil~s south from Newport Pag- £180, including 47 acres of glebe, with residence, in the

.ell. in the Northern division of the county, hundred, gift of the Lord Chancellor and the present rector, alter-

'petty sessio'nal division, union and county court district nately, and held since 1851 by the Rev. George Wingate
.~f Newport Pagnell, arcl.?-deaoonry of Buckingham, rural Pearse M.A. and ~ormerly felloW' of Corpus Christi college;

cieanery of Bletchley and d~ocese of Oxford. The parish Oxford. A. ch~rIty of about £ 16 a year, left by an un-

is supplied with water b;om Gr~at Brick'hill by the Fenny known donor, IS for the poor ~ the church land .pro-

Stratford Water works. The church of St. Michael is a duces £3 ll.Ilnually for the mal'ntenance of the fabl'lc of
building of stone chiefly in the Decorated sty~e, and was the church. Walton H&l, a noble mansion of brick, the

1il<>roughly restored in ;r861: it consists 9f chan{lel, nave, property and residence of Miss Pinfold, is plaasantly

south porch and a'n embattled western tower of the De- seated in a well-wQooded park of about 60 acres. The

Mra.ted period containing 2 bells: there is a mural monu- Manor House, built in 'the Igth century, is also the pro-

ment in the nave, with a fine medallion portrait;· by perty of Miss Pinfold, who is lady of the manor. Mr.

J'osep'h Nollekens, of Sir Thomas Pinfold knt. LL.D. and David Cook a'nd Miss Pinfo:d e.re the principal land-

chancellor of the diocese of Peterborough, who died in owners. The soil is light; clay; subsoil, grt.vel and clay.

17°1: a'nd a brass, with rhymed verses in English and The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley and oats.

Latin, to Elizabeth, daughter of William Pyxe, 1617: The land is chiefly pasture. The area is 770 acres; assess-

another monument, erected in 1672, by his sons, Charles able value, £1,196; the populatIon in r891 was 93·

a.nd Henry, is to Bartholomew Bewe, lord of this manor,

'Who died in 1660, with medallion portraits of himself Parish Clerk, George Underwood.

Dffil!:CTORY.] BUCKINGHAM:SHIRE. WAVENDON. 179

Letters through Bletchley arrive at 7 a.m. Wall Letter I money order & telegraph office is at Fenny Stratford.
Box cleared at 6.15 p.m. week days only. The nearest I' about 2! miles distant

Pearse Rev. George Wingate M.A. Cook David, landowner & farmer $timson .John, farmer

Rectory George William, farmer Sturges Arthur H. farmer, Manor ho

Pinfold Miss, Walton hall Lightfoot Wm. Pine Tree P.R. & grzr Treadwell .Ioseph, farmer

WATER STRATFORD is a sma~l parish on the was restored in 1890 at a cost of about 1;300, and affords

Ouse, 3 miles ellJst from Fulwell and Westbury stabon on 120 sittings. The register dates from the ydr 1596. The

the Banbury and Bletch:ey branch of the Lond{)n and living is a rectory, net yearly value £180, including 38

North Western railway, about 2l north-east from Finmere acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift {)f and held since

station on the Great Central railway, and 3l west-by-north 1887 by the Rev. Louis Ernest Goddard B.A. of Univer-

Ifrom Buckingham, III the Northern division of the sity College, Durham. The rectory was restored in 1877

county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and by the Rev. Edward George Andrew RA. late rector,
county court district of Buckingham, and in the rural 1875-87. Admiral George Parker, of Ivybridge, Devon, is

deanery of Buckingham (first portion), archdeaconry lord of the manor and chief landowner. 1n Jackson's

of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of close, a field just behind Water Stratford house, are

St. Giles is an ancient buCding {)f stone in the Norman' trenches, supposed to be the remains of an ancient camp.

style, consisting of chancel, nave, and a western tower The old Roman road from Bicester to Towcester passes

containing 3 lJells: the chancel and nave were rebuilt in through this parish. The soil is mixed clay, stone brash

1828, ,the d'Jol\s and windows of the old edifice being Te-I and gravel; subsoil, various. The land is arab:e and

inserted: in the north wall of the nave is a monument of; pasture in about equal portions. The area is 1,095 acre!

iIDlll'b'.e representing a female lying on a bed, dying, with i of land and 5 of water; rateable value, £1,log; the popu.

six females kneeling by her side, and two boys and a bEon in 1891 was 137.

man ~t the foot: it is inscribed to Mary Franckysh6, I Parish Clerk, Alfred Watson
t~e ,!Ife of John F~anckYosh~, o~ Water Stratfo~d, who Letters .arrive through Buckingham at 7.45 a.m.; Wall
died III 1629: there IS a pIscma III the south wa,l of the Letter Box cleared at 5. 10 p.m. week days only. The
ch~cel: ~he ,s?uth doorway~ a work of the Early Norman nearest money order & telegraph office is at Tinge-

other ornament, has
of Our Lord seated
IperIod,

in the
WIth zIg-zag mouldmgs and I w.ick' about I m.ile. distant c~"Ldre.n, at-
iympanum a carved figure
within a vesica, and on either side an angel kneeling: ParIsh School,. bUl!,t III 1868 f{)r .50 average
the chancel doorway IS also adorned with carving, sup- I tendance, 26, MISS Sarah CurtIs, mIstress

posed to allude to the ~egend of St. Hubert: the church I Carrier.-Whitlock, wed. & sat. to Buckingham

Goddard Rev. Louis Ernest RA. Hambly Henry Richard, Robin Hood Mansfield Reuben, stone mason, Buff-
Rectory
P.H. BufHers Holt lers Holt
Bikes John, Water Stratford house Hilsdon William, f~rmer
Ireland Clifford, farmer Townsend Wm. Edwd. frmr. & grazr
COMMERCIAL.
Ireland James, farmer Watson Alfred, shopkeeper
ChllJpman Richard, farmer ,

WAVENDON is a parish and village extending to :educating, c:othing and apprenticing ten poor boys, llnd

Bedfordshire,· one mile north-west from 1Voburn Sands there are also almshouses fOr f{)ur poor widows: there

station on the Bedford and Bletchley branch of the Lon- are {lther charities of £150 yearly <for coals, £2 for bread,

don and NOl'th Western railway, 52 miles from London £10 for the general uses of the Jloor and £22 for public

by ·rail and 45 by road, and 5 s.outh-east from N~wport purposes. Wavendon House, the property of Sir H. H.

Pagnell, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, A. Hoare 'bart. J.P. of Stourhead, Bath, but now (1899)

petty sessional division, union and county court district unoccupied, is a mansion of brick, pleasantly seated in &

of Newport Pagnell, rural deanery of Blet<:hley, arch- well-wooded park of 118 acres, with an approach through an

deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The avenue of fine elm trees, nearly half a mile in length.

church of St. Mary, entirely restored, under the direction Wavendon Tower, the seat of Lt.-Col. H. E. Burney J.P.

of Mr. W. Butterfield, architect, 1848-9, by Rev. H. is a square brick mansion covered with rough cast,

Burney, consists o( chancel, nave of four bays with. having a central tower; it stands on an eminence, com-

clerestory, aisles, south porch, and a western tower cOn- manding fine views and is approached through an avenue

taining S bells: the chancel, which is Early Decorated, of limes and chestnuts. The picture gallery containi

has a fine stained east window of four lights, a double many portraits of the Bumey family, by Sir Joshua Rey-

piscina ()f curious design, and triple sedilia: on the north nolds, Gainsborough and Hogarth. Sir H. H. A. Hoare

side of the chancel is an arcade {If four semicircular bart., .I.P. and Lt.-Ool. Burney J.P. are the chief ·land-

arches, inclosing as many stone stalls recessed in the owners'. The soil is stiff loam, some sandy; subsoil, clay

wall: a. low stone .screen, with central gates of brass, and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans and

separates the chancel and nave = the arcades dividing the barley. The area is 2,186 acres of land and 6 of water;

nave and aisles are fine s-pecimens of Early Decorated assessable value, £1,360; the population in 189I wall

work, whL.e the cleJ'estory, the whole of the roofs and 1,281' in the civil and 529 in the ecclesiastical parish.

the upper part of the tower are Perpendicular: the ends . ..
of the alitles wer-e formerly chapels, a.nd stin retain l1:heir WOBD~ SANDS, which embraces a. part of Aspley

piacinre: the font, of T{)tternhoe stone, is of considerable Guise, .Bedfordshire, and part of Wavendon, was formed
size, and has a cover of carved oak: there are two me- into an ecclesiastic~l district, November 5, 18611 .and will
morial windows and monument09 to the Hoare family, be found in Kellv's Directory of :Bedfordshir~.·
including a mural bra.ss in the north a.isle, e:r:~(}ted by Parish Clerk, Henry King.
..

Juiia, his widow, to Henry Arthur Hoare esq. of Wav- Post Office, Wavendon.-Edward George Hanlev, 8ub~

endon House J.P. and high sheriff of Bucks in I866, who postmaster. Letters arrive from Bletchley Station about

died in 1873: the church also contains memorials to the 6.40 a.m. & 1.20 p.m.; dispatched at II.25 ·a.m. &; 7

family of Sounders, of Battlesden, among which are two p.m. week days 31; on sundays arrive at 6.40 B.m. &;

brasses placed to Richard Saunders esq. 1639, and his dispatched at 12 noon. Postal orders are issued here,

four wives, ElizllIbeth (Charge} ob. I596, Frances (Fitz- but not paid. Woburn Sands is the nearest money order

hugih), Beatrice (Annesley), and Frances (Stanton}: a & telegraph office, 2 miles distant

memorial window and a brass were placed in I894 to Wall Letter Boxes at Cross End, cleared at II.IS a.m: &;

the Rev. Henry Burney M.A. rector here '1847-93, and 8 6,45 p.m.; Lower End, cleared at u a.m. &; 6.30 p.m

window to Sophia, his wife, and a window in 1898 to Miss Thh po.rish ill a oontributory to the School Board district

A.o Hoare and Mrs. Festing = there are 400 sittings. The of ASJlley Heath, Bedfordshire, sending 4 members
register dates from the year 1567. The living is a rectory, National School, bUlilrt in r851, for u8 ehildren; average

net yearly value £495, including 83 acres of glebe, with attendance, 1I5; with an endowment from. Wells'

residence, in the gift of Sir H. H. A. Hoare bart. and held cli~ty; Henry Buxton, master; :Mrs. E1Dily Buxton,
since 1893 by the Rev. Barrington Henry Arthur Phillpotts mIstress
M.A. of St. Mary Ha~l, Oxford. The Wesleyan chapel, .,

built in 1878, will.seat 150 persons l the Primitive Metho- County Police Station, Stephen .IeIIDings, constable

dist chapel, built in 1870, has sittings for 100 persons. Carrier: Thomas Clark, from Woburn Sands to Newport

The County Police have a station in the village. Wells' Pagnell pa81ses through Wavendon on tues. &; 'fri.; &;

charity, estimated to produce £37 IOS. from land, ill' for to Bedford on sat . 4;

Bliss Williaro, Wavendon villa Croft Miss, Ivy • . Phillpotts ~v. Bariin~~9~o. Henry

cottage

Bnrney Lieut.-Ool. Henry Edward Frampton Mrs. Woodbine cottage Arthur M.A. Rectory I

J.P. Wavendon Tower Readman Mrs. Grove cottage .Sewell James, Wavendon ma.nor

BUCKS. . 12 •. 0

180 WAVENDON. B UCKIN GHAl\lSHIRE.

Thomason Mrs. The Cedars Facer William, grocer Xegus Francis Joseph, butcher
Yerburgh John, Wavendon lodge
Young Mrs. Old Rectory Gurney :Martha & J esse, farmers, Pickering Chas. farmer, Woodleys frm..

COMMERCIAL. Crabtree farm (Letters through Woburn Sands)

Brill Emmanuel, farmer Hales Ernest, Plough P.H Rodwell Charles, farmer, Fen farm
Burgess John, Wheat,sheaf P.H
Coaley John, provision dealer Harris Albert, carpenter & builder Spratley Thomas, farmer
Dollins Charles, shoe maker
Cook George, ,shoe maker Holmes William & John, warreners Sturges Nathaniel, farmer, Park farm
Crawley J oseph, butcher
Evans Chester (Mrs.), grocer & thatchers Sturges William, farmer, Deethe frm.

Jackman Peter, blacksmith Tite Charl.es E. carpenter &; builder

King George, hay dealer 'Watts Ernest Geo. Leather Bottle P.R

King Henry, farmer & assistant over- Wildman Thomas, Old Red House-

seer, The Limes P.R. & blacksmith

King Thomas, land surveyor

WENDOVER is a parish and town and was formerly also well supplied with daily papers, and a monthly ex-
change of books from Mudie's library, London. There is.
a parliamentary borough: it has a station on the Metro- also a Labourers' Club Room, opened in 1878, supplied
with papers and books, and supported by voluntary con-
politan Extension railway and the Great Central railway tributions. In the parish is a reservoir, covering 50 acres,
for the supply of the Inills at Weston Turville and Ayles-
also runs through: the town is 3 miles west from Little bury. There are charities of about £61 annually, for
distribution in bread, clothing, and money. Hill's charity
Kimble station on the Aylesbury branch of the Great of £S4 yearly is for educational purposes and apprenticing,
and the Whitchurch charity, bequeathed in 1849, provides
,"Vestern railway, 7 south-south-west from Tring, 8 about £4 a Jear for education and six guineas for medical
aid, now usually paid to the Royal Bucks Hospital. Thll'
north-west from Chesham, 5 south-east from Aylesbury, Hale, the property of Alfred Charles de Rothschild esq.
but now (1899) unoccupied, stands about a mile and a
II north from High Wycombe and 35 from London, half east of the town: this estate belonged to the ancien~
faInily of Colet or Collet: Sir Henry Colet, knighted on
in the Mid division of the county, hundred, petty Twelfth Day, 1486, twice Lord Mayor of London, and
father of John Colet D.D. Dean of 81. Paul's and founder-
sessional division and county court district. of Ayles- of St. Paul's school, belo'nged to this family and is said
to have been born in the parish of Wendover in 1466,
bury, union of Wycombe, rural deanery of Wendover, althoug-h London is also named as his birthplace. Mayer-
torne Manor is the residence of Charles E. Wrigley esq.
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. and Halefield, half a mile from the church, of J. W. Mark-
ham esq. The vicar is lord of the manor; Alfl'f'd Charles
At the entrance to the town from the south-east is de Rothschild esq. of Halton, Tring, Lord Rothschild~
John Plaisto"W esq. Frederick Butcher eSfl. and Mrs.
Boddington Hill, a very pleasantly situated eminence, Fanny Cecilia Tubbs, of Capel-Ie-Ferne, St. Leonards-on-
Sea, are the principal landowners. The soil is principally
crow nHediEb, •v Halton wood, and 001 the south-west is Back- chalk and loamy; subsoil, chalk and gravel. The area
ham and adjoining it Coombe Hill, from which, is 5,780 acres of land and 8 of water; assessable value~
£8,042; the population in 1891 was 2,°36.
under favourab:e conditions, St. Paul's cathedral may be
Pa,rish Qerk, William Can'non.
seen. The parish is also traversed by the Chiltern range,
Post, M. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Exress Deliverv, ParceL
which extends over many miles. The borough sent two Post, S. B. &; Insurance &; Annuity Office, High street.
-Frederick Freeman, sub-postma9ter. LetteI"S througb
members to the Parliament of 1300, ando again in 1307 and Tring arrive at 5.55 a.m. & 10.30 a.m.; dispatched at.
12.35 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. week days; on sundays arrive
1309, but for some reason its privilege was allowed to at 5.55 a.m. & dispatched at 4.35 p.m

lapse until in 1623, by 1he exertions of William Hakeill Wall Letter Boxes, Halfway House, London road, cleared
at 5,4° p.m. week days only. Aylesbury road, cleared
esq. a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and sometime M.P. for at 11.35 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. week days; 4.15 p.m.
sundays
Amersham, the right to representation was, upon petition,
PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.
recognized afresh, and a warrant issued for the election
County Police Station, \Villiam White, sergeant
of members for the Parliament of 1'625 (I Charles I.), Grand Junction Canal Co. ('branch), Martin Barberr

when John Hampden, 1he patriot, wa,s o'ne of the mem- wharfinger
Stamp Office, High street, Fredk. Freeman, distributor
bers elected, and continued to represent this borough in Volunteer Fire Brigade, John E. Holland, captain &; 11 mell'

five ParliamentrS: the Right Hon. Edmund Burke was PUBLIO OFFICERS

memlber 1765-74: it continued to return two members Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, No. 7 District, Wy-
combe Union, Edwin Goodburn Woollerton L.R.e.p.
until the passing of ,the Reform Act of 1832, by which it
Edin. High streat
was disfranchised. Gas Works were established in 1868 A,ssistant Overseer, Rate Collector &; Surveyor of High-

and the streets are lighted, and the town is supplied with ways, AsseSiSOr &; Collector of Property & Income Taxesr
Frederick J. Mead, High street
water from springs. The <Grand Junction Canal Com-
SCHOOLS.
pany have a branch from hence to Marsworth, thus af-
National (mixed), built about 1869, for 400 children;,
fordi'ng water communication with all parts of England. average attendance, 87 boys, 66 girls & 105 infants;
John George Bushell, master; Miss Rose Avery, :Miss
The church of St. Mary is a building of flint, chiefly in Annie Collins & Miss Lizzie Cummings, assistant mis-
tresses; Miss Harriet Louisa Barber, Miss Jennie Irvinlt
the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried .\ Miss Ada Seeley, infants' mistresses

nave, aisles, north and south porches, and a western Scrub Wood, built in 1849, for 40 children, but noW'
(1894) closed
embattled tower contlll:ning 6 bells and a clock: the
Metropolitan Railway Station, J. T. Read, station master;
chance!, restored in 1839, retains a 'Piscina: the nave has
Alfred Payne, agent
arcades of five arches on either side, springing from
Carriers to
clustered pillars with moulded ba,ses ando foliaged caps:
Aylesbury.-Arlhur Seeley, from own house, daily, t Hill
the south aisle retains a plain trefoiled piscina and the & Sladen, from Amershllm, wed. &; sat. 10.30 un.

south doorway has good Decorated m~)Uldings and orna- return the same after'noon at 5, for Amersham; Cat·

ment: there are some remains ()f a stoup: in the south ling, from Chesham, sat. returns same afternoon

aisle is a curious mural brass to W. Bradshaw, gent.

1537, a'nd his wife, nine children and twenty.three

grand-children: the church was restored an 1869 at the

cost of £5,000, under the superintendence of the late G.

Eo Street esq. R.A. : there are twelve stained windows and

a IbeautHul reredos and an alabaster and marble pulpit

were erected by the parishioners in memory of the Rev.

Charles Francis Champneys M.A. a former vicar: there

are sittings for 500 persons. The churchyard has

been enlarged. The register of baptisms dates from

1626; marriages and burials, 1670: the entries of mar-

riages. and burials from 1626 to 1670 have been cut out.

The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value

£140, including 180 acres of glebe and residence, in the

gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1867 by the

Rev. Albert Smith M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, rural

dean of Wendover and surrogate. The Congregational

chapel, erected in 1811, will seat 300 persons: the Baptist

chapel, founded in 1683, has 300 sittings: and there is a

Primitive Methodist chapel seating 300 persons: a Mission

Hall was erected in 188o, and affords 150 sittings. The

Market House, in the High street, a structure of red

brick, erected in 1842, was partly rebuilt in 1870 and

fitted with an illuminated clock, with an attached drinking

fountain in front. There is a Fire Engine Station in

Aylesbury street. Annual fairs are held on the 13th of

May and 2nd of October. Bosworth House, in the High

street, is an ancient structure, probably once ecclesiastical

and contains a. holy-water stoup. Th& Literary In-

"titution, built in 1865, by the late Lieut.-General Philip

Smith C.B., J.P. (d. 1894.), comprises a commodious

reading room, and a library of about 250 volumes, a'nd is

DIRECTORY.] BUCKING HAMSIIIRE. WENDOVER. 181

PRIVATE RESIDEXTS. Hall Major-Gen.Thomas Erskine .Arth. Suvory Misses, High street .

Adams Mrs. Chiltern road The Grange Scrivener Alfred Perry J.P. Haglis hl)

Bowen Mrs. Rose cot. _~ylesburv st Horwoou Mrs. Aylesbury streE't Senior Miss, Ayles1)ury street

Bridges Miss,The Red ho._.\ylesbury st Hobbs Rev. F. H. (Congregational), Shakespeare William, Smalldean house

Brown Miss, Surrey ho. Chiltern I'd Bacombe terrace Smith Rev. Albert M.A. (vicar &

Drown James, Aylesbury road Jennings Norman, Normanhurst rural dean)

Collins Rev. W. Henry (Baptist), Jason Allen, Fair bank Smith-Neill Capt. John W. The Lodge

Chiltern road .Tohllston Miss, Bacombe terrace Solomon Miss, St. Teresa cottage,

Cooke Rev. George Kennedy RA. ,Towett Mrs. Chiltern road Chiltern road

(curate), St. Peter's KendaLI Miss, C;esnut cottage Stevens James, Aylesbury street

Davy Mrs. Hemingford vils.Chiltern rd Markham John William, Halefield 'l'aylQr Mrs. Mitford, Hazledean h()-

Dowden Thomas, Pound street Mitchell Mrs. ""Vzuna, Chiltern road Tratt Miss, London road

.Edwards Lewis, Bettan ho.Chiltern rd Marshallsay Edward, Lime Tree house Thomson J. S. Backham lodge

Eldridge John Lacey, Aylesbury road Newson William, Sunnyside, High st Watson Miss, Aylesbury street

-Godwin Lt.-Col. Algernon Arbuthnott Nicholls - , Brook house Wilson George, The Rosery -

J.P. Manor house Fayne Edward J. Chiltern road Woollerton Edwin Goodburn, High st

Gordon Mrs. Hemingford villas, Rav Mrs. Aylesbury road Wrigley Charles E. Mayertorne manor

Chiltern road Rein :Mrs. Bacombe terrace York Rev. John (Cong.), The Castle

"J!ol1and Miss, Aylesbury street Robin" Jaspar, Aylesbury road

COM~IERCIAL. I Markham John William, farmer, Halefield &, Bacomb

Adams Charles Thomas, farmer, auctioneer &, estate agt. Marquis of Granby, World's end

Manor farm; & at Aylesbury Marshallsay Ed'ftfard, coal, coke, hay & straw &

Archer John Field, farmer, Vine Tree farm artificial manure merchant; & at 12 South wharf,
Ayres William, beer retailer, Tring road
Paddin~ton

Biaington George, farmer, Wellwick Matthews John, grocer, Tring road

Blake Charles, furniture dealer, Aylesbury road Mead Frederick John, land & estate agent, & surveyor.

B;ake Frederick, grocer, High street assistant overseer, assessor & collector of property &

llucks & Oxon Union Bank Limited (sub-branch) (open income taxes & rate collector, High street
fridays 12-3), High street; draw on London & West- Mead George, harness maker, High street

minstE'r Bank Limited, London E C Moore Daniel, nurseryman & seedsman, Aylesbury st

Jlushell John George, insurance agent & hon. sec. Moore Daniel, jun. George inn. Aylesbury street

Labourers' Club, Aylesbury street Morton James, Swan Inn P.H. High street.

Carter Thomas, blacksmith, High street Patey James Ambrose, grocer & furniture dlr. High st
Caudl'ey Alfred, mealman, High street Payne Albert, rope & twine maker, South street

C:mdrey Charles, builder, Back street Payne Alfred, coal &, corn merchant & insuranpe agent &;
Cundrey EdWl:n, engineer k smith, Aylesbury street coach proprietor & agent for Metropolitan railway, Holly

Caudrey Frederick, butcher. High street house; & at Missenden. See advertisement

Caudrey Henry, tinsmith, Aylesbury road Pearce C. S. & Sons, grocers, Aylesbury street

Chiltern HIlls Agricultural Association (Charles E. Free- Pearce Edwin, flint contractor, Swan bottom

man, sec.), High street Pearce Mark, beer retailer, Tring road

(;ummings EIiza (Mrs.), laundress, Aylesbury street Philbey John, tailor, High street

1}ancer Alfred, plumber & g",azier, Back street Poulton Thomas, King-'s Head P.H. High street
·Dancer Tho.mas, blacksmith, Wendover dean Pullein Willlam, King k Queen hotel, London road;

1}awe Edward, farmer, Russell fa,rm, Wendover dean first-class accommodation for tourists & cyclists &;

1}ay John, beer retailer, Well head family hotel; well-furnished sitting & bed-rooms; good

1}ell Emma (Mrs.), straw bonnet maker, Ay:esbury street stabling &; garden

"Edwards Edward, shoe maker, Aylesbury street Punter Sam!. farmer &, pheasant breedr. Hill Bank farm

"Edwards Arthur Charles, shoe maker, Tring road Purssell Frank, miller (steam &, wind), Wendover mill

l"antham Joseph, Pack Horse P.H. Tring road Purssell Richard, farmer, Wendover Dean

Fantham Thomas, Temperance hotel, Aylesbury street Ranee Alfred, farmer, Little London farm

l'1oyd Joseph, wheelwright, High street Robins James & George, farmers, Wendover Dean

·Foskett George, boot & shoe maker, High street Saunders Geo. Red Lion P.H. & pheasant brdr.Lee corn

FranklinJsph.Old Swan inn,&, flint contrctr. World's end Saunders William, farmer & pheasant breeder

Franklin William, beer retailer, Tring road Sears Frederick, grocer &; provision dealer, High stree~

.Freeman Frederick, draper, chemist, stationer &; stamp Seeley Arthur, carrier, High street

distributor, Post office, High street Seeley George James, Two Brewers P.H. High street

'Gas Light &, Coke Co. Limited (George Lane, sec) Senior &, Clarke, builders. Aylesbury street

Goodson Elizabeth (Mrs.), butcher, Pound street Sharp Ernest John, watch maker & jeweller, High street
lIill Jane (Miss), grocer & baker, Ayle~bury street Sills William, boot & shoe manufr. Aylesbury road

'Grand Junction Canal Co. (Martin Barber, wharfinger) Smith Wm. &; Sons. butchers, Aylesbury street (branch)

(branch) Stamp Office (Frederick Freeman, distributor). High st

Jlalfway House, London road Stevens Walter James, threshing machine owner &; engi-

Holland J oseph Senior, Red Lion family &, commercial neer & sec. to Reading room

hotel &, posting house, brewer & builder &, miller TayIor Joseph, market gardener, Aylesbury street

(water), conveyance to meet any train by order, High Taylor Joseph. jun. baker &, grocer, Aylesbury street

street. See advertisement Terry John &, William, flint contractors, London road

]Iow Maria. (Mrs.). coffee house, &, butcher, High street Thompson .Tames, baker, High street

.Jefferay George, harness maker, High street Walker George, tailor &; draper, South street

..Tordan George, farmer, Wendovel' Dean Walker Marv Ann (Mrs.), dress mAker. South street
.Judge William, farmer, Lee common Wells Joseph, Black Horse P.H. Scrub wood

:Kinch George, farmer, Bucksbridge Wendover Brewery (J. S. Holland, proprietor), High st.

King Charles, Shoulder of Mutton P.H. k buildr. Pound st See advertisement

King Edwin, draper, High street Wethered Thomas &; Sons Lim. brewers (C. King. agent)

-King &, Queen Hotel (William Pullein), London road Williamson John, farmer, Wendover Dean

Labourers' Club Room (John George Bushell, hon. sec) Wood Henry, plumber &, g-lazier, High street

l..andon Geor!Z'e, fancy repository. South street I Woollerton Edwin Goodburn L.R.C.P. &, L.R.C.S.Edill.
"Langston William, Leather Bottle P.H. Scrub wood Rurg-eon &; medical offieer &, public vaccinator No. 7

"Literary Society (WaIter James Stevens. hon. sec.; rlistrict. Wycombe union &; surgeon in ordinary to Royal

William Edwards. librarian). High street Bucks Hospital, High street

"WESTBURY IS a. parish and village, separated from and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Augustin,
built in 1400, is an edifi('e of stone in the Decorated
"Oxfordsbire by the river Ouse, and is three-quarters style, consisting- of ('hancel, nave of three bays, aillles,
of a mile north from Fulwell and Westbury station, on north porch and a Wl'st.Prn saddll'-h'lCk tOWl'T containing-
1 bells, l'l'paired in 18Q8 at a cost of £32: the organ was
the Banoory and Bletcbley branch of the London and the gift of the Hon. Mrs. Barringion: there are various
"North W~tern railway, about 2 from Finmere station on memorial windows, !!ift!! of the Hon. Mrs. Barring-ton, A.
Robarls eosq. and Hon. Mrs. Maclagan: the church was
the Great Central railway, 4i north-west from Bucking- Testored in 1863, and affords ,00 sittings. The reg-ister
dates from the year 1':0;8. The living is a vicarage, net
llam.. 2! east from Brackley and 62 from London, in yearly value £1°7, with 88 acres of glebe, residence, in

.the Northern division of the county, hundred and petty
sessional division of Bucking-ham, union and county
'l'Ourt district of Brackley and in the rural deanery of

Buckingham (first portion), archdeaconry of Buckingham

182 WESfBURY. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [KELLY'S

the gift of the Viscount Barrington, and held since 1897 rateruble value, £1,777; the population in 1891 was 323
by the Rev. Richard Ussher, of Exeter College, Oxford. in the civil and 357 in the ecclesiastical parish.
The Reading Room here, erected at a cost of £100, given
by Herbert Gosling esq. late of the Manor, and opened in By Local Governmont Board Order 15,987, dated
Oct. 1892, stands on land given by Lord Barrington. March 24, 1884, a detached part of Westbury was trans-
There are 38 members. At the inclosure in 1764 a piece
of pasture land, covered with bushes, containing ferred to BiddlesdE'n.
2Ia. 11'. 37p. was allotted to the poor; it is now let at Deputy Parish Clerk, Frank Bedden.
from £10 upwards yearly. Westbury Manor, the property
of Viscount Barrington, of Beckett Park, Shrivenham, Post Office.-William Stephen Cook, sub-postmaster.
Berks, who is lord of the manor and principal landowner, Letters arrive through Brackley at 7.45 a.m. & 3.3()
and pow occupied by William Swire esq. is a hand- p.m.; dispatched at 8.25 R.m. & 5.15 p.m. week
some mansion of stone, seated in a valley and sur- days only. Postal orders are issued here, but Il~ paid.
rounded by pleasure grounds. The soil is mixed; sub- The nearest money order office is at Shalstone & tele-
soil, various. The land is two-thirds arable, remainder graph office at Brackley
pasture. The area is 1,373 acres of land and 8 of water;
National School, erected in 1861, for 85 children; ave:r-
age attendance, 55; Isaac Gilman, master

Railway Station, Fulwell & Westbury, Henry John Bates,

station master

Swire William, Westbury manor Chapman Jas. frmr. & miller (water) Law William, shoe maker
Ussher Rev. Richard, Vicarage
.Ailcock Goorge, Reindeer P.H. Chapman WiIJiam, farmer Reading Room (Jabez Robinson, sec)

general dealer & Clarke Arthur, farmer & butcher IRogers Robert, carpenter

Cook Wm. Stephn. shpkpr. Post office Turner B.blacksmith & assist. overseer

WESTON TURVILLE is a parish and village, 11 in shape, well carved in panels and rests on a modern

miles east of Stoke Mandeville station on the Aylesbury base; there are some remains of a carved wood screen

section of the Metropolitan Extension railway, 2 miles in the south aisle, which has also a trefoil-headed

north-by-west from Wendover, 31 ·south-east from Ayles- piscina and ,several large brackets: the church was

bury stations on the Metropolitan and Great Western restored in 1860 under the direction of Mr. David Bran-

railways and 4! west from Tring station, on the main don, architect, and in 1879 the chancel underwent a

hne of the London and North Western railway, in the complete restoration by Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn, architec~

Mid division of the county, hundred, petty sessional the floor being consider&bly raised and laid down with

division, union and county court district of Aylesbury, tiles, some of which are repr{)ductions of old tiles found

rural deanery of Wendover, archdeaconry of Buckingham in the church: new stalls and desks of carved oak wer&

and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is an fitted; the total cost of the restoration exceeded [,300;

ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, a new organ was erected in October, 1890, at a cost of

vestry (serving also as organ chamber), north and £310: there are 369 sittings, 120 being free. There is

south porches, and an embattled western tower with an ancient lych gate at the entrance to the churchyard.

hexagonal turret containing 5 bells: the chancel is un- The register of baptisms dates from the year 1538;

usually lofty, having been raised in the 15th century to marriages and burials from 1566; and there is also a

receive a good open-timbered roof, which rests on a volume of "Stemmata Parochialia," extending from

massive wall plate, carved with quatre-foils, inclosing 1538 to about 1840, compiled from the parish registers

shields; the ridge line of the older roof is distinctly by the Rev. Arthur Isham M.A. rector here 1837-76.

marked on the western wall: the east window is of Th3 living is a rectory, net yearly value £410, including

three lights, with flowing tracery in the head, and has 293 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the

a small demi-figure of the Madonna and child; on the Warden and Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, and

south side, projecting from the wall, is a double piscina held since 1887 by the Rev. John Ellam, of St. John's

of Early English date: within the communion rails are College, Cambridge. The rectory house, of brick, in th&

two carved chairs of Elizabethan or Jacobean date, one Italian style, was designed by the late Sir G. G. Scott

of which is unusually wide and has a hinged back, R.A. The Baptist chapel, built in 1839, will seat 200

which, being reflexed, converts the whole into a table; persQns. The Chilterns, a private preparatory school for

within recesses, in the south wall, are portions of the boys, stands in grounds of 20 acres, at the foot {)f th&

earlier church and some scnlptured figures discovered Chiltern Hills; the building is modern and well-ap-

during the restoration of 186o: there is a mural monu- pointei, and has attached cricket and football fields,
ment of marble on the south side, with fluted pilasters tennis and racquet courts, and a gymn!llS~um; there is

and a boldly-moulded pediment with arms to the Rev. also an artificial lake; the Rev. C. E. Roberts M.A. is

John Tipping M.A. rector until 1722: on the north side principal, and also rector of Halton. Widow Turpin's

is a. marble mural tablet, with effaced shield, to the land of lOa. IT. 34p. now produces £28 IOS. annually,

Rev. John Taylor S. T.P. 27 years rector here, 1774, Mary which is distributed twice a year in loaves; the Pennant

his wife, 1779, and Danvers, their eldest son, 1771: in trust oottages, left to the parish by the Rev. Thomas

one of the chancel windows on the south side are the Pennant RD. rector 1817-45, are in trust ()f the recmr

arms of John of Ghent Duke of Lancaster: the chancel for the time being, the rents being distributed in ck>thing

generally is Decorated,' and north of the chancel arch, to not more than six persons, being regular attendants

under a tall and narrow arch in the eastern pier of the at church. Findall's (Aylesbury) charity provides 00. 8d.

arcade, are the remains of the rood-loft steps; the for distributi{)n amongst the poor, and also 6s. 8d. for
nave, also Decorated, is of five bays, with clustered clean~ng the churchways. The. wom~~ and children of

columns and moulded arches supporting a clerestory, the VIllage are largely employed III plaItIng straw. Ducks
lighted by four windows on either side; the roof is of of thl' Aylesbury breed are reared here, and mo.re t~aD
timber and plaster, and dates from the time of Henry 20,000 .are sent annually to London. In the parIsh I~ a

VII.: the north aisle retains its original roof and in reservOIr of about 54 acres, held by the Grand JunctIOD
1855,
one of the windows is a shield Gofernaromr s~r beneath a Cv~arniaolu~Ovoemsspealsnyo. f In May, Samian awaRreo!mapriueceasm.opf,hoirroa~,
canopy, assigned to the family of Horwood: I;!'lass and

the south. ais:e exhibits in its windows some elegant WIth TIvets and naIls and some other obJects, WIth m-
example!i of Flamboyant tracery; two of these are seg- dences of the burial ~f a female, '!ere ~iscov:ered in th&

mental headed and have interior hood mOUldings, and rectory garden. At Gr~at Groond, III thIS p~Tlsh, :nom~,
the east window and two others retain some ancient Saxon and Early Eng-hsh pottery ware, tIles, VenetUlJl
foliated glass in the heads; one of the quarries in the and gold encrusted glass ~ere met with :rbout 18~, and

easternmost window of this aisle is inscribed" Altissmo: some remarkable foundatIonS! are now (1899) bem//: un"
Gloriosissme: Optml): Maxmo; Laus & honus & pros- earthed by the present occu~ier, Mr. R. Fowler. On&

tratio. T: W: f. 1655; " and on the inside panel of the man{)r here, formerly belongmg to the Du~hy 01 La~­
d()(Jl" is a curious inscription in English, dated 1578 : the
font, p}aced in this aisle, is a fme specimen of Nor- cas~er, was sold to the late Mr. John Eldndge, -of ~
parIsh, and there are two o~her manors-the manor of

mal] work and consists of a fluted basin with elaoorate Hyde, owned by the WorshIpful Company of Mercers,
scroll ornament round the edge, resting on a square- ~nd another belonging to Lord Rothschild. .A court !eet
cushioned base, similarly carved, with chevron and cable IS held about every ~ve years by the Mer.cers' Co~pa~y.

mouldinO" othf ethtoewnearvoec, cuthpeiesarthceh~whoofle of the western- ab Mr. John Munger s, The Manor farm. The pnnCJ.paI
most b:y' which are con- landowners are Lord Rotbschild, The Mercers' Company,

nected by smaller and perfectly plain arches cut through the trustees of the late Goorge Alexander Hulbert esq. of

the tower walls' towards the east a lofty narrow Cosham, Hants, and William Layt'on Lowndes esq. of 21

arch opens fro~ the nave to the lower stage Marine parade, Dover. ,The soil is vari?US, grave~y,
of the tower, which has a good Perpendicular loam and some clay, WIth a clay SUbSOIl. 1'he e~et

window of three lights; in the south wall of the tower, crops are :wheat, beans, <>ats, barley, clover and turniPs.

within the church, is a recessed arched ledge, and on The area IS 2,2i9 acres pf land :md.44 of water; lISsess·
the floor below a stone inscribed to Mr. Henry 13abham, able value, £4,277; the populatIOn III 1891 was 791.

1719: the pulpit is of Tudor or Jacobean date, hexagonal Parish Clerk, Jamea Potter.

DIRECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. WESTON UNDERWOOD. 183

Fost Office.-Edwin Edwards, sub-postmaster. Letters Letter Boxes, RectorY' wall, cleared 12.40 & 6.50 p.m.

arrive from Tring at 5.30 & 9.50 a.m.; dispatched at week days &; 4.50 sundays; & World's end, cleared

1.15 & 7.15 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but , 12.40 & 7 p.m. week days & 5.5 p.m. sundays

not paid. The nearest money order & telegrnph office National School (mixed & infants), built in 1839 &; en-

is at Aston Clinton, 2 miles distant larged in 1873, for ISO children; average attendance,

117; with residence adjoining for master; Robart

Wall Le'.iter Box, 'West end, cleared at 12.4!5 a.m. & Gerard Davis White" master

7.10 p.m. on week days & 5.10 p.m. on sundays Carner to and from AJlesbury.-Alfd. Ginger, wed. &l sa~

Marked thus * receive letters via Bunce Joseph, jun. duck breeder & Munger John, farmer, Manor farm

Aylesbury. The Vine P.H Munger Robert, farmer, Brook farm

Ellam ReT. John, Rectory Bunce Matilda (Miss), dress maker Piddington William, duck breeder

Hedderwick Thos. Chas. Hunter M.P. Bunce Wm. beer rete & duck breeder P<ltter James, duck breeder

The Manor house & 2 Garden court, I Clarke William Edwin, saddler & har. Potter-William, breeder of pure Ayles-

Temple E C; & Reform club, ness maker & Chandos Arms P.H bury'ducks, for show purposes &c.

London SW Dennison ,William, The Plough P.H See advertisement

Kingham Arthur Charles, The Firs Edwards Edwin, boot maker & duck Purssell Francis, farmer

Kirtland William, The Villa br.eeder &; clerk to the parish council, Purssell Frederick, farmer, Rectory fm

Munger Miss, Chapel house Post office Purssell Herbert Charles, farmer

Roberts Rev. Oharles Edmund, The Edwards James,bootmkr. &; duck brdr Purssell Wm. miller (water),The Mill

Chilterns Eldridge Mrs. Isabella, duck breeder Reading Imbella(Mrs.), Chequers P.H

Young Thomas, The Beeches Fitkin John, builder, contractor, car- Rickard Albert, duck breeder

OOMMERCIAL. penter,joiner & undertaker & timber Rickard Thomas, bricklayer .

*Adams William, sheep & cattle dealer dealer; estimates furnished Raberts Rev. Charles Edmund M.A.

& farmer, Weston Mead farm *Fowler Richard, farmer & district (rector of Halton), preparatory sch!.

Atkins James, duck breeder councipor, Broughton farm The Chilterns; for particulars of

Axtell Charles Edwin, beer retailer & Gad8den'.J'effery, frmr. West· End frm which see advertisement

duck breeder Goodson Charles, duck breeder Sharp George, butcher
Gurney William Him11'~ tea dealer, *Tapping Jonn Henry, farmer
AxOOll John, duck breeder grocer & provision s~es & seed dlr Tompkins Henry, wheelwright, trap &;

Barber Arthur, boot repairer

Bates Edward, cattle dealer Hearn Elizabeth (Mrs.), duck breedr waggon builder, agricultural imple-

Bates Trevor George, baker &0 Ingram Fras. Thos. carter & shopkpr ment maker& repairer,general sInith

Bishop Francis, duck breeder Ingram Richard, duck breeder & timber dealer

Brandon William, duck breede~ Ingram Wm. beer rete & duck breedr Wakefield George, wheelwright

Brill Emanuel, farmer Kempster George, shopkeeper Walton Frederick, duck breeder

Bunce Ann (Mrs.), grocer Kirtland William, sJlOeing &; general Walton George, duck breeder

Bunce .Tohn, farmer, Low farm smith, iron fencing &; pallisading Weston Turvill~ Cottage Garden,

Bunce In. duck breeder, Philbey's ter maker_. &; contmcior, agricultural Society (Rev. J. Ellam, hone sec.;

Bunce Joseph, duck breeder & grocer implement maker~ repairer &c E. Edwards, assist. sec)
-.:r.

WESTON UNDERWOOD is a parish and village, ~ich are given away at Christmas; there is also a·
on the river Ouse and on the road from Olney to -charity of £2 a year for apprenticing. Cowper th~

Northampton, 2 miles south-west from Olney station poet, removed here from Olney in 1786 and continued

on the Bedford and Northampton branch of the Mid- to reside here to within a few years of his death, which.

land railway, 51 north from Newport Pagnell, 13 south- occurred at East Dereham, Norfolk, 25th April, 1800,

east from Northampton, 13 west from Bedford and 9 and here he wrote his translation of Homer: on the-

north-east-by-east from Stony Stratford, in the Northern panef of a window shutter in the bed-room occupied by

division of the county, hundred, petty sessional 'division, the poet, is the following couplet, written in his OWIl<

union and county court district of Newport Pagnell, hand:

archdeaconry of Buckingham, rural deanery of Newport "Farewell, dear scenes, for ever closed to me,

Pagnell and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Law-

rence is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early Perpen- Oh! for wbat sorrows must I now exchange ye.
dicular style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, June 22-28,1795."
aisles.,- north porch and low embattled western tower

containing 6 bells: the whole exterior is Perpendicular:

thlf" piers and arches of the nave arcades are plain The "Wilderness" in which Cowper found such t, bound-

Early English, and the chancel and tower exhibit por- less contiguity of shade," still remains; much of the

tions of the same style: the font is also of this date: surrounding scenery is described in his poems, and an

the east window retains its original glass, and there is a oak tree is shown as "Cowper's oak." The Rev, Thomag
piscina and sedilia: a helmet and coat of -early date Scott, the commentator, was curate here from 1780, he

are preserved in the church, which also contains some died 16 April, 1821. Weston Park, the property of

memorials of the Throckmortons, and a brass, with Major Wentworth Grenville Bowyer (R.E.), of Little Lin-

effigy, and those of five daughters to Elizabeth (Hussay), ford, is about 30 acres in extent; it is well wooded and

wife first of Sir Walter Hungerford, and afterwards of contains fine avenues of lime, beech, elm and chestnut

Sir Robert Throckmorton, ,she died in 1571; there is trees; the house, which formerly stood in the park,

also a tomb with marginal inscription on brass to John was pulled down in the early part of the present cen-

Olney, a former rector, and Dionisia his wife, ob. 1450: tury, but is now (1899) about to be rebuilt. Maj. W. G.

his epitaph records that he converted the ancient and Bowyer is lord of the man<lr and principal landowner.

dilapidated chapel into a church: there are 200 sittings, The soil is loam, some rich and the rest very poor; sub-

100 being free. The register dates from the year 1681; soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and

some old documents and a terrier are also preserved in oats. The area is 1,865 acres of land and 8 of wa.ter;

the parish chest. The living is a vicarage, yearly value assegsable value, £2,273; the ll<lpulation in 18g1 was

£51, in the gift of Maj. Wentworth G. Bowyer, llnd held 375· " ,
since. 1899 by the Rev. Edward Lewis Lloyd RA. of
Sexton, George p'arkins.
Jesus College, Oxon. The Catholic chapel,

built about 1830, was decornted. and improved in 1883,
when a tabernacle of wrought iron, with doors and sides Post Office.' John William Covington, sub-postmaster.

of beaten brass, and carved oak top and base was placed Letters arrive from Olney, via Newport Pagnell, d
on the altar. Sir N. W. G. Throckmorton bart. main- 7·30 a.m.; dispatched at 8.30 a.m. & 5.40 p.m. Postal

iains one resident priest. The feoffees' estate of 6 orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest

acres produces £24 14s. which is distributed in coal; money order & telegraph office is at Aston Clinton, 2

the Town Dudley charity of about 20 acres, producing Iniles distant

£24 14s. 8d. yearly, is for six poor widows; Higgin's Church School, erected in 1872 by the late Sir R.
charity of £17 yearly is for the clothing of ten poor Throckmorton hart. for '62 children; average attend-

women, and Mrs. Spink's charity provides 30 blankets, ance, 45

Attenborough Walter, Manor house Swannell Miss, Joy cottage Dover Henry, farmer

Lloyd Rev. Edward Lewis B.A.(vicar) Swannell William, The Lodge Ellis James,. tailor & shopkeeper

Smith 'Miss OQ)IMERCIAL. Fisher Mary Ann (Miss), shopkeeper

Stewart William Stephen Covington John Wilham. blacksmith, Howes Henry, fanner & baker

Stokes Very Rev. Canon Ge()rge Fred- Post office Smith Mary Ann (Mr"'.), Cowper's

erick (Catholic) Dart Thos. frmr. Pesants Nest farm Oak P.R

184 WEXHAM. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [KELLY'S

WEXHAM is a parish and village, 2 miles north-east of Sir Charles Robert Pigott bart. D.L., J.P.; the house

from Slough station on the main line of the Great West- is a handsome building of red brick and stone, in the
ern railway, 5 miles from Windsor, in the Southern Elizabethan style, and stands in a park of about 70 acres;
division of the county, hundred and petty sessional the village of Wexham forms part of this property. The
division of Stoke, union of Eton, county court district Duke of Leeds is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
of Windsor, rural deanery of Burnham, archdeaconry The soil is loam and clay; subsoil, gravel. Ragstone is
of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of found in this neighbourhood. The chief crops are oats,
St. Mury is a bui:ding of stone in the Early English wheat and barley. The area. is 746 acres; assessable
style, consisting of chancel. nave, south porch, and a value, £1,233; the population in 1891 was 231.
westem turret containing one bell: there are 150 sit- Sexton, Frederick Biggs.

tin.gs. . The register dates1 fro1m £the year. h1606. The Post, •M. t. TOT M 0 Express DelI' very, Parcel
<XI • ., • • .,
liVlllg IS a rectory, net year y va ue 350, WIt 7 acres of Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Amos Smith,
glebll' and residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor,
and held since 1846 by the Rev. Alfred Arrow Kempe RA. sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through Slough at 7 &;
of Mag-dalene ColleQ'e, Cambridge, who is non-resident;
the Rev. Edward N~orman RA. of Trinity College, Cam- 11 a.m. & dispatched at 3.50 & 7.45 p.m.; sundays,
bl'idge, and chaplain to Eton Union, has been curate-in-
charge since 1885. Grainger's charity is the interest of II a.m
£100 Consols. The former infants' school room has been
converted into a reading-room. Wexham Park is the feat This p:ace is included in the United School Board Dis-
trict of Stoke Poges &; Wexham, formed 27 Aug. 1874

The children of this place attend the school at Stoke
Poges

Hanbury Lionel G. Wexham springs Pigott Sir Charles Robert bart. D.L., Hartley William, builder, contractor,

Macdonald 'William, Heatherfield J.P. Wexham park undertaker &c

~orman Rev. Edward B.A. (curate- Williams Owen, The Lodge King John, charcoal burner

in-charge & chaplain to Eton Union IBayley William, frmr. Wexham court Smit~ Aroos, baker, Post office

workhouse), Rectory ,Holdship Richard, blacksmith Stone J ames, farmer, Old Rectory fm

WHADDON is a township, parish and village,S miles coins, about 200 in number, all of which, as treasure

north-west from Dletchley Junction station on the main trove, were surrendered to the lord of the manor.
line of the London and North Western railway and 3~ Whaddon Chase was formerly the principal woodland
north from Swanbourne station on the Oxford and Bletch- in this part of the county and contained 2,200 acres of
ley branch of the same line, 4~ south from Stony Strat- ('oppice, with valuable timber, and maintained 1,000
ford,s north-east from Winslow and 7 east from Buck- head of deer: the greater part of it is now inclosed and
ingham, in the Northern division of the county, Cot- cultivated.
tesloe hundred, Winslow petty sessional division and Whaddon Hall, the seat of William Selby-Lowndes esq.
union, county court district of Buckingham, rural dean- J.P. is a mansion of stone, containing many spacious

ery of Mursley, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese and elegantly-fitted apartments; "few private residences
of Oxford. The church of St. Mary, standing on high in the kingdom," writes Lipscomb, "can be found to
ground near the Chase, is an ancient building of stone, rival the magnificence of its splendid staircase:" the
consisting of chancel with north aisle or chapel, nave of pleasure grounds, gardens and park extend over 315
four bays, aisles, north and south porches, and an em- acres; great numbers of the forest trees are of immense

'·attled western tower containing a clock and 6 bells: size, and the views from the place are delightful: up to
the chancel has an Early English piscina and sedilia, 1840 the deer were allowed to roam wild over the Chase.
'but the east window and some other features are Deco- but they have now a portion of the grounds fenced off
rated; the chapel is also of this date, and has on the for them. This manor became the property in 1698 of
north side a handsome monument with long epitaph to Dr. WLlis, the celebrated physician, and being inherited
Arthur, 14th Lord Grey de Wilton K.G. who was lord by his grandson, Browne Willis esq. LL.D. the well-
depnty of Ireland during the rebellions of Desmond, known antiquary, was for many years his residence;
"Ballinglass and O'Neill, one of the commissioners who here he accumulated the valuable manuscript collections

tried Mary Queen of Scots, and died 14 Oct. 1593; there bequeathed by him to the University of Oxford, as well
i3 also a very rich and curious brass to Margaret Missen- as a fine library of printed books; the greater part, if
den, da,ted 1612: the nave is separated from the aisles not the whole, of his published works, were also pre-
by arcades of four arches, all of the Transition Norman pared for the press at Whaddon; he died 5th February.
l)eriod, but the walls are Decorated: each doorway re- 1760, and was buried in the chancel of Fenny Stratford
tains a stoup: the font is Early English: there are church. Queen Elizabeth visited Whaddon Hall in 1568,
other monuments to Thomas King, 1770, and to William at whiph time it was held by Arthur, Lord Grey; but
11is son, 1775, and a brass recording the gift of a clock the old mansion, as then existing, with its great hall, 50
to the church in 1613 by Amy (Allen), wife of Joseph feet in length, was partially destroyed on its coming into
Emerton, minister: the church was extensively repairerl the joint possession of Thomas 'Willis and James Selby

and restored in 1889 and 1891, at a cost of £985, and in 1698; eventually the whole property came into tho
affords 220 sittings, 200 being free. The churchyard, hands of Thomas James Selby, son of the foregoing, whu
t.he gift of Mr. Selby-Lowndes, was consecrated Oct. 6, died in 1772, and no lawful heir appearing, it was sur-
1890. The register dates from the year 1580. The rendered, by order of the Court of Chancery in 1783, to
living is a vicarage, net yearly value £220, derived from Mr. lVilham Lowndes, of Winslow, who had been ap-

243 acreil of glebe, with residence, in the gift of W. Selby- pointed by Mr. Selby his lawful heir, if no heir-at-law
Lowndes esq. and held since 1899 by the Rev. Edward could be found. W. Selby-Lowndes esq. is lord of the
Art.hur Selby-Lowndes RA. of Exeter College, Oxford. manor and principal landowner. The soil is light lInel
The Oongregational chapel, erected in 1865, will seat 150 stiff yellow clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are
persons. The poor's land consists of 4 acres. In a part wheat, oats and beans. The area of the township and

of Whaddon Chase called" Nasbury," about 320 ancient parish is 2,520 acres, a large portion of which is com-
"British gold coins were discovered in February, 1849, prised in 'Whaddon Chase, celebrated for its fox covers;
and claimed by Mr. Selby-Lowndes as lord of the rateable value, £8,960; the population in 1891 was 398.
manor; they are of a later period than those of Parish Clerk, Edward Goodway.

Cunobelin, and are stamped with a wheat ear and Post OffIce. Joseph Mayho Missenden, sub-postmaster.
rampant horse: in the coppice adjoining there are Letters arrive through Bletchley arrive at 7.30 a.m. &;
indications of a large rectangular encampment, evidentl~' 6.5 p.m.; box closes at 7.35 a.m. ~ 5.55 p.m. week days,
Roman, inclosing a space of about 5 acres, with a val- & on sundays at 10 a.m. Posta.l orders are issued here,
lum and fosse quite perfect. Three miles west of Whad- but not paid. Stony Stratford is the nearest money
don, and near the site of the battle which is said to order & telegraph office, about 4! miles distant
have been fought by Cunobelin at Thornborough bridge. Kational School, built 1841 &; endowed with £10 yearly

Iare two tumuli, one of which was opened in 1842, and by the late T. Coare esq. of Newgate street, London.

disclosed many Roman relics; other Roman antiquitieil for 100 children; average attendance, 64; Alfred
were met with in 1857 and 1858, chiefly consisting of I Charles Marshall, master; Miss Clara Marshall, mist

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Fathers Jess,E'. farmer Missenden Jsph.Mayho,grcr.&; post 011

Selby-Lowndes Rev. Edward Arthur, Faulkner Wi:Iiam, carpenter Quick John, bricklayer

Vicarage Heady Jesse, farmer Stunuan Charles, huntsman"to Whad·

Selby-Lowndes William J.P. Whaddon .Ta.ckman Georgp. blacksmith don Chase

ball; &; Carlton club, Pall MaJl S W King George, baker Taylor 'rhomas, farmer

COMMERCIAL. King Orlando, farmer Ward Henry &; James, farmers

Booth Charles, head keeper to W. King William, dealer Watts Haydon, farmer

Selby-Lowndes esq Lee Alfled. farmer, &; H:lllllCh of Willet Joseph, farmer, Wood Pond frm

Brett John, farmer Venison P.H Young Frederick. fal"llel'
~ackerness ·Wm. Jesse, market grdnr Young George, butcher
DeU David, Robin Hood F.R

DIRECTORY. ] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. WINCHENDON LOWER. 185

WHITCHURCH is a parish and large village, or. the I tributed in the winter in clothes and blankets to the
road from Aylesbury to Buckingham, 4~ mileiit north from most necessitous and deserving poor. Here was form-

Aylesbury, its ne~rest railway station, 5~ south from erly a castle belonging to Hugh de Bolebec, and the sites

Winslow and 12 south-east from Buckingham, in the of the drawbridges are still traceable; at the ,lUter

Mid division of the county, hundred of Cottesloe, Wins- edge of the moat is a remarkable spring called "Fair

low petty sessional division, union and county court dis- Alice," flowing out from beneath the trunk of a large

t1'ict of Aylesbury, rural deanery of Mursley, arch- ash tree and affording beautifully clear water of excel-

deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The lent quality. Thomas Parrott esq. who is lord of the- manor,

church of St. John the Evange:ist is an ancient building Leopold de Rothschild esq. of Ascott, Messrs. Philip and

of stone in the Early English style, consisting of a large Edward Hart, Edward Harper Roads, John Henry Gu"

chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south and Charles Gray are the principal landowners. The soil

porch with a lofty embattled western tower, containing is loam; sub'lOil, limestone and gravel. The land is

6 bells and a clock: on the soul h side is a large sun chiefly in pasture; wheat and peas are grown. The area

dial dated 1828: the arches of the nave are supported is 1,717 acres; assessable value, £4,156; the population

on the north side by octagonal and on the south side by in 1891 was 709.

circular pillars: the chancel was partially restored Sexton, William Fincher.

in 1853: Sir Edward Smythe, formerly Lord Chief

Justice of Ireland, and lord of the manor, was Post, M. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel

buried here in February, 1681 : the communion Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Robert

plate was for the most part his gift: there is Rickard, sub-postmaster. Letters through Aylesbury
a piscina and aumbry in the south aisle, a delivered at 7. 15 a.m.; dispatched at 10.20 a.m. & 5·45

double piscina and triple sedilia in the chancel, and a p.m. & on sundays at 10·35 a.m

stained memorial window to John Tattam, d. 1854, and \Vesleyan School (mixed), erected in 1850, for 128 chil-

Mary Ann his wife, d. 1853: the church affords 409 sit- dren; average attendance, 1°5; John Thomas Tit-

tings. The register dates from the year 1653. The chener, master; Miss Sarah Ann Welch, mistress

hying is a vicarage, with Creslow annexed, in Carriers.
the gift of the Lord Chancellor, net yearly value
£ 155, with residence, erected in the year 1845, I J amI's Rickard, to Aylesbury, daily

and held since 1876 by the Rev. George Tate Caleb Sheffield, wed. & sat

Medd, Theol.Assoc.K.C.L. and formerly lieutenant R.N. John Morris, from Swanbourne through to Aylesbury,

The Wesleyan chapel, built in 1844, wia seat 200 per- wed. & sat

sons; the Primitive Methodist chapel, rebuilt in 1889. John Clark, from Oving through to Aylesbury, wed. &

has 200 sittmgs. A charity of £15 3s. 8d. a year, be- sat

~ueathed by John Westcar esg. late of CrI'slow, is dis- Omnibus, from Cock inn, to Aylesbury, mono wed. & sat

Archer :Miss BlofieH Stephen, dairyman Honnslow Mark, thatcher

Blo"fie:d Jrhn BI-:lzier Hy. farmer, Holborn Hill frm Parrott Ann (Mrs.), farmer

Clarke Edwin Cannon Thomas, brick maker Rickard Jsph. carpntr. b:dr. & undctkr

Denchfield M1'8 Cannon Wm. builder & whe€:wright Rickard Rbt. carpntr. & sUb-postmstr

Gray Charles. The Firs Cbandos Union Club & Benefit Society Roads Edwd.Harper,frmr.& landowner

lIolt Andrew (Rob31't Rickard, sec.) Rose .John F. Click inn

Kingham Misses, The Sycamol e" Clarke Edwin, cattle dealer 8cctt Cha,s. Edward, relieving officer

Lattimer George, The Sycamores Dormer Hy. & Son. butchr!!. &, grocers for 3rd dist. & registrar of births,

McFa1'land Andrew, The Lawn Durley Elizabe·th (Mrs.), Swan P.H deaths & marriages, Waddesden

Mood Rev. George Tate, Theol.AEsoc. Durley John, farmer sub-district, Aylesbury union

K.C.L. Vicarage Foster Charles, baker & draper Shepl.ard Joseph, shopkeeper

Nelis Mrs Grace Mary Ann (Miss), laundress Taylor William, boot maker

Rose John Frederick Griffin J0hn, baker & shopkeeper Todd James, cattle dealer & farmer

OOMMERCIAL. Guy John Henry, landowner & farmer, Tomlin William, earthenware dealer

Alderman Wm. mil:er (water & stm) Manor farm 'Welch 'fheophilus, blicklayer

Atkins John, beer retailer Hill George, shopkeeper White Lewis. blacksmith

Batson Henry, chimney sweeper Hr;t RIchard, farmer Wilson George William, C{lrn dealer

Biggs Adelaide (Mrs.), dress maker :vlcFar:and Andrew L.ll. C.S.I.• L.S.A. Wilson John, farmer & corn dealer

Biswell Arth. Crown & Thistle P.H surge.:m & medical officer & public Young Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Bowerman Robert 'f.'lVhite Horse P.H vaccilJator 4th district, Aylesbury

Blofield Joseph, butcher union, The Lawn

WILLEN is a parish and village, 2 miles south from Granville Randolph M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. A
Newport Pagnell station on the '\Yolverton and Newport charity of £1 a year, bequeathed by Dr. Busby, is given
Pagnell branch of the London and North Western rail- in books, and his trustees also give £q a year to the
way, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, poor, besides supporting the school. The trustees of
petty sessional division, union and county court district Dr. Busby are lords of the manor and sole landowners.
of Newport Pagnell, archdeaconry of Buckingham, rural The soil is mixed; subsoil, gravel and stone. The chief
deanery of B:etchley and diocese of Oxford. The Grand crops are wheat, barley. oats and roots. The area is
Junction canal passes on the west and the river Ouse 669 acres of land and 9 of water; assessable value, £868;
forms its boundary on the east. The church of St.. Mary the population in 1891 was 86.
Magdalen, built in 1680 by Sir Christopher Wren, and Parish Cl~rk, Robert Abbott.
restored in 1862, is a substantial edifice of brirk, in the
Italian style. consisting of nave with eastern apse, south Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.10 p.m. Letters from
porch and a tower containing 3 bells; the apse was Newport Pagnell arrive at 7 a.m.; no sunday delivery.

-added in 1862; all the windows are stained, and there The nearest money order & telegraph office is at

-are 80 sittings. The register dates from the Jear 166::;. Newport Pagnell, about 2 miles distant

The living ill a vicarage, net income £95, with resi- School, built in 1847, for 30 children; average attend.
-dence and 20 acres of glebe, in the gift of the trustees ance, 24. & supported by the trustees of Dr. Busby;

'Of Dr. Busby, and he:d since 1888 by the Rev. Rodner Miss Jane Meads, mistress

IRan~olph Rev. Rodney Granville M.A'IPayne Nelson. rarmer, Brook farm Whiting Hy. Wm. farmer, Willen ho
Vlcara~e

WINCHENDON LOWER (or ~ether) IS a parish clock and 5 bells: the chancel retains a piscina and
3nd village, partly on the acclivity of a steep hill on the sedilia, and there are several ancient brasses and a
river Thame, about 6 miles north-east from Thame sta- I pulpit of carved oak; the chancel was rebui:t in 1891 at
tion on the Maidenhead and Oxford line of the Great a cost of £540 by Mrs. Napier Higgins and the trustees
Western railway, 4 south from Waddesdon Manor station of the late Mr. Richard Rose: there are 300 !littings.
()n the Metropolitan Extension railway, lInd 7! west from The register dates from the year 1563. The living is a

Aylesbury, in the Mid division of the .county, hundred of perpetual curacy, net yearly value £45, including 30
Ashendon petty sessional division, union and county court acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Napier Higgins, and
district of Aylesbury, rural deanery of 1Yaddesdon, arch- held since 1888 by the Rev. Allan Cameron .Aliord M.A.
deaconry of Buckingham and diocese {If Oxford. The vil- of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, who is also vicar ot
JagI' is plentifully supplied with water from the many and resides at Cuddington. The Bucks Evangelistic
Jlprings rising on the Manor Farm. The church of St. Mission has a mission hall here. Winchendon Priory,

Xicholas is an ancient building of stone of the 14th or the seat of Joseph Napier Higginll' esq. Q.O., B.A.,

15th century, consisting of chancel, nave, aisle, south J.P. is an ancient and interesting mansion, believed to
porch, and all embattled western tower containing a occupy the site of a monastic house of which, however.

186 WINCHENDON LOWER• BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [ KELLY'S
•

no trace now remains. Early in the reign of Henry VIII. daughter Jane, married in 1637, Philip, 4th Baron

it was leased to Sir John Daunce kt. whose tomb Wharton, and thus carried the estate of Upper Winchen-
is in the church of Blewbury, Berks, and whose dou to the Wharton family. In the village of Lower
eldes1i son married & daughter of Sir Thomas More. Winchendon are some interesting cottages of the 17th
Sir John, about 1528, restored or built the dining-hall, century, or perhaps even older. Mrs. Napier Riggins,
and his name, carved in oak, still appears over the old who is lady of the manor, Miss Isham, of Hardingstone,
doorway; subsequently the place became part of the Northampton, the trustees of Richd. Rose esq. and Earl
propcr'!-y of the Goodwyns, and an aunt of Sir Francis Temple are the principal landowners. The soil is lime-
Goodwyn kt. M.P. for Bucks, married Thomas Tyring- stone and clay; subsoil, same. The chief crops are wheat,
ham, whose descendants continued to reside here till barley and turnips and pasture. The area is 1,549 acres
1771, when the heiress of this branch of the Tyringham of land and 5 of water; assessable value, £2,560; th&
family was succeeded by her cousin, Sir Francis Bernard, population in 1891 was 272.
1St bart. Governor 1758-60 of New Jersey, and of Parish Clerk, John Watson.
Massachusetts 1760-70' On the death of his grandson, Letters are received through Aylesbury, via Waddesdon,
Sir Thomas Tyringham Bernard, 6th and last bart. in by foot messenger at 9 a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared
1883, the property devolved upon his surviving daughter, at 9 a.m. & 4.5 p.m.; sundays, 10.20 a.m. The nearest
Sophia Elizabeth, who married Joseph Napier Higgins money order office is at Cuddington & telegraph office
-esq. Q.C., J.P. There are several of the old Tyring- at Haddenham, about 2 miles distant
ham pictures in the house' and some of the Goodwyn National School (mixed), erected in 1875, for 78 chil.
family, including one of Sir Arthur Gooowyn, M.P. for dren; average attendance, 40; Miss Mary Elizabeth
'Wycombe 1620-24, Aylesbury 1625-6, and BucklJ lti25 Wyer, mistress
and 1640; John Hampden was elected with him in 1640, Carriers to Aylesbury.-Richard Smith & Jesse Mortimer,
but preferred to represent Wendover. Sir Arthur's wed. & sat.; to Thame, Richard Smith, tues

Higgins Bernard Francis Tyringham OOMMERCIAL. Mortimer J esse, carrier & farmer

M.A., J.P. Winchendon priory; 45 Birch Frederick, boot repairer Payne Fred John Matthews, farmer

Thurloe square, South Kensington Causby Stephen, dairyman & shopkpr Phillips Albert Henry, farmer,BrackwU

SW & White's, Boodle's & Oxford & Clark David, Bear P.R Reading & Coffee Room (Miss Eliza

Cambridge clubs, London Clark Jonathan, farmer Small, superintendent)

Hig~in.s Joseph :Napier Q.C., B.A., Cox Frederic, miller (water) Smith Richard, carrier

J.P. Winchendon priory; & 24 The Cox John Rughes, farmer, Manor frm Spicer Thomas, thatcher

Boltons, South Kensington SW; & Hillsdon Thomas, blacksmith (attends Welford Harriet (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Reform & Union clubs, London 3 days a week) Wilson Emanuel J. carpenter

WINCHENDON UPPER or OVER is a village and rectangular: the old communion table and rails

and parish, situated on elevated ground, about 2 miles have been preserved: the ambulatories and chancel are

south from Waddesdon Manor station, on the Metropolitan laid with old tomb slabs, one of which retains a good

Extension railway, 5 west from Aylesbury road and 7 north- brass: the church has undergone a complete restoration,

east from Thame, in the Mid division of the county, hun- under the superintendence of Mr. William White F.8.A.

dred, petty sessional division, union and county court dis- at a cost of £1,374, and affords 1I0 sittings. The

trict of Aylesbury, rural deanery of Waddesdon, archdea- register dates from the year 1606. The living is a

conry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. This place vicarage, net yearly value £80, in the gift of the Duke

formerly gave the title of Viscount to the Wharton family, of Marlborough, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Henry

barons, earls and marquesses of Wharton; Thomas William Yule B.D., D.C.L. of Wadham College, Oxford,

Wharton, 5th 'baron, having been created Viscount who is also rector of and resides at Waddesdon. By the

Winchendon, 24 Dec. 1706; Philip, 6th baron and 2nd marriage in 1637 of Jane, daughter of Sir Arthur

viscount, was created Duke of Wharton, 20 Jan. 1718, Goodwyn M.P. of Upper Winchendon, with Philip, 4th

but on account of his adherence to the Pretender, he Baron Wharton, the manor and estate was tran'sferred to

was attainted in 1728, and eventually died at the the Wharton family. Miss Alice de Rothschild, of Wad-
monastery of St. Bernard, Tarragona, 31 May, 1731, desdon Manor, is- lady of the manor and sole landowner.

when all his honours, except the barony (which is still The soil is stiff loam; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops
under attainder) became extinct. The church of St. are wheat, barley, turnips and mangolds; the area is

Mary Magdalen is an ancient edifice of stone, consisting 1,202 acres; assessable value, £1,475; the population in

of chancel and nave, south porch, and a massive em- 1891 )Vas 150.

hattled tower of Perpendicular date with a turret at the Parish Clerk, Robert Cooper; deputy, Wm. RodweU.

south-east angle, and containing 3 bells: in the church Letters are received through Aylesbury, via Waddesdon,

is a bi"ass in good preservation to Sir John Stodeley, a by foot messenger at 8 a.m. Letter Box, Manor Wall,
former vicar, dated 1515: the chancel is transition
Norman, with two lancet windows on the east gable, amI cleared T7.h5 0 a.m. &:; 4.45 p.m. week days & 1I a.m. snn.
three lancets in each side wall: the chancel arch is d d& 1 h ffi .t
pointed, but of rude construction: the nave is Norman, ays. e nearest Im! omn eilyeso rd i setra n t te egrap 0 ee III a
with a good doorway: the north aisle dates from the Waddesdon, about

School (mixed), enlarged in 1886, for 60 children; aver-

14th century, the windows having flowing tracery, anJ age attendance, 35; it is supported by Miss .!lice de
opens to the nave by two round arches, and une pointed, Rothschild; ;Miss Emma Osborne, mistress

all cut through the original wall, the piers being large Carrier.-G. Andrews, to Aylesbury, wed. &:; sat

Sims Geol"Q'e Alfred, Manor home Andrews Mary Jane (Mrs.), dress ma Sims George Alfred, land steward to
Treadwell Misses, The Limes
Bliss Martha (Mrs.), farmer,l\fainshill Miss Alice de Rothschild,Manor ho
COMMERCIAL.
Cooper Robert, farmer, Decoy farm 'freadwell John, farmer, & Oxford
Andrews Geo. shopkeeper &:; carrier . Dl)wn sheep breeder, Model farm

WING (or Wenge) is a parish and 1arge village, 3' the nave, and has beneath it a crypt of rude construction

miles south-west from I.eighton Buzzard station on the I about eight feet in height: an arcade runs round the

main line of the London and North Western railway, outside of the apse, considered by some authorities

in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Cottesloe, to be also Saxon "Work, perhaps of the IIth century;
Linsdale petty sessional division, union and county the windows are much later; the nave appears tu be
court district of Leighton Buzzard (Beds), rural deanery chiefly of Norman date and has arcades of massive arc1,les
of Ivinghoe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of dividing it from the aisles; there are some good Early
Oxford. In former days Wing was a place of some Decorated windows and a north doorway of that period,

importancli; in the year 1255 a charter was granted but the tower, font and south porch are Perpendicular;

to Peter de Warren by Henry III. for a market every the base of a Norman font may be seen in the south

Thursday and a fair for three days at :Michaelmas. The porch: there are monuments to the family of Fynes,
church of All Saints is an interesting edifice of stone from 1686 to 1758, including one to Mrs. Margaret Fyne6,

in mixed styles, consisting of apsidal chancel, cleres- said to be the work of Roubiliac, and several costly

toried nave, aisles, north and south porches, and an memorials to the Dormers, with others ranging froID
embattled western tower -containing a clock and 6 bells: 1542 to 1729; these include a fine altar tomb of marble,
the church is reputed to conbain Saxon work, a view with twelve rhymed couplets and Corinthian columna

which has been supported by the late Sir Gilbert Scott supporting a cornice with 3J shield of arms, to Sit
kt. R.A.. who particularly instanced aoS examples the Robert Dormer kt. ob. 1552, around which, until 1850,
sem~-circular arcades, or rather arched perforations in were two large pews with baluster screens; there is
t~ walls and the construction of the chancel arch: the another altar tomb 'With recumbent effigies of marble,
. most interesting feature in the churoh is its apsidal partly gilt, under a canopy, supported by columns of

llolygonal chancel, which is considerably elevated above Sicilian jasper, with marble caps and adorned with five

D1RECTORY •] BUCKINGHAIVISHIRE. WING. 187

shields of arms, to Sir William Dormer K.B. ob. 17tl.l oats and roots. The area is 5,310 acres; rateable

May, 1575, and Dorothy (Catesby), his second wife; value, £10,726; the population in 1891 was 1,799·

there are also brasses to Harry Blacknall, 1460, and Burcot is a. hamlet one mile north. Lord Wantage,

Agnes, his wife, 1489 and others with effigies to who is lord of the manor, Leopold de Rothschild

Tankerville Fynes, without date; John Theede, 1622; esq. and Fynes Clinton esq. are the principal landowners.

and Thomas Cotes,," porter at Ascott Hall," 1648; Crafton is a. hamlet, two miles south, and has a

and in the church are also memorials to the families of Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1893. Lord

Redman, 1699-1722; and Bell, 1721-38; to Mrs. Bridgett Wantage K.C.B. who is lord of the manor, and the Earl of

Neale, 1677; William Theed, gent. and Stephen Welch, Rosebery KG., K.T., P.C. are the principal landowners.

vicar, 1774: in 1850 the church was completely restored The Earl has a breeding stud here.

by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A. at a cost of £1,476 Littleworth is a hamlet half a mile north, and has. a

and again in 1893 at a cost of £1,7°0, and affords 300 Congregational Union chapel, built in 1854 and rebuilt

sittings: in the churchyard are remains of a stone crOS$. in 1871, with 140 sittings. Lord 'Vantage, who is lord of

The register dates from the year 1546, and is perfect the manor, and Mr. Philip Hart are the chief land-

from that date; there is also an ancient book of owners.

churchwardens' accounts with an inventory of church Ascott is a hamlet half a. mile east. Ascott P.ark,

Igoods, 1527. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value the winter residence of Leopold de Rothschild esq.

1,280, with 220 acres of glebe and 'residence, in the gift of D.L., J.P. is. a Jacobean structure of brick and timber,
Lord Wantage KC.B., V.C. and held since 1890 by the dating from 1606, and was originally a. farm house, bUl

Rev. Fras. Hy. Tatham M.A. of Trinity College, Cam- was restored and enlarged about 1874, and again in

bridge, who is also rural dean of Ivinghoe, surrogate and 1880, 1887 and 1893 and is now a. considerable mansion.

rector of Grove. The Wesleyan chapel, built in 1864, will The kennels of Lord Rothschild's staghounds, originally al
seat 350 persons; the Primitive Methodist chapel, built in Mentmore, have been transferred to Ascott: these stag-

1847, has 200 sittings. Dormer's Hospital, founded in hounds (numbering 30 couples) meet on Monday and

1562 by Dame Dorothy Pelham, for 8 men and women, Thursday. Aylesbury and Leighton Buzzard are con-

is endowed with land, and money invested in Consols venient towns for hunting visitors. The old Hall has now

now (1899) producing a total gross income of £86 yearly. wholly disappeared, but some traces of the fish ponds and

William Robinson's charity is 8J perpetual rent-charge moat still remain. In the latter part of the 12th century

on land art Burcot, of £2 a year for clothing; Lady there existed here a cell of Benedictine monks founded by

Carnarvon and William Hoare's charity, arising from the Empress Maud and attached to the Abbey of St.

the rent of a field of about six acres at Burcot, now let for Nicholas of Angers; it was afterwards granted by Henry

£18 a year is for clothing and blankets; William Dent's of V. to the priory of St. Mary de la Pre, near St. Albans.

T.£59 in Consols, is distributed in clothing; Robert Shep- Parish Clerk Edward Whitman.

her~'s, a rent-charge of 1,6 6s. 8~. arising from lan~ in tI;te Post, M. & 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel

paflsh o~ Edlesborough,..of whICh f,1 a. year IS paId Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Ernest Geo.
to the. VIcar for c.atechIsmg the chIldren, and 10S. to Thos. Cleaver, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through
the ~car of LeIghton Buz.zard fo~ a.. se~mon ~n
AscenslOn day, the surplus, If any, 18 dIstrIbuted ID Leighton Buzzard at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 6.45 p.m.
week days; sundays arrive at 8 !l.m.; dispatched 9 a.m

penny loaves t? twenty children attending the. church WaU Letter Box, Burcot, cleared at 6.30 p.m. week

weekly; there IS also the Fuel Allotment CharIty, con- days & 9 a.m. sundays

sisting of about £7 a year, arising from £268 9s. Id.

£2i per Cent. Consols and distributed annually in WING RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL.

coals; the Church Land Charity, of about £268 in Meets at the Leighton Buzzard Workhouse every alternate

Consols, derived from the sale of about three acres of friday, at II a.m.

land in the parish of Mentmore, which yields over £14 Clerk, John Newton, High street, Leighton Buzzard

yearly, paid to the churchwardens, and a. sum of about Treasurer, Francis Bassett, The Bank, Leighton Buzzard

£15 arising from Pratt's charity at Wingrave, which Medical Officer of Health, Henry William Adrian Sandell
is distributed Wamm· ogn gIstd toe tphoor at'd the difscrtehtionE ofI
the t rustees. 0 ge, e reSl ence 0 e ar L.OR.P.. Edm' ., F .S.1nst. L akest. L eI.ghton Buzzard
of Orkney, near the church and erected in 1874, is a
mansion of white brick in the French style, with Sanitary Inspector & Surveyor, Thomas Brown, 7 North st.
gables and abutments of dark brick and higWy finished. Leighton Buzzard

Charlotte Cottage, built in 18B6 and supported by Parochial School, Wing, erected by the late Lord Over-
stone in 1850, for 300 children, and enlarged during
Leopold de Rothschild esq. is a. hospital for the sick thl:} period 1885-90, & again at a cost of £860 in 1897;
average attendance, lIS boys, 130 girls & 1I0 infants;
poor of the village, and has two beds; Mrs. James,

lady superintendent. Lord Wantage K.C.B., V.C. who Arthur W. Molineux, master; Mrs. Ellen Alllier, mist

is lord of the manor, and the Earl of Rosebery KG., Carriers George Page, to Leighton Buzzard, daily;

P.C. arl:} the principal landowners of Wing proper. Mrs Lovell, to Leighton Buzzard, tues. thurs. & sat.;
The soil is various, clay, sand, gravel and loam; sub- Reuben Syratt, to Ayle~bury, wed. & sat. to Leighton

soil, clay. The crops are hay, wheat, beans, barley, Buzzard on tues

WING. Claridge Henry, tailor Jcbnson Joseph, :;hopkeeper

BiggSl William James, Rose oottage Coleman & Horn, farmers, Cottesloe Jordan George, general dea:er

Chignell Alfred Leigh Cr'lmpin George Samuel, The Cock Jordan Henry, licensed hawker

Cole Rev. Alex. Barnet Farquharson hotel; spacious stabling &; loose L,·ngley Henry, baker

M.A. (curate), Vicarage lane boxes for hunters; posting in all Lovell George, grocer

Coles Mrs branches; good accommodation for :;\1a~1et.t Thomas, baker

Gurney Mrs tra,ellers, &c. &c Mallett 'William James, baker

H.~ley James Willi'lID, H011ybank Denchfield Seth, carpenter, joiner, Manning Wm. farmer, West Park frm

Relay Thomas SO'Iles, The Chestnuts undertaker, wheelwright, timber Oakley John, grocer

Orkney Earl of J.P. Wing lodge; dealer, saw mills & general contrac- Page George, carrier & hair dresser

Glanmore, Templemore, co. Tip- tor & steam thrashing machine Page George, jun. corn merchant,

perary; Carlton, 'White's &i Pratt's owners seedsman &; steam miller, flour dIr.

(London) & Kildare Street (Dublin) Dimmock John, hair dreiilser I & agent for Liptons

clubs Foster Henry (Mrs.), blacksmith Page Wm. jun. butcher & dealer

Paske Capt. George F. Wing lodge Gates Baron Frederick John, grazier, Pitchford Edward, bricklayer

Tatham Rev. Fras. Hy. M.A. Vicarage Wing Park farm Pollard Mrs. Ann Susan, blacksmitb

COMMERCIAL. Gates BJron In. frmr. Up. Wingbury Pollard Joseph Andrew R.S.S. farrier,

Adam'J Jas, sub-agt. to Lord Wantage Gates B. J. bricklayer, Vicarage lane shoeing & general smith, agorieul-

Avery Wm. farm bailiff to Mrs. Ginger Thomas, butcher tural implement repairer. fencing,

Fountaine, Lower Wingbury Hammerton John, builder & decorator ironwork &c

Bandy William, Ilhopkeeper Hart Philip, estate agent & auctioneer Prentice George, skin dMler

Biggs Edward & William, corn dealers & land agent to Leopold de Roth- Randall Frederick, chimney sweeper

Bone William, licensed hawker schild esq. J.P. Moor Hills Randall George, butcher

Brand Joseph, boot maker Heady Joseph, house carpenter to Randall Henry, shopkeeper .

Carter John, shopkeeper Leopold de Rothschild esq Redrup John, wheelwright

-Carter John, shopkeeper & carter HE.dges Thomas & Frederick, farmers, Reeves John, groom to the Earl- of

Chappel· Jane (Mrs.), machinist Cottesloe Orkney
Heley Brothers, corn & cake merchnl!:s Rogers Joseph C1lar~es, baker
Chignell Alfred Leigh, surgeon

C'leaver Emest George Thomas, grcr. Heley Thomas Some~, corn merchant Stevens Charles, D\JVe Commercial

tea dealer, provision merchant & & miller (steam) hotel; leose boxes for huaters, sta-

general stores, Post office Hillman William, Queen's Head P.H bling &c.; cyclists accommodated

1~8 Wl:\G. • BUCKINGHAJ\'ISHIRE. [ KELLY'S

'1'aylor Henry, grocer Gaskin Wm. 1St whip to Lord Roth- Fau:kner John, baker

Tt'arIe Levi, b:acksmith schild, The Kennels Heley Arth.Somes, jun.BurootHall fIn

Tuffney William, farm bailiff to Mr. Jennings John, head gardener to Leo- i:vratt Reuben,Six Bells P.H.&; carrier

F. J. Gates po~d de Rothschild esq Vallentine Bros. farmers, Burcot 10

Whitman Edward, grocer Mou:d William, stud groom to Leo- CRAFTON

Wl1son Ted, colt breaker po:~ de Rothschild esq Co:lins 'William, dairy f~1'Iner

Windmill John, farmer, Old Park frm r~entIce J?~!1' farmr. W!!:t~rloo farm Griftith Joseph,master of Earl of Rose-
Wing Village Cricket Club (Henry "atson Wll.1am, ~arm bmhff to Leo- bery's breedinrr stud estab:ishment
Caves, hon. sec) paId de Rothschl1d esq. Ascott fa1'IIl '"

'Yoolhead Mrs. Naomi, draper LITTLEWORTH.

ASC:)TT. BURCOT. Boyland MaT'V (Miss), Sportsman'.
Adams Herbert WaIter, farmer J
Arms P.H-

Rothschild Leopo:d de D.L., J.r. Piggs Edward &; Wi:liam, farmers Ho:1Jrow William, house steward to

Ascott park Cotes Charles J.P. Burcot cottage Leopold de Rothschild esq

Iloore John, huntsman to Lord Roth- Edmonds Charles Clande,land steward Pa~e Wil:iam, butcher

schild, The Kennels to Leopold de Rothschild esq lVebster &; Cannon, brick make1'9

WINGRAVE is a village and parish pleasantly situated family are lords of the manor and principal landowners.

on a hill commanding a fine view of the town of AyIes- The soil is chiefly of a clayey nature, varying to gravel,

Imry and the surrounding country, 2 miles north from producing excellent crops of wheat and beans; subsoil,

1\Ia1'ston Gate station on the Aylesbury and Cheddington clay. The area is 2,881 acres; assessable value, .£'4,347;

.branch of the London and North Western railway, 61 the population in 1891 was 927.

.miles north-east from Aylesbury, 5 south-west from By Local Government Board Order, 19,622, dated March

Lelghton Buzzard and 6 north-west' from Tring, in the 25, 1886, Buttennilk and Helethorpe Fa1'IIl was trans-

Mid division of the county, hundred of Cottesloe, Lins- ferred from Drayton Beauchamp to Wingrave, and Weedon

lade petty sessional division, union and county court Lodge from the latter parish to Weedon.

district of Aylesbury, rural deanery of Ivinghoe, arch- Sexton James Henry StrankSo.

deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The '

.church of SS. Peter and Paul is a building of stone in Post, M. &; T., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Post, S.

the Early Eng:ish and Perpendicular styles, consisting B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office.-Mrs.Annie Woodward

.of chancel, nave, transept, aisles, and an embattled Jones, sub-postmistress. Letters are received through

western tower containing a clock and 6 bells: the Aylesbury at 7.50 a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. on

church was restored in 1887 at a cost of .£'4,600 under week days only; no post on sunday

the direction of Mr. G. Viall9 A.R.I.B.A. of Ealing, SCllOOls.
London, when the whole of the roofs were renewed

on the ancient lines; an organ transept and vestries, Parochial (boys &; girls), enlarged in 1877 for 180

built, chancel screen erected and the interior refitted children; average attendance, 130; Lemuel Jones,

with choir stalls and other fittings of oak: the stained master; Miss Aliye M. Russell, a~sistant mistress

.east window was the gift of Miss BuU, niece of the Rev. The late Countess of Rosebery's Infants' School, builli

John Martin Butt M.A. vicar 185°-85; the flooring in 1875 for 120 children, and in 1894 was enlarged;

throughout was relaid, the old inscribed stones being average attendance, 78; Miss Rosina Bickmore, mistrss

preserved: there are 412 si~ti!1gs .. The r~gister dates Carriers.

irom the year 1550. The livmg IS a VICarage, net
Iyearly value £100, with residence, in the gift of Earl, Mrs.. Susan Hedges, to Aylesbu!y on w.ed. &; sat.;

Brownlow, and held since 1885 by the Rev. Thos. Gostelow Lelghton Buzzard on tues.; Trmg on fl'l

Lockhart, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Leopold RoLhs- George Enis, to Aylesbury, on sat. &; Leighton Buzzard

'Child esq. J.P. of Ascott Park, is lay rector. The on tues

'Congregational chapel here, erected in 1832, will seat Edward Mead, to London once weekly

....00 persons, and there is also a Primitive Methodist Rowsham . a hamlet ... about 2 ~il. e9
-chapel, and a reading room. The charitable bequests IS ill thIS pal'lsh,
amount to about £ 100, which sum is distributed from the. church and 4 fr0ID; Aylesbury. He~e IS a
yearly amongst the poor. A curious and ancient custom CongregatIOnal ~hapel, erected m 1878, and holdmg 100

of strowing- the church with hay on the first Sunday persons. Here 18 also a brewery.

after St. Peter's day (June 29) is still observed, about Wall I ..etter Box, cleared at 6 p.m. week days only

half an acre of grass land having been left for that Parochial School (mixed), built in 1870 for 80 children,

purpose. Wingrave Manor house is the seat of William is now (1899) closed. In the above school an afternoon

Russel Stewart Freeman esq. D.L., J.P. The Rothschild sunday service is held at 3.15 p.m

WINGRAYE. Gibbs Harriett (Mrs.), pork butcher Rickard Joe, jun. builder, jomer, car-

Gibbs James, farmer penter,undertaker,house decorator k
Earton Rev. John (Cong.), The Manse Griffpn George, assistant overseer
13randon &; Griffin. farmers, Straws Goldney Char:es, licensed hawker general contractor; estimates fur-

nished &;c

Freeman William Russel StewartD.L., Goss Henry, Carpenter's Arms r"l.H Rickard Joseph, miller (steam)&; frmr

J.P. Manor house Griffin George, farmilr, Manor farm Rlckard ""iliam, builder, contractor &

Griffin Geor~e, jun. Mar.or farm Griffin George Hedges, baker & grocer general decorator; estimates fur-

Lockhart Rev. Thomas. Gostelow Gurney William, builder &; eontractor, nished for repairs &c. &;c.

Vicarage joiner &; house decorator &c.; RO~(lr~ John, butcher

P'line Mrs estimates furnished for repairs &; Smyth Randal M.B., B.Ch., B.A..a•

.smyth Randal M.B general contract work surgeon

Griffin William Emanuel,egg merchnt t:tranks James Henry, wheelwrighli

COMMERCIAL. Hedges Susan (Mrs. ),carner &; coal dlr 'Ihorlle J'l1me.s, Anchor inn

.Bi!;!gs Thos. Edwd. farmer, Manor f1'IIl Hedges John Bates, fa1'IIler Underwood Richard, hawker

'Blifs Mat-thew, Bell P.H Higgins Caroline (Mrs.), grocer, Varney David, farmer

Donham Joseph, chimney sweeper .impel' &; butcher V3rney William, farmer

Brandon &; Griffin, fa1'IIlers, Straws Higgins Geo.Rose &; CrownP.H.&btchr Woodt'nff George, blacksmith

Hadley farm Henor Elizabeth (Mrs.), tailor ROWSHAM.

Colling. 'Thomas, farmer, Helsthorpe Kirby James, shopkeeper

farm (letters through Leighton Kirby John, shoe maker Elliott Barah (Mrs.), fa1'IIler

Buzzard) Mpsd Edward, carrier Gurney Thos. &; Kate (Miss), brewer!

Dimmock John, boot &; shoe maker P3ine Charles James, fa1'IIl~r &; corn &; maltsters; family casks supplied

Dimmock Mrs. Sarah, shopkeeper dealer, Church farm Herring Hy. frmr.Mercers Honse frm

]~llis George, carrier Paine Frederick, calf dealer Malin ~Iary (Mrs.), Old Red Lion P.H

Fleet .Tosiah, fa1'IIler Ridgeway William ThOll. bricklayer Rand George, farmer, Seabrook farm

Gibbs Frank Richard, tailor Reynolds Ruth (Mrs.), flour dealer Roads Thomas, fa1'IIler, Hale farm

WINSLOW is a small market and union town, with Leighton Buzzard, in the Northern division of the
county, parish of Winslow-cum-Shipton, Cottesloe hun-
a station on the Ble.tchley and Oxford and Banbur~' dred, head of a petty sessional division, in the Bucking-
branches of the London and North Western nilway, ham county court district, rural deanery of Claydon.
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford.
about 2 miles east-by-nort,h from Verney Junction The town stands on the brow of a hill, overlooking a
station on the Metropolitan Extension railway, 50~ fertile vale on the. road from Aylesbury to Buckingham.
miles from London by road, 54 by London and and consists of a square market-place with three priJl.

North Western railway, loi north-west from Aylesbury,

(it sout.h-east from Buckingham, and 12 north-west from

DIRECTORY.] B U C K I N G HAMS H I R E . WINSLOW. 189'

cipal streets radiating from it. The town is lighted Chancellor, and held since 1897 by the Rev. William Fredk.
Armstrong RA. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. The Con-
with gas by a company formed in 1860 and is supplied gregational chapel, erected in 1885, is an edifice of red'
with water from wells. The. church of St. Lawrence, brick with stone dressings in the Gothic style of the
originally erected in the 13th century, is a building of early 13th century, and has a large square tower: it
stone in the Decorated style, consisting of a large will seat 330 persons; adjoining are class rooms and
chancel, clerestorie.d nave of four bays, aisles, south sunday schools. There is a Baptist tabernacle in the
porch, and an embattled western tower containing a
clock and 6 bells: the triple sedilia, on the south side Buckingham road, erected in 1863, with sittings for 300
of the chancel, are canopied, and adorned with the persons, a small Baptist chapel in Bell alley, erected
emblems of the Evangelists: a mutilated piscina, found in 1830 with 60 sittings. A market for live stock is held
built up in the south chancel wall, has been restored the first and third Wednesdays in each month, and is
and reIixed: the font is a new work with Caen stone, largely attended, and for corn every Wednesday.
erected from contributions by the children of the parish: Statute fairs are held on the Wednesday before
there are several memorial windows, including one erected October 11 and the two following Wednesdays. The
in 1897 to Mr. H. R. Lambton, of Redfield: in 1884 inhabitants are .chiefly engaged in agriculture; lace
the church was thoroughly restored unde,r the direction making, once largely carried on here, is now being
of Mr. John O. Scott, architect, when the galleries gradually revived. The various charities are now ad-
were removed, the roofs renewed in oak, the floors re· ministered under a scheme issued by the Charity
laid, the porch partially rebuilt and furnished with a Commissioners nth August, 1863. Winslow Hall, the
canopied niche, containing a figure of St. Lawrence: property of Norman McCorquodale esq. is a substantial
the reredos is entirely of oak, beautifully wrought in mansion of brick, erected from the designs of Sir Christr.
panels and gilt; a new aisle on the north side of 'Yren, and surrounded by well-planted grounds. Red-
the chancel was erected in 1889: the total cost of these field, the seat of Capt. W. H. Lambton, is an elegant
restorations and arlditions amounted to £5,220; and a modern mansion of red brick, standing in extensive
and tal'itefully-arranged grounds, and commanding charm-
fine organ was presented by H. J. Chinnery esq. of ing views of the surrounding country. W. Selby-
Lowndes esq. of Whaddon, is lord of the manor. The area
Winslow Hall, in 1890: the church affords 400 sittings. is 1,915 acres of land and 5 of water; assessable value,
In 18g8 the ~hurchyard was enclosed with a wrought iron £9.589; the population in 1891 was 1,704, including 33
f('nce, within which rows of trees were planted by Lord officers and inmates in the workhouse.
Addington. The register dates from the year 1560. The
living is a vicarage, net yearly value £209, derived from Parish Clerk and Sexton, Edward Abbott, Sheep street.
134 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord

OFFICIAL EST ABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTI ONS &c.

Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel The following places are included in the Petty Sessional

Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office &; Stamp Office, division: Drayton, Parslow, Dunton, East Claydon.
Grandborough, Great Horwood, Hogshaw, Hoggeston,
High street.-Mrs. Adamson, postmistress

Incoming Mails :-London & all parts, 7 & 11.20 a.m. Little Horwood. Mursley, Nash. North Marston, Oving",

& 5.20 p.m.; sundays, 7 a.m.; 12.25 p.m. all parts Pitchcott, Quainton (township), Shipton Lee hamlet,.

Outgoing Mails :-London & all parts, 10 a.m. &; 2.50 Swanbourne, Tattenhoe, Whaddon, Whitchurch, 'Vins-
p.m.; sundays, 7.20 p.m. only; Oxford &; west 6.2C low. Hamlets for the purposes of highways only:
p.m.; Bletchley, London, &; all parts north 7.45 p.m. ; De.nham, Doddershall, Fullbrook, Shipton &; Single-
Oxford, 8.45 p.m.; London, Bletchley &; all parts borough

8,45 p.m PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.
Letters can be registered until half an hour previous
County Police Station, Station road, Geo. Trevener, sergi
to the closing of the box for each mail Stamp Office, Post office, High street, Mrs. Adamson,.
Money Order, Savings Bank &; Annuity & Insurance
distributor
business &; Inland Revenue Licences granted from 9 to 6 Yolunteer Fire Brigade Station, Horn street, Henry J.
Telegraph business transacted from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.;
Russell, supt. ; keys kept by the supt. &; at the Bell hotel
sundays, from 8 to 10 a.m. Sale of stamps & regis-

tration of letters from 7 a.m. to 8.45 p.m.; sundays, WINSLOW UNIO'N.

8 to 10 a.m Board day, alternate wednesdays, with an occasional
wednesday, when there are five in the month, at the-
Letter Box, Market square, cleared at 5 &; 9.15 a.m. &; Union at 10.30 a.m

12.15, 2,40, 6.15, 7.30 & 8,45 p.m.; sundays, II a.m The Union comprises the following places :-aaydon,
(East), Drayton Parslow, Dunton, Grandborough"
Union Wall Letter Box, cleared at 8.55 &; lO.50 a.m.;

4,40, 5. 2 5 & 8.30 p.m. week days; sunday, 9.30 a.m

WTNSTOKE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. Hoggeston, Hogshaw with Fullbrook, Horwood (Great)
Meets at the Union, on alternate weds. at II a.m. with Singleborough, HOlwood (Little), Marston (North),
Mur;;le.y, Nash, Shenley Brook End, Stewkley, Swan-

Clerk, Thomas Price Willis, High street bourne, Tattenhoe, Whaddon &; Winslow. The popu-

Treasurer, Harry Freegard lation of the union in 1891 was 7,700 j area, 34,520

Medical Officer of Health, Thomas Frederick Vaisey acres; rateable value in 1899, £

M.R.C.S.Eng. Avenue road Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Thos_

Sanitary Inspector & Surveyor, William Wise, High st Price Willis, High street, Winslow

Treasurer, Harry Freegard
OOUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR 'WINSLOW PETTY Relieving Officer, John Gates, Winslow

. SESSIONAL DIVISION. Vaccination Officer, D. T. Curtis, Sheep street, Winslow

AJdington Lot'd, Addington house, Winslow Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, 1st district,.
Cottesloe Lord D.L. Swanbourne house, Winsl{lw Thomas Frederick Vaisey M.R. C. S.Eng. .Avenue road,
Fremantle Admiral Hon. Sir Edmund Robert K.C.B., 'Winslow; 2nd district, Sydney Chas. Hillyard Moberlv
L.R.C.P.Land. White house, East Oaydon; 3rd di;~
C.M.G., F.R.G.S. Admiralty house, Devonport trict, Thomas Looney Kennish M.D., C.M. Avenue
Fremantle Hon. Cecil, Swanbourne, Winslow road!, Winslow
Fremantle Hon. Thomas Francis M.A. Holton park, Oxford
Superintendent Registrar, Thomas Price Willis, Higb
h<lUse. Winslow
street, Winslow; deputy, William Norris Midgley,
Hubbard Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Cecil John, Addington High stree;t, Winslow
manor, Winslow
Reg-istrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Thomas Daniel
Pigott Capt. William Harvey R.N. Doddershall park, Curtis, Sheep street, Winslow; deputy, Clement Wat-
Aylesbury son, High street, Winslow

Pratt Col. Waiter Caulfeild D.L. Oving house, Aylesbury Workhouse, a red brick building, erected in 1834, witb
Prior Charles Matt. esq. RA. Adstock manor, Winslow room for 250 inmates; Cyrus Evans, master; Rev.
W. F. Armstrong B.A. chaplain; Thomas Frederick
Selby-Lowndes Meyrick Edward esq. Mursley, Winslow Vaisey, medical officer; Mrs. Jane Evans, matron j'
Selby-Lowndes Wm. esq. Whaddon hall, Stony Stratforlt Maud Middleton, assistant matron; Mary A. Fi~hamr
Selby-Lowndes William, jun. esq. Blotchley nurse attendant

The Chairman, for the time being, of the Winslow Rural School Attendance Committee.
District Council is an ex-officio magistrate Meets at the Union, on alternate weds. at 10.30 3.m_

Clerk to the Magistrates, Thomas Price Willis, High lit
Petty sessions are held every alternate wednesday in the
magistrates' room at the Police station, at Station road, Clerk, Thomas Price Willis, High street, Winslow
Attendance Officer, Edward Collier, Shipron
at 12 noon

190 WINSLOW. BUCKING HAMSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

PUBLIC OFFICERS. SG'HOOLS.

Assistant Overseer, Collector of Poor's, Highways &; other National (boys), High street, built in 1841, ror 125
Rates, Thomas Daniel Curtis, Sheep street
children; average attendance, go; it is supported, in
Certifying Factory Surgeon, Thomas Frederick Vaisey
M.R.U.S.Eng. Avenue road part, by a fund producing £43 yearly, & is under the

Inspector Under Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, management of a United Schools Committee; George

Sergt. TreveneT; Police station, Station road Pass, master .
Lighting Committee, E. A. Illing, sec. Horn street
Secretary to the Trustees of the Winslow Charities, Parochial (girls), built in 18651 for 85 children; average

George Ash, Market square attendance, 60; Miss Heniery, mistress
Stamp Distributor, Mrs. Adamson, High street
Town Crier, William French, Cowley's walk Infants', erected 1841 & enlarged in 1870, for 122

children; average attendance, 100; Miss Made Evans,

mistress

PLACES OF WORSHIP, "With times of services. CARRIERS.

St. Laurence Church, Rev. William Frederick Armstrong London & various places.-Slltton &; Co.; William Odell,
RA. vicar; Rev. William· Harry Shackel B.A. curate; agent, Union street

2nd, 3rd, 4th &; 5th sun. 8 & II a.m. &; 3 &; 6.30 p.m. ; Claydon.-Harry Tompkins, wed. &; sat.; Edward Wig-
1st sun. 10.30 a.m.; 2nd sun. 6.30 a.m.; daily, 7·30 gins, wed. & sat
a.m. ; mono tues. thurs. & sat. 8 a.m. ; wed. &; fri. 11.30
Hogston.-Rebecca Kimble, tues. &; fri
a.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m Nash (Bucks).-Harwood, tues. &; fri
Baptist, Bell alley, 1°,3° a.m. &; 6 p.m
Baptist, Buckingham road, Rev. Henry Kerby Byard, Railway Station, Cornelius Theobald, station master &;
goods agent
pastor; 10.30 a.m. & Q p.m
Winslow Road Station, in East Claydon parish (which see)
Congregational. Horn street, Rev. G. Evans; Il a.m. &
Omnibus from Bell hotel to Railway station
{i·30 p.m.; thul's. 1 p.m

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. I George George, Buckingham ]'oad "Neal Mrs. Station road
Grace John, Buckingham road Newcombe. Mrs. The Cottage, Horn st

Armstrong Rev.William FrederickRA. Grace Mrs. Union street Pass George, 6 The Beeches, Bucking..

(vicar), The Vicarage Grace William, Horn street ham road

Barton Miss, Station road Greaves Mrs. Western house Rawlins Thomas, Buckingham road

Blumson Mrs. I The Beeches, Buck- Ingram George, Union street Reveley George, Buckingham road

ingham road Jones Miss, High street Ridgway Thos. The Cottage, Shipton

Buckingham John, Buckingham road Jones Mrs. Blake house Saunderson Bertie, 4 The Beeches,

Bullock Herbert, Horne street Kennish Thos. Looney M.B. ll(,rn st Buckingham road

Byard Rev. Henry Kirby (Baptist), King Miss, Station road Sear James, Buckingham road

Buckingham road Lambton Captain Wm. Hy. Reofield Shackel Rev. Wm. Harry B.A.(curate)t

Coates Henry, Station road Lambton Mrs. Redfield The Nook, High street

Daglish Miss Lamer Mrs. 4 Belle Vue ter.Stati·)n rd Sharp Hy. Laburnham cot. Horn st

Dudley Mrs. Market squa.l'e McCorquodale Norman, Winslow bill Starkey Mrs. Market square

East Jas. Aldeburgh ha. Station road Mayor Edward Robert, 3 Belle Vue ter Vaisey Thos. Fredk. Avenue road.

Egleton Edwin, High street Midgley William Norris, High street Wigley George Davys Edward

Evans Rev. J. G. (Cong.), Horn st Morecraft Miss, 2 The Beeches, Buck- Willis Thos. Price, The Elms, High s\

Flowers Mrs.l Belle Vue ter.Statn. rd ingham road Wynter Mrs. High street

COMMERCIAL. Goodger Eli, gardener &c. High street

Ash .George, secretary to the Trustees of the Winslow Goodman William, aerated: & mineral water manufa...

Charities, Market square ,turer, & Royal Oak P.H. .Mark~t square

Bailey George, coal merchant, see Wilmore &; Bailey UaU George, beer l,'etailer, ;J;luckingham road .

Barton M. H. (Miss), ladies' schoo~ Station :Road villa Raseldine Jonathan, Crooked Billet P.H. Horn street

Bathe George, tailor, High street Hancock Jonas, shopkeeper, Market square

Benbow Frederick, confectioner, High street Hawley James Caleb, grocer, &; agent for W. &; A.

Bird George Wilden, Nag's Head P.Hr Sheep street Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit merchants, Market squar~

Braggins & Horwood, drapers &; milliners, Market square Hill John, foreman of gas works, Station road

Brown Charles Henry, clothier & hatter, Market square IJHtoI;l Stephen & Sons,. Qoot m,akers, Market square

Buckingham John, co:rn· mer. &; miller, Buckingham road Hood James, watch m~er, High street

Bucks & Oxon Union Bank LiInited (branch) (J. R. Swain, Butt Elizabeth (Miss), dining rooms, Market square

manager) (open daily from 10 till 4 on market &; fair Illing Ebenezer Alfred, grocer, Horn street

days; thursday,.. J.() till tr), Market square; draw on . Ingram Henry, plumber &; .china &; glass dealer, High st

L(}ndon &;,·Westminster.Bank Limited, London E C Ingram John William, builder &c. Hi~ street

Bull l'homas, Rose &; Crown P .H. Market square Ingram William, butcher, High street

Bullock Herbert, solicitor &;:, commissioner for- oaths &; Jennings Jesse Henry, monumental mason & builder~

agent to the Northern Fire: &; Life Insurance Co. Bnckingham road

~urbury Thomas James, Quilder &; contractor, High st Jones Silvanus, cattle dealer &; farmer, Horn street

Clare Charles, coal merchant, High street Jones William, Bull P.H. Hdrn street

Clear Alfred Joseph, circulating library, High street Kennings Frederick, saddler &; harm'lIs maker, High street

Olear Alfred J. deputy registrar of births, deaths &; Kennish Thos. Leoney M.D., C.M. surgeon, medical

marriages, High street officer &; public vaccinator, srd district, Winslow

Clear Arthur, registrar of births, deaths &; marriages, union, see Vaisey &; Kennish .

for Winslow sub-distric.t & vaccination officer, High st Keys Cha.rles, boot maker" High street

Colgrove Mrs. butcher, High street . Keys C.rohhanrl,esb, uCi lhdaenr ,doBs uAc krimnsg hPa.mH .r oHaidg h street
Cooke Jabez, boot &. shoe maker, Tinker's end Keys

Coxill Richard John, cooper, Higb street King G. M. (Mrs.), dress maker, High street

Cripps Thomas, Plough! P.H. &; builder, Horn stree\ King G. T. baker, High street
Langley Charles, stud groom to W. H. Lambton esq
Curtis Ann (Mrs.), Sheep street
Curus Daniel Thomas, insurance agent, assistant overseer Langley ()harles Henry, Boot P.R. Tinkers end
&; collector of rates, registrar of births, deaths &; mar- Lee. James, saddler et harness maker, Sheep street
Lines Edward Arthur, Kinjfs Head P.H. High street;
riages, &; vaccination officer, Sheep street
Lines John, Station hotel, Station road
Deacon William, farm bailiff to Mrs. Lambtoll
Lorkin Walter~ butcher, Sheep street
Dickins Robert, baker, High street

Edwards F. C. dairyman, Station road Matthew! Brothers, builders, Horn street

Egleton George &; Son, grocers, High street Midgley G. A. ironmonger, Market square

Faulkner Emma &; Annie (Misses), dress mas. Sutton ho Midgley Wm. Norris, deputy supt. registrar, High st

French Ed'Win John, print-er &; bookseller, High street Monk George Arthur, farmer, Shipton farm

French William, town crier &; bill poster, Cowley's walk Monk William, farmer, Tuckey farm

Fulks Matthew & Sons, drapers, Market square Neal James, boot &; shoe maker, High street

Gates John, insurance agent, Horn street Neal Wllliam Samuel, Bell commercial hotel &; post.

George Elizh. V. (Miss), .bookseller &; stationer, High st ing house, hay &; corn merchant, brewer, maltster &0

George Geo. corn, hay & straw mer. Buckingham road wine merchant, Market square
George Wm. Thomas, china. &; glass warehouse, High st Oxon, Berks et Bucks Grocery Stores (DlI.vid Thoma3

Gibbs Edwin, bricklayer, Buckingham road Grumnitt, manager), High street

DIRECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. WOLVERTON. 191

Osborn Charles, watch maker, High street Vaisey Thomas Frederick M.R.Q.S.Eng. surgeon &; medi-

Parrett Edward M.P.S. chemist &; dentist, Market square cal officer &; public vaccinator, 1St district &; medical

Phipps Frederick, Windmill P.R. &; farrier, High street 'officer workhouse, Winslow union, &; medical officer of

Police Station (George Trevener, sergeant), Station Toad 'I h!'lalth to Winslow Rural District C-ouncil &; certifying

Prickett Richard Frederick, general dealer, High street t factory surgeon, Avenue road

Ray John, Old Crown P.H. Market square' ' Volunteer Fire Brigade (Henry J. 'Russell, supt.),High st

Reeves Miss, ladies' boarding school, Brook hall Wl1lker Bendig() &; Sons, fruiterers &; fishmongers, High st

Ridgway William, game dealer, High street Walker John, fruiterer, High street

Roads Frederick, builder, Buckingham road Walker William, beer retailer, Sheep street

Robinson George, Swan P.H. Station road "Walker William, fruiterer, Horn street

Russell Henry John, gas &; hot water engineer, black- Watson Brothers, tailors, High street

smith, bellhanger &c. High street ' Wigley George Davys Edward, - auctioneer, valuer &;

Rowe Herbert George, hairdresser, High street land agent & agent to the .A.lliance Fire Office & Scot-

Saunders Thomas Woolhouse, hairdresser, Market sq~are tish Widows' Fund Life Insurance Co

Saving Henry, chimney sweeper, Tinker's end Willis & Willis, solicitors &; insurance agents, High st

Saving Charles, general sJ,ealer, High street Willis Thomas Price (firm, Willis & Willis), solicitor,

Sear James, <coach builder, High street commissioner in Supreme Court, clerk to magistrates

Sellar Henry, plumber, glazier &c. High street of Winslow division, clerk to guardians &; assessment

Sellar Mary (Miss), dress maker, High street , , & ; school attendance commi!.tees ,& supt. registrar of

Smith Jesse, beer retailer, Buckingham road Winslow union & clerk to Winslow Rural District

Smith John, boot maker, High street Council, High street

Stamp Office (Mrs. Adamson, distributor), High street Wilmore &; Bailey, coal merchants

Stevens Augustine Geo. linen &; woollen draper, High st Winslow Charities (vested in trustees) (George Ash,

Stevens William Hall, tailor, High street sec.), Market square

Sturgess Edward, George inn, Market square Winslow Floral & Horticultural Society(B.Saunderson,sec)

Swa41 J. R. manager Bucks & Oxon Union Bank Limited, Winslow Gas Co. (William Norris Midgley, sec.),High st

Market square 'Winslow Provident Society (James Yeulett, sec.), Na-

Thompson G. H. organist of parish church, Sheep street 't,iOll~l school room

Turner George, draper, High street Wise William, stone & monumental mason &; surveyor &;

Turnham John, baker, Horn street ", ' inspector of nuisances to the, Rural District Council,

Turnham William, confectioner, Market square High street ,

Vaisey &; Kennish, surgeons, Avenue road , Youlett Louisa (Mrs.), servants' registry office, High st

Varney John M.R.C.V.S. veterinary surgeon, High street l~oung Mary (Miss). laundry, Buckingham road

WOLVERTON is a parish and market town, with a NEW WOLVERTON is an ecclesiastical parish formed

station on the London and North We~~ern railway, which ~ay 29, ;1846, and enlarged June- 23, 1868. Here are
ia also the junction of a branch 4 miles in length .1;0 tl:l:e extensive workshops of the London and North Wes-

Newport Pagnell, and is 2 miles east from Stony Strat. ,tern Railway Company for the manufacture and repair

ford, 4 sQuth-west from Ne-wport Pagnell and 53 from of railway carriages, which afford employment to a great

London, in the Northern division of the county, hundred number of hands. The- to'Yn is lighted with gas by the

of Newport Pagnell, Stony Stratford petty,sessional divi- railway company, and supplied with water from works

sion, union of Potterspury, county court district of N eW-l at, B,radwell, also the property of the railw~y comIJany.

I,)Ort Pagnell, and in the rural deanery iff Buckingham. 'rhe church of St. George the Martyr, a building of
(lS8CDnd portion), archdeacoDry of ~uckingham and J stone in the Early English style, was erected in 1843, at
diocese of Oxford. 'rhe Grand Junction canal an ,expense of awut £5,000, and enlarged in 1896 at a

jpasses through. A tramway line has been opened further oast of, £3,000: it CQnsisilis of chancel, nave, south

between Wolverton and Stony Stratford.,· The church of porcH, and a north-eastern tower with spire, crmtaining
the Holy Trinity, erected in 1815, on the. site of the 'lime bell: all the, windows are stained, and there are

fQrmer church, is a cl'uciform building of stone, in a sittmgs for ;about 800 persons, 350 being free. The re-

quasi-Norman style, and consists of chancel, nave, tran-,I,gister dates from the year 1843- The living is a vicar-

septs and an embattled western tower containing a clock age, 'net yearly value £290, in the gift of the Radcliffe

and 6 bells: the lower stage of the tower ,forms the trustees and held since 1894 by the Rev. William Lee

Qntrance = all the windows are staine~. and in the, Harnett M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford. The Catholic

ohancel is a life-size recumbent effigy in marble of Sir church, erected in 1865, and dedicated to St. Francis of

Thomas Longueville bart. of Wolverton, and of Prestatyn, -Salis. will seat 150 persons. T.l;J.e Congregational chapel,

Flintshirel who was killed by a faU trom his horse in built in 1890, has sittings for 5°°, persons; the old

t685: in 1877 the church was decor~ted ,thro\1ghou.tin chapel, built in I878, is now used as Q. school room; and

polychrome by Mr. Daniel Bell, the whole of the figures the Wesleyan chapel, built in r870, has 280 sittings.

being executed by his own hand.; the communion table 'The Science- and Art Institute, opened in r864, in con-

was at the; same time enlarged and Q Il'eredos of English nection with the Department of Science and Art at South

oak, designed by Mr. J. Swinfen Han-is, I architect, of Kensington, the City and Guilds of London Institute and

Stony Stratford, erected; this is divid8d by cus.ped the Society of Arts,. is B structure of red brick and

m'ches into three oompartments, ,eODta.inin~ VlLl'ious stone, containing several class rQoms. reading-room, and

figures of saints and angels, richly painted r in 1898 ,oft library and a large lecture hall, used for concerts, and

carved oak canopy, also designed by Mr. HaITis, was seating 500; in. 1891 it was enlarged, and a gymnasium

provided for the font: there are 2,50 sittings. The and chemical laboratory' added, The area is 400 acreB;

register dates from the year 1599. The living' is a djs- population in 1891 was 3,234. ,
yaenadrlyhevldaluseinc£e.10108,9~inbythethegifRteVo'.f
chaxged vicarage, net !!ost, M. & T. 0., T. !"I. 0., Express . P.areel
the Rad,cliffe trustees, Dehvery,

li'rancis Edward Rooke B.A. of Oriel, College, Oxford. P-ost, S. B. &; .!.nnllity & Insurance Office (RaIlway
Sir Edward Longneville, ofi Wolvertoon, and Preitatyn, Sub~Office. Letters shou,ld have R.S.O, Bucks ad~ed).
l'lintshire was created a Baronet O'f :N"ova Sc.otia in . John Verney. postmaster, St:r:atfQrd road, Dehvery
1638 : th~ last baronet, also Sir ~d'Ward Longueville, oommences at 6·30 & Iq·3~· a.m. & 5.30 p.m.; box
died in 1718, and five years before his death he sold cleared, ~ndon & south, at .8·35 &; 10·30 a.m, & 2·4?
the property to Dr. John Radclif!e" the celebrated & 5 p.m.,. &; all parts at rO·40, a.m. & 8.~0 p.m.,
physician and sometime M.P. for Bllckingham, who be- ,sunday delivery commences, 6.30 ,a.m.; dIspatched
8.30 p.m
qneathed it to the University of Oxford, in trust for the

benefit of the Radcliffe Library and Observatory. The Schools.

Radcliffe trustees, who are lords of the manor, and the National (Wolverton), built in 1855, for 60 children;
London and North Western Railway Oompany are the av~rage attendance ~3; Mrs. Elizll Jane Firth, mistress
principal land-owners. The entire area is 2,288 acres of
L. &; N. W. Railway Co.'s (New Wolverton), built by the
land and 37 of water; rateable value, Wolverton St. Mary, Railway Company for 800 children; average at-
tendance, 259 girls &; 209 infants; Miss Maud Varnon,
St. George and Holy Trinity. £4°,92]; the populatign' of mistress; Miss Elizabeth Ainge, infant's mistress

the whole of the parish in 1891 was 4,147, of which 204 L. & N. W. Railway CO.'9 (New Wolverton), built in
:1:896 by the Railway Company, for 440 boys; average
are in the ecclesiastical parish of Holy Tnnity. attendance, 293; Harry Hippesley, master

Wan Letter Box cleared at 7.15 a.m. &; 7 p.m.; ~unday,

r2.r5 p.m .

Wolverton End, ill this parish, forms part of the town Conveyances.-Tramway to Stony Stratford at frequent
of Stony Stratford and of the ecclesiastical parish of St. intervals
Mary, Wolverton: full particulars and the names of
Railway Station, Thomas R. Brimtand, station master
residents are given under Stony Stratford.

192 WOLVERTON. HUCKINGHAMSH~RE. [KELLY'S

WOLVERTON. Burrin John, grocer, Market square Mould Charles, watch &. clock maker.

Rooke Rev. Fras. Edwd. B.A. VICarage Camozzi Lewis, undertakers,Church s~ Stratford road .
Carr Hy. Jas. boot ma. 32 Church st Muscutt Harry CornellU~, news agent,
Trowel' Mrs. Wolverton park Cave In. Jsph: grocer, Church stre~t Stratford road

Wingfie1d H. J. WaIverton house _
Coop Samuel, Ironmonger,house furm- Noble Reuben, London&.);orth Western

COMMERCIAL. •• sher &; stationer, Stratford road hotel, Strat,ford road

Adams Wm. (Mrs.), Locomotlve mn Cope Priscilla (Mrs.), dress maker,108 Norman Harry, butcher, Stratford I'd

Ba:rett Henry, farmer . Church street Norman George, farmer, Stone Bridge

Slll:ley Lawrence J. farmer, Brlck. Covington William, baker, Church st house &; Grange farm. Emberton
~ll~ farm
Cowley Richard, stone &; monumental Norton Alfred, tailor, Church street
Wilkmson Hy.C~rbett,frmr.Manorfrm mason, Stratford road
Parrott Wm. Rose, solicitor (attends
Wood Fr~nk, miller (water), Wo1ver- Davis Alfred, hairdresser, Stratford I'd tues. &; sat.), Market square

ton mlll Eady Samuel John, butcher,Church st Plant Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper,In

NEW WOLVERTON. Elliott Wm. ironmngr. Stratford I'd Church street

Appleton John J.P. Stratford road Emms & Sons, watch &; clock makers, Pur_slow Willia~, London &; North
Bentley Rev. Jsph. (Wes.), Church st .19 Ch~~ch street. .""estern carrlage works man~ger
Clarke Rev. Charles James (Congre- F~eld. Wl1ham,chemlst,8 Church street RICh,ard~ John, farmer,Stacey HJ.ll frm
FltzSlmons ~eo. M. ,accou~tant L. &; Robm"on T. P. &. Sons, bUlldel'l',
gational), Church street
Fitzsimons George M. The Hawthorns N. W. Rall,way Co. s carrIage works C~urch str~t .
Harnett Rev. Wm. Lee M.A. (vicar) Graves Archlbald, draper &; outfitter, Robmson Nelhe C~hss), dress &; mantl&
maker, C~urch street
Hawkins Lionel Comber, Stratford I'd Stratford road ..
King Robert, Stratford road Hall John, grocer &; provIsIOn dealer, R~ssell Damel, g~ocer, Cree~ street
SClenc~ &; Art InstItute (Rt.Kmg, sec)
Knight William, Market square Stratford road
Hall Samuel, boot &; shoe makers, 26 Seal Rlchard,fis,hmonger,84 Church s~
Park Charles Archibald
Parkes Rev. Henry Wulstan ~I.A. Stratford road
t. SharpChBrash' tallors &; drapers, q &
Harpe~ William Henry, pianoforte 0L0 .56 urc . street
(Catholic), Stratford road

PursloWl William, Green lane mUSIC warehouse, 144 Church st Slgwart Emll, watch & clock makers,
Symington Wm. David M.D. Alma ho Henders~n Robert George, grocer, 39 .12 Stratford road
Vaughan Rev. William King M.A. ~ambrldge s~reet .

Smfield Samuel, beer retaIler
Hl1ton~s Boote~les, 17 Church street. ~k~atsLucy(Mrs.),shpkpr.28C~lUrchsf.
(curate), Church street

Williams Heber Martin, Green lane Hutchmson Wm. Geo. Sydney, haIr ",kl!th J. &; Co. draper!'.44.Wmdsor st.
dresser &; tobccnst. Stratford road SmIth ~Iary Ann (Mrs. ),dalry &; green-

COMMERCIAL. Hyde George Thomas, Royal Engi. grocer, Church street

Aldridge Elizabeth (Mrs.), fancy re- neers P.H. Stratford road Smith Hannah (Mrs.), <;hopkeeper,

pository, Ohurch street Johnson Alice (Miss), milliner, 34 & Church street

Alldritt Emily (Mrs.), dress maker, 36 Church street Smith John,boot repairer,25 Church st

148 Church street Knight Ernest, boot &; shoe maker, 36 Soundy Caleb, draper &; Qutfitter,

Barclay &; Co. Lim.(sub-branch) (Fras. Buckingham street ~{arket square

Littleboy, mgr.), attends mondays, Knight Wm. wood dealer, Market sq Stapley Richard, tailor &; outfitter,

II to 2, Church street; draw on Leeson Albt,. grcr'38 Buckingham st Stratford road

head office, Lombard st. London E C Lindow A. &. Sons, furniture dealers, Stobie ,Yilliam Walter, Temperance

Barley John, greengrcr. Radcliffe st Church street hotel, Stratford road

Barnes James, coal mer. Church st Lines George, hairdresser, Church st Strange 'Vm. B. R. butchr. Church sI;

Barton Wm. chemist, Stratford road Linford Frank, confectnr.5 Market sq Stubbs &. Brown, coal &. bldrs.' mers

Blood Annie (Miss), shopkeeper, London Central Meat Co. butcher.., Swaine Frederick Joseph, shopkeeper,

IChurch street
Stratford road Creed street
Bodley David, butcher, 9 Market sq London &; North Western Railway Symington Wm. David :M.D., C.M~
Bonsor Annie (Mrs.), fancy draper, Carriage Department (Chas. Archi· medical officer to L. &; N. W. R.

Stratford road bald Park, supt) carriage works &. certifying factory

Bore Thomas, solicitor (attends here), London &; North Western Railway Co. surgMn, Alma house

II Stratford road Gas Department (R. King, engnr) Tarry William Henry, Yictoria hotel..

Braggins, Son &; Atkins, drapers &; London &; North Western Railway CO.'8 Church street

tailors, Stratford road Savings Bank (George M. Fitz- Whitbread A. C. tailor, Stratford I'd

Brighton BakeryCo.bakers,6Church st simons, sec) Williams Sarah (Mrs.), shopkl'eper,

Brett In. W. dairyman, Church street McCorquodale &; Co. Lim. envelope 109 Church street

Bucks (1St) Rifle Volunteers G Co.; makers &; printers Wilson &; Martin, builders, Church st;

Capt. Heber Martin William, com- Martin Charles, builder, see WilSOll &. Wolverton Industrial &; Provident So-

manding; Sergt. W. Crofts, drill Martin ciety Lim. (Frederick Vickers,sec.),

instructor) Martin Samuel, boot &; shoe maker, 41 Market square

Bucks &; Oxon Union Bank Lim. (sub- Oxford street Wo1verton &; Stantonbury Dispensary

branch) (John Hudson, manager, Masom Joseph, butcher, Creed street (Charles Hy. Miles L.R.C.P. Lond

attends on sat.Market square; draw Moore Frederick Charles, grocer, &. surgeon)

on London &; WestminsterBank Lim. agent for W. &; A. Gilbey Lim. wine Wood Frank, corn &. flour dealer, 1&

London E C &; spirit merchants, Stratford road Stratford road
IWOOBURN is a parish and scattered village on the a rhyming inscription of eleven lines, but no name or
Wye or Wick river and also on the Thames; the parish date: there are memorials to the families of Bertie and

comprises 'I'he Green, The Town, Cores End, Bourne 'Yharton, including a monument to Philip, 4th Baron

End, The Common, The Moor, Havenslea and Northern Wharton, who died 5th Feb. 1695: in 1899 a handsome

Woods, with two stations on the Wycombe, Thame and chancel screen, designed by Mr. J. N. Comper, was pra-

Oxford branch of the Great Western railway, viz. Bourne sented by Miss Emily Du Pre, at a cost of over £500, in

End, 28 miles, and Wooburn Green, 30 miles from Lon- memory of her father, the late James Du Pre esq. IS

don, and is about 3 miles south-west from Beaconsfielrl former lord of the manor and patron of the living: the

and 5 south-east from Wycombe, in the Southern divi- organ was erected as a memorial to Alftred Gilbey es!}.

sion of the county, hundred of Desborough, second divi- of Wooburn House, d. 28 Nov. 1879: the church was

sion of Desborough petty sessional division, union of completely restored internally in 1857 and externally in

Wycombe, county court district of High Wycombe, rural 1869 at a cost of over £3,000, when the nave was

deanery of Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and heightened by the erection of a clerestory and the sub-

diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Paul is an ancient stitution of an open-timbered roof for the flat plastered

edifice in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, con-! ceiling: the church has since been entirely reseated and

sisting of chancel with north aisle, clel'estoried nave of I affords 500 sittings; a new churchyard, near the church,
four bays, aisles and massive embattled western tower i was enclosed and consecrated in 1862. The register

with turret containing a clock, erected in 1870, and 8 dates from the year 1653; the list of rectors and vicars

bells: the pulpit, of carved stone, is adorned with re- exists from A.D. 1216. The living is a. vicarage, net

presentative heads of the four Evangelists; the east yearly value £155, with 94 acres of glebe, and residence,

window is stained, and there are several other stained in the gift of W. Baring Du Pre esq. and held since 18g6

windows: in the church are brasses to John Goodwin by the Rev. James Barber Kirby M.A. of Selwyn Col·
and Perneli his wife, who built the church tower A.D. lIege, Cambridge. St. Mark's church, at BOrR~E END,
1488, to Thomas Swaine S.T.P. prebendary of Ayles-l built in 1'889 as a chapel of ease to Wooburn Parish

Ibury, 1519, and to Arthur, infant son of Pbilip, 4th I church, lilt a cost of £900, and opened by the Bishop of

Baron Wharton, 1642: one other brass, with a single Reading, 23rd April, 1890, is an edifice of red brick in
figure in shroud, surrounded by shields and scrolls, has tha F..arly English style, consisting of chancel, nave.

DIRECTORY.] BU,CKINGHAMSHIRE. WOOBURN. 193

south porch and a turret containing one bell, and will 24 of water, consisting of wood, arable and pasture;

seat 150 peroons: at the west end is a. schoolroom, suit- assessable value, £14>108; the population in 1891 was

able for meetings. The Congregational chapel, t10unded 2,727.
in 1768 and: rebuilt in 18°4, was enlarged and re- Parish Clerk, Stephen Wood.

seated in 1881, and will seat about 400 persons; Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
Postt S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Jn. Dulley,
the Baptist chapel at Wooburn Green, was erected
in 1836; and there are also Wesleyan and Primi- sub-postmaster. Letters are received from Woobnrn
tive MethQdist chapels. The Working men's insti-
tute and reading room is on the Green. Charities:- G-Men S.O. at 6.20 a.m. & 10.30 a.m. & from London

John Fromow left the interest of £200, now about £6 5 p.m.; dispatched at 9.45 a.m. & 12.15, 2.25 & 7.4.5
yearly, to be distributed in blankets at Christmas; p.m. Sunday dispatch, 5.30 p.m. Wall Letter Box,
the benefaction of Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, who died Upper Bourne End, cleared at 7 p.m. Pillar Letter
5 Feb. 1695, provides annually 20 Bibles bound up with Box, W oobUJ'n CDmmQn, cleared at 7 p.m
prayer books; the poor's land of 28 acres produces
about £21 yearly for distribution in money; ~Irs. S. Post, :M. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
Ballard gave the surplus of interest of £50 in £3 per
Cent. Consols, after repairing the vault of J. Osmer esq. Post, S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office, Woobnrn
to be distributed every second year in bread; Mrs. L.
Green (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O. Bucks
Butterfield's charity consists of the interest of £100
stock in £3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities, to be given to added).-Arthur Norman, postmaster. Letters arrive
twelve poor families of the parish at 5s. each on St. at 6.10 & 10.30 a.m. &; 5 p.m. Letters cleared at!
Thomas' day; Mrs. Rook ~ave ~he interest of £50
lltock in £3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities, to be distri- 9.50 a.m. & 12.25, 2.35 & 7.30 p.m. Sunday dispareh,
buted equally to six poor widows not in receipt of any 5.30 p.m. Post Box at Wycombe Lane cleared ai
relief on St. Thomas' day. The Church Estate produces
£10 yearly and there is a sum of £20 a year for a 11.45 a.m. &; 7 p.m.; sundays, 9 a.m
second service. The parish contains extensive paper and
millboard mills, which give emp~oyment to most of the Post, ~L &; T. 0., T. :M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
labouring inhabitants. Wooburn House, the seat of
.Alfred Gilbey esq. J.P., V.D. is a fine mansion built in Post, S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office, Bourne End
1756, on the site of what was for many years the palace (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O. Bucks add~).
of the Bishops of Lincoln, and subsequently the seat of -:Miss Elizabeth :Mary Turley, sub-postmistress.
the D'Eyncourts and 'Whartons, one of whom, Philip,
4th Baron Wharton, had the honour of receiving a visit Letters arrive at 6.30 a.m. & 12.15 p.m.; dispatched

here from 1Yilliam Ill. Sir Giffin Wilson kt. recorder at 10.30 a.m. &; 2.45 & 6.30 p.m.; sundays, 7 p.m
of Windsor, resided here about 20 years till his death in
1848; the house and grounds were much improved by Schools
the late A. Gilbey esq. Fairs are held here on the 4th A SchQol Board of .r; members was formed 26 Feb.
May and 12th X{)vember. William Baring- Du Pre esq.
1895; B. L. Reynolds, 31 High street, High Wyoombp',
clerk to the board; George Henry Read, Spring villas,
Bourne End, a,ttendance officer
Board, Bourne End (mixed), erected in 1896, for 250
children; full attendance; Thomas George Bryant,
master; Mrs. Florence Bryant, mistress
National, built 1852, for 320 children; average attend-

ance, 254; John Greenwood, master

Infant, built 1865, for 150 children; average attendance,

86; Miss Elizabeth Brown, mistress .

of Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, is lord of the manor and Railway Stations.

principal landowner. The soil is loam and gravel; sub- Bourne End, James Pegler, station master

soil, chalk and sand. The area is 3,II5 acres of land and Wooburn Green, Samuel Mitchell, station master

WOOBURN. *Blackwell Wm.Hy.grcr.Wycombe I'd McWilliams Janet(Mrs.),grocer,Green

Marked thus * receive letters through Broming Ernest, tailor, Green Mellett "Villiam, baker, Green
Bryant Frank, draper, Green Moth Joshua, beer retailer, Green
Wooburn Green S.O.
Capital & Counties Banking Co. Lim. National Telephone Co. Limited (H.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. (sub-branch) (Geo. .Augustus Green, A. Faulkner, local mgr.),Cores End

*nevan Hamilton, Mill house mgr.), Cores End; open. iri. ~ I to 3 Norman Arthur, grocer, Post office,

*Eccles William, Mill house p.m. ; draw on head office,39ThrJad- Green

Gilbey Alfred J.P., V.D. Wooburn ho needle street, London E C Pheby Frederick, laundry, CDres End

Gilbey Mrs. Th61 Kennels Carpenter John, Green Dragon P.H. *Pitcher George, King's Head P.ll.

Glisbev Wm. Primrose cot. Cores End Northern Woods Holtspur
Greenw• ood John, Dent dale
*Cheek Joseph, Barley Mow P.ll. *Platt Henry, Compasses P.H.Commn

Holland William, The Elms,Cores End Wycombe road Platt In. grocer &; baker,Wycombe rd

Keen George, Clifton cot. Cores End Darvill Arthur, butcher, Green Pratt Charles, beer retailer

Kirby Rev. James Barber M.A.(vicar), Dean Charles, beer retailer, Common Pratt Charles, grocer, Green
Dulley John, grocer, agent for W. & Pratt George, laundry, Cores End
The Vicarage
*Nash George,Garth cot.1Vycombe la A. Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit mer- Prior Eliza (Mrs.), grocer, Gre.m
chants, Post office Reeves Chas. farmer, Manor farm.
~eves Miss, Cores End
Richards Rev. Alfred M.A. (curate), Dyer Frank, beer retailer, Green Rosa John, beer retailer

Church view *Echlin Henry, Rose &; Crown P.H. Simmonds William, farm bailiff t~

Thomas John J.P. Brook house 1Vycombe road John Unite esq. Green

Tudor William Owen, The Willows, Feesey Martha. (Miss), shopkpr. Moor *Smith Fredk.Chequers P.H.CommQD
Fletcher Herbert Frank, saddler & *Speller John, florist, Common
Cores End
*Turney Charles, Northcroft, Green harness maker, Green Surridge Wm. Red Lion hotel, Green ..

*Unite John J.P. The Claptons Gardener Henry, baker, Green Starnes Ernest T. baker, Green

Vaughan Herbert, Dell house Garrall James, pork butcher Tanner John, Mother Red CflP P.R

Weeks Rev.Frederick Wm.Baker (Con- Gillett Charles John, hair dresser,Gm Thomas &; Green Lim. paper manu- .
Guy William, farmer, Glory farm facturers, Soho mills
gregational), Cores End
Harding Mrs. baker, Cores Ena. Townsend Frederick, watch makeF &; .
Wilkieson Mrs. Cores End
William9 Aaron, The Limes, Green *Hastings Thomas, beer retailer, Moor tobacconist, Cores End
Hawkins J. W. &; Co. builders, Green Turney Charles, North Croft Dairy fm·
Williams William, Green
Hawthorn Caroline (Mrs.), beer retlr. Turney Harry, coal merchant, Fa'~dey'
COMMERCIAL.
Green house, Cores End

AlIen Albert Edward, ironmonger,Grn Henry Joseph, shopkeeper, Green *Unite John, tent & rick cloth manu--·

*.1rmstrong John, plumber Hill Charles, marine store dlr. Green facturer, Clapton mill

Armstrong John, Prince of Wales P.H. Hill Geo. beer retailer, Beggars hill Wainwright & Sons, butcher"" Green

Cores End Howard Jas.builder &; Royal Oak P.H Wainwright James, King's Arms P.IL.

Baker George, blacksmith, Green Howard Mary (Mrs.), butcher &; gro- Green

. Barnett Joseph, baker, Cores End eel', Cores End Wapshott Charles, Old Bell P.H

Barratt Arth, family butcher, Green *Howard Sarah Tryphosa (Miss),grcr. Ward Harry, Rprl (ow P.ll. G1"eeD

*Bates Robert, oil & lamp stores, Wy- Wycombe road *West Drayton Millboard Co. (Henry
Kempster William, shopkpr.Cores End Woodbridge &; H. C. Atkinson, pro.
combe lane

Beck Joshua, jobmaster, Green Kennedy WillQughby M.A.Glas., M.B. prietors), Lower Glory mill

Beck Thomas Try,coal merchant,May- Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P. West Samuel, grocer, Cores End

field house, Green Lond., D.P.H.Camb. (attends tues- Wethered Thomas &; Sons Limited,

*Biggs Wm. shopkeeper, Wycombe rd day &; friday, 1.45 1;0 2.1.'5 p.m.), brewers (C. Wapshott, agent,)

Billingshurst Charleg, Ferry lane Green: &; at Beaconsfi"ld R.S.O *Wharton Richd.beer rtJr.Wycombe la.

*Bishop William, shopkeeper. Moor *Lever William, farmer, Shee.pcote White Edward, carriage bJdrs. Green

BUCK~. 13

194• WOOBURX. ~BiJCKING HAlVISHIRE . [ KELLY'S

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White John, beer retailer, Cores End
Wicks. Richard, furniture dlr. Green
*Wiggins, Teape & Co. paper manf1'l!.

Glory Paper milie
Williams Brothers, builders, Green
Williams Thomas &; Co .Limited (H.

Vapghan, sec.),brewers & maltsters,
Royal Stag brewery
Wipgrove Elizabeth &; Emily (Misses),
. drapers, Green. .

•

wards, forms sedilia: against the north wall is hung a

small oaken tablet, on which are carved the arms of the
see of London, impaling those of Dr. John King, who
was son of John King mentioned below and Bishop of

London 1611-21: the walls of the nave are, no doubt,
part of the Norman church: the tower is late Perpen-

dicular, and has a western window of three lights: the
font is cylindrical and of the 13th century; and there
is a church chest of the 17th century: within the com-
munion rails is a slab inscribed to Edmund King-e, 1577,

anaand on the south side is a mural brass with effi~es to

Philip King, 1592, his wife Elizabeth (Conquest)
twelve children: the church was extensively repaired in
1847, under the direction of Mr. Joseph Clarke, archi·

tect, of London: the whole north wall and a considerable
portion of the south wall were taken down and rebuilt:

8 vestry added and a stone porch erected; all the roofs
were restored, a gallery removed, the chancel filled with

oak stalls and the east window with stained glass; a