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OLNEY.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

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houses for single women and widows, erected and
WARRINGTON is a hamlet i£ miles north, on th
endowed in 1819 by Misses Ann Hopkins Smith and borders of Northamptonshire. The area is 1,003 acres
Mary Smith, of Olney. two benevolent ladies of the of land and 5 of water; assessable value, £396Society of Friends, with an allowance of 5s. per week population in 1911 was 54.
to each of the inmates; they also left £45 yearly for
clothing to poor Dissenters, and £45 for a school, OLNEY PARK is a civil parish; the area if
which is now devoted to apprenticeships and scholar­ acres; assessable value, £53; the population in :o6
1911
ships: the feoffees' charity, consisting of Pierson’s was
20. This parish, is reputed to be extra-parochial*h>r
charity and the Causeway estate, amounts to about eccles
iastical purposes.
£240, which sum is devoted to educational purposes,
Acting Parish Clerk, Jesse Barrett.
the maintenance of the Causeway and to the poor.
William Cowper, the poet, on leaving Huntingdon, Post, M. 0 . & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office
resided here from October 14, 1767 to 1786, when he High street (letters should have Bucks added) 1
removed to the neighbouring parish of Weston Under­ Mrs. Edith Murton, postmistress. Letters arrive at
wood ; while at Olney he occupied a large house in the 6.45 & 11.35 a.m. & 6.45 p.m.; dispatched at 9.35 &
Market square with a garden in the rear; the summer
11.10 a.m. & 2.15, 5.30, 7.30 & 8.30 p.m.; S u n d a y s,
house, in which the poet composed some of his poems, a
rive at 8.55 a.m.; dispatched at 2.45 p.m. Money
is situated midway between the house and the rectory, or
rder office open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m
formerly the residence of Cowper’s friend, the Rev.
Wall
Letter Boxes.— Dartmouth road, cleared at 9.25 &
John Newton, curate here from 1764, may be seen for
a small fee, and is now covered with hundreds of 11.25 a.m. & 2.30, 5.50 & 8.45 p.m.; Sundays, 3.5
p.m.;
Warrington, cleared at 8 a.m. & 4.15 p.m.; no
autographs scribbled on the walls, and the garden con­
taining his favourite seat, is shown; here he kept the Sunday collection
three hares, the care of which so often relieved his Police Station, Dartmouth road, Albert Honour, sergt.
depression, and of which he writes: “ the manage­
ment of such an animal was just the sort of employ­
PUBLIC OFFICERS.
ment my case required.”
tifying Factory Surgeon, Medical Officer & Public
The Cowper and Newton museum (Cowper’s house), Cer
Vaccinator, No. 6 district, Newport Pagnell union,
opened in 1900, was presented to the town by Mr. W.
Francis James Grindon M.R C.S.Eng. 100 High street
H. Collingridge. The rooms devoted to the museum
Clerk
to the Commissioners of Taxes for the Division of
are the “parlour ” and “Cowper’s hall;’’ here are pre­ Barfo
rd, Archibald Allen, High street
served a number of original letters of Cowper and
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o the Magistrates for the Division of Sharnbrook,
Newton, the window shutter (with lines by Cowper)
Bedfordshire, Archibald Allen, High street
removed here from Weston Underwood, many manu­ Rate
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llector, John Mantel, 46 High street
scripts in Cowper’s handwriting, many books with MS.
notes by Newton, Teedon’s diary, and some valuable Registrar of Births & Deaths, Olney sub-district, & Re­
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g & Vaccination Officer, Olney district, Newport
oil paintings, as well as the “William Wright” li­
brary, presented to the museum by Mr. William Pagnell Union, George Fellows, Dartmouth road
Deputy Registrar of Births & Deaths, Olney sub-district,
Wright, of Moseley, near Birmingham.
The old bridge over the Ouse, built before 1334 and Mrs. Henrietta Fellows, Dartmouth road
rebuilt in 1819, is the one “that with its wearisome Sub-Distributor of Stamps, Mrs. Edith Murton, Post
but needful length bestrode the wintry flood;” this office
SCHOOLS.
bridge, with the exception of part of its north end,
was removed about 1830. “The Great House,” a man­ Cowper School for Boys & Girls, High street south;
sion which stood south of and near the church, was Thomas Wright, principal; Mrs. Wright, girls’mist
built by William Johnson esq. of Olney, 1642-1669, and St. Joseph’s (Roman Catholic) High School for Girls;
was for several generations in that family. Not far Sister Marie Dominique, principal
north of the town is the site of a Roman station, and in
a field, now called “Ash Furlong,” between the LavenElementary Schools.
don and Warrington roads, remains of Roman pottery, High street, built in 1877 & enlarged in 1884 & in 1902,
and coins from the reigns of Nerva (A.D 96) to that
or 500 children ; George Edward Eady, master; Miss
of Constantine (A.D. 306) have been met with in con­ t
. L. Horwood, mistress; Dora E. Naesmith, infants’
siderable abundance, besides a small bronze figure of A
m
istress
Mercury. Olnev Park farm, a royal property belonging
to the Duchy of Lancaster, now marks the situation of Near the Church (mixed), built in 1847, for 174 chil­
dren
; Miss Bowlev, mistress
the land which Ralph, 3rd Baron Bassett, of Sapcote,
Leicester, was licensed to empark in 1374; it was Correspondent, James William Painter
formerly extra parochial, but was formed into a parish St. Joseph’s (Roman Catholic) (mixed), West st. built in
in the Newport Pagnell union in 1861. although for 1903, for 72 children; Sister Marie Albertine, mistress
ecclesiastical purposes it is still attached to the parish
of Olney. Olney Court, a farm about a mile north-east
CONVEYANCE.
of the town, appears to be the site of the mansion of
the feudal lords. Courts leet and baron are held here Railway Station, Alfred John King, station master
once a year at the Bull hotel, for the Viscount Lewis­ An omnibus from Bull hotel meets principal trains
ham, lord of the manor and chief landowner. The
Carriers to:—
area of the parish is 2,127 acres of land and 26 of
water; assessable value, £9,158; the population in Northampton— Samuel Downing, to the Wood hill, wed.
&
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1911 was 2,871 in the civil and 2.912 in the ecclesiastical
Yardley Hastings— Arthur F. Eaton, wed. & sat
parish.
IHinde William, Midland road
Pater Miss, Swiss cottage, Weston rd
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S.
Hipwell Arth. Wm. J.P. Greshamho IPebody William E. Bridge house
Allabarton Frank, 22 Market place Hipwell Harry Reginald, Weston rd Prothero Rev. David (Cong.), High st
Allan Rev. Robert Greenwood (Cath­ Hipwell John Charles, High street Samuel Rev. Jacob B.A. (Baptist),
58 High street
olic), Tbe Presbytery. West street Hipwell Samuel Edgar, High street
Hollingshead George. 10 Market pi Sharp Mrs. Etolia house, Bridge st
Allen Archibald, 17 High street
Hooton George, Wellingborough road jSmith Rev. Sidney Herbert M.A
Allen Mrs. J. The Ferns
(vicar), Vicarage
Andrews Walt. Siriol ho. Bridge st Inns Mrs. West street
lSowman Alfred Wm. Rudkin, GlenClarabut William, 122 High street Johnson Thomas, 21 High street
hurst-, Midland road
Coles Thomas T. Springfield house, Longland Thomas J.P. High street
Mann Joseph William J.P. Orchard 1Sowman Edwin, 26 High street
Yardley road
Talbot William, Dagnall, Weston rd
house, High street
Cowley Samuel. East street
Whitmee John, High street
Manning Miss, 8 High street
Eyles Miss, High street
Mapley Ernest Edward. Weston road Wontner Misses, 20 Weston road
Gibson Samuel, 37 High street
York Mrs. 13 High street
Orpen Daniel, 39 High street
Greeves William S. High street
Grindon Francis James, 100 High st Painter Jas. Wm. Wellingborough rd
Barclay & Company Limited (sub-branch), bankers
COM M ERCIAL.
(Francis Littleboy, manager) (open mon. 12 to 3
Early closing day, Wednesday 1 p.m.
thurs. 12 to 4), Market place; draw on head office,54
Allen & Wiggins, coal & coke merchants, Station
Allen Archibald (firm, J. Garrard & Allen), solicitor, &
Lombard street, London E C
clerk to the magistrrtes for the division of Sharn- Barwick George, grindery dealer, no High street
brook & to the commissioners of taxes for the division Bennett Horace, draper, t 6 Hi^h street
Berrill Charles, fruiterer, 61 High street
ofBarford, High street