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Bavenstone. The feoffees' estate of 6 acres produces
£9 18s. which is distributed in coal ; the Town Dudle\
charity of about 20 acres, producing about £11 yearly,
is for six poor widows; Higgin’s charity of £17 yearly
is for the clothing of ten poor women, and Mrs. Spink’s
charity provides 30 blankets, which are given awav at
Christmas; there is also a charity of £2 a year’for
apprenticing. Cowper, the poet, removed here from
Olney in 1786 and continued to reside here till 1795,
within a few years of his death, which occurred at East
Dereham, Norfolk, 25th April, 1800, and here he wrote
his translation of Homer : the house, standing halfway
up the street, is a substantial residence of two storeys’
with dormers in the roof, and a garden in front inclosed
by a low wall and railings: on the panel of a window
shutter formerly in the bedroom occupied by the poet,
is the following couplet, written in his own hand :
“Farewell, dear scenes, for ever closed to me,
Oh !for what sorrows must I now exchange ye.
June 22-28, 1795.”

in his poems, and an oak tree is shown as “ Cowper’s
oak.” The Rev. Thomas Scott, the commentator, was
curate here from 178 0 ; he died 16 April, 1 8 2 1 . Weston
Manor, the residence of Lieut,-Col. Wentworth Grenville
Bowyer R.E., D.L., J.P. is an old stone house with,
newly added wings and a large paddock and stables
adjoining; the park is 75 acres in extent; it is well
wooded and contains fine avenues of lime, beech, elm
and chestnut trees ; the house, which formerly stood in
the park, was pulled down in 18 2 7 Lieut.-Col. W. G.
Bowyer D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor and principal
landowner. The soil is loam, some rich and the rest
very poor; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat,
barley, beans and oats. The area is 1 ,8 6 5 acres of land
and 8 of water; assessable value, £ 1 , 5 8 2 ; the popula­
tion in 1 9 1 1 was 2 7 5 .
Sexton, George Parkins.
Post Office.— Miss Edith Covington, sub-postmistress.
Letters arrive from Olney at 7 .3 5 a.m. & 3.50 p.m.;
dispatched at 9 a.m. & 5 .1 5 p.m.; Sundays, 1 1 a.m.
The nearest money order & telegraph office is at
This panel was removed to the Cowper Museum at Olney, 2 miles distant
Olney in 1907. The “ Wilderness ” in which Cowper Elementary School, erected in 18 7 2 by the late Sir R.
found such “ boundless contiguity of shade,” still Throckmorton bart. for 62 children; Miss Rowland,
remains ; much of the surrounding scenery is described
mistress
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Ewart Lt.-Col. James Hy. The Lodge Ellis Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Bowyer Lieut.-Col. Wentworth Gren­ Shelton Henry, Park farm
Paybody Arthur, Cowper’s Oak P.H
ville R.E., D.L., J.P. Weston
Ruffett John, gamekeeper to Lieut.C O M M E R C IA L .
manor; & Naval & Military club. Adams Charles, head gardener to Col. W. G. Bowyer R.E., D.L., J.P
Lieut.-Col. W. G. Bowver R.E., Stewart William Stephen, farmer,
London W
D.L., J.P
Bowyer Miss, Manor cottage
Grange farm
Clarke Mrs. The Presbytery
Austin Thomas, clock repairer
Village Reading Room (Robert Reed,
Edwards Lionel Thomas, The Cottage Covington John William, blacksmith caretaker)
Eveleigh Robert
Waters Horace, baker
Dover Henry, farmer
W E X H A M is a parish and village, 2 miles north-east reading room. Wexham Park is the seat of Lady Pigott;
from Slough station on the main line of the Great the house is a handsome building of red brick and
Western railway, 5 miles from Windsor, in the Southern stone, in the Elizabethan style, and stands in a park of
division of the county, hundred and petty sessional about 70 acres; the village of Wexham forms part of
division of Stoke, union of Eton, county court district this property. The Duke of Leeds is lord of the manor
of Windsor, rural deanery of Burnham, archdeaconry and chief landowner. The soil is loam and clay; sub­
of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. By Local soil, gravel. Ragstone is found in this neighbourhood.
Government Board Order No. 42,605, which came into The chief crops are oats, wheat and barley. The area
operation October 1st, 1901, the civil parish of Upton- is 1,061 acres; rateable value, £2,038; the population
cum-Chalvey was annexed to Wexham. The church of in 1911 was 253 in the civil and 244 in the ecclesiastical
St. Mary is a building of plastered flint, originally Nor­ parish.
By Local Government Board Order No. 42,605, dated
man, and consisting of chancel, nave, south porch,
and a low we-tern turret with wooden bell cote con­ Oct. 1, 1901, part of Upton-cum-Chalvey civil parish
taining one bell: there are some Norman windows in was added to Wexham for civil purposes.
Sexton, Frederick Biggs.
the nave, but the east window is Decorated :the church
affords 150 sittings. The register dates from the year Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— Mrs. Eliza Biggs, sub-post­
m
istress. Letters arrive through Slough at 7 & 10.45
1606. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £350,
with 7 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the a.m. & 7.30 p.m. & dispatched at 9.5 & 10.55 a.m. &
3
.50 & 7.35 p.m.; sundays, arrive 7 a.m. & dispatched
Lord Chancellor, and held since 1910 by the Rev.
Edward Norman B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. 7.45 p.m
Grainger’s charity is the interest of £100 Consols. The The children of this place attend the elementary school
former infants’ school room has been converted into a at Stoke Poges
Norman Rev. Edward B.A. (rector), Woodbridge Cecil M., J.P. The Lodge
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Rectory
COMMERCIAL.
Buckmaster Henry James, Fulmer Pigott Lady, Wexham park
grange (letters should be addressed Trotter Henry A. Wexham springs Bayley Wm. Mills, frmr. Wexham crt
Wilding Eustace H. Wexham Place Biggs Eliza (Mrs.), shopkpr. Post off
Stoke Poges)
(letters should be addressed Stoke Hartley William, builder
2-awford Mrs. Fulmer court
Holdship John, blacksmith
Low Austin, Old rectory
Poges)

W H A D D O N is a township, parish and village, 5 Ireland during the rebellions of Desmond, Ballinglass
miles north-west from Bletchley Junction station on the and O’Niell, one of the commissioners who tried Mary
main line of the London and North Western railway Queen of Scots, and died 14 Oct. 1593 : here also is a
and 3J north from Swanbourne station on the Oxford canopied tomb with brass effigies, in a recess flanked by
and Bletchley branch of the same line, 4$ south from columns, to Mr. Serjeant Pigott, 1519, his two wives and
Stony Stratford, 5 north-east from Winslow and 7 east children: there is also a very rich and curious brass
from Buckingham, in the Northern division of the with effigy, to Margaret Missenden, 1612, and a figure
county, Cottesloe hundred, Winslow petty sessional of her son as a skeleton, and a long, but almost illegible,
division and union, county court district of Bucking­ inscription : there are other monuments to Thomas
ham, rural deanery of Mursley, archdeaconry of Buck­ King, 1770, and to William, his son, 1775, and a brass
ingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary, recording the gift of a clock to the church in 1613 by
standing on high ground near the Chase, is an ancient Amy (Allen), wife of Joseph Emerton, minister: the
building of stone in the Norman, Decorated and other church was extensively repaired and restored in 1889
styles, consisting of chancel with north aisle or chapel, and 1891, at a cost of £985, and in 1902 the tower was
nave of four bays, aisles, north and south porches, and restored at a cost of £500, and the nave in 1906 at a
an embattled western tower containing a clock, provided cost of £513: the church affords 220 sittings. The
m 1910, and 6 bells: the chancel has an Early English churchyard, the gift of Mr. Selby-Lowndes, was conse­
piscina and sedilia, but the east window and some other crated Oct. 6, 1890. The register dates from the year
features are Decorated : the nave is separated from the 1580. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £295,
aisles by arcades of four arches, all of the Transition derived from 243 acres of glebe, with residence, in the
Norman period, but the walls are Decorated: each door­ gift of W. Selby-Lowndes, jun. esq. and held since
way retains a stoup: the font is Early English: the |1913 by the Rev. William Edmund Dixon. The Congre­
chapel is also Decorated, and has on the north side a |gational chapel, erected in 1907 to replace one built
uandsome monument with long epitaph to Arthur, 14th in 1865, will seat 200 persons. The poor’s land con­
Lord Grey de Wilton K.G who was lord deputy of sists of 4 acres. In a part of Whaddon Chase called