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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

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Labrum Joseph R. coal merchant, National Deposit Friendly Society Tarbox Fredk. coal dir. 18 Station rd
Ledburn Road wharf. T N 86 (Jas. Painter, dist. sec.), 21 Old rd Tompkins Chas. blcksmth.Leighton rd
Leighton Buzzard
Oldring Walter B. insurance agent, Tompkins Lizzie (Miss), tobacconist,
Lawrence Joseph Thomas, architect
Sunny bank, Rosebery avenue
34 Wing road
Lee Ernest, house furnisher, up­ Oliver Bert Wm. grocer, 34 New road Tring Elizabeth Sarah & LilyFlorence
holsterer, cabinet maker, carpet Palace Theatre (Charles Collins, man­ (Misses), dress makers, 10 Old road
warehouseman, blind maker, decora­ ager), Leighton road
Walker James, Ship P.H. Wing road
tor & funeral director, Regent house Phillips John, house furnisher, see Warrillow Harry, Buckingham Anns
& 16 Old road
Avelino & Phillips
P.H. Old road
Leeden William, tailor, 80 Wing road Piper Jos. Wm. grocer, 41 Old road Weeks John, tailor, 30 Leighton road
Lloyd Thomas & Son, booksellers, Post Platten Robert John, assistant over­ Whitbread Sarah (Miss), dress maker,
office, 8 New road
seer & clerk to the Urban District 2 Soulbury road
Loakes Lucy (Mrs.), boot & shoe Council, Leighton road
White Wm. Bedford Arms P.H.Old rd
maker, 10 Wing road
Prudames Walter C., M.R.C.V.S. Whitlock Geo. fried fish dir.43 Old rd
London Leonard Henry, cycle maker, vet. surgeon, Elm lodge, Stoke rd Whitmore Geo. beer Tetailer,3 Old rd
Leighton road
Redshaw Watkin, clothier, 4 Wiiig Wing William Thomas, hot water en­
Lovell Lewis, grocer, 55 Old road
Road terrace
gineer, 25 Waterloo road
Mabbutt Am elia (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Roads William, photographer, 7 Wing Yirrell Thomas, builder, contractor &
3 New road
Road terrace
general mason, brick manufacturer
Mabbutt Eleanor (Miss), dress maker, Rollings Ernest E. hair dresser, 2 & builders’ merchant, Monumental
8 Wing road
Wing Road terrace
works, Leighton road; & at BletchMabbutt Harrv, painter, 3 New road Rowe Arthur Edward, grocer, 1 New ley. T N 23 Leighton Buzzard
Mabbutt Thomas, plumber & painter, road & 16 Wing road
Yirrell William, butcher 7, & dairy
30 Soulbury T o a d
Sayell Alfd. beer retlr. Old Linslade 9, Old road
Malin John, painter, 68 New road
Scaldwell Henry James, Clarendon
Martin .John Jeffery, nursery & seeds­ hotel, New road
SOUTHCOTT.
man, 7 Wing road
Seabrook Wm. shopkeeper,33 New rd
Miss
Meager John & Sons,smiths & farriers, Smith Arthur, dairyman, 34 Spring­ Cooper
Cotching Miss
New road
field road
COMM ERCIAL.
Moore John William, insurance agent, Stone Frederick, butcher, 14 Wing rd
31 New road
Stower Thos. Railway hotel, New rd |Ashby Robert T. stud groom to L. de
Morgan & Co. Limited, coach body Summerfield William, hair dresser,| Rothschild esq. C.V.O., D.L., J.P.
builders, Leighton road. T N 15 5 New road
| Southcott Stud farm
Leighton Buzzard
Sutton Hugh Francis, New Euston Dawson Arthur, Hare P.H
inn, Soulbury road
'Rawle Edward, farmer
L O N G CRENDON, in the 13th century a market,restored at a cost of _8oq: there are 225 sittings.
town, is a large and scattered parish, bounded on the The register dates from the year 1562. The living is
east and south by the river Thame, which separates it a vicarage, net yearly value, arising from 180 acres of
from Oxfordshire, 3 miles north from Thame station on glebe, £"200, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop
the Maidenhead and Oxford section of the Great Western of Oxford, and held since 1900 by the Rev. Edward
railway, 4^ south-east from Brill, 9$ south-west from Simeon Elwell D.D. of Worcester College, Oxford. The
Aylesbury, and 13 east from Oxford, inthe Northern divi­ Baptist chapel was first founded in 1799; the present
sion of the county, hundred and petty sessional building, erected in 1853, will seat 480 persons, and has
division of Ashendon, union and county court dis­ attached a large burial ground; Jonah Pearce, sexton.
trict of Thame, rural deanery of Waddesdon, arch­ The Wesleyan chapel, built in 1840, seats 200. The
deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1866, has 150 sit­
The village is chiefly remarkable for the length tings. The Church hall was erected in 1909. The
and varying character of its principal street and its Lecture hall, erected in 1891 by public subscription at
picturesque old houses. The church of St. Mary is a a cost of about £400, *s
by trustees, Mr. Albert
large cruciform building of stone in the Early English, R. Shrimpton being the acting trustee: it is also used
Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chan­ for public meetings, and will seat about 2 0 0 . The
cel, nave of three bays, transepts, aisles, north, south several charities are distributed, by trustees according
and west porches with stone seats, and an embattled to a prescribed scheme: Sir John Dormer’s of £22 16s.
central tower of Perpendicular date, with hexagonal yearly was left I o t the restoration and Tepair of the
turret at the north-west angle and containing 8 bells, Dormer aisle and tomb. Hart’s charity, producing
recast in 1768: the fabric still retains many portions £4 10s. 3d. yearly, is spent in apprenticing poor
of Early English work, especially in the chancel and children. Canon’s charity of £1, Trott’s of 9s. 3d. and
north transept: the east window, originally consisting Westbroke’s of 10s. yearly, together with Dormer’s
of three lancets, was debased some time after 1740, charity, have been thrown into a general fund, which
but in 1890 a new rose window of Early Decorated is distributed in coal, with the exception of ¿3 2s.
character was erected and filled with stained glass by reserved for the repair of the Dormer aisle and tomb
Mr. Herbert Dodwell, of The Manor, as a memorial to and £2 for a court dinner. Denman’s charity, con:
his mother: the side windows are still lancets, and there sisting of the rent of 12 acres, now producing £9
is an Early English piscina, with stone shelf, in the yearly, is also distributed in coal. In the parish, on
south wall, and a low stone sedile on the south side: in the banks of the Thame, are remains of Notley Abbey,
the north aisle is a Decorated niche with crocketed built and endowed by Walter Gifford, second Earl
canopy: the rood screen, a Perpendicular work, was of Buckingham, and Ermengarde, his wife, in the year
taken down in 1835 and converted into a pew, now 1162, for canons ofthe OrdeT ofSt. Augustine :the estate
removed: the stone font is Early Perpendicular: its has been for three generations in the possession of the
basin is surrounded, with sunk quatrefoils inclosing Reynolds family, who still reside there. The Old Court
heads of saints and angels, and the base is carved with House, standing near the church, is a timber-framed
lions and foliage: the tower piers were strengthened structure resting upon a low stone wall and dating from
c. 1626, and again in 1897: during the Civil war the 14th century. The house was at one time known as
the tower appears to have been made use of for “Staple Hall,” its original use having probably been that
military purposes and observation: in the south tran­ of a wool stoTe. The Manorial Courts appear to have
sept, which is parted from the rest of the church by a been held here from 1422. The lordship of the
heavy oaken screen, is an altar tomb with a canopy sup­ manor was till lately shared by three owners, viz.— the
ported on columns of black marble, and recumbent Ecclesiastical Commissioners, All Souls College, Oxford,
effigies to Sir John Dormer, of Dorton, ob. ri Mar. 1626, and Lady Kinloss, but in 1900 the triple ownership of
and his wife, daughter of John Gyffard, of Chillington,ob. the Court House terminated, when it was purchased by
9 Sept. 1605 : the tomb has been restored at a consider­ the National Trust in a very dilapidated condition, at a
able expense out of the charity funds by order of the cost of about £400: the building has since been made
judge of the county court: there are also in the north habitable and lettoatenant. The long room on the firs*
transept two other monuments and brasses to John floor,inwhich thecourts were held,isstillretainedby the
Canon, 1460, and Agnes, bis wife, 1468, with 11 child­ Trust, and the courts which had been discontinued are
ren: some years since the skeleton of one of the monks now held there occasionally. Herbert Dodwell esq. ^
of Notley, sewn up in folds of stout leather, together lord of the manor of Long Crendon, the manorial
with a rosaiy, were found in a brick vaulted grave in business being transacted by the courts of the other
the nave: the church was partially restored in 1890-91, manors. The old manor house, now occupied by
at a cost of ,£1,689. under the direction of the late Sir Herbert Dodwell ¿sq. at the extreme west end of the
Arthur Blomfield A.R.A. architect, since which the village, is of the Tudor period, with the exception of
north and south transepts and the pillars have been the kitchen and the entrance arch, which date back to