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44
BUCK!NGH AMS HI RE.
BEACONSFIF.LD.
T o m e r A rth u r H erbert L S .A .L o n d ., L M .S .S .A . surÂ
geon, & m edical officer of health to the Urban D isÂ
trict C ouncil, p ublic vaccinator & m edical officer
Beaconsfield d istrict. Am ersham union, L e ig h house,
W ycom be E n d. T N 30
Y ere G eorge, fishm onger, London End
W alker Ben, G eorge inn, W ycom be End
W alker Joseph B , M .R .O .Y .S . veterin a ry surgeon, & inÂ
spector under the â C ontagious Diseases (A nim als)
A c t â for South B ucks, W ycom be End. T N 101
W arren A rch ib ald, grocer. A ylesb ury End
W atkins John H enry, w h eelw righ t, W ycom be End
W atson H erbert, auctioneer, surveyor & agent to the
W ilton Park estate. 34 A ylesbury End
[
k e l l y âs
W atts Louise (M iss), p rivate school, Oakdene
Webb John, hair dresser, Windsor End
W ebster R. & Sons, carm en . Station approach. T N 22
W'eston E p hraim ,farm bailiff to Lord B urnham ,H yde fruv
W eston H arry, shopkeeper, W indsor E nd
W illiam s & E lkington L im ited , wine & sp irit m erchants,.
Town Hall b uildin gs, Station road
W ingrove E dm un d A lliston, clerk to the C h arity T ru s Â
tees, E thelston, Park lane
W ingrove H. G . clerk to Beaconsfield S ub-C om m ittee of
Bucks Local Pension C om m ittee, E thelston, Park lane
W ooster Job, farm er & dairy farm er, Seelyâs farm
W rig h t G eorge, teacher of m usic, W indsor End
Y arn ell & S tyles, printers, 24 A ylesb ury End
is a parish on th e N ortham pton Francis Tem ple M organ-G renville, M aster of Kinloss,
shire border, 2 m iles n orth -b y-east from F u lw ell and and the residence of B rig .-G en . C. B. and M rs. H ey worth,,
W estb ury station on the B an bury and B letch ley section about 150 acres in extent and th ick ly w ooded; theof the London and N orth-W estern railw a y and 6 n orth  house, a substantial b uildin g of stone, occupies the site
w est from B uckin gh am , in the N orthern division of the of a priory of the C istercian order, founded here in
county, hundred, p etty sessional division and county 1147 by E rnald de Bosco, and colonised from Garendon,
court district of B uckingham , union of B rackley, and Leic. It was dedicated to SS. M ary and N icholas, and
in the ru ra l deanery of B uckingham and archdeaconry of a t its dissolution had 12 monks and 5 1 servants, and
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The original church revenue valued at ^ 13 5 ; th e m ansion is surrounded by
of St. M arg aret has long since disappeared ; the present extensive pleasure grounds w ith la rg e fish ponds. Thebuilding in Biddlesden Park, erected at the beginning of Rev. th e Hon. L u is Chandos F ran cis Tem ple M organthe 1 8th cen tury, by a Mr. Saver, th e then owner, is a G ren ville, M aster of K inloss, is lord of the m anor and
plain edifice of red brick w ith stone dressings, w ith a principal landowner. The soil is chiefly g ra v e l; subÂ
tu rre t containing one b e ll: there are some tablets to soil, lim esto n e; the land arable and pasture, about
the M organ fam ily, whose vau lt is under th e chancel : equal, w ith about 180 acres of woodland. The area is
the church affords 140 sittin gs.
The register dates 3,068 ac re s; rateable value, £ 2 ,102; the population ini
from the year 1695. The liv in g is a vicarage, net 1911 was 114 in the c iv il and 82 in the ecclesiastical
yearly value ^ 78, including 33 acres
of glebe, in the parish, w hich extends into N orthants.
g ift of the Rev. the Hon. L u is Chandos F ran cis Tem ple
Parish C lerk, W illiam Jam es.
M organ-G renville, M aster of K inloss, and held since
1914 b y the R ev. C h arles H erbert Coles M .A. of W or There is no parish school. Children attend Syresham
cester College, Oxford, who is also rector of W hitfield, Letters received through B rackley at 8.30 a.m . W a l l
where he resides. At E V E R S H A W , in th is parish, was
Box cleared at 1.0 & 5.45 p .m .; »Sundays, 7.45 a.m .
form erly a chapel dedicated to St. N icholas. Biddlesden
Syresham is the nearest telegrap h & m oney ord er
Park is the property of the Rev. the Hon. L u is Chandos
office, 1 m ile distant
B ID D L E S D E N
H eyworth B rig-G en .
Biddlesden park
C.
c o m m e r c ia l .
Adam s & Son, farm ers
B.
& M rs. 1 Brafield. John, farm er
' Bulford Jam es, farm er
IChapm an Thom as Blackwell,
1 G orral farm
B IE E T O N ,
w itK
B R O U G H T O N
B IE R T O N is a parish and scattered village, on the
road from A yle sb u ry to Leigh ton B uzzard, one m ile and
a half north-east from A ylesb ury station, on the G reat
W estern, London and North W estern and G reat C en tral
Joint railw a y, in the Mid division of th e county, in the
hundred, p etty sessional division, union and county court
d istrict of A ylesb u ry, rural deanery of W endover, archdeaÂ
conry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. T h e A ylesÂ
b u ry and Cheddington branch of the London and North
W estern railw ay and the G rand Junction canal pass
throu gh the parish. The church of S t.Jam es is a cruciform
stru ctu re of local lias stone in m ixed styles, erected
about 1280, in the E arly D ecorated period, b ut very
m uch altered in the Perpendicular period, and consistÂ
in g of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, north porch and
an em battled central tow er w ith sm all spire containing
a clock and 6 b e lls : on th e north side of the chancel
is an aum bry w ith trefoiled arch, now used as a
credence table, and on the south a piscina w ith plain
shafts and a good fluted b a s in : the arcades of the nave
are D ecorated, the east window L a te P erpen dicular:
there is a plain N orm an font w ith cable m oulding, and
a curious m onum ent, the inscription on which states
that i t â was erected and set vpp at the propper coste
and charges of M rs. Caceily Bosse, the widdowe of the
la te Mr. S am vel B osse,â who died 21st Decem ber, 1616,
and th at he had nine sons and four d a u g h te rs ; the
m onum ent represents the deceased and his lady kneeling opposite each other, w ith th eir children in th e same
position, the sons behind the father and the daughters
behind th eir m o th e r: on th e pillar of the north tranÂ
sept are two oval shaped tablets to th e Rev. Tim othy
Shaw, v ica r of Bierton for 34 years, who died in 1786,
and to his w ife: th e in terior of th e church w as re Â
paired and reseated in 1852, and th e g allery rem oved,
and in 1885 th e chancel was restored by the E ccleÂ
siastical C om m issioners, under the direction of Mr.
Ewan Christian, at a cost of about ^600: there are 300
sittin gs. T h e reg ister dates from the year 1560. The
livin g is a vicara g e, with th at of Quarrendon annexed,
net yea rly value ,£276. with residence, in th e g ift of the
Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, and held since 1913 by
th e Rev. A rth u r Jam es Kayss Thom pson M .A. of St.
Johnâs C ollege, C am bridge. T h e B ap tist chapel, erected
in 1831, was enlarged 1885. and w ill seat 200 persons.
The W esleyan chapel, b uilt in 1877, has a stained
Lam bourn E lizabeth (M rs.) L
farm ers, E vershaw
farm er, ' Scarr & Son, farm ers
iThom son Duncan, farm er
an d
Son,
B U R C O T T .
I window, placed to com m em orate the introduction of
i M ethodism into Bierton ; the chapel w ill seat 225 perj sons. H illâs ch arity, founded in 1723, was in 1911 reJ arranged under a new schem e of m anagem ent by which
j Bierton has four trustees and W endover four trustees
and th e vicars of those two parishes as ex-officio repre1 sentatives ; the income is .£160 yearly, derived from 64
I acres of land ; of this one-third is devoted to education,
1 one-third for apprenticing boys and one-third for any
other charitable purpose w hich the trustees think f i t :
the Feoffeesâ ch arity (given in lieu of the old Biertorr
Common R ights) produces ^42 yearly, one-third of
which, by order of the C h a rity C om m issioners, is
expended in church restoration, and th e rem ainder in
the relief of the p o o r: Bosseâs ch arity of £ 2 is givenyearly in sixp en ces: Reeves ch arity of ^ 15 annually,
derived from two cottages and one acre of ground,
is for the poor of the ham let of Broughton : Mr. Alienleft, in 1832, ^100 Consols, the dividend to be given
in bread (sixpenny loaves) on C hristm as Eve. P a rt or
an urn, 15 inches in diam eter and 12 in depth, found about
1870 on a farm occupied by M r. Bell, was presented by
him to the m useum of the B ucks Archaeological Society.
In January. 1861, excavations were m ade in a pightel beÂ
longing to Mr. Jam es Bonham. 85 paces eastw ard of thechurch and abuttin g on the road : in this little field werefound the rem ains of at least two distin ct generations o f
men, separated from each other by long intervals of tim e,
and com prising eigh t skeletons, lyin g in various positions :
three rectangular openings w ere also discovered about
5 feet beloAv the surface, which contained ashes, and ona level with these were undoubted traces of a RomanoBritish interm ent, consisting of a circu lar excavation 1
foot 9 inches in depth and about the same in diam eter,
fitted with a la rg e sepulchral urn of le a d ; in a circle at
a radius of 3 feet from th is w ere found a num ber of
m ortu ary urns and 10 feet distan t another: a num ber of
Rechen Pfenning or N u rem bu rg tokens, a testoon o r
shilling of H enry V III. a halfpenny of Jam es I. one ofi
W illiam III. and other coins w ere m et w ith on the
sam e spot. In the â Old O rchard P ie c e â im plem ents of
war, coins, human bones &c. have been discovered from
tim e to tim e. A bout 1830 three halberts, a breast
plate and bones of horses and men w ere found here ;
ofie of the three halberts m easured eig h t feet six inch«»
in length, the head is 32J inches long, and fastened to