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WALTON.

B U C K IN G H A M SH IR E .

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acres. The Manor House, built in the 13th century, is Parish Olerk, George Underwood.
also the property of Vaughan Harley esq. M.D. -who i9 Letters through Bletchley arrive at 7 .3 0 a.m. & 5.
lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil p.m. Wall Letter Box, at Manor house, cleared at
is light clay; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops 8 a.m. & 7 p.m. ; Sundays, 8 .3 5 a.m. The n e a rest
are wheat, beans, barley and oats. The land is chiefly money order & telegraph office is at Simpson, 1 xniU
pasture. The area is 771 acres of land and 3 of water;
distant
assessable value, £843; the population in 1911 was 105. Children attend Wavendon school
p w v a te r e s id e n ts .
c o m m e r c ia l.
Dickins Frederick, farmer, Walnut
Eaton Rev. William Seys M.A. ThejBodley John James, farmer, Mount | Tree farm
Rectory
Pleasant
IStimson John, farmer
Harley Vaughan M.D. Walton hall ICook Frederick, farmer

W A R R I N G T O N , see Olney.
W A T E R EATON, see Bletchley.
W A T E R S T RA T F O R D is a small parish on the supposed to allude to the legend of St. Hubert: the
Ouse, 3 miles east from Fulwell and Westbury station church was restored in 1890 at a cost of about £300
on the Banbury and Bletchley branch of the London and and affords 120 sittings. The register dates from the
North Western railway, about 2^ north-east from Fin- year 1596. The living is a rectory, net yearly value
mere station on the Great Central railway, and 3^ west- £200, including 38 acres ofglebe, with residence, in
by-north from Buckingham, in the Northern division of the gift of and held since 1887 by the Rev. Louis
the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and Ernest Goddard B.A. of University College, Durham.
county court district of Buckingham, rural deanery of The rectory was restored in1877 by the Rev. Edward
Buckingham, Buckingham portion, archdeaconry of George Andrew B.A. rector, 1873-87. In Jackson’sclose,
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of a field just behind Water Stratford House, are trenches!
St. Giles is an ancient building of stone, originally supposed to be the remains of an ancient camp. The
Norman, but rebuilt in 1828, and consisting of chan­ old Roman road from Bicester to Towcester passes
cel, nave, and a western tower containing 3 bells: through this parish. Major William F. Parker is lord
on the rebuilding, the doors and windows of the old of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is mixed
edifice were re-inserted: in the north wall of the clay, stone brash and gravel; subsoil, various. The
nave is a monument of marble representing a female land is arable and pasture in about equal portions. The
lying on a bed, dying, with six females kneeling area is 1,067 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable
by her side, and two boys and a man at the foot; it value, £1,034; the population in 1911 was 135.
is inscribed to Mary Franckyshe, the wife of John
Office.— Mrs. Bertha Whitehead, sub-postmistress.
Franckyshe, of Water Stratford, who died in 1629: there Post
etters arrive through Buckingham at 7.35 a.m. &
is a piscina in the south wall of the chancel: the south L
1
.
3
5
; dispatched at 1.10 & 5.25 p.m. week days
doorway, a work of the Early Norman period, with zig­ only. p.m.
about 1 mile distant, is the nearest
zag mouldings and other ornament, has in the tym­ money Tingewick,
order & telegraph office
panum a carved figure of Our Lord seated within a
vesica, and on either side an angel kneeling: the Elementary School, built in 1868, for 48 children; Mrs.
Ruth Price, mistress
chancel doorway, also Norman, has a carved tympanum,
Goddard Rev. Louis Ernest B.A. Iieland Clifford, farmer, Home &>Rhee Alfred, Robin Hood PH.
Rectory
Buffers Holt
Hill farms
Sikes John, Water Stratford house May Betsy (Mrs.), shopkeeper
¡Tomes Thomas, farmer, Manor farm
Hilsdon Wm. farmer, Town farm
Watson Alfred, farmer
WATERSIDE, see Chesham.
W A V E N D O N is a parish and village extending to
Bedfordshire, 1 mile north-west from Woburn Sands
station on the Bedford and Bletchley branch of the Lon­
don and North Western railway, 52 miles from London
by rail and 45 by Toad, and 5 south-east from Newport
Pagnell, in the Northern division of the county, hun­
dred, petty sessional division, union and county court
district of Newport Pagnell, rural deanery of Bletchley,
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford.
The church of St. Mary, entirely restored, under the
■direction of Mr. W. Butterfield, architect, 1848-9, by
Rev. H. Burney, consists of chancel, nave of four bays
with clerestory, aisles, south porch, and a western tower
containing 5 bells: the chancel, which is Early Deco­
rated, has a fine stained east window of four lights, a
double piscina of curious design, and triple sedilia: on
the north side of the chancel is an arcade of four semi­
circular arches, inclosing as many stone stalls recessed
in the wall: a low stone screen, with central gates of
brass, separates the chancel and nave: the arcades
■dividing the nave and aisles are fine specimens of Eariy
Decorated work, while the clerestory, the whole of the
roofs and the upper part of the tower arePerpendicular:
the ends of the aisles were formerly chapels, and still
retain their piscinae: the font, of Tottemhoe stone, is of
considerable size, and has a cover of carved oak: there
are two memorial windows and monuments to the Hoare
family, including a mural brass in the north aisle,
erected by Julia, his widow, to Henry Arthur Hoare
-esq. of Wavendon House J.P. and high sheriff of Bucks
in 1866, who died in 1873: the church also contains
memorials to the family of Saunders, of Battlesden,
among which are two brassesplaced to Richard
Saunders esq. 1639, and his four wives, Elizabeth
(Charge), ob. 1596, Frances (Fitzhugh), Beatrice (Annesley), and Frances (Stanton) : a memorial window and a
brass were placed in 1894 to the Rev. Henry Burney
M.A. rector here 1847-93, and a window to Sophia his
wife, and a window in 1898 to Miss A. Hoare and Mrs.
Festing: there are 400 sittings.The register dates
from the year 1567. The living isa rectory, net yearly
value £495, including 83 acres of glebe, with residence,
in the gift of Sir H. H. A. HoaTe bart. and held since
i893 by the Rev. Barrington Henry Arthur Phillpotts

M.A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. The Wesleyan chapel,
built in 1878, will seat 150 persons; the Primitive
Methodist chapel, built in 1870, has sittings for 100
persons. Wells’ charity, estimated to produce £60
from land, is for educating, clothing and apprenticing
ten poor boys, and there are also almshouses for four
poor widows: there are other charities of £150 yearly
for coals, £2 for bread, £10 for the general uses of the
poor and £22 for public purposes. Wavendon House,
the residence of Francis Edward Bond esq. is amansion
of brick, pleasantly seated in a well-wooded park of 118
acres, with an approach through an avenue of fine elm
trees, nearly half a mile in length. Wavendon Tower,
the residence of Mrs. Skinner, is a square brick
mansion covered with rough cast, having a central
tower; it stands on-an eminence, commanding fineviews
and is approached through an avenue of limes and chest­
nuts; the gardens and pleasure grounds comprise about
40 acres; the picture gallery contains many portraits of
the Burney family,by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough
and Hogarth. Sir H. H. A. Hoare bart. and Lieut.-Col.
H. E. Burney J.P. are the chief landowners. The soil
is stiff loam, some sandy; subsoil, clay and gravel.
The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans and barley. The
area is 1,829 acres of land and 3 of water ; assessable
value, £2,765 ; the population in 1911 was 5x4 in the
civil and 510 in the ecclesiastical parish, which includes
part of Woburn Sands.
WOBURN SANDS, which embraces a part of Aspley
Guise, Bedfordshire, and part of Wavendori, was formed
into an ecclesiastical district, November 3, 1867, and
civil parish, by Local Government Board Order No.
50,115, dated April 1st, 1907; it will be found in Kellys
Directory of Bedfordshire.
Parish Clerk, Mrs. Edith Renee Gurney.
Post & M. 0 . Office. Wavendon.— John Brewer Joyce,
sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Woburn Sands.
Beds, about 6.45 a.m. & 1.15 p.m.; dispatched a1
x i . 50 a.m. & 7.20 p.m. week days & on Sundays arrive
at 6.45 a.m. & dispatched at 11.20 a.m. Woburn
Sands, miles distant, is the nearest telegraph office