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Th e W esleyan chapel was erected [n
S t. M ary is an edifice of stone in the Decorated and lege, O xford.
1867. Th ere is a ch arity of about ¿ 1 8 derived from
Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four
14 acres for the repair of the church and the relief of
bays, south aisle, south porch and an em battled western
tow er containing a clock and 4 bells : the ancient rood- the poor and £ 2 3s. fuel m oney. W oughton House, the
loft stairs rem ain within the w a ll: the church was residence of Mrs. L e v i and L ieut.-C ol. W illiam John
restored in 1867, the cost of th e restoration of the Levi J.P . is a handsome m ansion of brick, pleasantly
seated near the church in a park of 43 acres. The Rev.
chancel being defrayed by the Rev. M aurice Farrell
M.A. rector 1855-84, the rem aining cost, am ounting to G . G erald Derne Dunlop M .A . who is lord of the manoT,
and
H enry C arin gton Bowles Bowles esq. are the prinabout £600,
was raised p artly by subscription and
p artly by a ra te : in 1891 the church was again restored cipal landow ners. The soil is stiff c la y ; subsoil, clay
under the direction of Mr. J. Oldrid Scott, architect, and gravel. T he chief crops are pasture, w heat, beans
the chancel at th e expense of the rector, who also gave and barley. Th e area is 1,216 acres of land and 8 of
rhe p u lp it and font cover (at a total cost of about £ 7 5 5 ); w a ter; assessable value, £ 2 ,4 3 1; the population in ig i 1
a new organ and organ-cham ber were erected as a m e­ was 209.
Parish C lerk, John Shouler.
m orial to the late M ajor W illiam L e v i (d. 1889) by his
widow and his son, L t.-C ol. W m. John L e vi, of W ough- Post Office.— M rs. Anna G azeley, sub-postmistress
Letters through Bletchley. Delivery commences about
ton house, at a cost of about £1*250; and the nave was
7.30 a.m . & 5.50 p .m . ; box closes a t 11.15 a.m. &
restored b y subscription, am ounting to about £ 5 4 0 ; iD
7.15 p .m . week d a y s; Sundays, 9.15 a.m . Simpson
1896 a chancel screen, and in 1902 a tow er screen
is the nearest m oney order & telegraph office, i£ miles
were erected by the rector from designs by M r. J.
distant
Oldrid S cott F .S .A . : there are about 150 sittin gs. The
register dates from the year 1564. Th e liv in g is a
L etter Box, in C hurchyard wall, clea red at 11.25 a.m. &
rectory, net yea rly value ¿ 2 10 , derived from 207 acres
7.25
p .m .; S u n d a y s, 9.25 a.m
of glebe, and m oney invested w ith the Ecclesiastical
Th e children of th is parish attend the elem entary school
C om m issioners and Q. A. Bounty, w ith residence, in
at Simpson
the srift of H. C. B. Bowles esq. and held since 1913 by
the Rev. G . G erald Derne Dunlop M .A . of O riel C o l­ C oun ty Police, A lfred G azeley, constable
Levi Lieu t.-C o l. W illiam John T .D .. C laridge Sam uel, farm er
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S.
Sharm an John, farm er
J.P. W oughton house
Dunlop R ev. G . Gerald D em e M .A.
S hirley John Law rence, farmer,Green
(rector), R ectory
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& Pear T ree farm s
Lashm an H enry Jas. Th e Green farm
W arr John, farm er
Barker Frederick, Old Swan inn
L evi Mrs. W oughton house
W R A Y S B TJ B Y , see W yrardisbury.

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OR C H E P P IN G W YC O M B E
H IG H W YG O M BE is a m unicipal borough, m arket and
union town, the head of a county cou rt d is tric t, a parish
and polling place for the Southern division of the
county, w ith stations on th e m ain line of the G reat
W estern and G reat C en tral jo in t railw ay, and on the
G reat W estern Railw ay branch line from Maidenhead
and M arlow, 29 m iles from London b y road and 24
by ra il, 25 south-east from O xford, 10 north from
M aidenhead, 5 north-east from M arlow, 12 n orth ­
west from U xbridge and 7 south-w est from Am ersham . in the hundred of Desborough, second division
of D esbcrough p etty sessional division, rural deanery
of W vcom be, archdeaconry of B uckin gh am and dio­
cese of O xford. Th e tow n is situated in the valley of
the W ve, from w hich it derives its n a m e; the main
thoroughfare consists of a spacious H igh street, con­
tinued th rou gh the town under the names of Easton
street and London ro a d ; besides several other streets
and extensions at the west end. I t is believed to have
been m ade a free borough in the reign of Henry 1. and
has records from the 13th c en tu ry ; the earliest being
contained in a M S. volum e given to th e town m 1474 by
W illiam Redhode, then m a yo r; the first mention of a
m ayor is in th e reign of K in g H enry H I. and Roger
O ughtred or H utred is described as m ayor in each year
for several years up to 1302. T h e town, how ever, was
not reg u larly incorporated b y charter till the reig ° of
Hen. V I. (1422-61), this charter was confirmed by E liza­
beth, Jas. I. and Chas. II. and rem ained in force until
the Corporation was remodelled under the “ M unicipal
Corporations A ct, 18 35” (5 and 6 W m . IV . c. 7 ^)Bv Local G overnm ent Board O rder, No. P. 1,658, which
w as confirmed by Lo cal G overnm ent Board’s Provisional
Orders Confirm ation (No. 6) A ct, 1901, and cam e into
operation Nov. 9th, 1901, the civil parish and borough
was extended to include parts of the civil parishes of
Chepping W ycom be Rural and W est W ycom be, and the
borough was re-divided into four w ards, v i z . : E ast, E ast
C entral, W est and W est Central, and is now governed by
a m ayor, 8 alderm en and 24 councillors.
The “ P ub lic H ealth A ct, 1858 ” (21 and 22 V iet. c. 97)
has been in operation since 1865. Th e borough has a
com m ission of th e p e a c e : and the m ayor of the pre­
ceding year acts as a ju stice for the borough, in con­
junction w ith the m ayor for the tim e being. The borough
has a police force.
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Under the provisions of the “ Local Governm ent Act,
1894” (56 and 57 V iet. c. 73), the old parish of W ycombe
and th at portion of Chepping W ycom be parish within the
m unicipal borough was on Sept. 24th, 1896, form ed into a
civil parish, and th e rem aining p art of the la tter parish is
now known as C hepping W ycom be Rural parish.

The borough is situated principally on the highway
from London to the city of Oxford. The town was first,
ligh ted w ith gas in 1836; gas works w ere erected in
1848 by a com pany, and electric lig h t is now also sup­
plied. The town is w ell supplied w ith water, which is
pum ped into a reservoir at Am ersham Hill, holding
135,000 gallons.
Th e borough returned two m em bers to Parliament
from the reign of Edward I. until th e passing of the
“ Representation of the People A ct, 18 67” (30 & 31
Viet. c. 102), which reduced the representation to one
m em b er; and under the provisions of the “ Redistribu­
tion of Seats A ct, 1885 ” (48 and 49 V iet. c. 23) the
representation was m erged into th at of the Southern
Division of the county.
K in g John is recorded to have visited the town on
three occa sio n s; Queen E lizabeth passed through it
in 1566 on visitin g Lord W indsor at Bradenham ; in
1647 Charles I. cam e to W ycom be as a prisoner on his
way to the Parliam entary head quarters at St. Albans;
Charles II. in a progress from Oxford to London in 1603
accompanied by the Queen, the Duke and Duches9 of
York, Prince Rupert, the Duke of Monmouth and many
nobility, spent one n igh t at the “ Catherine Wheel,” in
W ycombe, on Sept. 30, in th at y e a r; on Nov. 9, 1832,
H er late M ajesty Q ueen V icto ria when Princess, with
her m other the D uchess of Kent, passed through the
town on her way to Oxford, changing horses at the Red
Lion h o tel; and on Decem ber 15, 1877, on the occasion
of her v isit to the E a rl of Beaconsfield, at Hughenden,
Her M ajesty m ade a royal progress through the town
and was received w ith loyal dem onstrations.
Th is town has, since 1784, furnished the titles of Eari
and Baron to the Fitzm au rice-P etty fam ily. M a r q u e s s e s
of Lansdowne.
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Som e ancient religiou s houses and chapels in
town were destroyed at the Reform ation.
The parish church of A ll Saints, erected in the pa
of a Norman structure, is traditionally said to have e
b uilt by th e Abbess and Nuns of Godstowe, Oxon,
1273 and originally consisted of chancel, nave ws
and a central to w e r ; towards the end of the 15th
tu ry the nave arches were rebuilt, the walls came*1 p
higher and a clerestory in serted; at the close of
same period the Bower chapel was probably erecie£'
the E arly English tower stood a t the intersection 01 w
transepts, b u t was pulled down in the early part 0
16tli century and th e present Perpendicular wes
tower erected under the superintendence of Sir Ro
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Messenger, vicar of the parish, who was also c the w orks under W olsey, at Cardinal College {
Church), O x fo rd : the church was completed in ->