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Tarry's Wine & Spirit & Beer Stores Watson Edward Mark, plumber, 34 Wolverton Cemetery (William R
(E. A. Tarry, manager), Green Oxford street
Sansom, clerk; Charles Gardner
lane. TN 21 P.O
Watson Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, superintendent), Western road
Thomeycroft George Walter, photo­ 13 Cambridge street
Wolverton Express (Albert Edward
grapher, 61 Green lane
Watts Arthur & Sons, furniture Jones, proprietor; published fri.)
Thorogood Thomas, boot maker, 95 dealers, 26 Stratford road
Church street
Green lane
Watts Stanley Montagu,artificial teeth Wolverton Industrial & Provident So­
Tilley Frederick, firewood dealer, maker (attends tues. fri. & sat. ciety Limited (A. Cownley man­
74 Stratford road
9.30
to 7), 71 Stratford road
ager; J. H. Whalley, sec.), 2
Trewinnard Alfred, jeweller. 13 Mor- Weller George, artificial teeth maker, Market square. T N 10
land terrace
57 Stratford road
Wolverton Mutual Society Limited
Truran Albert John, hair dresser, 89 Wilkinson Henry C. farmer
(Arthur Tebbutt, sec.), Church st
Jersey road
Williams Richard, fruiterer, 45 Wolverton & Stantonbury Dispensary
Verney Jn. stationer, 19 Stratford rd Church street
(Charles Hy. Miles L.R.C.P. Lond.
Victoria Commercial Hotel & Posting AVilson & Martin builders, 66 Strat- surgeon), 51 Stratford road
House (W. H. Tarry, proprietor), ford road
Wolverton Working Men’s Club (Wltr.
Church street. TN 21 P.O
Wrolverton Baths (F. Vickers, sec.), Thurstans, sec.), Stratford road
Waite Annie (Mrs.), dress maker, 38 Stratford road
Wood M. E. tobacconist, 15 Morland
Aylesbury street
Wolverton (Bucks) Building Society terrace
Walton Percy W.grocer,45Stratford rd Limited (J. Watson, sec.), 14 Cam­ Woodhouse Frank,florist,4 Radcliffe st
AVatson Cecil, confr. 94 Stratford rd bridge street
Wooton Mary (Miss), draper, 61
Church street
W O O B U R N is a parish and scattered village on the
Wye or Wick river and also on the Thames ; the parish
comprises The Green, The Town, Cores End, Bourne
End, The Common, The Moor, Havenslea and Northern
Woods, with two stations on the Wycombe, Thame and
Oxford branch of the Great Western railway, viz. Bourne
End, 28 miles, and Wooburn Green, 30 miles from Lon­
don, and is about 3 miles south-west from Beaconsfield
and 5 south-east from Wycombe, in the Southern divi­
sion of the county, hundred of Desborough, second divi­
sion of Desborough petty sessional division, union of
Wycombe, county court district of High Wycombe, rural
deanery of Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and
diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Paul is an ancient
edifice in the Late Norman, Decorated and Perpen­
dicular styles, consisting of chancel with north aisle,
clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles and massive em­
battled western tower with turret containing a clock,
erected in 1870, and 8 bells rehung and the 9th bell
recast in 1902, at a cost of £360, in commemoration of
the coronation of King Edward VII. : the pulpit, of
carved stone, is adorned with representative heads of
the four Evangelists: the east window is stained, and
there are several other stained windows : in the church
are brasses to John Goodwin and Pernell, his wife, who
built the church tower, A.D. 1488 ; Christopher Askowe,
1500, and his wife ; to Thomas Swaine S.T.P. prebendary
of Aylesbury, 1519, and to Arthur, infant son of Philip,
4th Baron Wharton, 1642: one other brass, with a
single figure in shroud, surrounded by shields and
scrolls, has a rhyming inscription of eleven lines, but no
name or date: there are memorials to the families of
Bertie and Wharton, including a monument to Philip,
4th Baron Wharton, who died 5th Feb. 1695 : in 1899 a
handsome chancel screen,designed by Mr. J.N. Comper,
was presented by Miss Emily Du Pre, at a cost of over
£500, in memory of her father, the late James Du Pre
esq. a former lord ofthe manor and patron of the living:
the organ was erected as a memorial toAlfred Gilbey esq.
of Wooburn House, d. 28 Nov. 1879: and in 1901 a
reredos was presented by Mrs. Gilbey, of the Kennels,
Wooburn and her daughter: the church was completely
restored internally in 1857 and externally in 1869 at a
cost of over £3,000, when the nave was heightened by
the erection of a clerestory and the substitution of an
open-timbered roof for the flat plastered ceiling: the
church has since been entirely reseated and affords 500
sittings; a new churchyard, near the church, was en­
closed and consecrated in 1862. The register dates
from the year 1653; the list of rectors and vicars exists
from A.D. 1216. The living is a vicarage, net yearly
value £225, including 94 acres of glebe, and residence,
in the «rift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since
1904 by the Rev. Reece Unsworth M.A. of University
College. Oxford. St. Mark’s church, at BOURNE END,
a chapel of ease to Wooburn parish church, was
built in 1914 at a cost of ,£1,900 to replace an older
edifice which has been pulled down ; it is of red brick
in the Gothic style and consists of chancel, nave, south
porch and a turret containing one tubular bell: in the
south side of the chancel is a stained window in memory
of the Rev. E. Sladen, first priest in charge of St.
Mark’s church, 1890-1905: the sanctuary was erected
by Mrs. Radcliffe-Crocker in 1914 to the memory of
her husband, H. Radcliffe-Crocker M.D. : there are
250 sittings. There is also a small Mission church in
Wycombe road, the gift of an anonymous donor in
1903, and seating 100 persons. A Church hall was
erected in 1910 on a site near the church at a cost of

£1,000. The Congregational chapel, founded in 1768 and
rebuilt in 1804, was enlarged and reseated in 1881, and
will seat about 400 persons; the Baptist chapel at
Wooburn Green was erected in 1836, and there are
chapels at Wooburn and Bourne End, the latter erected
in 1910 at a cost of £700, and a Primitive Methodist
chapel. The Working Men’s Institute and ReadingRoom
is on the Green. Fairs are held here on the 4th May
and 12th November. Charities:— John Fromow leftthe
interest of £200, now about £6 yearly, to be distributed
in blankets at Christmas; the benefaction of Philip, 4th
Baron Wharton, who died 5 Feb. 1695, provides
annually 20 Bibles bound up with prayer books;
the poor's land of 28 acres produces about £21
yearly for distribution in money; Mrs. S. Ballard
gave the surplus of interest of £50 in £3 per
Cent. Consols, after repairing the vault of J. Osmer esq.
to be distributed every second year in bread; Mrs. L.
Butterfield’s charity consists of the interest of £100
stock in £3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities, to be given to
twelve poor families of the parish at 5s. each on St.
Thomas’ day; Mrs. Rook gave the interest of £50
stock in £3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities, to be distri­
buted equally to six poor widows not in receipt of any
relief on St. Thomas’day. The Church Estate produces
£10 yearly and there is a sum of £20 a year for a
second service. The parish contains extensive paper and
millboard mills, which give employment to most of the
labouring inhabitants. Wooburn House, the seat of
Francis W. Pixley esq. J.P., F.S.A., Hon. Col. 1st Cadet
Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, is a fine mansion,
built in 1756, 011 the site of what was for many years
the palace of the Bishops of Lincoln, and subsequently
the seat of the D’Eyncourts and Whartons, one of whom,
Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, had the honour of receiving
a visit here from William III. Sir Giffin Wilson kt.
recorder of Windsor, resided here about 20 years tillhis
death in 1848. The soil is loam and gravel; subsoil,
chalk and sand. The area is 3,118 acres of land, con­
sisting of wood, arable and pasture, and 21 of water;
rateable value, £24,347 > the population in 1901 was
3,328, and in 1911, 4,047.
Parish Clerk, Stephen Wood.
Post, M. 0 . & T. Office, Wooburn Green. Letters
should have Bucks added.— William A. Whitworth,
postmaster. Letters arrive at 6.10 & 10.30 a.m. &
4.40 p.m. Letters cleared at 9.50 a.m. & 12.25, 2-35
& 7.30 p.m. Sunday dispatch at 7.15 p.m. Post
Boxes at Wycombe Lane cleared at 9.15 a.m. & 12.15,
2 & 7 p.m. ; Sundays, 9 a.m.; Northern Woods,
cleared at 9.30 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. week days only
Town Sub-Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— Andrew Charles
James Harvey, sub-postmaster. Letters are received
from Wooburn Green, Bucks, at 7.30 & 10.55 am. &
from London 5.10 p.m.; dispatched at 9.45 a.m. &
12 noon & 2.15 & 7.40 p.m. Sunday dispatch at 7
p.m. Pillar Letter Box, Wooburn Common, cleared at
8.5 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. ; Sundays, 6.40 p.m
Post, M. 0 ., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office,
Bourne End. Letters should have Bucks added.-Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Turley, sub-postmistress. Let­
ters arrive at 6 & 10.20 a.m. & 5.45 p.m. ; dispatched
at ro.io a.m. & 12.30, 2.40 & 7.40 p.m. ; Sundays,7p-®
To-wn Sub-Post Office. The Parade.— Mrs. E. J. Cleave,
sub-postmistress. Letters cleared at 9.30 a.m.
12.15, 2-3°> 5-3° & 7-T5 P m -> Sundays, 6 p.m