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Wall Letter Boxes.— Cross End, cleared at 11.45 a.m. Elementary School, built in 1851, for 132 children;
& 7.15 p.m.; Sundays. 11.15 a.m.; Lower End, cleared with an endowment from Wells’ charity; Henry
at ii.2o a.m. & 7.15 p.m.; sundays, 10.30 a.m.;
Buxton, master ; Mrs. Emily Buxton, mistress
Newport road, Cleared at 11.55 a.m. & 7.25 p.m.; Carrier— Barker, from Woburn Sands to Newport Pag­
sundays, 11.25 a.m
nell, passes through Wavendon on tues. & fri.; & to
County Police, Sidney Turner, constable
Bedford on sat
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
C O M M E R C IA L .
Hobbs William, farmer, Eagle farm
Aldersmith Mrs. The Cedars
Ayres Frederick, head gardener to F, Jackman Harry, blacksmith
E.
Bond esq
Bliss William, Wavendon villa
Joyce Jn. Brewer, stationer,Post office
Bond Fras. Edwd. Wavendon house Brill Charles, farmer
Kestall Thomas, farmer
Coaley John, farmer
Brill Emanuel, The Beeches
King Eliza (Mrs.), farmer,The Limes
Broom George, The Cottage
Coaley John (Mrs.), provision dealer Plowman Rose (Miss), grocer
Collier Richard Walker, poultry Purser Charles Dickens, grocer
Croft Miss, Ivy cottage
farmer, Lower end
Sansome John Edward, butcher
King Mrs. Primrose villa
King William, Malting farm
Collins Charles, shoe maker
Spratley Thomas, farmer
Phillpotts Rev. Barrington Henry Cook Albert, plumber
Stradling Annie (Miss), shopkeeper
Cook George, shoe maker
Arthur M.A. Rectory
Sturges Nathaniel, farmer, Park farm
Crawley Joseph, butcher
Sturges Win. farmer, Deethe farm
Skinner Mrs. Wavendon Tower
Stephens Cecil James, Manor fields Denton Elizabeth (Mrs.), Old Red Tysoe Arth. Wm. carting contractor
House P.H
Tetley William Charles, The Close
Waite Thos. farmer, Crabtree farm
Drage Charles, Plough P.H
Watts Sophia (Mrs.), Leathern
Waudby Mrs. Old rectory
Bottle P.H
Whibley Charles. Wavendon manor Field James, cowkeeper, Lower end
Yerburgh John E. Wavendon lodge Harris Albert, carpenter & builder Wildman Thomas, blacksmith

W E E D ON, see Hardwick.
W E N D O V E R is a parish and town and was formerly and burials from 1626 to 1670 have been cut out. The
a parliamentary borough : it has a station on the Metro­ living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £340,
politan and Great Central joint railway and is 3 miles including 100 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift
west from Little Kimble station on the Aylesbury of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1914 by the Rev.
branch of the Great Western and Great Central Joint Christopher Campbell Sharpe M.A. of Trinity College,
railway, 7 south-south-west from Tring, 5 south-east Cambridge. The Congregational chapel, erected in 1811
from Aylesbury, 11 north from High Wycombe and and entirely rebuilt in 1903, at a cost of about £2,000, is
35 from London, in the Mid division of the county, an edifice of red brick with stone facings, and will seat,
hundred, petty sessional division and county court dis­ about 400 persons : attached is a Sunday school, erected
trict of Aylesbury, union of Wycombe, rural deanery of in 1891, at a cost of £350, for about 150 children. The
Wendover, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Baptist chapel, founded in 1683, has 250 sittings: a
Oxford. A supply of water has been brought to the Mission hall was erected in 1880, and affords 150 sit­
town by the Chiltern Hills Spring Water Co. Limited, tings. The Mission hall, in Aylesbury street, is used
at a cost of about £2,400. The town has also been for general parochial purposes. St. Agnes Mission
supplied with a system of main drainage, at a cost room, in Dobbin’s lane, was erected in 1909 and will
of £3,500, under the supervision of Messrs. John seat 100 persons. The Market House, in High street,
Taylor, Sons and Santo Crimp, of Westminster. At the a structure of Ted brick, erected in 1842, was partly
entrance to the town from the south-east is Boddington rebuilt in 1870 and fitted with an illuminated clock,
Hill, a very pleasantly situated eminence crowned by with an attached drinking fountain in front. There is
Halton wood, and on the south-west is Bacombe Hill, a Fire Engine Station in Aylesbury street. Annual fairs
and adjoining it Coombe Hill, from which, under favour­ are held on the 13th of May and 2nd of October. Bosable conditions, St. Paul’s cathedral may be seen. The worth House, in the High street, is an ancient structure,
parish is also traversed by the Chiltern range, which probably once ecclesiastical and contains a holy water
extends over many miles. The borough sent two mem­ stoup. The Literary Institution, built in 1865, by the
bers to the Parliament of 1300, and again in 1307 and late Lieut.-General Philip Smith C.B., J.P. (d. 1894),
1309, but for some reason its privileges were aUowed to comprises a commodious reading room, and a library
lapse until in 1623, by the exertions of William Hakeill of about 250 volumes, with a periodical exchange with
esq. a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and sometime M.P. Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son of 32 books :a billiardroom
for Amersham, the right to representation was, under was added in 1904. Partofa reservoir, covering 50acres,
petition, recognised afresh, and a warrant issued for the for the supply ofthe mills at Weston Turville and Ayles­
electionofmembers forParliament of 1625 (1 Charles I.), bury, is in this parish. There are charities of about
when John Hampden, the patriot, was one of the mem­ £58 annually, for distribution in bread and money.
bers elected, and continued to represent this borough in Hill’s charity of £50 yearly is for educational purposes
five Parliaments: the Right Hon. Edmund Burke was and apprenticing, and the Whitchurch charity, be­
member 1765-74: it continued to return two members queathed in 1849, provides about £2 a year for educa­
until the passing of the Reform Aqt of 1832, by which tion and six guineas for medical aid, now usually paic
it was disfranchised. Gas Works were established in to the Royal Bucks Hospital. Boswells is the residence
1868 and the streets are lighted. The Grand Junction of Sir Thomas Barlow bart. K.C.V.O., M.D., F.R.C.P
Canal Company have a branch canal from hence to Sir Henry Colet, knighted on Twelfth Day, i486, twice
Marsworth, but this is now disused. The church of St. Lord Mayor of London, and father of John Oolet D.D
Mary is a building of flint, chiefly in the Decorated Dean of St. Paul’s and founder of >St. Paul’s school,
style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, belonged to the ancient family of Colet or Collet, and is
north and south porches, and a western embattled said to have been born in the parish of Wendover in
tower containing 6 bells, a sanctus bell and a clock; 1466, although London is also named as his birthplace.
the tower was restored and the sixth bell added in Capt. Edwin Smith, who is lord of the manor, Alfred
1914 in memory of the Rev. Albert Smith, vicar Charles de Rothschild esq. C.Y.O. Lord Rothschild
1867-1914: the chancel, restored in 1839, retains a P.C., G.C.V.O. and Mrs. Fanny Cecilia Tubbs are the
piscina: the nave has arcades of five arches on principal landowners. The soil is principally chalk and
either side, springing from clustered pillars with loamv; subsoil, chalk and gravel. The area is 4,588
moulded bases and foliaged caps: the south aisle re­ acres of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £11,241;
tains a plain trefoiled piscina, and the south doorway the population in 1911 was 1,856.
has good Decorated mouldings and ball-flower orna­ By a Local Government Board Order, No. 55,186,
ment: there are remains of a stoup: in the south dated 14th March, 1911, and cited as “The County of
aisle is a curious mural brass to W. Bradseshaw, gent. Buckingham (Lee Extension) Confirmation Order,”
I537< his wife, nine children and twenty-three grand­ King’s Ash, Kingswood and Swan Bottom, containing
children: the church was restored in 1869 at the cost of 1,172 acres, were transferred from Wendover parish to
AS'Ooo, under the superintendence of the late G. E. Lee parish.
j-treet esq. R.A. : there are 14 stained windows; the Parish Clerk, Thomas Walker.
eautiful reredos and an alabaster and marble pulpit Post, M. 0 ., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office,
High street (letters should have Bucks added).—
P®re erected by the parishioners in memory of the Rev.
harles Francis Champneys M.A. a former vicar: there Charles Edgar Freeman, sub-postmaster. Letters
are sittings for 500 persons. The churchyard has been arrive at 6.15 & 10.35 a.m. & 7 .1 5 p.m.; dispatched
at TT.30 a.m. & 12.30, 6.25 & 7.5 5 P m - ^eek da>s’•
enar?e(k The register of baptisms dates from 1626;
o n S u n d a y s arrive at 7 a.m. & dispatched at 4.55 P™
•Marriages and burials, 1670: the entries of marriages
BUCKS.

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