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N O R T H M A RS ON .

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

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gramme of lime-sulphate (gypsum) and magnesia-sul- area is 1,983 acres, which are tithe free; rateable
phate (Epsom salts) with magnesium chloride ; the re­ value, ^3,289; and the population in 1911 was 465.
maining salts are potash and soda carbonate. The poor’s Parish Clerk, Alfred Ezra Cheshire.
allotments consist of about 12 acres, held in trust by
trustees appointed by the Parish Council and others; Post, M. 0 .& T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office
“ The Clock Land,” of about 14 acres, is held by the — Alfred E. Cheshire, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive
vicar and six elected trustees; these lands produce £26 through Winslow at 7.5 a.m. & 12.10 p.m.; Sundays,
7.30 a.m.; dispatched 9.55 a.m. & 5.55 p.m. & on
yearly, which is applied to the maintenance of the
Sundays, 9.20 a.m
church and the repair of the clock, and also towards
general church expenses and the relief and sustentation Elementary School (mixed), founded in 1837, for 130
of the poor of North Marston. The chief landowners
children ; Mrs. Emily Dudley, mistress
are Loni Cottesloe, certain colleges in the University
of Oxford, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Mrs.
Carriers to:—
Brazier and Mr. H. J. Holden. The soil is loam and
clay; subsoil, clay. The greater part of the land is in Aylesbury.— Josiah Gregory, wed. & sat
pasture. The chief crops are wheat and beans. The Winslow.— John Carter,wed. & sat. & Fredk.Anstiss,daily
Holden William Edgar, farmer
Carter George, boot maker
P R IV A T E RESIDENTS.
Chapman Ralph,dairy frmr.Manor fm Kibble Edwin, farmer & breeder of
Anstiss Henry James, Sunnybank
Farnborough Francis, Burnaby house Cheshire Alfd.Ezra, statnr. Post office draught & light horses,Glebe house
Stevens Mary Ann (Mrs.), WheatJames Rev. Arthur Harold M.A. Clarke Harry, farmer
sheaf P.H
Cox Thomas Redding, shopkeeper
(vicar), Ticarage
Tattam Alfred, grazier
Dudley
Edward
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Tattam Miss, Marston house
Tattam William, assistant overseer
Franklin Albert James, grocer
COMMERCIAL.
Tompkins Fleet, butcher
Garner Jane (Mrs.), Bell inn
Anstiss John & William, farmers
Gregory Arthur Amos, beer retailer Ward Tom, carpenter
Baker Denchfield, butcher
Hodges Samuel, farmer, Potter’s frm Watkins George, farmer
Biggs William Henry & Francis Chas. Holden Henry John & Sons, tailors Watkins James, baker
dairy farmers, Marston fields & & outfitters, military tailors & White John & Sons, iron fences, im­
Marston gate
breeches makers, ladies’ habit & plement makers, blacksmiths, re­
Buckingham Henry James, dairy costume makers ; established 1830; mount farriers, ironmongers, cycle
& at Aylesbury
agents &c
farmer & breeder of light horses
(or Masworth) is a parish and vil­ West, 1606, and another to two daughters of Nicholas
lage on the Herts border, 2J miles south from Ched- West: a chancel arch was erected in 1887 and a new
dington Junction station on the London and North east window in 1889: the various restorations from
Western railway, 2$ north-west from Tring, 2 south­ 1882 to 1891 were carried out at a cost of £810: there
west from Ivinghoe and
south-east from Aylesbury, are 240 sittings: the churchyard was enlarged in 1884.
in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Cottesloe, The old registers were destroyed by fire before 1836,
Linslade petty sessional division, union of Berkhamsted, and there are now none prior in date to the year 17 20 .
county court district of Aylesbury, rural deanery of The living is a vicarage, net yearly value from 7 6 acres
Ivinghoe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of of glebe and other sources £146, with residence, in
Oxford. The London and North Western railway and the gift of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College,
the Grand Junction canal both intersect the parish, the Cambridge, and held since 1907 by the Rev. Joseph JohD
latter having a large reservoir here covering many Atkins, of Cambridge University. There is a Baptist
acres, which is a resort in the season for anglers : the chapel. A Parish Room was built in 1897, at a cost
Aylesbury and Wendover branches of the canal start of about ^350. The charities for distribution amount
from this place. The church of All Saints is an edifice to £2 yearly. The late Countess of Bridgewater, who
of stone and flint in the Early English, Decorated and died at Ashridge Park, 11 Feb. 1849, left £5 a year to
Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel with aisle, be applied to the schools in this parish. There are
nave, south aisle with chantry, south porch, vestry three manors in this parish, the owners of which are
formed out of the north porch, and an embattled Lord Rothschild P.C., G.C.V.O. whoownstwo and the
western tower containing a clock and 6 bells, one of Earl of Rosebery K.G., K.T., P.C. and these, with
which was recast in 1887: the nave is separated from Earl Brownlow P.C. and Trinity College, Cambridge,
the south aisle by three Early English arches, two are the principal landowners. Thechief crops are
others of similar character dividing the chancel from wheat, barley, oats and beans. The soilis marl and
its aisle, and all having octagonal pillars and caps, but gault; subsoil, chalk and marl. The land is very
the two easternmost arches were lowered at the end of good, principally' arable. The area is 1,185 acres of
the 15th century, and most of the ancient carved oak land and 27 of water ; rateable value, £6,625; the popu­
disappeared in the early part of the present century: lation in 1911 was 384.
outside the north wall is a turret, formerly having a Post Office.— John Deighton, sub-postmaster. Letters
newel stair leading to the rood loft: in the church are received through Tring at 7.30 a.m. ; Sundays, 7.30
several monuments to the West and Seare families, а.m.; dispatched at 8.15 a.m. & 6.35 p.m.; Sundays,
whose last representatives are buried in this church; 11.35 a-m - Tring, 3 miles distant, is the nearest
there is also an altar tomb to Edmond West, who died money order & telegraph office
in 1618, with a brass representing a man in armoui
lying on a bed and Death striking him with his dart, Wall Letter Box, Startups End, cleared 8.40 a.m. &
while his wife and children kneel by the bedside ; an б.50 p.m. ; S u n d a y s , 11.50 a.m
earlier brass with the inscription, u Orate pro animabus Elementary School (mixed), for 90 children; Miss
Millieent Mary Reed, mistress
Johannis Scelk et Cristine uxoris ejus;” one to Mary
Chappin Wm. carpntr. & wheelwright Reeve George, farmer, College farm
Atkins Rev. Joseph John, Vicarage
Gurney Alfred John, The Manor ho Chappin Wm. jun. frmr. Gurney fm Reeve Jas. Thos. farmer, Church frm
Dinnage George, canal toll collector Richards William, farm bailiff to WPike Oliver G
Hall Wm. John, farmer, Manor farm j N. Mead esq. The Manor farm
Woodhouse William, Mill house
Plumeridge Jonathan, Old Queen’s1Sherry H. D. canal overseer
COMMERCIAL.
Head P.H
Smith John, Red Lion P.H
Chamberlain Thomas, beer retailer Pratt George Stanley, farmer, Mars- Tooley Geo. Duke of Wellington P.H
worth Great farm
Chapman Henry, White Lion P.H
M E D M E N H A M i
s a village and parish on the high styles, and was restoredin 1839 at a cost of nearly
road from Marlow to Henley and on the north bank of ^1,200,chiefly defrayedby the late Charles Robert
the Thames, and by the river 60J miles from London Scott Scott-Murray esq. ; it consists of chancel and
and 51 from Oxford; nearest bridges: up, Henley 4 nave under one roof, modern south porch and an em­
miles; down, Marlow 3^ miles; it is 3J miles west battled western tower with turret containing 3 bells:
from Great Marlow terminal station on a branch of the the south doorway is Norman: the east window 39
Great Western railway, 4 east from Henley-on-Thames stained, and in the nave are mural tablets to the
and 8 south-west from High Wycombe, in the Southern Murray family and a coloured memorial with arms to
division of the county, hundred of Desborough, 1st Mrs. Anne Danvers, ob. 1677, and there is a memorial
division of Desborough petty sessional division, union window on the south side of the nave to Henry Willia®
and county court district of Henley, rural deanery of Caslon, and in the chancel are stained windows and
Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of brasses to the Rev. F. W. Harris, 19 years vicar of the
Oxford. The church of St. Peter is a building of flint, parish, and to Eliza Eleanor Murray :there are inscribe
chalk and stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular ledger stones to Francis Duffield esq. d. 1 7 2 8 , and to
M A E S W O E T H