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H OG G ESTO N .

BUCK ING HA M SH IRE.

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Charles II. and rectoi of tiiis. [.arisli, who died 20th The land is principally pasture, but wheat, oats and
Nov 1680. and his son and successor, Charles Gataker, beans are grown in small quantities. The area is i,57t
equally celebrated as a critic and divine, who died a
cres; rateable value, ¿1,472; the population in iQir
.Nov. 10th, 1701, are both buried in the chancel. In was
138.
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the village is a Reading-room, open during the winter Sexton, Henry Baker.
evenings. The Earl of Rosebery K.G., K.T.. P.O.. Letters through Winslow arrive at 7.10 a .m . & 6.30
F.S.A. is lord of the manor and owns all the land with I p.m. week d a y s ; S u n d a ys, 8.30 a.m. Wall Letter Box
exception of the glebe. The old Manor House, an
cleared week days a t 7.15 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. ; sundays
interesting building in the Domestic Gothic style and
at 8.40 a .m . Winslow is the nearest money order &
dating from about the i6th century, has a good panelled
telegraph office, about 3^ miles distant
room, massive oak stairs and fine chimneys, and is nov
School (mixed), for 50 children; Mi-w
occupied by Mr. Blick Morris, in whose family it has re Elementary
Wilkins, mistress; Miss Alice Margaret Baylis, cor­
mained for 200 years. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay
respondent
Walpole Rev. Arthur Sumner M . A .
c o m m e k c ia l
Morris Blick, farmer, Manor house
TbeJRec'or>'
:Chapman Wm. farmr. Hoggeston cot Simms Thomas, farmer, Maynes hill
Baylis Thomas Gavton, farmer, Town; Hopkins Amos (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Stonhill George, farmer, Hurdles gro
use
Knight Jesse, Rose & Crown P.H
Wilson Edward, blacksmith
H O G S Hi
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■lord of the manor, William Barin® Du Pré esn and ‘
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parish, i| miles south from Grandborough Road sta- IHarrv C. W. Vernev bart M P arethe prffimnal land
wav and
fGreatw™
rail- „wne'ra. The soil is'
and sand ■ ÏÏWSTS?. The
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a rtf.'"V? 0m Wms!t™ statl0n on !land is chieflv in pasture, but wheat and beans are
W t h w |By
-iOxford branch of the London and !grown to a small extent. The area is i 322 acresNorth Western railway, 9south from Buckingham and -rateable value, ¿1,488; the population in 1011 was 37 ’
-he ronntT0I4«d«d Î7 ’ I“ ,
thew No,
rtllern dwision of L e tt e r s through Winslow arrive at 8.30 a.m. & Tie
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f ' ^ mslo'T Pe«y sessional p.m. week days; Sundays, 8.30 a.m
division and union and Buckingham county court dis- Wall
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Tetter Box
^ on "
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•- cleared at 8.15 a.m.
Railway
bridge
crict. Here was formerly a church, but no vestige of & 5.20 p.m. ; sundays, 8.35 a.m
it now remains. The parish consists only of six farm­ Botolph Claydon isthe nearest money order & telegraph
houses and a few cottages. The Duke of'Leeds, who is office, 1^ miles distant
Marked thus • letters are received.Curtis Jn.Simons.frmr. Up. Hogshaw IHughes John Beechem, fanner, Hogthrough Botolph Claydon.
Curtis Alfred Edward, farmer, Lower shaw farm
•Cherry Frank, farm bailiff to Mr
Hogshaw
•Slade Duncan & Painter Charles,
William Wellings
Curtis Robt. Alfd. farmer, Fulbrook j farmers, Kite Hill farm
H O L M E R G R E E N . see Little Missenden.
H O R S E M O O R G R E E N , see Langley Marish.
HOftSENDON is a parish kalf-a mile west from to the Grubb family, and one to Thomas Anderton esq. :
Princes Risborough station on the Great Western and the east window is stained, and there are memorial
Great Central joint line and 7 north-west from High windows erected in 1 9 0 2 to the Rev. J. Partridge, a
Wycombe, inthe Mid division of the county,in the former rector, and J. E. Grubb esq. : there are ’50
hundred and petty sessional division of Aylesbury, union sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the vear
of Wycombe, county court district of High Wycombe, 1663 ; marriages, T707 ; burials, 1637. The living is a
rural deanery of Aylesbury, archdeaconry of Bucking­ discharged rectory with the vicarage of Ilmer, annexed
ham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Michael 111 November, 1 8 6 5 , joint net yearly income ¿ 2 0 5 , with
is a plain edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, 2 acres of glebe, in the gift of L. jaques esq. and Mrs.
rebuilt in 1765 on the site of the old church, and re­ Jaques, and held since 1 9 1 1 by the Rev. Harry Morton
stored in 1869, and consists of a chancel and nave under Gorham M.A. of St.Peter's College, Cambridge. Horsenone roof and a low embattled western tower containing don Manor House (rebuilt in 1 8 1 0 ) was garrisoned for
one bell; in1765 the then existing churchhaving King Charles by Sir John Denham ; from him it passed
become decayed, a faculty was obtained from the Bishop to the Pentons and afterwards to the Grubb family, who
of Lincoln to take down the nave and tower and out of sold it in 1 8 3 8 to the Duke ofBuckingham and Chandos:
the materials to erect another tower at the west end of it is the property and residence of Mrs. Jaques. who
ike chancel, and this was accordingly done at the ex­ is lady of the manor and principal landowner: a por­
pense of John Grubb esq. at that time patron :the old tion of the moat of the original mansion still exists,
church issupposed to have extended as faras the and there is a small ornamental lake in the grounds.
stables, the eastern or front wall of which occupies the The soil is loamy; subsoil, rag. The chief crops are
site of the western end of the church or tower: the wheat, barley, turnips and mangold wurtzel; there i»
old church door key was dug up under the threshold also good grazing ground. The area is 5 3 5 acres; rate­
of the stable in 1812 ; the lock is still upon the church able value, ¿ 1 , 1 7 3 ; the population in 1 9 1 1 was 18 inthe
door : in 1869 the church was extended eastwards under civil and 76 in the ecclesiastical parish.
the direction of Mr. W. White, architect: the benches Letters from Tring, through Princes Risborough, Bucks,
are of English oak with poppy heads ; the lectern, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office,
reading-desk and pulpit are also of oak. handsomely
arrive about 7.45 a.m. & 5 p.m
carved : in the south wall of the chancel is a piscina;
the hexagonal font was shown in the Exhibition of 1851 Wall Letter Box, near the church, cleared at 7.45 a.m. k
and has emblematical carvings : there are mural tablets 5.20 p.m. week days only
Gorham Rev. Harry Morton M.A.;
c o m m e r c ia l .
|Randall John, cattle keeper to Mrs.
Folley William, farmer & overseer, Jacques
(rector)
Jaques Mrs. Manor house
Little Horsendon
(Ward Frank, private gardener to
Johnson Miss
Mrs. Jacques
H O R T O N
is a village and parish, separated from .and 2 new bells added in 1898 : there is a fine north.
Middlesex by the river Colne, 2 miles north from the !doorway of Late Norman date and a Tudor porch: the
Wraysbury station on the Staines and Windsor branch 1east window, erected in 1883, is a memorial to John
of the London and South Western railway, 3 south from Milton, the author of -‘Paradise Lost,” who once lived
Langley station on the main line and 2J south-west from here ; Milton’smother, who died in 1637, isburied her^-,
Colnbrook stationonthe West Drayton and Stainesbranch and in the chancel is a flat stone to her memory with
of the Great Western railway, 4 east from Windsor and this inscription:— “Beneath this stone lie the remains of
if south-west from Colnbrook, in the Southern division Sarah, the wife of John Milton there are memorial
of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of windows to the Rev. R. G. Foot, 1876, Annetta Chatry
Stoke, union of Eton, county court district of Windsor, de la Fosse, Edward and Frances Tyrell and Edmond
rural deanery of Burnham, archdeaconry of Buckingham Temple Watson : the church was thoroughly restored in
and diocese of Oxford. A large portion of Colnbrook 1875-6, when the south aisle was rebuilt, the church re­
was ecclesiastically separated (June 14. 1853) from Hor- seated with oak benches and the entrance porch and
con to form part of the consolidated chapelry of Coln­ chapel restored, at a total cost of ¿"2,876: the church
brook. The church of St. Michael, situated in an affords 280 sittings, all being free. The register dates
attractive and well kept churchyard next the road, is from the year 1571. The living is a rectory, net yearly
an ancient structure of flint faced with stone, chiefly in value ¿315, derived from 244 acres of land allotted in
the Norman, Early English and Perpendicular styles, lieu of tithes, with residence, in the gift of Mrs
consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, Williams, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Thomas Read
north porch and an embattled western tower containing Davies M.A. of University College, Durham. The church
a clock and 6 bells, the then existing 4 being rehung Ip.stat»1 of 3a. 2r. i6p. with houses, produces about ¿160