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Walmsley John, wardrobe dealer, 124 High street
Wiglev George & Sons, auctioneers, 69 High street
Ward Hannah M. (Mrs.), dress maker, 93 Wolverton rd Wildman Henry, Foresters’ Arms P.H. Wolverton road
Warr William, coal merchant, 112 High street
Williams Hugh, estate agent, 6 Calverton road
Washbrook Fred, Royal Oak P.H. Horse Fair green
Wilson John, saddler & harness maker, 59 High street
Watson Harry, undertaker, 108 W’olverton road
Wolverton & Stony Stratford District New Tramway Co.
Watts Mary A. (Mrs.), private hotel, 73 High street
Limited (The), waiting room & parcels office, corner
Wayte Edward William Wakeman, hair dresser, 125 of High street
High street
Woollard Charles Parker, currier, see Sharp & Woollard
Wells Henry, landscape gardener, 2 London road
Wrorker Thomas, W’hite Swan P.H. 32 High street
Wells Henry (Mrs.), servants’registry office,2 London rd Worley Edward Thomas, solicitor, & coroner for Newport
West William Arthur, news agent, 63 High street
Pagnell division of Bucks & clerk to magistrates, 69
White Brothers, monumental masons, Market square
High street
White George, Rising Sun P.H. 131 High street
Wright Thomas Walter, dairyman, 104 Wolverton Toad
White James T. picture frame maker. Market square Yates Edwin, wheelwright, Mill lane
White John William, beer retailer, 68 Wolverton road Yate9 Walter, mealman & flour dealer, 39 High street
Wickins Ernest, draper, 84 High street
Yates William, baker, 40 Church street
S T O W E is a parish 3J miles north-north-west from James II.; the music room, the state drawing-room,
Buckingham station on the Bletchley and Banbury sec­ which has semi-circular recesses and fluted pilasters,
tion of the London and North Western railway, and 8 supporting a cornice, and coved ceiling, panelled and
miles from Brackley station on the Great Central main decorated; the dining-room, the tapestry room, the
line, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, state bed-chamber and closet, the jewel room, the
petty sessional division, union and county court district armoury, containing some valuable specimens of arms
of Buckingham, rural deanery of Buckingham, Bucking­ and armour, the library, 75 feet long, and comprising
ham portion, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese about 20,000 vols. and many valuable portraits by
of Oxford. The church of St. Mary, surrounded by the Rubens, Vandyck, Lely, Kneller, Vanloo, Gainsborough,
private grounds of Stowe House, is a building of stone and others : H.R.H. the late Comte de Paris died here,
in mixed styles, with some Decorated windows, consist­ 8 Sept. and was buried at the Catholic church of St.
ing of chancel, nave, aisles, north or Penyston chapel, Charles Borromeo, at Weybridge, 12 Sept. 1894. The
north porch and a western tower containing 5 bells: a ornamental gardens, occupying nearly 500 acres, were
stained window was inserted in1890by the Baroness laid out by the celebrated Lancelot (“Capability”)
Kinloss C.I. as a memorial to her parents the 3rd Brown, and exhibit in the disposition of the grounds
and last Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, d. 26 the endless variety of their culture, and in their connec­
March,1889, and Caroline (Harvey) his 1st wife, d. tion with and contrast to the various buildings with
28 Feb. 1874, and there are memorials to previous which they are adorned, the perfection of a gardener’s
Dukes and other owners oftheestate,and in the chancel art: the entrance to the park from Buckingham is by
brasses to Alice Saunders, c. 1479, an<^ Thomas Temple, a beautiful Corinthian arch, 60 feet high and of the
1592, and Hester his wife: in the chapel are memorials same width, at the end of an avenue 2 miles in length;
of the Penystons, including a figure of Hester Penyston, the park extends over 800 acres and to the north are
1612: the church affords 250 sittings: the burial ground Stowe Woods. Boycott Manor House, erected by the
has been enlarged by the addition of a piece of ground late Charles Higgins esq. J.P. and occupied by Thomas
near the village, with a porch for funeral services. The Close Smith esq. is a handsome mansion of red brick
register dates from the year 1568. The living is a with Bath stone dressings in the Elizabethan style; it
vicarage, net yearly value £125, including 6J acres of is situated on an eminence a short distance from the old
glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. the Hon. house, and commands a beautiful view of Stowe Park.
Luis Chandos Francis Temple Morgan-Grenville, Master Stowe Castle, 3 miles north-east, is an ancient quad­
of Kinloss, and held since 1903 by the Rev. Henry James rangular structure, and affords a good example of a
Mellor Clements M.A. of Downing College, Cambridge, country house builtfordefengivepurposes. The Baroness
who resides at Dadford. Stowe House, the property and Kinloss C.I. who is lady of the manor, Thomas Close
residence of the Rev. the Hon Luis Chandos Francis Smith esq. Earl Temple and Abraham John Robarts esq.
Temple Morgan-Grenville, Master of Kinloss, is a noble D.L., J.P. are the principal landowners. The soil is
mansion of stone,the front elevation exhibiting acentral gravel and clay; subsoil, various. The chief crops are
block, with wings united to it by buildings of inferior wheat, barley, beans and oats. The area is 3,045 acres
height; the basement is rusticated throughout and the of land and 43 of water; rateable value, £3,475; the
principal floor, well lighted by lofty windows, is entirely population of the parish in 1911 was 251, including
surrounded by pilasters supporting a frieze with cornice Boycott.
and balustrading; a noble ascent of 31 steps conducts to DADFORD is a hamlet, 4 miles north-west from Buck­
the grand portico, formed of six Corinthian pillars, sup­
porting a frieze and pediment; the front, including two ingham, and containing the greater part of the in­
colonnades and two pavilion wings, is916 feet inlength: habitants of the parish.
on each side of the principal entrance is a flower garden, BOYCOTT is another hamlet, 2J miles north-west
extending along the front and inclosed by a balustrade from Buckingham.
of iron and Portland stone, surmounted at intervals by
LAMPORT is also a hamlet occupied by a few
vases, and at the foot of the steps are pedestals, with cot
tagers.
■colossal figures of lions; in front are lawns diversified Sexton, Herbert Henry Welch.
with lakes; the north or park entrance of the mansion Post & Telegraph & Telephonic Express Delivery Office,
is an elaborate architectural work with a portico of four Dadford.— Mrs. Mary Harris, sub-postmistress. LetIonic columns, open colonnades and another flight of I
ters arrive from Buckingham at 7.50 a.m. & 12.40
steps: the chief apartments include the saloon, the hall, 1
p.m.; Sundays, 8.15 a.m.; dispatchedat 1.40 & 5J5
painted by Kent with allegorical representations of the |
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Sundays, 9.55 a.m. The nearest money order
seven planets, that of Mars being a portrait of William | p.m.;
III. ; the Egyptian hall, which is decorated with hiero­ office is at Shalstone
glyphics ; the chapel, wainscoted with cedar, and con­ Elementary School (mixed), built in 1843, for 60 chil­
taining the colours of the Third Provisional Battalion of dren ; Miss Emily Nicholls, mistress
Militia, 1814, and an organ, formerly belonging to ;Carrier to Buckingham.— Foote, wed. & sat
STOWE.
Oxley John Thomas, land agent to
DADFORD.
Morgan-Grenville The Rev. The Hon. Earl Temple, Home farm
Clements Rev. Henry James Mellor
Luis Chandos Francis Temple Treadwell Tom, farmer, Bycell farm
M.A. Vicarage
(Master of Kinloss), Stowe House
BOYCOTT.
Thomas Henry, The Woodlands
Tompkins Robert
Smith Thomas Close, Boycott Manor Thompson Charles, Vancouver lodge
Jackman John, blacksmith
Watts Henry, Boycott farm
Harris James, shopkeeper
Mossman Robert W. farmer, Castle & Beard George, farm bailiff to Thomas Haskins Frank, assistant overseer
New Inn farms
Close Smith esq. Sheepshear farm
SWAFTBOTTRNE is a village and parish with a sta­
tion, about ij miles north from the village, on the Ox­
ford and Bletchley branch of the London and NoTth
Western railway,
miles south-east from W’inslow, 9
south-east from Buckingham, 9 west from Leighton Buz­
zard and 9 north from Aylesbury, in the Northern divi­
sion of the county, Cottesloe hundred, Winslow petty
sessional division and union, Buckingham countv court

district, rural deanery of Mursley, archdeaconry of Buck­
ingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St
Swithun is an ancient fabric of stone, consisting
chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, north aisle,
south porch, and an embattled western tower containing
6 bells: the chancel is Early English and has go®“
lancet windows ; the rest of the church, with the ex­
ception of the lower part of the tower, which is a*30