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BUC K IN G H A M SH IR E .

OLNEY.

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OAKLEY is a small village and parish near the B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. Here is a Congregaborders of Oxon, 7 miles north-west from Thame station |tional chapel, erected in 1845, affording 150 sittings.
and 3^ south-west from Brill and Ludgershall station, Hie Poor Foik’s pasture of 115 acres produces £120
on the direct Birmingham line of the Great Western yearly, which is distributed among about 47 poor perrailway, 16 west from Aylesbury and 10 west-by-north 1sons of this parish; there is also another allotment of 4
from Oxford, in the Northern division of the county, Iacres, called the “Poor’s Piece,” producing an annual
hundred and petty sessional division of Ashendon, union Irental of £8, which is received by trustees and expended
and county court district of Thame, rural deanery of in the purchase of greatcoats aridcalico;Hart’s charity
TVaddesdon, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese produces an annual sum of £2 14s. which is retained
of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is a small but by the trustees until it amounts to a sufficient sum for
ancient building of stone in the Transitional, Decorated apprenticing the son of one of the poor labourers in
and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave the parish, the premium given varying from £20 to
with clerestory, and an arcade of five bays separating £25; Clark’s charity of £1 annually is applied to the
it from the north aisle, south transept, and a low repair of the parish church. Richard Turpin and Ralph
western tower containing 4 bells and having a stair Beal conveyed to two trustees and their heirs a parcel
turret at the south-east angle rising above the tower of land, known as “Church Lands,” consisting of rather
and capped with a spirelet and finial: in the south more than 6 acres of pasture land, and producing a
transept is a stained window of three lights, and on the rental of £10 yearly, which is also expended in church
outside wall is a cinquefoiled arch over a sepulchral repairs. Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher esq. M.V.O. is
recess: in the north aisle are two tombs of the 14th lord of the manor. The soil is a deep tenacious dark
century, one of which bears a cross finely carved on the clay, with various loams; subsoil, gravel and clay.
upper slab, and on the other are traces of a brass; the The area is 2,806 acres; rateable value, £3,078; the
north and south walls of the chancel retain Decorated population in 1911 was 411 in the civil and 408 in the
piscinae, and the south transept a hagioscope and an ecclesiastical parish.
ancient stone locker: in 1885 the chancel was entirely By Local Government Board Order 19,618, dated
rebuilt at the sole expense of Charles Aubrey Aubrey March 25, 1886, Shabbington Wood Oottage was trans­
esq.; in 1886 the interior was entirely refloored and ferred from Shabbington to Oakley for civil purposes.
reseated and a new heating apparatus affixed, at a cost Parish Clerk, Arthur Brooks.
of£200, and in 1889 the Manor aisle was restored and
a new pulpit, lectern and a font cover were provided. Post Office.—-Arthur Hawes, sub-postmaster. Letters
received through Thame via Brill at 7.30 a.m. & 2
The total cost of these several works amounted to p.m.
Box cleared at 9.10 a.m. & 5.10 p.m.; Su n d ay s,
upwards of £1,065, of which £860 was contributed by
10.30
a.m. Brill, 2 miles distant, is the n e a re s t
C. A. Aubrey esq. : the church was further restored in money
order & telegraph office
1909 by the late Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher bart. to
whom there is a brass tableterected by the parishioners: Elementary School, enlarged in 1884 & further enlarged
in 1901, for 140 children; number on roll, 84; Walter
there are 165 sittings, most of which are free. The
register dates from the year 1704. The living is a vicar­ Charles Allward, master
age, net yearly value £240, including residence and 100 Carriers.— To Thame, Charles Hawes & John Hawes,
acres of glebe (the whole of which is let in allotments), tues. & Charles Cheese, tues. & fri.; to Oxford, John
in the gift of Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher esq. Hawes & Charles Cheese, wed. & sat. ; Charles Hawes,
M.V.O. and held since 1896 by the Rev. James Skinner
wed. & fri
Skinner Rev. James B.A. Vicarage ¡Green Charles, Foresters’Arms P.H jKirby George William, farmer
Hawes Arnold, farmer, Common farm Kirby James,farmer,Manor House fm
c o m m ee c ia l .
H-awes Charles, carrier
Kirby Thomas, farmer
Burchett Alfred, Chandos Arms P.Hj Hawes George, grocer
Measey Joseph, Royal Oak P .H
Cheese Charles, carrier
1 Hawes Henry, farmer, Ixhill
Pauling Leonard, frmr.Waterslade fm
Crook Emanuel, farmer, Ixhill farm IHawes John, grocer & farmer
Wheeler Charles, boot maker
Eborn Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hawes William, farmer
Wilkins Arth. farmer,Catsbrain farm
Fensome Jim, Sun P.H
IHonour John, farmer, Moorleys farm 1
O L N E Y , in Domesday “ Olnei,” is a small market Niccolls, 1654: in 1897 a new reredos was erected as a
town and parish in a pleasant valley on the river Ouse, memorial to John and William Garrard esqrs. and a
with a station on the Bedford and Northampton branch new font was also presented by the vicar in commemora­
of the Midland railway, 58 miles from London, 4^ miles tion of the Diamond Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen
north from Newport Pagnell, 12 south-east from North­ Victoria : in 1874 the chancel w^as restored by the 5th
ampton, i2 west from Bedford and 12 south from Wel­ Earl of Dartmouth, the patron, under the direction of
lingborough, and is in the Northern division of the the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott let. R.A. at a cost of
county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and nearly £2,000, and the nave in 1876-7 ; further restora­
county court district of Newport Pagriell, and in the tions were carried out in 1880, 1883 and 1885, the total
rural deanery of Newport Pagnell, archdeaconry of cost amounting to £1,316: in 1905 the interior of the
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The town consists nave was entirely restored and refloored. the old high
principally of one long street, with a few others branch­ pews replaced by oak seats, and a new organ provided
ing off from the Market place, an open space in the at a total cost, including other improvements, of
centre of the town ; but, owing to the prosperity of the £2,200: there are 600 sittings, one-third being free.
shoe trade here, the town has much increased, especially In 1893 the remains of the Rev. John Newton, curate
near the railway station: the river Ouse bounds it on here from 1764, and his wife were removed from St.
the east and south and is crossed on the south by a Mary’s Woolnoth, London, of which he was rector from
stone bridge of 5 arches to Emberton, as well as by 1770 till his death, 31 Dec. 1807, and interred in Olney
an iron bridge constructed in 1894 : gas is supplied by churchyard, where a marble tomb has since been
company formed in 1854, and water is derived from erected. The register dates from the year 1665. The
springs and wells. The church of SS. Peter and Paul living is a vicarage, net yearly value £180, including
is a building of stone in the Decorated style, erected 9 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Vis­
durmg the period 1325-50, and consists of chancel, nave, count Lewisham, and held since 1902 bv the Rev.
aisles, north porch, and a lofty western tower with Sidney Herbert Smith M.A. of Corpus Christi College.
spire rising to a height of 185 feet, and containing a Cambridge. The Catholic church, dedicated to Our
,and a fine peal of 8 bells, two new bells being Lady Help of Christians and St. Laurence, was erected,
added in 1903 from a bequest of £250 of Thomas Eyles, together with an attached residence for the priest, in
orthis purpose : the tower is massive and has octagonal 1900, and is of local limestone with Wheldon stone
pinnacles at the angles, and the spire is pierced with dressings: there are 100 sittings. Adjoining is a con­
our tiers of windows, all with good tracery and vent, with schools, of the Sisters of the Congregation
canopies: the nave is separated from the aisies by of the Holy Ghost. The Baptist chapel here, founded
^ve' arc*
ies on either side: the chancel is in 1694, and rebuilt in 1893, will seat 400 persons;
ected from the central axis towards the north, and and there is a Congregational chapel, erected in 1879.
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ree sedilia, rising eastwards, and a piscina : with 700 sittings, on the site of one founded in 1699.
an ar.c^e<^ recess, probably an Easter The Wesleyan chapel, an iron structure, erected in
sei-M h
the if*^
s^a^nec^ eas^ window was presented by 1902 at a cost of £190, will seat 300. The trade of the
and ir ^k°mas Revis esq. as a memorial to his wife, town depends partially on the agricultural districts in
C Il'ff16 are ^W0 °^ers presented in 1901 by Mrs. A. the neighbourhood, but there is a brewery and a
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veiT ®ne Perpendicular Toof was destroyed tannery, and the manufacture of boots and shoes is
p uf I°°° f°r the sake of the lead, which was sold t
o carried on here to some extent. The market day is
hpri t°r•p,e-*)a*rs: brasses are recorded as once existing Thursday, fortnightly. A fair, called “Cherry Fair,”
0 Elizabeth, wife of John Parker, and to Humphry is held on June 29th and 30th. There are 12 almsBUCKS.

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