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Buckingham, Buckingham portion, archdeaconry of gravelly; the subsoil, various; the land, arable and
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The parish was pasture in about equal proportions. The chief crops
inclosed by Act of Parliament in 1773. The church ofSt. are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 1,180 acres
John the Evangelist is an ancient building of stone in of land and 6 of water; rateable value, .£1,895; popu­
the Transition Norman and Early English styles, con­ lation in 1911, 294.
sisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled
CHACKMORE is a hamlet 2 miles north-west from
western tower, containing 3 bells: the windows in the Buckingham,
ose to the avenue which leads from
nave are Decorated with the exception of one, which is Buckingham toclSt
. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. In
Perpendicular: in the chancel are two Early English the school here, owe
school room holding 90 persons
windows and a Decorated east window : the south door­ church service is the
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ld
6 p.m. Sundays.
way is a beautiful example of Transition Norman, with Parish Clerk, WilliamatWelch.
great delicacy of detail: the whole church was, about Post Office, Chackmore.— Mrs. Fanny Adams, sub-post­
the year 1903, thoroughly restored under the super­
. Letters through Buckingham arrive at
vision of Mr. J. Oldrid Scott F.S.A. architect, at a cost 6m.i2s5tressa.m.
& 12.20 p.m.; dispatched 2 & 6 p.m. •
of £1.000: there are 140 sittings. The register dates
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ery on Sundays. Buckingham, 2 miles dis­
from the year 1597. The living is a rectory, net yearly tant, is th
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order & telegraph office
value £300. with 172 acres of glebe and residence, in Wall Letter Box,arReasdtclmoney
e, cleared at 12.20 & 6.15 p.m.
the gift of the Warden and Fellows of New College, week days; Sundays,iv
11.15 a.m
Oxford, and held since 1902 by the Bev. Norman Robert
Ramsay M.A, of that College. The Warden and Fellows Elementary School, Chackmore, built in 1884 & enlarged
of New College, Oxford are lords of the manor and in 1886 for church services; Miss Lydia Hayes, mist
principal landowners. The soil is mixed, principally Carrier.— Alfred Foote, to Buckingham, wed. & sat
RADCLIVE.
CHACKMORE.
Salmon Perridge, farmer
Lord Mrs. Grange
Nobes Richard
Salmon Perridge, jun. registrar of
Ramsay Rev. Norman Rt. M.A.Rectry Adams George, shopkeeper
marriages & deputy registrar of
Paxton Frederick, market gardener Foote Alfred, carrier
births & deaths for Buckingham
Roots John, farmer, Mill farm
Hall Edwin, beer retailer
district
Swain George, farmer, Manor house Judd Noah, timber merchant
Watts Thomas, farmer
R A D N A G E is a parish and village on the borders of St. John's College, Cambridge, who is also chaplain of
Oxfordshire, 4^ miles north-west from West Wycombe High Wycombe Workhouse. There are two small Primi­
station on the main line of the Great Western and tive Methodist chapels. The inhabitants are occupied
Great Central joint railways, 6 north-west from High in the manufacture of chairs and in agriculture. There
Wycombe. 5 south-west from Princes Risborough, in are 29a. 3r. 32p. the rent of which is divided for the
the Mid division of the county, hundred of Desborough, church, school and distribution to the poor. Radnage
petty sessional division of Desborough 2nd division, House is Ihe property and residence of Frederick John
union of Wycombe, county court district of High Bennett esq. The lordship of the manor is vested in
Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buckingham, rural deanery the Crown. The principal landowners are Mrs. Masterof Wycombe and diocese of Oxford. The village lies in son. The Marquis of Lincolnshire K.G., P.C., G.C M.G.
a valley hemmed in by hills of considerable height, and Frederick John Bennett esq. The soil is chalky;
from the summits of which an extensive view is subsoil, light loam and clay. The chief crops are
afforded of the richly-wooded country around. The arable. The area is 1,369 acres; rateable value, £1,365;
church of St. Mary, probably erected in the early part the population in 1911 was 316.
of the 12th century, is a building of flint and rubble Sexton, Fred Avery.
stone, chiefly in the Early English style, with traces of
Norman work, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch Post Office, Radnage City.— Mrs. Annie Stratford, sub­
and a central tower containing 4 bells: the nave retains postmistress. Letters through Wallingford, via
a good Perpendicular roof, but most of the windows are Stokenchurch. arrive at 6.35 a.m. ; dispatched at
Decorated: there are brasses to William Syer, rector 5.55 p.m. Stokenchurch. 2 miles distant, is the
1605, and Jane his wife, and to William Este, 1534, his nearest money order & telegraph office
wife and children, and in the chancel a piscina and Wall Letter Boxes: near the church, clearedat 8.35
a.m. & 5.25 p.m. & Sundays at 10.25 a.m.; & at
hagiosoope: the church affords 115 sittings. The
register dates from the year 1574. The living is a Radnage house, cleared 5.35 p.m. ; sundavs, 10.35 aTn
rectory, net income £180, with 8J acres of glebe and Elementary School (mixed), built in 1862 & enlarged in
residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held
1 8 8 5 , for t o o children ; James Henry Evans, master
since 1904 by the Rev. Benjamin John Corder B.A. of Carrier to High Wycombe— John Stone
Bennett Frederick John, Radnage ho Constable Edwd.Thos. baker,Commor Stone John, carrier & chair turner,
Brewer Cecil, Town end
Dormer Ernest, chair turner,CommoT The City
Corder Rev. Benjamin John B.A. Holland Owen, bricklayer. Common Stone George,Blacksmiths’Arms P.H.
(rector, & chaplain of High Wy­ HuntThos.farmer & shopkpr.Commor & blacksmith, Common
combe union workhouse), Rectory Neighbour Robt. J. frmr. Bottom fir Stone Rosanna (Mrs.), Three Pigeons
Woodgate Mrs. Bowercombe
North Thomas, farmer, Ward’s farm
P.H. Common
COMMERCIAL.
Pitcher James, farmer, Bennett end Stratford Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper,
Ashby Alfred, Three Horse Shoes P.H Pitcher James, jun. farmer, The City Post office
Avery George, farmer, Grange farm Scott Geo. poultry farmer. Holly lo Tapping John, farmer, Green hand
Avery Henry, chair turner, Town end Stevens Geo. wheelwright, The City Taylor George, farmer, Bennett end
Butler George, chair turner. The City Stevens Wm. chair turner, The City West Robert, farmer, Andridge
Cleaver Thomas, beer retlr. The City Stone Arthur, chair turner. Common Withers Edwd. Owen,farmer,Ashridge
B A V E N S T O N E is a parish and village on the North­jfounder of the annual Seatonian prize at Cambridge,
amptonshire border and bounded on the south by the Iwho died in 1741 : there are two stained windows in the
river Ouse, 3 miles west from Olney station on the Bed­[south aisle, one the gift of Mrs. Godfrey in memory of
ford and Northampton branch of the Midland Tailway, her husband, a former vicar of the parish, and another
8 north-east from Stony Stratford, 5 north-west from ■to William Godfrey esq. : the church was thoroughly
Newport Pagnell, 14 west from Bedford and 12 south­Irestored in 1885 and the mortuary chapel or vestry in
east from Northampton, in the Northern division of the ;1892: there are 250 sittings, 100 being free. The
county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and register dates from the year 1568. The living is a vicar­
county court district of Newport Pagnell, archdeaconry age, net yearly value £100, with residence, in the gift
of Buckingham, rural deanery of Newport Pagnell and of Wilford Finch esq. of Burley-on-the-Hill, Oakham,
diocese of Oxford. The church of All Saints is a build­ Rutland, and held since 1908 by' the Rev. Richard
ing of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular Rawlinson Yyvyan M.A. of Corpus Ohristi College,
styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle pro­ Cambridge, who is also perpetual curate of Weston
longed to the east end, and a low western tower con­ Underwood Here is a Union chapel, founded in 179°
taining a clock and 3 bells: at the east endof thand
e rebuilt in 1907, with 80 sittings. Here are twelve
aisle is a splendid tomb withcolumns of black marble |almshouses, founded by the first Earl of Winchilsea
supporting a canopy, to Sir Heneage Finch kt. firstIand Nottingham, for six single men and six single
Earl of Nottingham and keeper of the Great Seal, ob. !women, with an allowance of 5s. per week each and
18 Dec. 1682; on the tomb lies a semi-Tecumbentmarble
firing. Wilford Finch esq. is lord of the manor and
effigy, and below it a long eulogistic inscription in principal landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay
Latin : on the east side of the churchyard is a plain and gravel. The chief crops are whpat, barley, beans,
stone, with Latin inscription, to the Rev. Thomas oats and roots. The area is 2,069 acres of land and 6
Seaton, formerly fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and of water; assessable value, £1,022; the population 10