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rectors, dated respectively 1654 and 1670, and inscribed stood in a close near the abbey, but no remains now
brasses to Katherine, wife of Thomas Newton esq. 1680, exist. The rent of about 9 acres of land and three
and to James, eldest son of Thomas Newton esq. and cottages was left by an unknown donor for the repairs
barrister of the Inner Temple, 1690: the stained east of the church and amounts to about £20 yearly.
window was given by Mr. Benjamin S. Brookes, of Captain Harold Hatton Hulse, who is lord of the manor.
the Grange, and another by Mr. H. Coles: the church Denis Herbert Farrer esq. and Charles Anthony Chester
was thoroughly restored in 1859 at a cost of £800, esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is mixed; sub­
under the direction of Mr. W. Butterfield, architect, soil, stone and gravel. The chief crops are wheat,
and in 1892 a new organ was erected by the barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,346 acres of
parishioners: there are 300 sittings. The register land and 7 of water; assessable value, £1,777; the
dates from the year 1574. The living is a rectory population in 1911 was 687 in the civil and 797 in the
with Cold Brayford annexed, joint net yearly value ecclesiastical parish.
¿180. with residence, in the gift of the trustees of By Local Government Board Order, 18,130, dated
the late Francis Larken Soames esq. and held since 1875 March 25, 1886, a detached part of Lavendon was trans­
by the Rev. George Pocliin Soames M.A. of Cains Col­ ferred to Warrington.
lege. Cambridge. There is a Union chapel here,
Sexton, Frank Holmes.
founded in 1790, and rebuilt in 1894, seating 14c Post Office.— Mrs. Elizabeth Cotton, sub-postmistress
persons. A Cemetery of three quarters of an acre was
Letters arrive through Olney, Bucks, at 7.45 a.m. k
formed in 1895, at a cost of £300; it is under the 3.15 p.m.; dispatched at 9 a.m. & 5 p.m. week days &
control of the Parish Council. In this parish was an
11.5 a.m. S u n d a y s . The nearest money order & tele­
abbey of Premonstratensian (Pratum monstratum)
graph office is at Turvey, 2 miles distant
monks founded in the reign of Henry II. by John de
ol.
Bidun, in honour of St. John the Baptist: at the Dis­ Elementary (mixed & inSfcahno
ts*), built in 1875, for 142
solution there were 11 canons, 20 servants and 8 inferior children; William Barnard,
master; Miss Cheshire,
servants, and the revenues were estimated at £79
13s. 8d. ; the building appears to have become ruinous infants’mistress
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before 1534. hut the bells and lead from the roof
realized over £73: the abbey church is said to have Police Constable, Hugh Guv Bartlett
Johnson William Longland, butcher
Hulse Capt. Harold HaIton, Lavendon Fielding Thomas, butcher
Hall George, Horseshoe P.H
Kitchener Arthur, shoe heel m a k e T
grange
Lawr ence Bros, farmers, Grange farm
Soames Rev. George Pochin M.A.(rec­ Harley William, shopkeeper
Hensman William, farmer
Lay George, wheelwright
tor), Rectory
Lay James, grocer
Swannell William A Lavendon castle Holmes Francis, carrier
Holmes Frank, shopkeeper
Lay Richard, carpenter
c o m m e r c ia l .
Horn Davis Henry, farmer
Lay Samuel, bricklayer
Osborn Joseph, blacksmith
Austin Beatrice (Mrs.), George inn Howson Joseph, jun. miller
Ingram Alice (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Page James, farmer
Brooks Benjamin Joseph, grocer
Cemetery (William Lawrence, clerk Ingram Fredk. boot & shoe maker Panter Frederick, Green Man P.H
Parris Henry & Son, farmers
to burial board & Parish Council) Ives Alfred, farmer
Previte Arthur W. farmer
Cotton Elizh. (Mrs.),shopkpr. Post off Ives Walter, farmer
Johnson Hy. Vincent.farmr.Park farm Rainbow William, baker
Cotton Reuben, boot maker
Davis Bertie Walter H. cycle agent Johnson Jn. Hy. farmer. Uphoe farm Taylor Lois (Mrs.), shopkeeper
L E C K H A M S T E D (or Leckhampstead) is a parish on adorned with a variety of carved figures: a new organ
the borders of Nortliants and on a feeder of the river was erected in 1886 by the recto? and parishioners:
Ouse, 4 miles north-east from Buckingham station on there are 258 sittings. The register dates from the year
the Banbury and Bletchley branch of the London and 1558. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £325.
North Western railway, in the Northern division of the including 78 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift
connty, hundred, petty sessional division, county court of Lawrence Baker esq. and held since 1904 by the Rev.
district and union of Buckingham, the rural deanery of Robert Melvill Gore Browne M.A. of Jesus College,
Buckingham, Buckingham portion, archdeaconry of Cambridge. The rectory, erected in 1836, is a hand­
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of some residence situated on an eminence and surrounded
St. Mary is an ancient building of stone in the Norman by 9 acres of shrubbery and meadow. Lawrence James
and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave Baker esq. who is lord of the manor, Lord Penrhyn and
of four bays, north aisle, south porch and an embattled Major Musgrave Robert Hall are the principal land­
western tower containing 5 bells, 3 of which were owners. The soil is mixed, clay and gravel; subsoil,
added in 1897, v’z- a Jubilee bell, one to commemorate various. About two-thirds of the land is pasture, the
the 50th year of the Medical and Benefit Club, and remainder arable; there are about 193 acres of wood­
one given by the children of the parish to the rector: land. The area is 2,561 acres of land and 10 of water .
the north and south doorways are fine examples of rateable value, £3,280; the population in 1911 was 243
Norman work: a reredos of glass mosaic has been
presented by Capt. Drummond as a memorial to the Post & M. 0 . Office.— W a l t e r H u r s t , s u b - p o s t m a s t e r .
Letters arrive from Buckingham at 8.5 a . m . & 3
Rev. Heneage Drummond M.A. rector here 1835-83:
p.m.; Sundays, 8.45 a.m.; dispatched a t 10.55 am
there are three sedilia and a piscina, and a slab with
k 5.10 p.m. week days & 10.40 a.m. on S u n d a y s .
effigies in brass of three children and a Latin
inscription to Reginald Tylney esq. who died in 1506: Maids Moreton is the nearest telegraph office
in the north aisle is a full-length recumbent figure of a Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1837, for 67
knight in armour: the octagonal font has panelled sides children; Mrs. Harriet Gregory, mistress
Browne Rev.Robert Melvill Gore M.A French & Sons, farmers
Lester Oliver, f a r m e r
Rectory
Hobbs John, Cheqners P.H
Manning Charles Norton, f a r m e r
Puddephatt William, The Limes
Hurst Henry George, frmr. Manor frm Taylor William George, f a r m e r
COMM ERCIAL.
Hurst Walter, farmer. Post office
Warner Emily (Miss), l a u n d r y
Canvin Charlotte (Mrs.), coal mer
LEE (or The Lee) is a parish andsmall village 3 fecit," and probably of the 13th century: during 1910-n
miles north-b^y-east from
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n on |the church was enlarged by the extensionofthe chancel,
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wie Metropolitan and Great Central joint railway, 6£ the addition of two transepts, a baptistery and vestry:
east-by-south from Little Kimble station on the Ayles­ new choir stalls were added and the east wall and
bury branch of the Great Western and Great Central chancel panelled in oak, under the direction of G. H
joint railway and 4 south-east-by-south from Wen- Fellows Prynne R.I.B.A. : the total cost of the im­
aover and 5 north-west from Chesham, in the Mid provements amounted to £3,500, largely the gift of
msion of the county, hundred and petty sessional Sir Arthur and Lady Liberty: the sedilia and piscina,
msion of Aylesbury, union of Amersham, county court together with all old mural monuments, have been
^strict °f Chesham, rural deanery of Wendover. arch- replaced in the old church, from which they were
eaconry 0f Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The taken in 1868: there are 200 sittings: in the churche*
a-aS keen furnished with a water supply, at the yard, wmcn has been extended by a gift of land from
•oftof Sir Arthur Lasenby Liberty, from a spring inthe the patron, is a very large and ancient yew tree. The
valley. The church of St. John the Baptist, register dates from the year 1678. The living is a
ected in 1868 at a cost of £1,300, is a small edifice of vicarage, net yearly value £140, with new residence,
nay 10 tlle Early English style, consisting of chancel, in the gift of Sir Arthur Lasenby Liberty D.L., J.P
iai ves^r^’ south porch and a western bell gable con- who is lord of the manor and principal landowner.
n'hg one bell inscribed. “ Michael de Wymbis me and now held by the Rev. Canon Constantine Osborr.f