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Grange Thomas Alfred, farmer, West­ North W111. Aug. farmer, Lower frm
Saunders John, farmer
brook
Saunders Thomas, farmer
Hicks Edwin, White Hart P-H
Snook
Thomas, gamekeeper to James
Higgins William, cowkeeper
Whitehouse Griffin esq. J.P- The
Jackman Frederick, butcher
Lanchbury Herbert William, farmer, Lodges, Penn farm
Stevens Edward, farmer, Quash farm
Manor farm
C O M M E R C IA L .
farmer,
Lester Joseph Richd.Black Horse P.H Tibbies Robert Charles,
Bambrook
Willi
lliam,
am, coal
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ier
ILudgate Frank, farmer, Deane’s farm Upper Green farm
B a m b r o o k Wi
Williams John, boot maker
B o w d e n John, assist, overseer, Post off Neil Harold, farmer, Grange farm
C r o x f o r d Albert & Ernest, farmers, Nelms Arthur Wm. baker & grocer Wright Wm. farmer, Grove Hill farm
Wyatt Edward,Three Horse Shoes P.H
Penn farm
1Nelms Henry, chimney sweeper
T U R V IL L E
(anciently called Turfield) is a parish by Miss Tempero in 1885, producing £24 19s. 4d. per
and village on the Oxfordshire border, lying among the annum, £21 3s. 8d. of which is for the church poor
Chiltern Hills, 7 miles north from Henley terminal homes and £3 15s. 8d.for the poor ofthe parish.
station on a branch of the Great Western railway, and Butlin’s charity produces £1 3s. 4d. perannum and
about 6 south-west from West Wycombe station on the is for church expenses; Bartlett’s charity produces
Maidenhead and Oxford section of the Great Western £12 10s. and is for the church school; Beisley’s charity
and Great Central Joint railway, 7^ west-by-south from of 1896 produces an annual income of £17 12s. which
Erth Wycombe and 7 north-west from Marlow, in is distributed in coals. Turville Park,at present
th^ Southern division of the county, Desborougb occupied by John Seargeant Cyprian Bridge esq. is a
hundred, 1st division of Desborough petty sessional picturesque building seated on an eminence and com­
division union and county court district of Wycombe, manding extensive views of the surrounding country;
rural deanery of Wycombe, archdeaconry of Bucking­ General Dumouriez, the victor of Jemappes, lived and
ham and diocese of Oxford; part of the village is in (1823) died here, and it was for a time the residence
Ibstone parish. The church of St. Mary is a small of the late Lord Lvndhurst, Lord Chancellor. The
building in the Early English and Decorated styles, with house was built by William Perry esq. of Wormington,
a Perpendicular tower, and containing some traces of Glos. who married about 173® Elizabeth, second
Norman work: it consists of chancel, nave, north tran­ daughter of Col. Thomas Sydney, and eventual sole
sept, south porch, and an ivy-clad tower, built of flint heiress of the Sydneys, Earls of Leicester. Lord
and brick and containing 4 bells: attached to the Camovs, Mrs. E. S. Hoare-Nairne and T. W. G. Hewitt
esq. of Weelsby Old Hall, Grimsby, are lords of the
church is a private aisle belonging to the Turville Park manor
principal landowners. The soil is chalk and
estate, the pews in which are occupied by Mrs. Stafford gravel;and
ubsoil, light in the valley. The chief crops are
O’Brien Hoare and family: the east window is stained wheat, bs
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y and oats. The area is 2,328 acres; rate­
and the chancel retains a small piscina of the Decorated able value, £2,187;
the population in 1911 -was 328.
period: there is a good Norman font, and the north
Sexton and Parish Clerk, John Sewell.
and south doorways are also Norman, but both have
an inserted Early English arch: by the tower lies a Post M. 0 . & T. Office, Turville Heath.— Mrs. Emily
stone coffin of the 13th cent.: there are several mural Frewin, sub-postmistress. Letters received from
monuments in the transept to the Sydney, East, Butlin,
Henley at 8 a.m. & 2 p.m.; dispatched at 12.55 &
Kincr and Perry families; the organ was presented by 6.15 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 8 a.m.; dispatched at
the“late Stafford O’Brien Hoare esq. of Turville Park:
11 a.m
the church was restored in 1722, again in 1876, at a Post Office, North End.— William Edward Tanner, sub­
cost of £150, and again in 1900 at a cost of £1,800, and
postmaster. Letters arrive through Henley at 8.10
affords 125 sittings. The register dates from the year a.m. & 2 p.m.; dispatched at 12.45 & 6.10 p.m.;
1582; but about 40 years are missing previous to 1660, sundavs, arrive at 8.10 a.m.; dispatched at 10.45
and there are several other gaps. The living is a a.m. Turville Heath is the nearest money order &
vicarage, net yearly value £120, including 40 acres of telegraph office
glebe, with residence, in the alternate gifts of 1 .W. G.
Hewitt esq. Lord Camoys and Richard L. Ovey esq. Wall Letter Box, in Village, cleared at 5.45 P-m-1 ran’
days, 10.40 p.m
and held since 1897 by the Rev. Michael Graves B.D.
Schools.
of the University of Durham, and rural dean of
Wycombe. The church of St. Saviour, in Turville Flementary> North End, built in 1861, for 65 children;
Park, erected in 1898 on a site presented by the late ^j;rS- Florence Cooper, mistress
S. O’B. Hoare esq. is an edifice of flint 111 the Gothic <F1‘
ementai.y> Village (mixed), built in 1873 & enlarged in
style, consisting of chancel and nave, and affords 120 (
{Qr , children; Mrs. Emma Avres, mistress
sittings. At Turville Heath is a Primitive Methodist
* o*
£
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tnes thurs &
chape), erected in 1872. Rod’s charity produces £8 Carrier to Henle5r' - ^ * “aI?plti ” ’
yearly, and there is also a charity of ¿1,100 bequeathed sat. at 10 a.m. returning same days
Bartlett John, chair turner,NorthEnd Piercy William, farmer, North End
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S.
Bartlett John Robert, assistant over­ Pitcher William, builder & carrier,
^.stbury Sir John Meir,Turville court seer & clerk to Parish Council, North End
Rockall Samuel, chair turner, Sum­
Bridge John Seargeant Cyprian, North End
Turville park
Brown Christopher, gardener to mers heath
l’Hautpoul Marquis, The Grange, Marquis d’Hautpoul, White house, Sharpe James, farmer
Sherville Richd. Bull & Butcher P.H
Turville Heath
Turville Heath
jrraves Rev. Michael B.D. (vicar, & Carpenter
Henrietta (Miss), beer retlr Simmons Joseph, farmer, South End
Simmons Reginald, farmer, Turville
rural dean), Vicarage
Dell Jesse, chair turner
doare-Nairne Major Edward Spencer, Dent
Valley farm
Matthew,
shopkeeper
Stevenson James Charles, White
Turville lodge
eles John, thatcher
lenkins Charles Elliott Edward K.C. E
Hart P.H. North End
Harman William, farmer
Turville Heath house
Horwood John, beer ret. North End Tanner William Edward, grocer,
Morrison Mrs. The Hut, North End Hughes
Edwin, farmer, Balhams frm Post office, North End
Pearce James N. North End house
Hughes Thos. (Mrs.), frinr. Rose frm Taylor Edward William, Drover P.H.
Lane Thomas Hampton, pheasant South End
C O M M E R C IA L .
Wallis John, farmer, Kimble
breeder, North End
Ayres Brothers, chair turners
White Harry, chair turner
Morris Ernest, farmer
Ayres William, chair turner
Bartlett Jas. chair turner, North End Piercy Albert, farmer, Dolsden farm
ly English and Decorated styles, with Perpendicular
-TJRWESTON is a parish on the river Ouse, which Ear
nsertions, and consists of chancel with aisle, clereiere divides the county from Northamptonshire, half i
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nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower
mile north from Brackley station on the Great Central withiedsadd
le-back roof, containing 2 bells; the piers
ailway, 2 miles north from Brackley station on the and
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es of the north arcade are very good Norman,
Bletchley and Banbury line of the London and North with a va
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riched capitals; those of the south
'Vestern railway, 7^ north-west from Buckingham and arcade areieTtryanosfiten
ional tending to Early English: in
>3 from London, in the Northern division of the county, the chancel is a pi
s
cina and Easter sepulchre, both of
mndred and petty sessional division of Buckingham, the same period: th
east window is Perpendicular:
Brackley union and county court district, rural deanery there is a brass effige
y of a priest, c. 1450, inscription
>f Buckingham (Buckingham portion), Buckingham
rchdeaconry and Oxford diocese. The church of St. lost; a small brass to Thomas Grene and his wives,
dary the Virgin is a building of stone in the Norman, Joan and Agnes, c. 1490, and a coloured monument in
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .

Grange Thomas Alfred, Westbrook
GriffinJames Whitehouse J.P., C.A
P ar< n ter Rev. Alfred Arthur M.A.
Vicarage