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by the tenants of the Wotton estate. There is a small
Schools.
mission hall erected in 1895. The area is 1,411 acres; Elementary (mixed) (Church of England), built 1910
rateable value, £1,602; the population in 1911 was 253.
by Miss Alice de Rothschild, for 180 children, in
post Office, Westcott.— Mrs. Mary Cripps, sub-post­ place of the former school, built 1845; Samuel Cuttill
Camp A.R.C.O. master
mistress. Letters from Aylesbury arrive at 7.20 a.m.
& 1.30 p.m. (for callers only) week days & 7.40 a.m. Elementary (mixed), rebuilt in 1897, at a cost of £2,000,
for 236 children; George Rushton, master; Mrs.
& i2 noon sundays; dispatched 12.30 & 5.30 p.m.;
sundays, 12.5 a.m. Waddesdon, 2 miles distant, is Elizabeth Alice Rushton, infants’mistress
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stcott, built in 1870, & enlarged in 1892, for 70
the nearest money order & telegraph office
children; vountary school under Aylesbury County
Council; Miss Mabel Miranda Wilkes, mistress
WARMSTONE is a hamlet half a mile south-east.
Railway Stations.
Waddesdon Manor, Joseph Varney, station master
WOODHAM is a hamlet. The area is 838 acres; Waddesdon Road, Thomas Smith, station master
Westcott, Thomas Smith, station master
rateable value, ¿856; the population in 1911 was 64.
Carriers to Aylesbury.— Josiah I. Crook & Son, wed. &
EYTHROPE is a hamlet 4 miles south-east.
sat. ; George Roads, daily, except thurs. ; Herbert
Owen, wed. & sat
Parish Clerk, Phillip Cherry.
Evans Fredk. Geo. seedsman, Wood st Taylor Joseph, miller (steam) &
WADDESDON.
forage contractor
Figg Harry, The Bell P.H
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Thorne Benjamin, cycle agent
Figg William, plumber
Chinnerv Miss. The Cedars
Franklin Brothers, grocers & bakers Thorne Geo. farmer, Up. Blackgrove
Farmer Rev. James Edmund Gamul Garner Edwin, shoe maker
Thorp George, boot maker
M.A. (rector). Rectory
Gilson Wm. Hy. & Son, blacksmiths Treadwell Sami, farmer,Windmill hill
Gaitskell Miss E. Redcot
Goss Arthur, farmer, Rectory farm Turnham Henry, Five Arrows hotel
Morrison Alexander Thomson M B. Goss Thomas Griffin, saddler & boot Village Hall
The Roses
Waddesdon Institute (Eustace A. C.
maker, High street
Murray Mrs. The Cottage
Grace Emma (Miss),grocer & beer dir Sims, sec)
Rothschild Miss Alice de, Waddesdon Griffin George, fruiterer
Waddesdon Philharmonic Society (S.
manor; & 142 Piccadilly, London W Holland Albert, farmer
C. Camp A.R.C.O. conductor)
Sims Eustace Arth. Cecil,The Gables Holland Joseph H. builder
Waddesdon Provident Benefit Society
Stothert Rev. Charles Motley M.A. Holt Richard Head,farmer, Black gro (S. C. Camp, sec)
(curate)
Humphrey Edward Thomas, grocer Waddesdon Town Band (Eli James
Wildridge H.St.John, The Hermitage Johnson George Frederick, head gar­ Cripps, sec)
Wildridge Thos. Tindall, Green end
dener to Miss Alice de Rothschild Waddesdon Wesleyan Temperance
Brass Band (Albert Evans, sec)
Keedle Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper
C O M M E R C IA L .
Morrison Alexander Thomson M.B., Walter Augustus, watch & clock repr
Early closing day, Thursday 1 p.m. B.Ch., B.A.O. surgeon & medical Webb Frederick, draper
Adams Rebecca (Mrs.), farmer, officer to No. 5 (Waddesdon) dis­
EYTHROPE.
trict, Aylesbury union & medical
Warmstone Park farm
officer of health to Aylesbury Rural Flowers W. C. & A. J. farmers,
Alcock Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer
District Council, The Roses
Allen J. & H. chimney sweepers
Beachendon
Newman Ewart, butcher
BiswellArthur, chimney sweeper
Gibbs Edward, land steward to Miss
Owen Herbert, carrier
Blake George, dairyman
Alice de Rothschild
Paxton Fred, family & commercial Monk Charles Hy. farmer, Sheepcote
Brackley Ralph, coal dealer
BuTton Benjamin,farm bailiff to Miss hotel; garage; cars for hire. Tele­ Rose Herbt. frmr. Eythrope Park frm
grams,“Paxton, White Lion hotel”
Alice de Rothschild
Butler Charles, builder & contractor, Price & Sons, butchers
WESTCOTT.
practical joiner & cabinet maker; Provincial Gas & Lighting Works Ltd. Adams Cyril George & Ralph Leopold,
estimates given for all kinds of (Alfred Gould, local manager)
farmers
Reid James, builder & contractor
work, Grove villa
Camp Samuel Cuttill A.R.C.O. organ­ Richardson Lawrence, house steward Cooper John, farmer, Upper farm
Cooper John, farmer, Westcott Field
ist at Parish church & teacher of to Miss Alice de Rothschild
Ridgwav Edward Henry, farmer, farm
music
Cripps Ernest, grazier
Cherry Albert Edward, photographer Upper Blackgrove
Roads George, jobmaster & carrier Cripps Mary (Mrs.), shpkpr &post off
& assistant overseer
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Clear William Henry, insurance agt
Jas. Seamons, frmr. Church frm
Club & Reading Room (George Alfred Russell Walt, grocer & beer retailer Goss
Goss
Joseph William, farmer
Sims, president & treasurer; H. Saunders George, farmer
Goss Thomas, farmer. Lower farm
Saunders Herbert John, draper &c
St. John Wildridge, sec)
Gudgin
Charles, shopkeeper
Seaman Charles, gamekeeper to Miss
Collyer Alfred, tailor
Rogers Charles, farmer
Crook Josiah I. & Son. egg dealers Alice de Rothschild
Washington
Frank, White Swan P.H
Sharp George (Mrs.), wheelwright
& carriers
Wood Thomas (Mrs.), beer retailer
Sharp James, wheelwright
Crook & Judd, builders
Sims George Alfred, land steward to
Crook E. grocer & baker
WOODHAM.
Miss Alice de Rothschild,Estate off
Dennis Jesse, dairyman
Goss William, farmer, Oving Hill frm
Southam Frederick, builder
Dodwell & Son, grocers & bakers
Southam Susan (Mrs.), dress maker Herring Harry, farmeT
Dymock John, Bakers’Arms P.H
Smith Edwin, fanner
Southam William, hair dresser
Evans David, cycle agent
Styles Geo. Alfd.stationer & tobaccnst Taylor David, farmer, Ham Green
Evans Fred, coal dealer
W A L T O N is a parish on the river Ousel,
miles and chancellor of the diocese of Peterborough, who died
north from Fenny Stratford station on the Cambridge, 1in 1701 : in the chancel is a brass, with rhymed verses
Bedford and Bletchley branch of the London and North in English and 'Latin, to Elizabeth, daughter of William
Western railway and 4^ miles south from Newport Pag- Pyxe, 1617: another monument, erected in 1672, by his
nell, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, sons. Charles and Henry, is to Bartholomew Beale, lord
petty sessional division, union and county court district of this manor, who died in 1660. with medallion por­
of Newport Pagnell, rural deanery of Bletchley, arch­ traits of himself and his wife: the church affords 107
deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates
parish is supplied with water from Great Brickhill by from the year 1598 ; marriages, 1633. The living is a
vr,(?^enn'r Stratford Water Works. The church of St. rectory, net yearly value £180, including 47 acrres of
Michael, which stands isolated in the meadows, is a glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor
building of st-one chiefly in the Decorated style, and was and the trustees of the late Rev. George Wingate Pearse
thoroughly restored in 1861: it consists of chancel, M.A. alternately, and held since 1902 by the Rev.
nave, south porch, and an embattled western tower of William Seys Eaton M.A. of Queens’ College, Cam­
the Decorated period containing 2 bells: the chancel bridge. A charity of about £12 a vear, left by an un­
retains sedilia, and has a priest’s doorway: the font is known donor, is for the poor ; the church land produces
ecorated and has an octagonal basin, adorned at the £3 annuallv. for the maintenance of the fabric of the
base with a moulding of trefoils: there is a mural church. Walton Hall, a noble mansion of brick, the
jyionument in the nave, with a fine medallion portrait property and residence of Vaughan Harley esq. M.D. is
y Joseph Nollekens, of Sir Thomas Pinfold knt. LL.D. pleasantly seated in a well-wooded park of about 60