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held since 1897 by the Rev. William Robson M.A. of Wall Letter Box, near the school, Lacey Green, cleared
Durham University. The Primitive Methodist chapel,
at 10 a.m. & 4.50 p.m. week days; sundays, 10.50a.ro
erected in 1855, will seat 150 persons. Ihe Warden and
ter Box, Darvill’s Hill, cleared 4.30 p.m. week days;
Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, and the vicar are Let
S u n d a y s, 10.40 a.m
the principal landowners. The soil is light and chalky;
subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops are bailey, oats
Schools.
and turnips. The area is 1,923 acres; rateable value
included with Princes Risborough; the population in Elementary, Lacey Green, built in 1851, & enlarged in
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Elementary, Loosley Row, built in 1862 by Mrs. Grace,
Sexton, Jesse Hawes.
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Police Constable, Frederick Cox.
Post & M. 0 . Office, Loosley Row.— Henry Allen, sub­ small farm at Naphill Common, given by Mrs. Grace,
which is shared with the school at Speen; Miss M. E
postmaster. Letters through Princes Risborough Young,
mistress
arrive at 7.45 & 10.50 a.m.; dispatched at 11.15 a.m.
& 5.5 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 7.55 a.m.; dispatched Elementary, Speen, built & partly endowed in 1862 by
Mrs.
Gr
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for 70 children; Miss Atwell, mistress
at 11 a.m. Princes Risborough, 2$ miles distant, is
the nearest telegraph office
LOOSLEY ROW is a hamlet on the Chiltern Hilla,
Post Office, Speen.— George Ridgley, sub-postmaster. 1 mile north-west. The Baptist chapel here, erected
Letters through Princes Risborough arrive at 8.25 in 1862, & rebuilt in 1905, has 250 sittings; there is
a.m. & at 12 noon; dispatched at 8.25 a.m. & 4.15 also a foundry.
p.m. week days; on sundays arrive at 9 a.m.; dis­
patched at 10.25 a.m. Loosley Row, 2 miles distant, SPEEN is a hamlet three-quarters of a mile south­
is the nearest money order & Prestwood, 2^ miles east. Here is a Baptist chapel, erected in 1813, with
distant, the nearest telegraph office
a residence for the minister.
LACEY GREEN.
COMM ERCIAL.
owners & brick manufacturers ;
office, Speen, Princes Risborough ;
Cameron Charles Arthur Wellington, Allen Henry, stationer, Post office
brick kilns & quarries, Walters
Highlands cottage
Cheshire George, miller (wind)
Ash. Telegrams, Walters Ash,
Carter Harold, Grymsdyke
Floyd Joseph George, shopkeeper
Elin Miss, Gracefield
Gomme & Sons, brass founders, West Wycombe. Stations, West
Fagge Charles Hylton, Froma
mechanical engineers, ironfounders, Wycombe & Saunderston
Robson Rev. William M.A. Vicarage millwrights & agricultural imple­ Burrows George, Plough P.H.Flowers
bottom
ment makers & agents
COMMERCIAL.
Dean Richard, chair leg turner
Lee John, The Sprat P.H
Currell Free, bricklayer
Page William, farmer, Widmer farm Dean Samuel John, beer retailer
Gibbons Allen, poultry farmer, Prim­
Floyd Peter, cowkeeper
Root George, cottage farmer
rose cottage
Gomme John, manager for Messrs. Smith Jabez, beer retailer
Hatt Frederick & Walter, farmers,
Gomme & Sons
Stevens George, tailor
Speen farm
Hawes George, farmer
Tomkins William, farmer
Hickman Harold George, fanner, Tyler Thomas, farmer, Collin’s farm James John, chair turner
Janes Boaz, poultry farmer, HighLane farm
wood bottom
Janes Hezekiah, baker
SPEEN .
Lovett Alfred, King William P.H
Lacey Green Reading Room (H.
Bax M t s . Clifford
Newell Henry, blacksmith, Flower’s
Carter, treasurer)
bottom
Parslow Sarah (Mrs.), beer retailer Eastman William, The Chalet
Pringle Chas. poultry frmr. Hillcrest Vosper Lawrence John, Darvill’s hill Plumridge William, chair back maker
Williams
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abez
Ridgley
Charles, chair turner
Bixon Edward, chair turner
Wray William Hampton D.V.S. Red Ridgley George, shopkeeper & baker,
Saunders John, cottage farmer
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Post office
Saunders Jn.Wm. beer ret.&carpntr
COMM ERCIAL.
Rixon Eli, chair turner
Saunders William, farmer
Anderson Ernest Edward, builder, Saunders Wm. farmer. Flowers bofetm
house decorator, wheelwright, Stevens Robert, tailor
LOOSLEY ROW.
undertaker, engineer, machinist, Stevens Roy, poultry farmer
Paternoster George Sidney
saw mill & insurance agent. Dar­ Ward Edward, carpenter
Tighe Lieut.-Col. Michael Augustus vill’s hill
Ward George & Son, builders & car­
J.P. Loosley house
Bristow T. & Brothers, stone mer­ penters, Chiltern house
Watson Miss, Loosley hill
chants & contractors, quarry Wood Albt. chair back ma. & farmer
LANE E N D is a village and ecclesiastical parish yearly value ¿270, with residence, in the gift of the
formed February 5th, 1867, out of the parishes of Great rector of Hambleden, and held since 1889 by the Rev.
Marlow, Hambleden, Fingest and West Wycombe, chiefly Francis Lochge Nash M.A. of New College, Oxford. The
situated in the first-named, 3^ miles south-west from Wesleyan chapel was built in 1865 : the old chapel is now
West Wycombe station on the Great Western and Great used as a school. At MOOR END is a Gospel Mission
Central Joint railway, and 4^ north-west from Great Hall, built in 1888. The inhabitants are mostly engaged
Marlow terminal station on a branch of the Great West­ in the manufacture of chairs, and there is an iron
ern railway and 5 west from High Wycombe, in the foundry and agricultural implement works. Wycombe
Southern division of the county, hundred of Desborough, Court, the seat of Henry Hugo Worthington esq. J.P.
petty sessional division of Desborough 1st division, is a mansion in an Oriental style, surrounded by beau­
county court district of High Wycombe, rural deanery tiful undulating grounds, sheltered on the north by
of Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese Fining Wood, on the east by Whittington Park Wood,
of Oxford. The church of the Holy Trinity was re­ and from its elevated position commanding extensive
built in 187
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views over Berks and Surrey. Sir John Lindsay
former structure, erected about 1832: the present church Dashwood bart. and Lord Parmoor P.C., J.P. are the
of brick and flint with Bath stone dressings, in the principal landowners. The soil is sandy; subsoil,
Lothic style of the 13th century and consists of chancel, gravelly. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The
nave, vestry, organ chamber, north porch and a tower area is 1,270 acres; the population in 1911 was 1,158.
containing 6 bells: the ancient roof of the nave was
rought from an ecclesiastical building formerly stand- Parish Clerk, Walter Bishop.
fog near the bridge at Great Marlow, and is of the 14th Post, M. 0 . & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.
century; there are several stained windows, one of — Mrs. Mary Plumridge, sub-postmistress. Letters
^ ion on the north side, was transferred from the old
arrive from High Wycombe at 7.30 a.m. & 1.30 p.m. ;
dispatched at 12.45 & 5-5 p m.; no delivery on
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t>a*6 6aS^ w*n40w *s a memorial to James Luke
q. r.R.S. and was inserted by his children; a west
ndow to William Henry Sandby esq. was placed in Wall Letter Boxes.— Bolter End, cleared at 1 & 5.20
1 ,a. one to the memory of Mrs. Sworder was p.m. & Moor Common, 9.15 a.m. & 4.35 p.m
P ced in 1911; and in 1901 the tower was raised 14
Schools.
wid 38 * memorial to H W. Cripps esq. Q.C. by his
/• 0W:.ln i897 an organ was provided at a cost of Elementary (mixed & infants), established in 1832, as
¿350- in 1909 a carved oak font cover was given in an endowed school, enlarged in 1889 & again in 1 8 9 9 ,
Thft101'^
Walter Hobbs, a former churchwarden,
for 257 children; John James Bullock, master; Mrs
thp arv!3° s*ttings- The burial ground attached to Bullock, infants’mistress
dfifo l*rCa has been considerably enlarged. The register Elementary (infants), built in 1834 & enlarged in 1889,
9 rom the year 1832. The living is a vicarage, net
for 92 children ; Mrs. Ellen House, mistress
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