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Brandon George, farmer
|EdmundsChas. Claude, land steward ILoke William, farmer
Clarke William Arthur, farmer, Bed-1 to theEarl ofRosebery
Ryan Michael, Hare & Hounds P g
borough farm
M IL T ON K E Y N E S is a village and parish separated the father ofthe celebrated Francis Atterbury, Bishon
from Great and Little Woolstone by the river Ouzel, 3^ of Rochester, who was born here, 16 March, 1662 : there
miles south from Newport Pagnell terminal station on is also a brass to Adam Babyngton, Tector, ob. 1427a branch of the London and North Western railway, the font is modern: the ancient font, which has a plain
and 3$ north from Fenny Stratford station on the Bed­ basin on an octagonal shaft, now serves as a flower
ford and Bletchley branch of the same line, in the vase in the churchyard : there are 250 sittings, all free
Northern division of the county, hundred, petty ses­ subject to allotment by the churchwardens. The register
sional division, union and county court district of New­ dates from the year 1559. The living is a rectory, net
port Pagnell, rural deanery of Bletchley, archdeaconry yearly value ¿300, including 48 acres of glebe,* with
of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of residence, in the gift of Alan G. Finch esq. and held
All Saints, a building of stone, is a fine specimen of since 19x4 by the Rev. George Hawkes Field B.A. of
the Decorated style, consisting of chancel with north Exeter College, Oxford. The Earl of Nottingham’s
aisle, nave, south porch, and a tower on the north side gift of ¿2 is for the poor of the parish. Alan G. Finch
containing a clock and 5 bells: there are very fine esq. is lord of the manor and owner of the land. The
sedilia and piscina, with detached shafts, and rich open soil is clay; subsoil, sand and gravel. The chief crops
tracery in the heads: the north chancel aisle, separated |are wheat, beans, barley and oats. The area is 1,900
from the chancel by an arcade with circular piers and jacres of land and 9 of water; assessable value, ¿1,451;
fine moulded caps and bases, as a piscina and a very jthe population in 191x was 208.
remarkable low-side window eastward of the doorway : i Sexton, Alfred Petts.
the porch is one of the most striking parts of the
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church, its inner doorway having rich hanging tracery 1^osL Othce. Benjamin Henry Hartup, sub-postmaster.
and■* other parts the ball flower ornament: the sides■!t Letters through Newport Pagnell arrive at 7.20 a.m.
are open and divided into three compartments by 1 & 12.10 p.m. Box cleared at 7.20 a.m. & 6.25 p.m.;
circular shafts, above which is open tracery: in the Simpson is the nearest money order & telegraph office,
2^ miles distant
church are interred the remains of Louis Atterbury
D.D. rector of this parish from 1657 till his death, Elementary School, erected in 1859, for 60 children;
which occurred by drowning, in Deo. 1693; he was Mrs. Mary Margaret Woollett, mistress
Hooten Brothers, farmers
Eield Rev. George Hawkes B.A. Bird Arthur K. Old Swan P.H
Huckle Leonard, painter
(rector), The Rectory
Bird Harold, carpenter
King James, grazier
Snelson Jeoffry Theodore, Thistle crtClaridge Samuel, grazier
Shakeshaft William Brice, farmer,
Dover John, farmer
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Hartup Benjamin Henry, shopkeeper. Manor farm
Waite Thomas, farmer
Baker Christopher, grazier
Post office
G R E A T M I S S E N B E N is a large and populous dence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held
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village and parish, in a delightful valley on the high
road from Wendover to London, with a station on the Trinity College, Dublin. The Baptist chapel, a build­
Metropolitan and Great Central Joint railway, and 6 ing in the Classic style, was erected in 1778; and
miles north-east from Wycombe station on the Wy­ there is another at HYDE HEATH. The Public Hall,
combe and Oxford section of the Great Western and erected in 1879 11t a cost °t ¿3°°> passed in 1886
Great Central Joint railway, 5 north-west from Amer- into the bands of Thomas Parsons esq.; it is used
sham and 4 west from Chesham, in the Mid division for all kinds of entertainments, and will hold 300
of the county, hundred and petty sessional division persons. At BALLINGER is Adelaide House, a holiday
of Aylesbury, union of Amersham, Chesham county home for ladies and gentlemen of limited means, erected
court district, Wendover rural deanery. Buckingham in 1900 in memory of the late Mrs. Ellis A. Franklin
archdeaconry and Oxford diocese. The church of SS. by her children, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Franklin; it has
Peter and Paul is an ancient cruciform structure an endowment of one cottage next to it. Almond’s
in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave charity of ¿18 yearly and Gregory’s of ¿5 are for the
of four bays, aisles, north and south porches, transepts, poor of the parish; Bois’ charity of ¿17 is for appren­
and a low embattled western tower containing 6 bells, ticeships; the interest of ¿1,000 Consols, given by W
the earliest being dated 1603 : the tower was originally Dent esq. in memory of his daughter, wife of a former
Early English, but has been much modernized ; in 1906 vicar, is devoted to the support of the parochial schools,
it was repaired and a new bell frame provided at a and the interest of ¿300 left by Miss Douglas is dis­
cost of ¿400: the piers and arches of the nave are tributed among 40 aged poor. The Abbey of St. Mary,
Decorated, with good moulded caps : there are various anciently situated here, was founded by Sir William
inserted Perpendicular windows, and the clerestory is de Missenden kt. about 1133 for Canons of the Order of
also of that date: on the north side of the chancel, St. Augustine; an old register of the Abbey, however,
about 7 feet from the ground, is an arcade of Pointed fixes the date at 1133, and an ancient court-book of the
arches with small detached pillars: there are mural manor, while assigning its foundation to the D’Oyleys,
tablets to the Bois and Dormer families, 1637-1729, one states that it was augmented by the Missendens in
of which exhibits a figure of Time over a circular arch, pursuance of a vow made by a member of that family
-composed of books: the east window is a memorial to 011 escaping from shipwreck in the 14th century. In
"O. Carrington esq. and was erected by his widow, who 1815 the Abbey passed into the hands of the Carring­
also placed one in the chancel to her father and tons. and the site is now occupied by the residence
mother: in the south transept is a brass with demi- of George Carrington esq. J.P. ; the revenues were
female effigy and inscription, and also a female effigy, estimated in 1534 at ¿261 14s. 6£d. yearly. George
c. 1450; there is a brass in the north transept to the Carrington esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor, the Earl
Rev. Joshua Greaves M.A. vicar 1854-85,> and a of Buckinghamshire, William Wykeham Tyrwhitt Drake
memorial window to Frances Sarah, his wife: a stained esq. Lord Dormer, Thomas Honnor esq. and Sir Arthur
window was inserted in the north transept by the Lasenby Liberty D.L., J.P. are the principal landowners.
Herbert familyin 1914inmemory oftheirrelatives: there The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and roots. The
is a mural tablet to Lady Warmington (d. 1913) erected soil is alluvial, with a chalk base, abounding in the
by her husband. Sir Marshall Denham Warmington. 2nd deposit of flint and shells. The area amounts to 5>3*2
hart.: the brass lectern was presented in 1905 by the acres, chiefly arable, with some meadow and wood land,
Armitage family: on one of the jambs of t b p north and 7 of water; rateable value, ¿15*756; the popula­
door are letters forming the word “ 2>cus*' incised in the tion in 1901 was 2,166 in the civil and 1,734 *n .?.
stone at a very early date ; between this door and the ecclesiastical parish, and in 1911 was 2,555 in the cm
aumbrev is a large hagioscope, and there is another and 2,189 *n the ecclesiastical parish.
between the chancel and the south transept, and adjoin­ By Local Government Board Order of March 14th.
ing it a two-light low-side window, which now contains 1911, a portion of the parish, known as Lee C o m m o n
fragments of ancient stained glass: the chancel is paved and Hunts Green, was transferred to the parish of he0
in part with ancient encaustic tiles found, with but few for civil purposes.
exceptions, in the Abbey grounds, the remainder being Parish Clerk, William Woolford.
reproductions: the font is Norman: the church was in
part restored in 1899-1900 at a cost of ¿3,800, the Post, M. 0 ., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office
north aisle being practically rebuilt: the church affords ('Letters should have Bucks added).— Miss viol0
Wallace, postmistress. Letters arrive at 6 & 9 *5
450 sittings, 100 being free. The register dates from
the year 1694 ; burials, 1678. The living is a vioarage, a.m. & 5.50 p.m.; dispatched at 10.5 & n -45 a,m
net nearly value ¿180, vp'th 1 acre of glebe and resi­ & 4.10, 6.25 & 3 p.m.; sundays, 6.25 pm