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HADDENHAM.

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Wijs erected in 19x1. The charities are: Hart’s charity
By Local Government Board Order 19,622, dated
of £2 yearly for apprenticing; Dame Anne Pigott’s March 25, 1886, the Crooked Billet Inn was transferred
of £4, balf for providing Bibles for children on their from Waddesdon.
leaving the school and the rest for educational pur­
poses; and Lady Saye and Sele’s which provides an Post, M. 0 . <fc T. Office.— Richard Jones, sub-postannual sum for apprenticing three or four lads at a master. Letters through Aylesbury arrive at 8 a.m
premium of £40 each. On a hill behind the village & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 11.50 a.m. & 5.10 p.m. ,
sundays, arrive 8 a.m. ; dispatched 11.25 a m
in a park of about 160 acres stands Grendon Hall, the
residence of Alfred Ernest Skinner esq. J.P. ; it is a Post Office, Kingswood.— Miss Emily Eleanor Roades,
mansion in the Elizabethan style, with a frontage of sub-postmistress. Letters through Aylesbury at 7.45
150 feet towards the south-west, and contains some old
a.m. & 2.5 p.m.; dispatched at 12 noon & 5.25 p.m.;
oak carving. Shakespeare Farm is an ancient Eliza­ sundays, arrive 7.45 a.m.; dispatched 11.40 a.m
bethan house, formerly an inn, where it is said Shake­ Grendon Underwood, i£ miles distant, is the nearest
speare occasionally slept when journeying between
money order & telegraph office
Stratford and London: it is the property of Mrs. R.
H. Pigott, and is open to the inspection of visitors; the County Police, Thomas Furness, constable
comedy of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream ” is said to Elementary School, built in 1845, endowed by Lady
have been inspired and partly written in the adjoining
Saye & Sole with an annual sum of £62 for the schools
woods. Mrs. R. H. Pigott is lady of the manor and
of Quainton & Grendon; thisschool will hold 90
principal landowner; Vice-Admiral William Harvey
children;Ernest H. Belgrove. master; MissClara
Pigott, and Rear-Admiral Richard Purefoy Purefoy Rosa
Belgrove, infants’ mistress
M.V.O. are also landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil,
clay. The land is principally pasture. The area is Carriers.— Richard Cannon, to Aylesbury, wed. & sat.;
2.565 acres; rateable value, £3,199; the population in Bicester, fri.; & to Buckingham, monday. The Bices­
ter carrier passes through
-.911 was 303.
Hodgson Capt. Walter T. Grendon Cavvcutt Joseph, farmer, Grange farm Kiteley Thomas, baker
Parker Edward, tailor
Darley George, Swan P.H
manor
SkinnerAlfred ErnestJ.P.Grendon hall George George, builder & carpenter Perrin Frederick, blacksmith
Wolfsberger Rev. Sidney Hugo Carl Goss Charles Seamons, Crooked Billet Preston Alfred Jn. farmer,Manor frm
P.H. Ham Green
Stevens William, farmer
(vicar), The Vicarage
Gostelow William, farmer
Wellings Wm. shopkpr. Cross roads
COMMERCIAL.
Hammond Arthur, farmer
Williams Wm. boot & shoe maker &
Bates Henry & Thomas, farmers
Herring John, farmer, Peartree farm assistant overseer
Benfield Fredk. farmer, Grove farm Holt Thomas Walter, farmer, Shake- iYoung Walter, farmer
Cannon Richard, carrier & beer retlr speare farm
GROVE is a parish on the borders of Bedfordshire, 2 glebe (£47), in the gift of Lady Wantage, and held
miles south from Leighton Buzzard station on the main since 1890 by the Rev. Francis Henry Tatham M.A. of
line of the London and North Western railway, in the Trinity College, Cambridge, rural dean of Ivinghoe
Mid division of the county, hundred of Cottesloe, Lin- and surrogate, and also vicar of Wing, where he re­
slade petty sessional division, union and county court sides. Stephen Gardiner LL.D. master of Trinity Hall,
district of Leighton Buzzard, rural deanery of Ivinghoe, Cambridge, and Bishop of Winchester 1531-51 and
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. i553_6, was sometime rector here. An Isolation Hos­
The Grand Junction canal and the London and North pital for the Linslade Urban and Wing Rural Districts
Western railway pass through the parish. The church was built in 1900, with three separate wards for cases
of St. Michael is a very small edifice of sandstone in of diphtheria, scarlet fever and typhoid: there areabout
the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave and 33 beds and every modern convenience. Lady Wantage
porch, and a western bell-cote containing one bell, is lady of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is
dated 1689: it retains an ancient font: the church was loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans
thoroughly restored in 1883 at a cost of about £250, and barley. The area is 427 acres of land and 10 of
when it was reseated with open benches, a new pulpit water; rateable value, £2,327; the population in 1911
and reading desk provided, and a porch added: the was 30.
church now affords 50 sittings, but is supposed to have
once been a larger structure, since some continuous Letters through Leighton Buzzard, which is the nearest
money order & telegraph office
foundations of the walls have been met with in the
churchyard. The register dates from the year 1689. The children of this place attend the schools at LiuThe living is a rectory, net yearly value £64. including slade & Mentmore
Linslade Urban & Wing Rural Districts medical officer; Miss Jane S.jStraifull William, overseer Grand
Isolation Hospital (Percy Taylor Downer, matron)
Junction Canal
Humphrey Stedman M B., D.P.H Newens George, lock keeper
IWarren Sidney, farmer, Grove farm
H A D D E N H A M is a very large and populous village Elizabethan helmet which shows traces of having been
and parish, with a station on the Great Western and richly gilded. The register dates from the year 1653.
Great Central joint railways, opened to this village in The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £324, with
1906, and lies on the borders of Oxfordshire and on the residence, inthe gift of the Dean and Chapter of Roches­
road from Thame to Aylesbury, which forms the ter, and held since 1898 by the Rev. George Bruce
boundary of the parish on the north side, 3 miles north­ Rhind M.A. of Christ’s College, Cambridge. The Bap­
east from Thame, 5 north-west from Princes Ris- tist chapel, built in 18x0, will seat 500 persons; the
borough, 7 south-west from Aylesbury and 37^ from Wesleyan chapel, built in 1822, affords 300 sittings.
London (by rail), in the Mid division of the county, Near Fort square is the Friends’ burying ground, used
hundred, petty sessional division and union of Ayles­ from 1682 to 1872. Haddenham House is the head
bury, county court district of Thame, and in the rural quarters of the Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire
deanery of Aylesbury, archdeaconry of Buckingham and (North Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire) Lace Asso­
diocese of Oxford. The church of'St. Mary the Virgin, ciation, under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen,
which dates from about 1215, is a fine and ancient edifice established to revive the pillow-point ground lace in­
of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, dustry. Charities:— The alms corn charity, consisting
with Lady chapel, nave, aisles, north porch and awestern of 16 bushels of barley and 8 of wheat, was originally
ower containing 8 bells and a clock: the upper part of appropriated to small occupiers of land, and was given
the¡tower has Early English arcading :there are 2 piscinse as seed corn; it is now distributed on Good Friday to
in the church, and a third in the Lady chapel, supposed the poor; the apprentice charity, chargeable on an
oy some to be an Easter Sepulchre: the font is of the estate at Easington, Oxon, is of the annual value of
very earliest first-pointed work, with Romanesque fea- £2 13s. which sum is devoted to the apprenticing of
ures: there is a handsome monument in black marble poor boys belonging to the parish of Haddenham; a
and alabaster, in the Classic or Renaissance style, tothe benefaction to the church consists of three quarters of
memory of Sir Richard Beke, of Haddenliam, ob. 8 Jan. fin acre of land at Bradmoor. now producing £2 yearly,
£>27: there is a brass, with effigy, to Thomas Nassh, which is devoted to church expenses; a charity of the
car 1428: the brass demi-effigy of another ecclesiastic, original value of £50, left by George Francklin esq. many
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an<* an *nscripti°n only to Gylles Wodbryge years ago, but now reduced to £37 3s. 8d. is annually
P Elizabeth, his wife, both ob. 3 Aug. year not distributed to the poor inhabitants in bread. W illis’^
?xven: on the south wall of the chancel is a marble charity, being the interest of £900 £2^ per Cent
onument to John Marriott M.A. ob. 1716,and members Consols, is for coals, but in 1903 a part of this charity
is family: the silver paten and chalice, dated 1707, was withdrawn and invested in the purchase of an
ere s
; suspended in the Lady chapel is an allotment field for £650: the total sum now derived