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B U C K ING HA M SH IR E.

Union. The Congregational chapel, erected in 1885,
from designs by Mr. John Sulman F.R.I.B.A. is an
edifice of red brick with stone dressings in the Gothic
style of the early 13th century, and has a large square
tower: it will seat 350 persons; adjoining are class
rooms and sunday schools. There is a Baptist taber­
nacle in High street, erected in 1864, with sittings for
400 persons, and a small Baptist chapel in Bell alley,
founded about 1630 with 60 sittings. The Oddfellows'
Hall, in High street, is a large iron building, capable
of seating 300 people. A market for live stock is held
the first and third Wednesdays in each month, and is
largely attended, and for corn every Wednesday. Statute
fairs are held on the Wednesday before October 11 and

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the two following Wednesdays. The inhabitants are
chiefly engaged in agriculture; lace making, once
largely carried on here, is now being gradually revived.
The various charities are now administered under a
scheme issued by the Charity Commissioners nth
August, 1863. Redfield, the seatofCapt. W. H. Lambton,
is an elegant modern mansion of red brick, standing
in extensive and tastefully-arranged grounds. W. SelbyLowndes esq. is lord of the manor. The area is 1,916
acres of land and 4 of water; rateable value, £9.994;
the population in 1911 was 1,698, including 7 officers
and 99 inmates in the Poor Law Institution.
Deputy Parish Clerk and Sexton, Richard French,
Sheep street.

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS. LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c.
Post, M. 0 . & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office,
PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.
High street.— Joseph George Wynne, postmaster
Police Station, Station road, George Frederick
Incoming Mails:— London & all parts, 7 & 11.20 a.m. County
Doubleday,
sergeant, & x constable
& 5.20 p.m. ; Sundays, 7 a.m. all parts
Office, Post office, High street, Joseph George
Outgoing Mails:— London & all parts, 8.20 & 10 a.m. & Stamp
Wynne,
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12.20 & 2.50 p.m.; S u n d a y s, 7.20 p.m. only; Oxford
Hall (Manchester Unity Loyal Western),
& west, 6.45 p.m.; Bletchley, London &, all parts Oddfellows’
High
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Fred Lomas, sec
north, 7.45 p.m. ; London, Bletchley & all parts,
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WINSLOW UNION.
Letters can be registered until half an hour previous
Board day, alternate fridays, with an occasional friday,
to the closing of the box for each mail
Money Order, Savings Bank, Annuity & Insurance, In­ when there are five in the month, at the Union at
10.30 a.m
land Revenue & Telegraph business transacted from
The Union, comprises the following places:— Ciaydon
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ; sundays, from 8.30 to 10 a.m
(East), Drayton Parslow, Dunton, Grandborough,
Telephone Exchange, continuous service
Hoggeston, Hogshaw with Fullbrook, Horwood (Great)
Letter Box, Market square, cleared at 4.45 & 9.50 a.m. &
12.15, 2.40, 6.15, 7.30 & 8.45 p.m.; sundays, 7 p.m with Singleborough, Horwood (Little), Marston (North),
Mursley, Nash, Shenley Brook End, Stewkley, Swan­
Station Road Letter Box, cleared at 5, 9.40 & 10.40 a.m.
bourne, Tattenhoe, Whaddon & Winslow. The popu­
& 4.40, 540, 7.15 & 8.30 p.m. week days; sunday,
lation of the union in 1911 was 6,995 > area, 34,525
9.15 a.m
Wall Letter Box, Shipton, cleared at 9.50 a.m. & 7.15 acres ; rateable value, 30th Sept. 1914, £56.435
Chairman of the Board of Guardians, John Beechem
p.m. ; sundays, 9.50 a.m
Hughes, Hogshaw, Winslow
Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Wm.
WINSLOW RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Norris Midgley. High street, Winslow
Meets at the Union, on alternate fridays, at 11 a.m.
reasurer, Harry Freegard, Buckingham
The parishes in the District are the same as in the T
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ieving & Vaccination Officer, John Gates, Avenue
Union.
Toad, Winslow
Chairman, John Beechem Hughes, Hogshaw, Winslow
Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, 1st district, Thos.
L. Kennish M.D. & C.M.Edin. The Cottage, Winslow;
Officials.
2nd district, Sydney Chas. Hillyard Moberly L.R.C.P.
Clerk, William Norris Midgley, High street
Lond. Alwyn house, Winslow; 3rd district, Thomas
Treasurer, Harry Freegard, Buckingham
Frederick Vaisey M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A. Norden house,
Medical Officer of Health, Thomas Frederick Vaisey Winslow
M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A. Norden house, Avenue road
Poor Law Institution, a red brick building, erected in
Highway Surveyor, William Wise, High street
1834, with room for 250 inmates ; Peter Dnguid Will,
Sanitary Inspector, Harry Cripps, Market square
master; Rev. Thomas Hinkley M.A. chaplain; Thos.
Frederick Vaisey, medical officer; Mrs. F. E. Will,
COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR WINSLOW PETTY
matron
SESSIONAL DIVISION.
W in s lo w R e g i s t r a t i o n D is t r ic t .
Addington Lord, Addington, Winslow, chairman
Superintendent Registrar, William Norris Midgley, High
Cottesloe Lord D.L. Swanboume house, Winslow
street, Winslow; deputy, Alfred Joseph CleaT, High
Fremantle Hon. Cecil, Swanbourne, Winslow
street, Winslow
Fremantle Admiral Hon. Sir Edmund Robert G C.B., Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, John Gates,
C.M.G., F.R.G.S. 44 Lower Sloane st. London S W
Avenue road, Winslow; deputy, Charles Watson, Mar­
ket square, Winslow
Fremantle Hon. Thomas Francis D.L., V.D. The Old
House, Swanbourne, Winslow
Hubbard Lieut.-'Col. the Hon. Cecil John, Kingsbridge,
PUBLIC OFFICERS.
Steeple Claydon, Bucks
Assistant Overseer, Collector of Poor & other Rates &
McCorquodale Norman, Winslow hall, Winslow
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Council, Thomas Daniel Curtis,
Pigott Major Vincent Randolphe, Grendon manor,
Station road
G-rendon Underwood, Aylesbury
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Surgeon
& Coroner for the Winslow
PigottVice-Admiral W’illiam Harvey, Doddershall house,
Division of Bucks, Frederick Thomas Vaisey M.R.C.S.
near Aylesbury
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Charles Matthew, Adstock manor, Winslow
Coroner for the Winslow District, Thomas L.
^Joy-Lowndes Mevrick Edward, Gerrard’s Cross, Bucks Deputy
Kennish M.D., C.M.Edin. The Cottage. Horn street
beby-Lowndes William, Whaddon hall, Bletchley
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under the “Diseases of Animals Acts,” Sergt.
belby-Lowndes William, jun. Whaddon hall, Bletchley
George Fredk. Doubleday, Police station, Station road
Verney Sir Harry Calvert Williams M.P. Middle ClaySec
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to the Trustees of the Winslow Charities,
uon. Banbury
■^.Chairman, f°r the time being, of the Winslow Rural Hugh J. Ray, High street
Stamp
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District Council is an ex-officio magistrate
Clerk to the Magistrates, Geoffrey Mitcalfe Barker, Town Crier, Edward T. Lines, High street
Veterinary Inspector under the “Diseases of Animals
High street
Petty sessions are held every alternate friday in the Acts,” John Varney, jun. M.R.C.V.S. Station road
magistrates’room at the Police station, at Station road.
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PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services.
The following places are included in the Pettv Sessional St. Laurence Church, Rev. Thomas Hinkley M.A. vicar ;
p :l81°"Drayton Parslow, Dunton. East Claydon. Rev. St. John Hungerford Beamish B.A. curate; 8 &
Trandborough. Great Horwood, Hoffshaw, Hoggeston.
11 a.m. & 2.30 & 6 p.m. ; 1st & 3rd sun. 11.45 a.m. ;
PH 1!-°orwood. Mursley, Nash. North Marston, Oving.
2nd sun. 6.30 a.m. ; week days, 8 a.m. & 7 p.m.;
1chcott, Quainton (township), Shipton Lee hamlet, tues. 7.30 p.m
low wrne’ Tattenlloe* Whaddon, Whitchurch, Wins- Baptist, High street ; 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; thurs. 7 p.m
Hamlets for the purpose of highways onlv: Baptist, Bell alley, 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m
boTong'h’ Doddersha11’ Pullbrook, Shipton & Single- Congregational, Horn street; 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.; wed.
7 Pm