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^mall Edward Henry Thomas Fewson M.A. solicitor & Whitehorn Leopold Shilson, solicitor, see Whitehorns
^ commissioner for oaths (firm,Small & Barker),High st Whitehorn William Joseph, solicitor, see Whitehorns
Whitehorn William Lampet, solicitor & commissioner
S m ith Jesse & Sons, coal dealers, High street
for oaths & perpetual commissioner, see Whitehorns
Smith John, boot maker, High street
Stamp Office (Joseph Geo. Wynne, distributor), High st jWhitehorns,solicitors & commissioners for oaths,Horn st
Wigley Geo. & Sons F.S.I., F.A.I. auctioneers, sur­
Stevens William Hall, tailor, High street
veyors, land & estate agents; branches at 83 High st.
Stnbbs Henry, fishmonger, High street
Sutton & Co.(Mrs.Frederick Chas. Odell, agent),High st Newport Pagnell; Stony Stratford; Fenny Stratford ;
& at 9 Regent street, Waterloo place, London S W
Tattam Wilfred Roland, baker, High street
Thompson Geo.Herbt.organist of parish chrch.Station rd Willis W. Gravely W. solicitor & commissioner foroaths,
High street
Tompkins Agnes (Mrs.), saddler, High street
Wilson Edward, Windmill P H. High street
Turner G. & Son, drapers, High street
Winslow Charities (vested in trustees) (Hugh John Ray,
Turnham John Henry, photographer, Market square
sec.), High street
Tumham Wm. confectnr. Market sq. & baker, Horn st
Winslow Conservative Association (Edward Walter
Underwood Homer, boot maker, High street
Yaisey Thomas Frederick M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.L. sur­ Green, sec.), Plough cottage. Horn street
geon, & medical officer & public vaccinator 3rd dis­ Winslow Floral & Horticultural Society (Alfred Joseph
trict'& medical officer of Winslow union, & medical Clear, sec.). High street
officer of health to Winslow Rural District Council, Winslow Miniature Rifle Club (D. G . Smith, hon. sec)
certifying factory surgeon & coroner for the Northern Winslow New Gas Co. Limited (William Norris Midgley,
sec.), High street
division of Bucks, Norden house, Avenue road
Varney John, jun. M.R.C.V.S. veterinary surgeon, & Winslow Shire Horse Society (A. J. Clear, sec. ; F. W.
veterinary inspector under the “Diseases of Animals Lester, treasurer). Bell hotel, Market square
Wise Wm. & Son, stone & monumental masons, High sfc
Acts,” Station road
Wise William, highway surveyor to the Rural District
Walker Sarah Jane (Miss), fruiterer, High street
Council, High street
Walker William, carpenter, Sheep street
Watson Austin, head gardener to Mrs. Greaves, Horn st Woodman & Son. clothiers, High street
Watson Charles, confectioner, deputy registrar of Yeulett Louisa (Mrs.), servants’registry office, High st
births, deaths & marriages & local agent under “Un­ Young Emma (Mrs.), laundry, Buckingham road
employment section of Insurance Act,” Market square

WOLVERTON
WOLVERTON is a parish and market town, with a consists of chancel, nave, south porch, and a north­
station on the London and North Western railway, which eastern tower with spire, containing one bell: in 1905
is also the junction of a branch 4 miles in length to a new organ was provided, at a cost of £500 : all the
Newport Pagnell, and is 2 miles east from Stony Strat­ windows are stained, and there are sittings for about 8 0 0
ford, 4 south-west from Newport Pagnell and 53 from persons, 350 being free. The register dates from the
London, in the Northern division of the county, hundred year 1843. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value
ofNewport Pagnell, Stony Stratford petty sessional divi­ £290, and residence, in the gift of the Radehffe trustees,
sion, union of Potterspury, county court district of New­ and held since 1894 by the Rev. William Lee Harnett
port Pagnell. rural deanery of Buckingham, Wolverton M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, rural dean of Buck­
portion, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of ingham (Wolverton portion), and surrogate. The
Oxford. The Grand Junction canal passes through. A Catholic church, erected in 1865, and dedicated to
tramway line has been opened between Wolverton and St. Francis of Sales, will seat 150 persons. The Con­
Stony Stratford. Here are the extensive workshops of gregational chapel, built in 1890 and enlarged in 1902
the London and North Western Railway Company for at a cost of £1,400. has sittings for 800 persons; the
the manufacture and repair of railway carriages, which old chapel, built in 1867, is now used as a school room;
affords employment to a great number of hands. The the Wesleyan chapel, built in 1892 to replace one builtin
town is lighted with gas by the railway company, and 1870, has 650 sittings,and cost about £3,000. The Primi­
supplied with water from works at Bradwell, also the tive Methodist chapel,built in 1907 at a cost of £1.700,
property of the railway company. The parish church has 250 sittings. The Church Institute, Church street, in
ofthe Holy Trinity, partly re-erected in 1815, is a cruci­ connection with St. George the Martyr, erected in 1 9 0 8
form building of stone, in a quasi-Norman style, and at a cost of about £4,000, has a large hall, seating 450
consists of chancel, which is decorated in the Byzantine persons, men’s club &c. The Central Working Men’s
style, nave, transepts and an embattled western tower Club, in Western road, was erected in 1908 ; it has a
containing a clock and 6 bells: the tower was built in large hall for entertainments &c. seating about 300
1463, and during restorations in 1902 a Saxon con­ persons. There are public baths in Stratford road. The
secration cross was discovered in it, fitted upside down, Science and Art Institute, opened in 1864, in connection
denoting that there had been a former Saxon church with the Department of Science and Art at South
existing on the same site: the lower stage of the Kensington, the City and Guilds of London Institute
tower forms the entrance: all the windows are stained, and the Society of Arts, is a structure of red brick and
and in the chancel is a life-sized recumbent effigy stone, containing several class rooms, reading-room, and
in marble of Sir Thomas Longueville bart. of Wolver­ library and a large lecture hall, used for concerts, and
ton, and of Prestatyn, Flintshire, who was killed by seating 500; in 1891 it was enlarged, and a gymnasium
a fall from his horse in 1 6 8 5 : in 1877 the church and chemical laboratory added, and further enlarged
was decorated throughout in polychrome by Mr. Daniel in 1893 ;in 1910 a mechanical laboratory was added. Sir
Bell, the whole of the figures being executed by his Edward Longueville, of Wolverton, and Prestatyn, Flint­
own hand; the communion table was at the same shire, was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1638: the
time enlarged and a reredos of English oak, designed by last baronet, also Sir Edward Longueville, died in 1 7 1 8 ,
Mr. E. Swinfen Harris, architect, of Stony Stratford, and five years before his death he sold the property here
erected; this is divided by cusped arches into three to Dr. John Radcliffe, the celebrated physician and
compartments, containing various figures of saints and sometime M.P. for Buckingham, who bequeathed it to
angels, richly painted: in 1 8 9 8 a carved oak canopy, the University of Oxford, in trust for the benefit of the
also designed by Mr. Harris, was provided for the font: Radcliffe Library and Observatory. The Radcliffe trus­
m 1902-3 the church was restored at a cost of £900, tees, who are lords of the manor, and the London and
and a tablet of vicars’ names from the year 1261 was North Western Railway Company are the principal land­
erected: there are 250 sittings. The register datesfrom owners. The entire area is 2,289 acres of land and 36
the year 1536. The living is a discharged vicarage, net of water; rateable value of Wolverton, £61,401; the
yearly value £100. with residence, in the gift of the population of the whole of the parish in 1901 was 5,323,
Radcliffe truste.es, and held since 1901 by the Rev. and in 1911, 7,384.
Arundell Glastonbury St. John-Mildmay M.A. of Mag­ The population of the ecclesiastical parishes in 1911
dalene College, Cambridge.
was, Holy Trinity (parish church), 974 and St. George
Jhe ecclesiastical parish of St. George the Martyr was the Martyr, 5 , 4 1 3 .
ormed May 29, 1846, and enlarged June 23, 1868. The
church, a building of stone in the Early English style, WOLVERTON END, in this parish, forms part of the
jas erected in 1843, at an expense of about £5,000, town of Stony Stratford and of the ecclesiastical parish
"narged in 1896 at a cost of £3,000 and further im­ Iof St. Mary, Wolverton: full particulars and the names
proved and enlarged in 1903 at a cost of £1,800: it jof the residents are given under Stony Stratford.