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The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. Elementary School (mixed), built in 1837 & enlarged
Bricks are made here. The area is 2,346 acres of land in 1870, for 180 children ; Wm. Steventon, master
and 6 of water; assessable value, £1038; the popula­ Carriers to Northampton.— Charles Clarke & Frederick
tion in 1911 was 529.
Green, wed. & sat
Sexton, William Woodford.
Post & M. 0 . Office.— Alfred Clarabut, sub-postmaster.
GOREFIELDS, a place of 65 acres with no resident
Letters arrive from Newport Pagnell at 7.50 a.m. & population and formerly extra-parochial, was annexed to
12.50 p.m.; dispatched at 1.20 & 6 p.m.; on Sunday this parish in 1865 by an order of quarter sessions.
at 10.30 a.m. Hanslope, 3 miles distant, is the This place is reputed to be extra-parochial for ecclesi­
nearest telegraph office
astical purposes,
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
del Strother Lancelot, frmr.Manor fm Sansome Arthur, butcher
Sawbridge Joseph, butcher
Dredge Walter, beer retailer
Dawkes Misses
Walker Rev. Fredk. William (rector), Farrer George, farmer, Eakeley lane Simcoe Thomas J. farmer
Smith Edwin, farmer
Gibson Herbert, White Lion P.H
The Rectory
Green Frederick, carrier
Smith Thomas, builder
COMMERCIAL.
Higgins Hugh, farmer. Lodge farm Waite Joshua, Coach & Horses P.H
Adams Thomas, farmer
Hinson Wm. farmer, Eakeley lanes Warner George, farmer
Armstrong Charles, shopkeeper
Looms Arthur, blacksmith
Warren William, boot maker
Botterill Mrs. Mary, Lamb P.H
Lovesey Sarah (Mrs.), lace maker
Wesley Charles, shopkeeper
Bull G. & Co. builders
Nicholls Ernest James & Edwin Wesley William, carpenter
Bull William, beer retailer
Uriah, farmers, Church farm
Whiting George Benjamin, farmer
Clarabut Alfred, grocer. Post office Richardson Frank, farmer, Grange fin Working Men’s Club (Wm. Steven­
Clarke Charles, farmer & carrier
Roddis John, farmer, Rectory farm
ton, sec. & treasurer)
S TO K E H A M M O N D is a parish and village on the 'rector of this parish: there is a curious poor-box dated
river Ouse, 3 miles south from Bletchley Junction sta- ;1618 and some ancient stained glass: the church affords
tion on the main line of the London and North Western 1150 sittings. In the churchyard is a tomb erected to
railway and 4 north-west from Leighton Buzzard, in !the Fountaine family, 1802-1908, and two yew trees
the Northern division of the county, hundred and petty planted in 1687. The register dates from the year
sessional division of Newport, union and county court 1534 The living is a rectory, yearly value £190, with
district of Leighton Buzzard, rural deanery of Bletchley, residence, in the gift of Edward Hart esq. and held
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. since 1902 by the Rev. Francis Matthews Higgins M.A.
The church of St. Luke, which dates from the early of Keble College, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan chapel
part of the 13th century, is a small cruciform building here. The principal landowners are Mrs. Percival, who
of sandstone, approached through an avenue of lime resides at Stoke House, Leopold de Rothschild esq.
trees, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, south ,C.V.O. Thomas Taylor Fountaine, and the Rector. The
porch, and a central tower containing 3 bells: the ;soil is light clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief
windows are mostly Perpendicular, but two in the crops are wheat, oats, beans and barley. The area is
chancel are Decorated: the roof is panelled in oak, and 1,551 acres of land and 15 of water; rateable value,
the fittings and furniture of the same material: the £9,276 ; the population in 19x1 was 271.
font is Early English and has a circular basin on four Parish Clerk, Thomas Stevens.
small shafts: in the course of the restoration in 1852, Post Office.— Mrs. Matilda Shepherd, sub-postmistress.
finely decorated sedilia and a piscina were discovered Letters through Bletchley arrive at 7.50 a.m. for first
in the south wall of the chancel: the east window, I delivery (sunday, 7 a.m.), second delivery 5.45 p.m.
(tuesdav, thursday & Saturday, 8.10p.m.). Box cleared
which is stained, was the gift of the Rev. T. Bonwens (d
1869): on the west wall of the north transept is a at 8.55 a.m. ■& 6.55 p.m. & on Sundays at 9.55 a.m.
Great Brickhill is the nearest money order office, &
stone tablet with inscriptions to members of the Founph office
taine family from 1636 to 1709: there are also tablets Soulbury,
. 2 miles distant, the nearest tele_grato the Disney family 1658-1686, to the Gardner family, Wall LetterBox, Lower End, cleared at 8.30 a.m.&
a former rector, 1794-1823 and the Frank family, of7 p.m. ; sundays, 10 a.m
Bury St. Edmunds, 1743-1766: there is a brass to the Elementary School, erected in 1844,for 79children;
memory of the Rev. Edward Pain B.A. d. 1902, 33 years i Miss Kate Haviland, mistress
Lillywhite Henry, shoe maker
Fountaine Misses, The Laurels
Arnold James, joiner
Shepherd Matilda (Mrs.),grocer, Post
Higgins Rev. Francis Matthews M.A. Blackman William, Bell P.H
office
(rector), Rectory
Bonner Harry, farmer, Moat farm
Lovett Percival Cosby Ernest J.P. Bowden James K. farmer, The Grove Simmons William Bernard, farmer
Tofield Sidney, shopkeeper
Stoke lodge
Collier Abraham, farmer
Willison John, farmer, assistant over­
Percival Mrs. Stoke house
Gale Frank R. farmer
seer & clerk to Parish Council,
Percival William Howes, Stoke house Graham Alfred, Dolphin P.H
Chadwell farm
Horne C. & J. farmers, Rectory farm
C O M M E R C IA L .
Adams Frederick, farmer, Mt.Pleasant!
STO KE M A N D E V I L L E is a parish and small the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, and held since 1908
village on the road from Aylesbury to Princes Ris- by the Rev. Frederick James Winterton B.A. of Hatfield
borough, with a station on the Metropolitan and Great Hall, Durham. The vicarage house was built on a site
Central Joint Committee railway, and 2% miles south given by Mr. T. Gurney, of Whitethorns, who also gave
from Aylesbury railway station, in the Mid division of a site for the schools. The Wesleyan chapel, built in
the county, hundred and petty sessional division of 18x5 and rebuilt in 1868, will seat 70 persons. John
Aylesbury, union of Aylesbury, county court district of Henry Tapping esq. who is lord of the manor, Lord
Aylesbury, rural deanery of Wendover, archdeaconry of Rothschild P.C., G.C.V.O. Frederick Whitchurch, the
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. By a Local Govern­ trustees of Jeffery Gadsden, and the trustees of Richard
ment Board Order, March 25, 1885, Great and Little Clare Gurney esq. are the principal landowners. The
Hampden was made a part of Stoke Mandeville parish soil is stiff wet clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are
for civil purposes only. The church of St. Mary the wheat, beans and oats. The area is 1,499 acres; rate­
Virgin, erected in 1866 on a new site near the centre of able value, £3,202; the population in 1911 was 309.
the village, about half a mile from the old church, is a Parish Clerk, James Foster.
building of flint and red brick in the Early English Post Office.— William Mason, sub-postmaster. Letters
■style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a through Aylesbury delivered by foot messenger about
western tower containing 6 bells: the church contains 7 a.m. & 4.50 p.m. Letter Box cleared at 7 a.m. &
a monument, with marble effigies, to the memory of 6.40 p.m. week days only. Aylesbury, about miles
distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office
three children of Edmund Brudenell, lord of the manor,
who were killed by the Cromwellian soldiers; the The old parochial school, erected in 1845, is now used
as a Sunday school and club room
monument was removed here from the old church by
faculty in February, 1899: there are 160 sittings. The Elementary School, for 91 children, was opened January,
old church of St. Mary the Virgin, now in ruins, retains 1895 ; Miss Jane Alice Starck, mistress
in the chancel a piscina and an Early English window, Metropolitan & Great Central Railway Station, Herbert
and the nave has a 12th century archway. The register John Strong, station master
dates from the year 1699. The living is a vicarage, Carriers from Princes Risborough to Aylesbury Pas!
net yearly value ¿225, with residence, in the gift of through on wed. & sat
IKirkham HarryMidgley, Whitethorns IWilks Clement, Red house
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
IWinterton Rev.Frederick JamesB
Edwards William E. Bushev cottage IMatthaei Madame, Manor cottage
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Mitchell-Hedges Fdk.Albt. The Limes I Vicarage
Hedges John, Stoke house