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Early English, may be regarded as rather Late Per­ Thomas’ day. Godwin’s charity of £10 is yearly dis­
pendicular: the east window was filled with stained tributed in prizes to school children lor good work and
glass by members of the Fremantle family to com­ attendance. Mrs. Niven’s charity of £5 10s. a year
memorate the golden wedding of the firstLord Cottesloe is for educational purposes. Swanbourne House, the
in 1874; and there is a memorial window to Sophia seat of Lord Cottesloe D.L., J.P. situated on an emin­
Elizh. Barnes, d. 1859: the church contains traces of an ence, is a spacious mansion of white brick, surrounded
ancient wall painting, and the interior generally seems by well-planted grounds and a picturesque park of about
to have been much coloured, especially in the north 70 acres, and commands very extensive views of the
aisle: there is a fine brass, with effigies, to Thomas surrounding country. The Manor House, th© property
Adams, and Elizabeth his wife, 1626, with this curious of Lord Cottesloe, is a fine specimen of domestic work
verse:—
of the Tudor period, and formerly belonged to the
“Who in prime of youth by bloody thieves was slain, Fortescue family. Lord Cottesloe is lord of the manor
and
principal landowner. Th© soil is loam and gravel;
In Tiscombe ground his blood ye grass did staine:“
subsoil, clayey. The chief crops are wheat, beans and
below are the figures of four children: a memorial pasture. The area is 2,552 acres; rateable value,
to Mr. Josias Askew, who died in 1750 at the age 01 £4,039; population in 1911, 427.
94, and brasses in memory of Admiral Sir Thomas
Nearton End is part- of Swanbourne.
Francis Fremantle, who was in command of “The Parish
Clerk, James Harding, jun.
Neptune” at the battle of Trafalgar, and of Thomas
Francis, 1st Baron Cottesloe, d. 1890, Louisa Elizabeth Post & T. Office.— Miss Polly Boughton, sub-post­
(Nugent) his wife, d. 1875, and other members of the mistress. Letters are received through Winslow,
Bucks, at 6.45 a.m. & 2.35 p.m.; Sundays, 6.45 a.m. ;
family: the chancel retains a double piscina and
aumbry; the plain font is probably Early English ; the dispatched at 9.30 a.m. & 5.40 p.m.; Sundays at
stained window placed in the chancel in 1902 is a 9.30 a.m. Winslow, 2% miles distant, is the nearest
memorial to the Bev. W. M. Myres M.A. vicar 1879- money order office
1901: the church was restored and repaired in 1864 Letter Box, Nearton End, cleared at 5.35 p.m. week
days & 12.5 p.m. sundays
under the direction of Mr. G. Wilkinson, architect, and
affords 220 sittings: in 1890, half an acre of land,
situated about a quarter of a mile from the churchyard,
Elementary Schools.
was given by the late Lord Cottesloe forburial purposes.
established in 1706, rebuilt in 1838, & enlarged
The register dates from the year 1565. The living is a (Mixed),
in 1872, for 100 children; it has an endowment of
vicarage, net yearly value £204, including 33 acres of £21
yearly; T. B. Dawes, master; Mrs. Dawes, mist
glebe, with residence, in the gift of Lord Cottesloe, and (Infants
stablished in 1871, for 50 children; Miss
held since 1904 by the Rev. James Ralph Caldecott Louisa’),Coe
oper, mistress
Forrest M.A. of University College, Durham, and Exeter
College, Oxford. The Baptist chapel, erected in 1863,
will seat 250 persons. The Primitive Methodist chapel, Railway Station, A. J. Brudnell, station master
at NEARTON, erected in 1858 and Tebuilt in 1907, has Carriers— Charles Alderman, Aylesbury, sat. & Leighton
about xoo sittings. The poor’s charity of £12 yearly, Buzzard on tues.; Bowler, from Mursley, passes
derived from 9a. or. 37P. of land, is distributed on St. through sat
SWANBOURNE.
Bennett Peter, gardener to Hon. T. Swanbourne & District Agricultural
F. Fremantle M.A., J.P
Co-operative Society Limited (John
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Cottesloe Lord M.A., D.L., J.P.Swan- Bird Samuel Dexter, coal merchant, Frederick Colgrove, sec.), Dodley
Hill farm
bourne house; 43 Eaton square & Station wharf
Carlton & Travellers’ clubs, Lon­ Brooks William, builder, contractor, Swanbourne Provident Co-operative
carpenter & undertaker
Society (George H. Viccars, sec)
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Forrest Rev. James Ralph Caldecott Colgrove Cornelius, farmer, Dodley Timms George, Swan P.H
Hill farm
Turvey James, blacksmith
M.A. Vicarage
Dancer Hy. farmer, Holcombe farm Wilmore William, farmer
Fremantle Hon. Cecil J.P
Fairman Alfred, farmer, Aylesbury rd
Fremantle Hon. Mary L
NEARTON END.
Fremantle Hon. Thomas Francis Grainge Arthur James, farmer
Harding James, jun. shoe maker
Alderman Charles, farmer & carrier
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Harding William, farmer
COMMERCIAL.
Pride Charles, gamekeeper to Lord Hurst Frederick, farmer
Ash George F. farmer
Cottesloe
Madkins Ernest James, farmer
Ash Harry, farmer, Moco farm
Roads Sydney, farmer,Deverell’s frm Tofield Robert, farmer
Ash Thomas, head gardener to Lord Sawyer Jabez, farm bailiff to Mr. Viccars George H. farmer & assistant
Cottesloe M.A., D.L., J.P. The Edwin Kibble
overseer for Great & Little HorGardens
wood & Swanbourne
SYMPSON, see Simpson.
T A P L O W is a parish and village, on the banks of the c. 1500-20; the third, an inscription inRoman capitals, c.
1hames, with a station three-quarters of a mile from 1600, to Robert Manfelde, d. 1459, shows on the reverse
the village on the main line of the Great Western rail­ part the figure of a civilian, c. 1500: there are alsothree
way, 2 east from Maidenhead, 6 north-west from Wind­ brass effigies of Richard Manfeld, his sister and brother,
sor and 22^ from London, in the Southern division of 1465. The architect is Mr. G. Fellowes Prynne. The
the county, hundred and petty sessional division of register dates from the year 1710. The living is a
uurnham, union of Eton, county court district of Wind­ rectory, net yearly value £320, including 190 acres of
sor, rural deanery of Burnham, archdeaconry of Buck­ glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of
ingham and diocese of Oxford; a bridge of stone and Oxford, and held since 1907 by the Rev. Francis George
orick with 13 arches here crosses the river Thames to Anderson Phillips M.A. ofChrist Church, Oxford. There
Maidenhead. The church of St. Nicholas, erected in is a village reading room, erected in 1894, and contain­
1911-12 on the site of a former edifice built in 1828, ing a library. The poor’s allotment of 3 acres with six
is a building of Kentish ragstone in the Decorated cottages produces £36, of which £20 is given to the coal
style and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, lady chapel and clothing club ; Sharp’s charity, bequeathed in 1797,
and vestries and a western tower with a spire: the consists of £105, invested in £3 per Cents, the interestof
c ancel of the old church has been partly incorporated which is given away twice yearly in bread; Mrs. Morris,
m ^ new building: the roof is oak and there is a of Birmingham, gave £50 in 1784 to be invested in £3
rood screen of Bath stone: the church contains a per Cents, for educating two poor children, but this is
umber of ancient brasses removed from the old now given as prizes forneedlework; Ashford and Moore’s
(which stood in the ancient churchyard close charity, bequeathed in 1867, consists of £611 9s. 4d.
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umberdene, priest, dated 1350, with an effigy in the yearly in money and coal. In October, 1883, a tumulus
3ad of a floriated cross: three of the brasses here are in the old churchyard was opened by permission of the
pa impsests—-that of Thomas Manfeld, 1540, and his Rev. Charles Whately, then rector, by Mr. James Rut­
0 wives, with effigies and inscription, exhibits on the land, hon. sec. of the Maidenhead Field Club, and
verse portions of figures and some verses; another, of various Anglo-Saxon objects, a gold buckle, gold fibulae,
verse inscription to Ursula, wife of Thomas Jones, c. silver armlets, two iron umbones, an iron sword, four
570,ismade up of three pieces of the figure of a lady, glass vases, two large silver-mounted drinking horns.