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W ESTON T B B V Jl-L E .

BU C K IN G H A M S H IR E .

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tratio T : W : f. 1655 and on the inside panel of the for the time being, the rents being distributed in
door is a curious inscription in English, dated 1578: clothing to not more than six persons, being regular
the font, placed in this aisle, is a fine specimen of attendants at church. Findall’s (Aylesbury) charity
Norman work, and consists of a fluted basin with provides 6s. 8d. for distribution amongst the poor
elaborate scroll ornament round the edge, resting on a and also 6s. 8d. for cleaning the churchways. l£
square-cushioned base, similarly carved, with chevron the parish is a reservoir of about 54 acres, held bv
and cable moulding: the tower occupies the whole of the Grand Junction Canal Company. In May, 184-'
the westernmost bay of the nave, the arches of which a Roman amphora, various vessels of glass and Samian
are connected by smaller and perfectly plain arches cut wave, pieces of iron with rivets and nails and some
through the tower walls ; towards the east a lofty other objects, with evidences of the burial of a female
narrow arch opens from the nave to the lower stage of «ere discovered in the rectory garden. At Great
the tower, which has a good Perpendicular window of Ground, in this parish, Roman, Saxon and EarlyEnglish
three lights; in the south wall of the tower, within the pottery ware, tiles, Venetian and gold encrusted glass
church, is a recessed arched ledge, and on the floor were met with about 1898, and some remarkable founda­
below a stone inscribed to Mr. Henry Babham, 1719: tions were unearthed in 1899, by the late Mr. R
the pulpit is of Tudor or Jacobean date, hexagonal in Fowler. One manor here, formerly belonging to the
shape, well carved in panels and rests on a modern Duchy of Lancaster, was sold to the late Mr. John
base : there are some remains of a carved wood screen Eldridge, of this parish, and there are two other
in the south aisle, which has also a trefoil-headed manors— the manor of Hyde, owned by the Worshipful
piscina and several large brackets : the church was re­ Company of Mercers, and another, belonging to Lord
stored in i860 under the direction of Mr. David Bran­ Rothschild. A court leet is held about every five years
don, architect, and in 1879 the chancel underwent a by the Mercers' Company at the Manor farm. The
complete restoration by Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn, architect, principal landowners are Lord Rothschild P.C., G.C.V.O.
the floor being considerably raised and laid down with the Mercers’ Company and the Rev. William Lowndes.
tiles, some of which are reproductions of old tiles found The soil is various, gravelly, loam and some clay, with
in the church : new stalls and desks of carved oak were a clay subsoil. The chief crops are wheat, beans, oats,
fitted; the total cost of the restoration exceeded £300: barley, clover and turnips. The area is 2,279 acres of
a new organ was erected in October, 1890, at a cost of land and 44 of water ; rateable value, £4,556 ;the popu­
£310 ; and the church was further renovated in 1901 : lation in 1911 was 737.
there are 369 sittings, 120 being free. There is an
Parish Clerk, Fred Horne.
ancient lych gate at the entrance to the churchyard. Post Office.— William James Humphreys, sub-postmaster.
The register of baptisms dates from the year 1538;
Letters arrive from Tring at 5.35 & 9.45 a.m. ; dis­
marriages and burials from 1566; and there is also a patched at 1 & 7.5 p.m. ; & 011 Sundays arrive at 5.35
volume of “ Stemmata Parochialia,” extending from a.m.; dispatched at 5.20 p.m. Aston Clinton, 2
1538 to about 1840, compiled from the parish registers miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph
by the Rev. Arthur Isham M.A. rector here 1837-76. office
The living is a rectory, net yearly value £410, including Wall Letter Box, West end, cleared at 1 & 7.5 p.m. on
293 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the week days & 5.20 p.m. on Su n d ays
Warden and Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, and Letter Boxes.— Rectory Wall, cleared 12.35 & 6.45 p.m.
held since 1904 by the Rev. George Kennedy Cooke
week days & 5.15 Sundays; & World’s end, cleared
M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and rural dean
12.45
& 7-5 P m -M-eek days & 5.30 p.m. Sundays
of Wendover.
The rectory house, of brick, in the Wall Letter Box, Broughton Farm, cleared 6.15 a.m. 12
Italian style, was designed by the late Sir G. G.
noon & 9.20 p.m. ; Sundays, 7.45 a.m. & 7 p.m
Scott R.A. A church room was erected in 1909.
School (mixed & infants), built in 1839 &
The Union chapel (Baptist and Congregational), built Elementary
enlarged in 1873, for 117 children; with residence
in 1855,
seat I7° persons. Widow Turpin’s land
adjoining for master; Robert Gerard Davis White,
of 10a. ir. 34P. now produces £22 annually, which
master
is distributed twice a year in loaves; the Pennant
trust cottages, left to the parish by the Rev. Thomas Carrier to & from Aylesbury.--Fred William Goodson
Pennant B.D. rector 1817-45, are in trust of the rector wed. & sat
Munger John Charles, farmer
Bates Trevor George, baker &c
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Oakley Amos, shopkeeper
(Marked thus * receive letters via Bunce Charles, farmer
Piddington William, duck breeder
Bunce Emma (Miss), grocer
Aylesbury.)
Purssell Herbert Charles, farmer.
Bonce John, duck breeder
Bowker A. G. Valley Field
Carrington Walter Hardy, beer retlr Rectory farm
Cooke Rev. George Kennedy M.A. Chappin Joseph, dairy farmer
Purssell Wm. miller (water), The Mill
(rector & rural dean), Rectory
Clarke Isabella (Mrs.), Chandos Rickard Albert, duck breeder
Hedderwick Thomas Charles Hunter Arms P.H
Rickard Charles, bricklayer
J.P. The Manor house
Cox Frederick, farmer, Brook farm Roberts Rev. Charles Edmund M.A.
Jamieson Alexander
(rector of Halton), preparatory
Edwards Edwin, boot maker
Kingham Arthur Chas. The Laurels Edwards James, boot makeT
school, The Chilterns
Morris Misses, Yaxley lodge
Sharp
George, butcher
Eldridge Isabella (Mrs.),duck breeder
Munger Miss, Chapel house
Spencer Frank, Chequers P.H
Fitkin John, builder
Nelson-Harris Fredk. The Beeches •Fowler Herbert White, farmer, Spencer John, grocer
Roberts Rev. Charles Edmund M.A. Broughton farm
•Tapping John Hy. farmer, Bedgrove
The Chilterns
Goodson Frederick William, beer Thorne Thos. farmer, West End farm
Todd-Brown William, Vine cottage
Tompkins H. & Sons, wheelwrights
retailer & carrier
Wilenski R
Humphreys William James, boot Van Baars Bernard, grocer
Wolstencroft Robert, Cadel house
Wakefield Harvey Charles, builder
maker, & post office
Wakefield William, wheelwright
Kirby William, The Plough inn
C O M M E R C IA L .
Walton Frederick, duck breeder
K
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tla
nd
William,
smith
•Adams William, cattle dealer, Wes­
MungeT George H. jobmaster
ton Mead farm
W E S T O N T J N DE E WO O D is a parish and village upper portion, and there is a piscina and sedilia: a
on the river Ouse and on the road from Olney to helmet and coat of early date are preserved in the
Northampton, 2 miles south-west from Olney station church, which also contains some memorials of the
on the Bedford and Northampton branch of the Midland Throckmortons, and a brass, with effigy, and those_of
railway, 5J north from Newport Pagnell, 13 south-east five daughters to Elizabeth (Hussay), wife first of Sir
from Northampton. 13 west from Bedfcrd and 9 north- Walter Hungerford, and afterwards of Sir Robert
east-by-east from Stony Stratford, in the Northern divi- Throckmorton ; she died in 1571 : there i<= also a tomb,
sion of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, with marginal inscription on brass, to John Olney, 2
union and county court district of Newport Pagnell, former rector, and Dionisia, his wife, ob. T 4 0 5 ; his
archdeaconry of Buckingham, Tural deanery of Newport epitaph records that he converted the ancient ana
Pagnell and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. dilapidated chapel into a church : it was restored m
Lawrence is au ancient edifice of stone in the Early 1891 by the Rev. Hugh Allan M.A. incumbent 1882-98.
Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year
nave, aisles, north porch, and low embattled western 1681 ; some old documents and a terrier are also pre­
tower containing 6 bells: the whole exterior is Perpen­ served in the parish chest. The living is a perpetna
dicular : the piers and arches of the nave arcades are curacy, net yearly value £100, in the gift ofLieut.-0°■
plain Early English, and the chancel and tower exhibit Wentworth G. Bowyer, and held since 1908 by the Rev
portions of the same style ; the font is also of this date: Richard Rnwlinson Vyvvan M.A. of Corpus Christi 0
the east window retains its original stained glass in the lege, Cambridge, who is also vicar of and resides