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ters if»“ Berkhamsted arrive
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Letter Box cleared at9.10 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. week days
rateable value, ¿980; population in 1911, 239.
k 10.30 a.m. S u n d a y s . Berkhamsted is the nearest
Elementary School (mixed), built in 1874, enlarged 1894. money order office, about miles distant, k Cholesfor 100 children ; Horace Smith, master
burv the nearest telegraph office, 1 mile distant
Ferry Rev. William Bramley M.A. Fincher Frederick, poultry breeder Redding Geo. frmr. Botchmore farm
(rector), Rectory
Gibbs Annie (Miss), shopkeeper
Holzapfel William, Hawridge court Gomrn Walter, gaidener to W. Holz­ Staniford Joseph, florist
Stevens James, farmer, Hawridge
Wright Harry
apfel esq. The Cottage
Vale farm
Wright Mrs. William, Ivy cottage
Lamkin Edward, Rose & Crown P.H Tomlin Alfred, wheelwright
COMMERCIAL.
Pocock A. & J. (Misses), blacksmiths Winter Albert, farm bailiff to W.
Cullom Philip, Full Moon P.H
Puddephatt John, farmer
Holzapfel esq. Hawridge Court frm
H A Z 1 E M E B E , a scattered parish surrounded by a the trustees of the late Samuel Newman esq
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densewoodland ofgreat beauty, was formed in 1847 under Tresyllian Williams and William and Norman Gurney
Gurnej
iand 2 Will. IV. cap. 38, from the adjoimng parishes of 1 sqrs. are the principal landowners. The soil is chieflJ
y
High Wycombe, Penn and Hughenden, and isnow, under clay; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley
Lord Blandford’s Act, a separate ecclesiastical parish; it and clover. The entire area is 4,480 acres; rateable
is on the road from High Wycombe to Amersham, 2 alue included with that ofthe parish ofHigh Wycombe ;
miles north-east from Wycombe station on the Great v
the entire population in 1911 was 989.
Western and Great Central Joint railway, in the Mid
Sexton, Jabez Hunt.
division of the county, hundred of Desborough, 2nd
division of Desborough petty sessional division, the Post Office.— Mrs. Harriet Carter, sub-postmistress.
county court district of High Wycombe, rural deanery Letters through High Wycombe arrive at 6.45 a.m. &
12.5 k 4.30 p.m.; dispatched at 11 a.m. 12 noon &
of Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese
of Oxford. The church of Holy Trinity, erected in 1845, 5.55 & 8.30 p.m. ; no delivery on Sundays. Terriers
is the nearest money order office k High Wycombe, 3
is a very small edifice of brick, in the Romanesque
style, consisting of an eastern apse, nave and a bell cote miles distant, is the nearest telegraph office
over the western entrance containing 3 bells: there is Wall Box at Four Ashes cleared at 5.45 p.m. daily
except Sundays
a memorial window to Dr. Barnes, founder of the Royal
Botanic Society, and two to Alfred Leadbetter esq. : Post Office, Totteridge.— Mrs. Eliza Randall, sub-post­
the church affords sittings for 150 persons. The register mistress. Letters through High Wycombe arrive at
dates from the year 1846. The living is a vicarage, net 6.45 & 11.30 a.m.; dispatched 12.30 & 6.15 p.m
yearly value ¿246, including 3 acres of glebe, and resi­ Elementary School, built in 1347 & enlarged in 1887 A
dence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1910 by
again in 1913, for 227 children; Arthur J. Chapman,
the Rev. Cecil Henry Clissold M.A. of Clare College, master
Cambridge. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, Infants’ School (added in 1901 & enlarged in 1913, for
erected in 1906 at a cost of ¿500. The Ecclesiastical 117 children); Mrs. Edith Merrick Cantle-Beaumont,
Commissioners are lords of the manor. Mrs. Leadbetter, mistress
at „.35
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PR IV A T E RESIDENTS
Moore William Edward, Hillsboro'
Hill Joseph, farmer. Hicks farm
Baily Walter, Terrier’s Green
Nockolds Henry Worship, Bunglow Mills Ada (Miss), district nurse
Cantle-Beaumont George, Woodville Pettit Charles E. Totteridge farm
Money Joseph Watkins, cycle dealer
Clissold Rev. Cecil Henry M.A.(vicar), Phillips John D. Barton lo.Totteridge!Nash William, farmer, Cock-pit hall
Vicarage
Priestley Robt. Chambers, Terriers ho Perkins James, farmer, Terrier’s frm
Field Rev. Frederick Francis B.A. Ramsay Sir William K.C.B., F.R.S Putnam Frank, builder
St. John’s
Beeclicroft
Putnam John, shopkpr. Green Street
Goodier Miss, The Firs
Rennee Mrs. Old Beams
Randall Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Gubbins Commander George William Reynolds Mrs. Totteridge house
Smith Frederick, farmer, Four ashes
(late R.N.), Carlton lodge
Smith William, beer retailer
Harberd Henry Edmund, Magnolia
Smith Wm. Dolphin P.H. Totteridge
COM 31EUCIAL.
Howland Ralph, Nethercote
Stevens Eli, farmer, Primrose Hill
Kightly Walter, Oakdene
Banham Alfred, baker
Sturgess Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Leadbetter Mrs. Hazlemere park
Dickinson Arthur, beer retailer
Tilbury Frederick, farmer
Leadbetter Wilfred, Brimminghall
Evans Samuel, carpenter
Tilbury Thomas, brick maker
Lee Peter, Lvnville
Giles William, farmer, Hill farm
Tucker John, farmer, Lit. Totteridge
Lucas Fdk. Jas. White cot.Totteridge Green Frederick H. Crown P.H
Worrall John, Red Lion P.H

H E D G E R L E Y is a village and parish 2$ miles south­ died in 1312, though the engraving is later ; the group
west from Gerrard’s Cross station on the main line of of children has been cut out of the effigy of a bishop
the Great Western and Great Central joint railway, 6 or abbot, c. 1530; on the reverse of the shield are por­
north from Eton and 7 north from Windsor, in the tions of canopy work : there are also brasses to Robert
Southern division of the county, hundred and petty Fulmer, 1498, and Joanna his wife. In the vestry is a
sessional division of Stoke, union of Eton, county court table of the Ten Commandments, painted on canvas,
district of Uxbridge, rural deanery of Burnham, arch­ and repaired in 1772, with an illustration of a breach of
deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The each : the Perpendicular font has an octagonal basin,
church of St. Mary the Virgin, standing on the brow of adorned with Tudor roses and other carvings: there
a hill, is a structure of flint and Tubble in the Early are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1538.
English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, The living is a rectory, net income ¿128, with resi­
nave, south porch and an embattled western tower con­ dence and 3 acrts cf glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Hugh
taining 4 bells, and was rebuilt in 1852 at a cost of Norris, and held since 1890 by the Rev. John Henry
¿1,800: the pulpit and communion rails are made of Matthews M.A. of St. John’s College, Cambridge.
wood, the gift of Henry Liggins esq. which had for Traces of a Roman camp are to be seen in Bulstrode
nearly two centuries formed part of the parish church Park. Hedgerley Park is the seat of Mrs. H. Stevenson.
o Parham, in Antigua, West Indies, destroyed by an Mrs. Hugh Norris is lady of the manor and Drincipal
earthquake in 1842; all, except the pulpit, has been sent landowner. The soil is rich loam and gravel; subsoil,
or use ffi the new church of St. Barnabas, West chalk. The chief crops are oats and wheat and some
aling: the seats are all of oak: King Charles I. is land in pasture. The area is 1,091 acres of land and 6
said to have visited this church, and noticing once of water; rateable value, ¿1,429; the population in
at the communion table was without a cover, took 1 9 1 1 was 1 3 5 .
1 vl c^oak an<*
^ on the table; part of the Post Office.— Mrs. Annie Jeffery, sub-postmistress.
coak has been framed and glazed, and now hangs 011 Letters arrive through Farnham Royal, Bucks, at 7.35
church: there is a palimpsest brass & 11.10 a.m. k 7.45 p.m.; dispatched at 8.25 a.m. &
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tlie obverse* an effigy of Margaret, wife of 2.45 & 8.25 p.m. ; sunday, arrive 7.3-5 a.m. ; dis­
• ward Bulstrode,i54o, and a group of 10 sons and 3
patched 9.25 a.m. The nearest money order & tele­
^aughters, with a mutilated shield and inscription: the graph office is at I'arnham Common, 2 miles distant
vfUr6. , e la(iJ cut out of an inscription in English jElementary' School (mixed), with residence for mistress,
TV>rSe ™ reverse of the inscription bears another to built in 1844. enlarged in 1896. for 40 children; Miss
otnas Totyngton, Abbot of Bury St. Edmund’s, who I Mary Lewis, mistress
M a ftK

^ a r n u e ^’ Shell house
1 Stevenson Mrs.
Henry, Hedgerleyj
c o m m e r c ia l.
ews Rev. Jn. Hy. M.A. Rectory! park (letters through Stoke Poges)|Bellamy Somers, farmer, Slade farm