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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £238, inclu­
ding 5 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the
Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, and held
since 1910 by the Rev. James Lyon Bowley M.A. of
keble College, Oxford. The vicarage house, which is in
the Domestic Gothic style, was built in 1871 by the
Rev. Robert HoltM.A. vicar 1868-1904. The parish
consists of scattered farms and a few cottages. In
January, 1635, an(* again in November, 1822, this place
and the neighbourhood are said to have been visited by
shocks of earthquake. Hillesden House was during the
Civil war garrisoned in 1641 for the king, being then
the seat of Sir Alexander Denton kt.; in 1643 it was
attacked by and surrendered tothe Parliamentary
forces, who destroyed it hy fire, Sir A. Denton and
Col. Smith, besides two field officers and divers
captains, being amongst the prisoners: the house was
rebuilt at the Restoration, but taken down again
when the estate was sold to the late Duke of
Buckingham ; traces of the foundations still remain in
the meadow east of the church.Mrs. Bowley, of
this parish, has in her possession a very ancient stone
implement, supposed to be an unfinished quern or
handmill; it is a large slab of stone, having in

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the centre a cup-like hollow about 10 inches in
diameter, in which is inserted a lid without handle; it
was found some years ago while digging a drain; Mrs.
Bowley also has a very perfect calf-bound volume of
accounts relating to the estate of Sir Alexander Denton,
found about i860 built up in an old wall at the Manor
farm, and mentions among other items, the cost of
sending a messenger to London in 1665, the year of the
great plague. The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church,
Oxford, are the owners of the tithes and principal land­
owners. The soil is principally clay; about threefourths of the land is pasture. The area is 2,600 acres
of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £2,724; the
population in 1911 was 205.
Letters through Buckingham arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 4
p.m. Wall Box, Vicarage, cleared at 7.40 a.m. & 6.10
p.m. week days. The nearest money order & tele­
graph office is at Steeple Claydon, about i£ miles
distant
Elementary Schcol, built in 1867, by Charles Morrison
esq. for 61 children ; Miss M. L. Gibbard, mistress
Carrier to Buckingham.— Charles Hill, mon.
through here
1Franklin George, farmer, Wood farm
COMMERCIAL.
PR IV A T E RE SID E N TS.
Barge Thomas Christopher, farmer Haines John, farmer
Bowley Rev. James Lyon M.A. (vicar), Cadd James, farmer
Hedges William, farmer. Manor farm
Vicarage
Cadd William, farmer
Lines William, farmer
Cowper Misses, Nutley
Coates Arthur, farmer, Jubilee farm Markham Arthur, farmer, Home frm
Foster Miss, The Firs
Coates Nathaniel (Mrs.), farmer, Staley Thomas, Plough P.H
Snowden Miss, The Firs
Stocking wood
HITCHAM is a parish,
miles north-east from was restored in 1866 at the expense of the late Mr..
Taplow station on the main line of the Great Western Maynard, then of Taplow, and again in 1907. The
railway, 2J miles north-east-by-east from Maidenhead register dates from the year 1559. The living is a
and 6 miles north-west from Windsor, in the Southern rectory, net yearly value £480, with residence, in the
division of the county, hundred and petty sessional divi­ gift of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College, and
sion of Burnham, union of Eton, county court district held since 1905 by the Rev. Edward Hobhouse Proctor
of Windsor, rural deanery of Burnham, archdeaconry of Carter M.A. of Keble College, Oxford.
A new
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. rectory house was built in 1910. A Mission Room,
Mary is a small building of stone, brick and flint, of to hold 60 persons, was opened in 1911. There is
the Norman and Decorated periods, and consists of also a Reading Room. Hitcham House is the seat of
chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western Lionel H. Hanbury esq. J.P. John Bevill Fortescue esq.
tower containing 3 bells: there are five Decorated is lord of the manor; Lord Desborough K.C.V.O. and
windows retaining fragments of ancient stained glass, Lionel H. Hanbury esq. J.P. are the principal land­
arid four modern stained windows; the glass in the owners. The soil is gravel; subsoil, loam. The chief
chancel -window, lately restored, dates from the year crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1,478
1340; in the nave are four Norman window’s, two being acres of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £8,086;
now blocked: the carved pulpit is canopied, and there the population in 1911 was 646 in the civil and 594 in
is an ancient oak chest: in the chancel is a monument the ecclesiastical parish.
with kneeling figures to Roger Alford, his wife, son and
Parish Clerk, William Horwood.
daughter, 1580, and another with recumbent effigy in Post & M. 0 . Office.— Mrs. Alice Banks, sub-postmis­
armour, executed in alabaster, to Sir William Clarke
. Letters through Maidenhead arrive at 6.30 &
kt. 1624; this monument is canopied and on either side t1r0e.s5s0
.m. & 7.30 p.m. Box cleared 8.5 a.m. 12 noon
isthe figure of a knight holding back a curtain ; on the &• 3 & 8ap.m.
sunday, 6.45 p.m. Taplow, 1 mile
front of the tomb are other figures kneeling: here also distant, is the n;ear
est telegraph office
is a monument to George Cruickshank, 1765 ; a brass Wall Letter Box. Marsh
Lane, cleared at 8.15 a.m. &
with effigies to Nicholas Clarke and three children,
12.30
& 7.15 p.m. week days only
15.51; another brass to Sir Francis Clark knt. 1631,
and one with effigies to Thomas Ramsey. 1510, and Elementary School (mixed), built in 1872, for 69 chil­
Margaret his wife: there are 120 sittings. The church dren ; Miss Eleanor Holyland, mistress
P R IV A T E R ESID EN TS.
Irby Hon. Cecil Saumarez J.P Hit- Foster Chas. insur. agt. Station view
Hooper Frank, decorator
Aird Malcolm Rucker, Sheepcote
cham grange
Audsley Geo. Catherall, The Brambles Kimber Henry Dixon, Hitcham Place Horwood Albert, beer retailer
House Wm. farmer, Sheepcote farm
Awdrv Charles Selwyn, Hitchambury Pearse Godfrey, Hitcham lane
Howard James, shopkeeper
Bourke Hon. Mrs. Hitcham vale
Phillips Mandeville, South side
Lever Walter, frmr. Castleman’s frm
Carter Rev. Edwd. Hobhouse Proctor Stephenson Mrs. Hill cottage
Slater Ernest Edward, sanitary en­
M.A. (rector), Rectory
COMM ERCIAL.
gineer, Winton college
Dolgorouki Prince & Princess Alexis,
Atkins Herbert, builder, Marsh lane Spry Milly (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Nashdom
Swan Michael Edward, residential
Fuller Henry Fleetwood, Grovefield ho Blay Frederick (Mrs.). laundry
hotel. Brazil house
Hanbury Lionel H., J.P. Hitcham ho Cross Gladys Helen (Miss), nursery
Dykes John, farmer, Hill farm
Wigmore Charles, boot maker
HOGGESTON is a village and parish 3^ miles south­ effigy, presumed to represent Sir William de Bermingeast from Winslow station on the Bletchley and Oxford ham, the founder of a chantry here, holding in the
branch of the London and North Western railway and 8 lnnds a model of a building, perhaps representing the
north from Aylesbury, in the Northern division of the church: the original Decorated oak and walnut framing
county, hundred of Oottesloe, Winslow petty sessional supporting the belfry and one of the original Norman
division and union, Buckingham county court district, windows on the south side of nave remain, but thelatter
rural deanery of Mursley, archdeaconry of Buckingham is now blocked : there is a piscina and remains of the
and diocese of Oxford. The church of SS. Peter and rood stairs in south aisle and a piscina and double sedile
Paul, or of the Holy Cross, is an ancient edifice of stone in chancel: the stone cross formerly in the churchyard
in the Transition style of the 13th centurv, consisting of is now built into the wall of the porch: the church con­
chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, north porch and a tains a specimen of the old tussock-hassocks: there are
western tower with shingled broach spire containing 4 r20 sittings. The register dates from the year 1547.
bells, 2 of which bear the dates 1585 and 1669: it was The living is a rectory, net yearly value £300, with 80
restored, the chancel rebuilt and enlarged and fitted with acres of <rlebe and residence, in the gift of the Provost,
carved oak stalls and the nave with oak benches in and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford, and held
1882, by Mr. W. White, architect, of London, at a cost since 1914 by the Rev. Arthur Sumner Walpole M.A.
™ J-35°: there are memorials of the Mayne family, and formerly scholar of that college. Thomas Gataker
&rid in a niche on the north side of the chancel an B D. a great scholar and divine of the reign of