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BUC K IN G H A M SH IR E .

Graves John Wm. farmer. Water lane,Lloyd Thos. Ivester, artist, The Nest
Groom William, blacksmith
Mainwaring James Wilson, White
Hickson Fredk. Arthur, dog fancier »Hart P.H
Hickson William Thomas, butcher
Norman Albert, market gardener
Higgins George, Swan P.H
Norman Joseph, market gardener
Hine George James, coach builder
Oldham & Co. mineral water manfrs
Jefferson Eliza (Mrs.), farmer, Mer­ Petts Joseph, market gardener
cer’s farm
Reynolds George E. farmer
Labrum Robert, jobmaster
Rose Henry George, builder
Rush Samuel, carpenter
Line Frederick, beer retailer

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Smith Clara Mary Ann(Miss),laundrv
Smith William Henry, surveyor of
highways to Newport Pagnell Rural
District Council
Tillyard William George, grazier
Weeks William, farmer
West Henry, cowkeeper
Wadsworth Frederick, Crown &
Castle P.H
Worthington Aliee(Miss),parish nurse

SIMPSON" (or Sympson) is a parish and village on dates from the year 1718; the earlier ones have been
the Grand Junction canal, i mile north from Fenny lost. The living is a rectory, net yearly value ¿260,
Stratford and 2 miles north-east from Bletchley derived principally from 225 acres of glebe, with
Junction station on the main line of the London and residence, built in 1872, in the gift of Sir Wyndham
North Western railway, in the Northern division of Charles Henry Hanmer bart. and held since 1891 bv
the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union ithe Rev. William Rice B.A. of St. David’s College,
and county court district of Newport Pagnell, rural Lampeter. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built in
deanery of Bletchley, archdeaconry of Buckingham and 1842 and rebuilt on a new site in 1870, has 100
diocese of Oxford. A portion of the town of Fenny isittings. Bletchley Urban District and Newport Pagnell
Stratford is in this parish, which is supplied with Rural District Isolation Hospital was erected in 1907 at
water from Sandhouse, by the Bletchley Urban District a cost of ¿1,600, and has 12 beds. Pigott’s charity of
Water Works. The river Ousel forms its eastern about ¿100 a year is given in coals to the poor. The
boundary.
manorial rights have ceased for over 150 years. The
This parish is governed by the Bletchley Urban Dis­ principal landowner is John Sipthorp esq. The soil is
trict Council, formed in 1895, under the provisions of heavy, some clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. The land
the “Local Government Act, 1894” (56 and 57 Viet. is mostly pasture. The parish contains 1,317 acres of
c- 73), by Local Government Board Order, No. 32,766. land and 19 of water; assessable value, ¿5*364; the
The church of St. Thomas the Apostle is an ancient population in 1911 was 624.
cruciform building of stone, in the Perpendicular and Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— Charles E. Smith, sub-post­
Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts,
ter. Letters through Bletchley arrive at 6.20 a.m.
60uth porch and a central tower containing 5 bells: mas
5 & 6.15 p.m. Box cleared at 8.5 & 11.30 a.m. &
in the church are monuments to the Hanmers, includ­ &
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p.m. week days; Sundays, arrive at 6.30 a.m. &
ing one by Bacon to Sir Walden Hanmer hart. d. 1873:
box cleared at 9.35 a.m
the chancel was restored at the cost of the late Sir
Wyndham Edward Hanmer bart. of Stockgrove (d. 1887), Elementary School, erected in 1876 for the parishes of
Sympson & Woughton-on-the-Green, & situated mid­
m 1873, when the transepts were restored and the tower
underpinned : the nave was restored in 1904 at a cost of way between the two villages, for 130 children; J.
¿1,300: there are 250 sittings. The present register Cullom, master
Bodley Frederick, assistant overseer port Pagnell Rural District Council
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
for Simpson, Woughton & Bow (Edgar Nicholson L.R.C.P.Lond.
Bourne Christopher, Olde Wharf ho
medical officer), Stratford road
Brickhill, The Walnuts
Edwards David, Hill crest
Christopher F.R.H.S. daffodil Janes Chas. Jas. farmer, The Mounts
Kilpatrick James Leggat, Simpson ho Bourne
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Smith Charles E. groceT & sub-post­
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Sherry Blake Gordon, The Poplars Ford
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Isolation (Joint) Hospital for Bletch- parish will be found under Fenny
Bennett Wm. Wood farm,Stratford rd lev Urban District Council & New-1 Stratford)
S L A PT O N (anciently Slepetone) is a village and persons. A charity left by Sir Thomas Knyghton,
parish on the river Ouse and Bedfordshire border, 2 consists of property of the yearly value of ¿66 6s. and
miles north-east from Cheddington Junction on the is for the repair of two tenements under one roof,
main line of the London and North Western railway called the “Town House ”; a sum of 16s. id. called
and sh south from Leighton Buzzard, in the Mid “head silver,” is due to the lord of the manor for
division of the county, hundred of Cottesloe, petty defraying the expenses of labourers’ funerals; the
sessional division of Linslade, union and county court residue being distributed on the Monday before old
district of Leighton Buzzard, rural deanery of Iving- Christmas-day among all the poor of the parish, in
hoe, archdeaconry cf Buckingham and diocese of sums varying from 5s. to ¿1 according to the size of
Oxford. The Grand Junction canal passes on the the families. Slapton formerly belonged to the Bene­
west. The church of the Holy Cross is a building of dictine Convent of SS. Mary and Ethelburga at
stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, Berchinges (Barking), in the county of Essex, and was
nave, north porch and an embattled western tower a royal manor in the time of Edward VI. and Eliza­
containing 5 bells, 2 of which were recast, the whole beth; it afterwards passed to Thomas Rowe, subse­
rehung and the tower restored in 1889: the font dates quently to J. Theed, and in 1724 became the property
from the 13th century and there are brasses to Reginald of Scroope, 1st Duke of Bridgewater. Earl Brownlow
Manser, dated 1462; James Tornay, yeoman-at-arms to P.O. who is lord of the manor, the Earl of R o s e b e r y
King Henry VIII. 1519, and his two wives; and to and Midlothian K.G., K.T., P.O. and Lady Wantage
Sir Thomas Knyghton, 1522: the church was restored are the principal landowners. The soil is c l a y ; suoin 1878 and 1889 at a total cost of ¿1,800, and affords soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and beans
120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1653. and some land is in pasture. The area- is 1,397 acres0
The living is a rectory, net yearly value, derived from land and 16 of water; rateable value, ¿7,690; the popu­
190 acres of glebe, ¿199 with residence, in the gift lation in 1911 was 211 in the civil and 200 in the ecclesi­
of Christ Church, Oxford, and held since 1913 by astical parish.
the Rev. William Hamilton Johnston M.A. of Trinity Horton, a hamlet, 1 mile south, partly in this parish,
College, Dublin. The advowson of the church was will be found under Ivinghoe.
separated from the manor in 1720 and purchased by
Office.— Charles Turney, sub-postmaster. Letters
James, 1st Duke of Chandos, who transferred the Post
through Leighton Buzzard arrive at 7 a.m. & 5-3
patronage in 1720 for ¿630 to Christ Church, Oxford.
p.m.;
atched at 8.15 a.m. & 6.40 p.m.;
One of the rectors, John Kempe, who resigned the livery 0d1isp
1 sunday. Cheddington, 3 miles distant,
living in 1407, was Bishop of Rochester, 1419;
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Chichester, 1421; London, 1422; Archbishop of York,
1426 and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1452; he died in Elementary School, built in 1846 & enlarged in 1876»
1454. The Wesleyan chapel, built in 1817, will seat 170 54 children; Mrs. Susan Kirkham, mistress
PRTVATE

R E S ID E N T S .

Johnston Rev.William Hamilton M.A.
(rector), Rectory
Owen Harold, The Bury
Roberts Hy. Jeremiah, Meadowside

Smallbones Brothers, farmers
C O M M E R C IA L .
Turney Charles, farmer, Post office
Burton Ephraim, painter
Hing William, Carpenters’Arms P.H Turney Joseph, farmer, Church
Vasey Isabel (Mrs.), farmr. Hilliar<"
Owen Harold, farmer. Bury farm
Roff George, farmer, Whaddon farm