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Smith Henry
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IFaulkner Lawrence B. brick maker ILovell Julia (Mrs.), carrier
Hatley Charles Fennemore, Sports- Page William, butcher
man’s Arms P.H
W I N G R A V E is a village and parish pleasantly situ­ church with grass on the first Sunday after St. Peter’s
ated on a hill commanding a fine view of the town of day (June 29) is still observed, about three roods of
Aylesbury and the surrounding country, 2 miles north grass land having been left for that purpose. Wingrave
from Marston Gate station on the Aylesbury and Ched- Old Manor house is the seat of Mrs. Freeman. The
dington branch of the London and North Western rail­ Rothschild family are lords of the manor and principal
way,
miles north-east from Aylesbury, 5 south-west landowners. The soil is chiefly of a clayey nature
from Leighton Buzzard and 6 north-west from Tring, in varying to gravel, producing excellent crops of wheat
the Mid division of the county, hundred of Cottesloe, and beans; subsoil, clay. The area is 2,884 acresLinslade petty sessional division, union and county court assessable value, land .£2,800 and buildings £1,623; the
district of Aylesbury, rural deanery of Ivinghoe, arch­ population in 1911 was 774 in the civil and 777 in the
deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The ecclesiastical parish.
church of SS. Peter and Paul is a building of stone in By Local Government Board Order, 19,622, dated March
the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting 25,
886, Buttermilk and Helsthorpe Farm was trans­
of chancel, nave, transept, aisles, and an embattled ferre1
d from Drayton Beauchamp to Wingrave, and Weedon
western tower containing a clock and 6 bells, rehung Lodge
from the latter parish to Weedon.
in 1898, with a new tenor: the church, with the excep­
tion of the tower, was restored in 1887 at a cost of Sexton, James Henry Stranks.
,£4,600 under the direction of Mr. G. Vialls A.R.I.B.A. Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— Mrs. Annie Woodward Jones,
of Ealing, London, when the whole of the roofs were
sub-postmistress. Letters are received through Ayles­
renewed on the ancient lines; an organ transept and
bury at 7.30 & 11 a.m.; dispatched at n a.m. & 6
vestries built, chancel screen erected and the interior p.m. on week days only; no post on sunday, but open
refitted with choir stalls and other fittings of oak: the
from 8.30 to 10 a.m. for telegrams
stained east window was the gift of Miss Butt, niece of
Elementary Schools.
the Rev. John Molesworth Butt M.A. vicar 1 8 5 0 -8 5 ; the
flooring throughout was relaid, the old inscribed stones Boys & Girls, enlarged in 1897, for 224 children;
being preserved: the tower was rebuilt in 18 9 8 , and in Lemuel Jones, master
1901 a new font was provided in place of the ancient County Council (formerly the late Countess of Rose­
font, which, however, was preserved, and in 19 0 7 was
bery’s) Infants’School, built in 1875, for 108 children,
brought back in place of the font provided in 19 0 1 :
and in 1804 was enlarged; Miss Rosina Bickmore,mist
there are 4 1 2 sittings. The churchyard wall was raised Carrier.— George Ellis, to Aylesbury, wed. & sat. &
three feet all round in 1 8 9 8 , and the total cost of works
in that year amounted to £1,200. The register dates Leighton Buzzard, on tues
from the year 1550. The living is a vicarage, net yearly ROWSHAM is a hamlet in this parish, about 2 miles
value £ 2 0 0 , with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of from the church and 4 from Aylesbury. Here is a
Oxford, and held since 1905 by the Rev. William Francis
chapel, erected in 1870, and holding 150
M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Leopold de Rothschild Congregational
esq. C.Y.O. is lay rector. The Union chapel here, persons. Here is also a brewery.
erected in 1 8 3 2 , will seat 490 persons, and there is also Wall Letter Box, cleared at 11.15 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. week
a Primitive Methodist chapel, and a Temperance hall, days
erected in 1 8 9 1 . The charitable bequests amount to Elementary School (mixed), built in 1870 for 80 child­
over £ 1 0 0 . which sum is distributed yearly amongst the ren, is now closed. In the above school an afternoon
poor. A curious and ancient custom of strewing the sunday service is held at 3 p.m
WINGRAVE.
Dimmock Mrs. Sarah, shopkeeper
Paine Thomas, dairy farmer
Ellis George, carrier
Parge/ter John, farmer, Leighton road
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
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Rickard
Fred, corn dealer, The Knolls
Barton Rev. John (Cong.), The Manse
Gibbs Albert, Bell P.H
Rickard Joe, builder & asst, overseer
Brandon Frederick, Leighton road
Gibbs
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Philip, butcher
Elliott Misses, Maltby house
Rickard William, builder
Francis Rev. William M.A. Vicarage Gibbs Mary Ann (Mrs.), grocer
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Rogers
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Freeman Mrs. Manor house
Green Robert, builder
Stent Fdk. gardener to Mrs. Freeman
Hepworth Mrs. Pastures
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Stranks
James
Henry, wheelwright
Mead Mrs. San Remo
farm & farm steward to Mrs. Free­ Woodruff George, blacksmith
Paine Mrs. Mark
man
Soames Misses, The Hollies
ROWSHAM.
Griffin Geo. Edwin, baker & grocer
COMMERCIAL.
Griffin Wm.farmer,Straws Hadley fm Badrick Henry, Old Red Lion P.H
Badrick John, Carpenters’ Arms P H Gurney William, builder & draper Elliott Thomas, farmer
Candy Ada Emma (Miss) C.M.B. Hart Aimer, Anchor inn
Gurney Thomas, brewer & maltster
midwife, Ivy Bank
Norman William Herbert, farmer,
Hedges Percy, farmer
Collins Thomas, farmer, Helsthorpe Higgins George, Rose & Crown P.H
Mercers farm
farm (letters through Leighton Mead William N. farmer
Rand & Sons, farmers, Seabrook frm
Buzzard)
Paine Chas. Jas. farmer, Church frm Roads Thomas, farmer, Hale farm
W I N S L O W is a small market and union town, with the south chancel wall, has been restored and refixed:on
a station on the Bletchley and Oxford and Banbury the north side is a brass with effigies, to Thomas Fige,
branches of the London and North Western railway, 1578, his wife and seven children; and on the south an­
about 2 miles east-by-north from Verney Junction other to Dorothy Barnard, 1634: the font is a new work
station on the Metropolitan and Great Central joint rail­ of Gaen stone, erected from contributions by the children
way, 50J miles from London by road, 54 by London and of the parish : there are several memorial windows, in­
North Western Tailway, io£ north-west from Aylesbury, cluding one erected in 1897 to Mr. H. R. Lambton, of
6| south-east from Buckingham, and 12 north-west from Redfield, and another, erected in 1907, to the late Mr.
Leighton Buzzard, in the Northern division of the Herbert Bullock: in 1884 the church was thoroughly
county, parish of Winslow-cum-Shipton, Cottesloe hun­ restored under the direction of Mr. John 0 . Scott, archi­
dred, head of a petty sessional division, in the Bucking­ tect, when the galleries were removed, the roofs renewed
ham county court district, rural deanery of Claydon, in oak, the floors relaid, the porch partially rebuilt and
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. furnished with a canopied niche, containing a figure of
The town stands on the brow of a hill, overlooking a St Laurence : the reredos is entirely of oak, beautifully
fertile vale on the road from Aylesbury to Buckingham, wrought in panels and gilt; a new; aisle on the north
and consists of a square market-place with three prin­ side of the chancel was erected in 1889: the totalcostof
cipal streets radiating from it. The town is lighted these restorations and additions amounted to £S’220‘
with gas by a company formed in i860 and is supplied In 1913 a new organ was provided : there are 400
with water from wells. The church of St. Laurence, sittings. In 1898 the churchyard was inclosed with a
originally erected in the 13th century, is a building of wrought iron fence, within which rows of trees wer
stone chiefly in the Perpendicular style, consisting of a planted by Lord Addington. The register dates fro®
large chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays,aisles, south the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, net
porch, and an embattled western tower containing aclock value £265, derived from 134 acres of glebe. wl
and 6 bells: the triple sedilia, on the south side of the residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, 311
chancel, are canopied, and adorned with the emblems of held .since 1906 by the Rev. Thomas Hinkley hl-A- ®
the Evangelists: a mutilated piscina, found built up in Christ's College, Cambridge, and chaplain of Wins®