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SHENLEY C H U R C H E N D is a township, parish yearly value ¿350, including 60 acres of glebe with
and scattered village, partly on the great Holyhead residence, in the gift of and held since 1901 by the
road, 4 miles north-west from Bletchley Junction sta­ Rev. Joseph Robertson Vincent. There are almshouses
tion on the main line of the London and North Western for six poor men or women, founded in pursuance of
railway, 4 south-east from Stony Stratford and 6 south- the will of Thomas Stafford esq. of Tattenhoe, in 1615.
west from Newport Pagnell, in the Northern division Shenley Park is the property and residence of Richard
of the county, hundred, union and county court dis­ M. William Selby-Lowndes esq. ; the mansion is a hand­
trict of Newport Pagnell, Stony Stratford petty ses­ some edifice of stone, pleasantly situated near the church
sional division, and in the rural deanery of Bucking­ and approached through an avenue of lime trees. The
ham (Wolverton portion), archdeaconry of Buckingham chief landowners are William Selby-Lowndes jun. esq.
and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is Richard M. William Selby-Lowndes esq. Thomas
a building of stone in the Early English, Decorated Roscoe esq. and the rector in right of his glebe. The
and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave soil is alluvial and clay; subsoil, stone and clay. The
of five bays, aisles, transept, south porch and a fine land is mostly pasture, with some wheat, oats, barley
central tower with turret rising above the parapet and and beans. The area is 1,662 acres; assessable value,
containing a clock and 6 bells: three windows in the ¿1,430; the population of the township in 1911 was 217
chancel, Transitional or Early English, are remarkably and 384 in the ecclesiastical parish.
fine: in the chancel are tablets to the Rev. Matthew Post & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.— M r s .
Knapp, 43 years rector, d. 7 Dec. 1752, and Charlotte, Henry Shoulder, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive
his wife, and a monument, with shafts of jasper and from Bletchley at 7 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. Box cleared at
porphyry, and a quartered shield of arms, to 8.20 a.m. & 6.50 p.m. & S u n d a y s at 9.5 a.m. LoughEdmund Ashfield, d. 1577, and Eleanor, his wife;
ton is the nearest money order office, 1 mile distant
there is also a very fine marble monument in the south
aisle, with recumbent effigy, to Thomas Stafford esq. County Police, Alfred Washington, constable
of Tattenhoe, founder of the almshouses here, who Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1869, rebuilt in
1911, for 120 children; it is the property of the
died 25 March. 1607; the male figure is in armour, and
wears a neck ruff, and below, carved in high relief, is rector & is leased for school purposes to the Bucks
Education Committee ; Fred Melton, master
the effigy of his wife and kneeling figures of four male
and three female children ; on the upper portion of the
monument is a shield of arms and an inscription: in SHENLEY BROOK END, a hamlet to Shenley Church
the Stafford chapel, south of the tower, is a mural End, is situated on a green, three-quarters of a mile
tablet inscribed to Thomas Stafford, of Tattenhoe, south from Shenley, in the hundred of Cottesloe, union
d. Sept. 1864, his wife, and Edmund, his eldest son, of Winslow and Buckingham county court district.
erected by his youngest son, Thomas, LL.D. of Magd. The area is 1,659 acres; rateable value. ¿1,729; the
Coll. Oxon, who died in 1773: there are brass population in 1911 was 167.
inscriptions to Anna, wife of John Kyrkeman esq. d. Wall Letter Box at Shenley Brook End, cleared at 8.30
a.m. & 5.10 p.m.; Sundays, 9.15 a.m. Letters arrive
24 Nov. 1427, and to Thomas Thurleby, rector, d. 16
from Bletchley about 6.30 a.m. & 5 p.m. Shenley
June, 1432: the church was restored in 1888-90, at a
Church End is the nearest telegraph & Loughton
cost of £ 1,997> an(* affords 300 sittings. The register
dates from the year 1652. The living is a rectory, net the nearest money order office
Jenkins Ernest & Son, coal dealers. Wakeford William, head gardener to
SHENLEY CHURCH END.
London road
R. M. W. Selbv-Lowndes esq
Ebbs Jesse, Bridge house
Jenkins Henry, milk dealer,London rd
Morris Misses
Selby-Lowndes Richard M. William, Jones Stephen Fras. frmr. Shenley hi
SHENLEY BROOK END
Shenley park
Missenden Frederick, Plough P.H.
COMM ERCIAL.
Smith Alfred
London road
Vincent Rev. Joseph Robertson (rec­ Missenden George, farmer (letters Caple Thomas, wheelwright
tor), Rectory
Hodson Frank R. farmer
via Whaddon)
Perry Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hooten John, farmer
COMMERCIAL.
Ebbs John & Jesse, frmrs. Manor frm Powell David, farmer, The Grange North John, farmer, Lodge farm
Holland Samuel, farmer (letters via Powell Edward, farmer
Ormond Ernest, farmer, Dovecote
Calverton, Stony Stratford)
Shenley Church End Reading Room Poole James, Crown inn
Holt Thomas, farmer, Shenley dens (Charles Bonser, sec)
Powell James Robert, farmer
(letters via Calverton, Stony Strat­ Shoulder Henry (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & Rodway Charles Frederick, shopkeepr
ford)
Rod
wav Joseph, farmer
post office
SHERINTG-TON', in Domesday “ Serintone,” is a at a cost of ¿1,200, and affords 300 sittings. The regis­
parish and village on the road from Newport Pagnell to ter dates from the year 1698. The living is a rectory,
Olney and separated from Lathbury and Newport Pagnell net income ¿300, with residence and 17 acres of glebe,
by the river Ouse which is crossed by a bridge of five in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1912
arches, 2 miles north from Newport Pagnell station on by the Rev. Henry Arthur Gilbert Blomefield M.A. of
the Wolverton and Newport Pagnell branch of the Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Here is a Congre­
London and North Western railway and 4 south from gational chape), founded in 181.0, and seating 200, and a
Olney station on the Bedford and Northampton branch Wesleyan chapel. Fuller’s charity of ¿5 yearly is dis­
of the Midland railway and 11 west from Bedford, in tributed as follows, viz.: ¿1 for a sermon; 5s. each to
the Northern division of the county, hundred, petty the churchwardens and 26 half-crowns to the poor.
sessional division, union and county court district of There are three manors in the parish; F. A. König esq.
Newport Pagnell, archdeaconry of Buckingham, rural holds one and is the principal landowner, the others
deanery of Newport Pagnell and diocese of Oxford. are held by the trustees of the late George Alfred U.
The church of St. Laud the Martyr, seated on an Nelson esq. and the Mercers’ Company of the City of
eminence, is an edifice of stone, chiefly in the Decorated London. The soil is various; subsoil, limestone and
style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of four clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and
bays, aisles, south porch with parvise, and a central roots. The area is 1,799 acres of land and 6 of water;
tower containing 5 bells and a clock: the nave arcades, assessable value, ¿1,825; population in 1911, 496.
one Early Decorated and the other of a later period Parish Clerk, Albert Norman.
have circular pillars on the north and octagonal on the Post Office.— Miss Ellen L. Feasey, sub-postmistress.
south side, in both cases with moulded capitals; the Letters arrive from Newport Pagnell at 6.20 & 11.40
a.m.; dispatched at 9.10 & 9.45 a.m. & 12.25 & 7-TS
tower is good Perpendicular, and there is a fine west
,p.m. ; Sundays, box closed at 11.40 a.m. The nearest
window of five lights of the same date; the east window
money order & telegraph office is at Newport Pagnell,
isDecorated, other chancel windows are Perpendicular;
m."*e north-east buttress of the tower is a Decorated
2 miles distant
window pierced through and looking towards the altar; Elementary School, built in 1872, at a cost of ¿900, for
105 children; William Powell, master; Mrs. Webster,
VV'ir 6 n(^e
the porch door are the arms of Dr.
illiam Barrow, rector 1406, and afterwards bishop of infants' mistress
angor and Carlisle: the church was restored in 1870 Police Constable, Albert Barnett
A lfrey Major Frank E. The Laurels Saner Edward John, Sherington lodge 1Burgess Jn. Thos. frmr.Yew Tree frm
Mi d Rev. Henrv Arthur Gilbert Sansoni William (Cong, evangelist) Cowley Arthur, farmer
!Field Fredk. John, maltster & farmer
M.A. (rector), Rectory
Taylor Mrs. Manor house
Fisher Harry,school attendance officer,
ranfield Walter, Pearcey cottage
COMMERCIAL.
Rogers Mrs. Radnor villa
----Ash cottage
Fleet Ernest, butcher
ussell Joseph Rushforth W. G. Sher- Austin Abel, dairyman
Gardner
Ellen (Mrs.), farmer
ington bridge
Boone Frederick, shopkeeper
BUCKS. 12