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and upwards of 30 barrel-shaped pieces with silver ends, are planted with the choicest shrubs and contain a long
probably used in some game of skill or chance, and avenue of large cedars of Lebanon. The bank of woods
various other interesting items were then discovered and which runs along the river side for a mile and a half ia
presented by the rector to the British Museum, where well known for its beauty. Lord Desborough, who is
they are now deposited. In 1903 an extremely fine and lord of the manor, Mrs. Whitlaw, and Waldorf Astor
unique example of a spear head of the bronze age was esq. M.P. are the principal landowners. The soil i9
recovered from the Thames here; it is about 17 inches loam ; subsoil, chalk and gravel. The chief crops are
long and has on each face of the wings two gold conical wheat and barley; the area is 1,730 acres of land and
studs: it is now also in the British Museum. Cliveden, 32 of water; rateable value, ¿21,147; the population in
the seat of Waldorf Astor esq. M.P. is situated in this 191x was 1.127 in the civil and 1,076 in the ecclesi­
parish, about 2^ miles north from the village; the astical parish.
mansion, a splendid structure in the Palladian style, Parish Clerk, Waldorf Astor esq. M.P.
erected from designs by the late Sir Charles Barry kt. Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— Miss Katharine Gurney, sub­
stands in a beautiful park of 300 acres, on high ground
ostmistress. Letters delivered from Maidenhead at
on the south side of the Thames, and is a conspicuous p
& 11 a.m. & 7.40 p.m. ; dispatched at 8 a.m. &
object from the railway; it has successively been the 7
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2.10, 3.20 & 8 p.m. & on Sundays at 7.20 p.m.
residence of the witty and profligate Duke of Bucking­ There
also a telegraph office for outward dispatch
ham, Frederick Prince of Wales, during the infancy of only atisth
railway station, open from 6 to 7 p.m.
George the Third, the Earl of Orkney, the late Duke week dayseon
ly. Wall Letter Boxes: Taplow Com­
and Dowager Duchess of Sutherland and of the 1st Duke
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at 11.45 a.m. & 3 & 7.45 p.m. ; Sundays,.
of Westminster K.G. of whom the house and estate 7.30
p.m. Dumb Bell, 8.15 a.m. & 12.15, 3-3<>& 8*15
were purchased about 1890 by the present owner : the p.m.; Su
ndays, 7.45 p.m. Taplow Hill, 8.5 a.m. fc
south front includes a lofty terrace 433 feet in length,
erected on arches, the prospects from which, including I2-5> 3-3° & 7-4° P-m -; Sundays, 7.40 p.m. Great
Western
Railway Station, 8 a.m. & 12.15 & 8.15,
the valley of the Thames, are of great beauty; the
former mansions were twice destroyed by fire. Taplow p.m. ; Sundays. 6.30 p.m
Court, the seat of Lord Desborough K.C.V.O., D.L., Elementary School (mixed), built in 1872 & enlarged in
J.P. a stately mansion of red brick with Bath stone 1897, for 200 children ; George Ernest Arthur Leake,
dressings in the Tudor style, contains a fine saloon built master; Miss Florence Brown & Miss Agnes Tanner,
by the Earl of Orkney ; the situation of the mansion is assistant mistresses
commanding, and the park and grounds of 200 acres Railway Station, John B. L. Grigg, station master
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Lane Robert, Bridgefield
C O M M E R C IA L .
Lawson Hon. Harry Lawson Webster
Ackroyd A. New hall
Early closing day, Thursday.
Andrae Charles, Broomcroft
M.P., M.A., J.P. Orkney cottage;
Astor Waldorf M.P. Cliveden; & & 37 Grosvenor square W & Bond Jonathan, boat builder
4 St. James’square S W & Carlton, Athenaeum & Marlborough clubs Britten’s Limited, dairy
Royal Automobile & Marlborough S W, London
Butler Geo. assist, oversr. The Neuk
Longman Frederick, The Cottage
olubs S W, London
Collett Henry, carpenter
Baldwin Walter, Rectory farm
Micklem Edward, Red house
Gurney Edwd. Okey, baker & grocer
Bond Miss, Rhone villa
Hewens Henry Edward & Co. auto­
Montanaro Mrs. Waterside
Bourke Miss, Hill house
Morton Mrs. Maranoa
mobile engineers
Brandon Walter. Lilymere
Moss William Herbert, Hemingford Hodgson James, Skindle’s hotel
Bridges Charles, Rivernere
Mullings Charles Randolph, Rose­ Hooper Arthur, carpenter
Brown Albert, Avelon
mead, River road
Jeayes, Kasner & Co. coal merchants
Butler William H. Wellbank
Neale Wm. Hy. M.D. The Eira cot Lodge Edward, bailiff to Lord Des­
Carter AJbert Arthur, Fairview
Noble Percy, The Priory
borough K.C.V.O., D.L., J.P
Cave William Francis, Glenfarne
North Mrs. Kerri
Maidenhead Gas Co. Limited (works)
Clark Mrs. Syringa
O'Conor Arthur, Barge farm
(George Wood, manager)
Coleman Edmund, Kenmore^house
Palmer Lady, Glenisland
Payne John, Dumb Bell hotel
Palmer George, Mill stream
Court Walter Henry, Rowsley
Portsmouth Alfred, beer retailer
Darke Sydney, White Towers
Peacock Geoffrey, The Croft
Putley Anne (Mrs.), Hermitage pri­
Davidson Col. J. R. B. The Gables
Phillips Rev. Francis George Ander­ vate hotel. T N 388 Maidenhead
de Bunsen Rt. Hon. Sir Maurice Wm. son M.A. (rector), Rectory
Reading Room & Library (John
Ernest P.C., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., Pitts Thomas, The Thatched cottage Siggers, sec)
C.B. Old lodge
Roberts Beatrice (Miss), girls’school,
Potter Sydney, Norlands
Desborough Lord K.C.V.O., D.L., Ranee William, The Hollies
Silcheste.T house
J.P. Taplow court; & Carlton club Rawlins Miss, Glenhaven
Roden Joseph, The Feathers P.H.
5 W & Bath & Turf clubs W,Londn Rawson Harry Stanhope, Corner ho
Taplow Common
Du Pré William Baring M.P.. D.L., Read E. J. Acacias
Rome Margaret (Miss),district nurse.
J.P. Taplow house ; & 62 Curzon Rolt Ernest Guy, Ramornie
Ye Toft
Saunders Major Owen E. M. Lands- Rowe William, coach builder, see
street, London W
Dupree Charles, Amerdon ponds
downe house
Whitlock & Rowe
Farr Frank P. The Walnuts
Schenkenwold George, Rippledene Saunders Arthur C. butcher
Fortescue Basil. Dropmore
Simmonds Fanny (Miss), shopkeeper
Schomberg Arthur, The Cottage
Freeth Gaston, Riverdale
Serocold Miss, Red house
Taplow Grammar School (Kenneth LFurber Henrv Aubrey, Marlborough Serocold Oswald Pearce, Taplow hill Waterlow & James H. Hargreaves
Gledstanes F. G. Berry hill
Seymour Guy, Kia-Ora
M.A. principals)
Gordon Horace, The Studio
Spain Arthur, Elm cottage
Venables Charles & Co. paper manu­
Grenfell Chas. Seymour, Elibank ho Stewart-Robinson J. Thames villa
facturers, Taplow brown paper wksStockfeld Mrs. The Elms
Gunn Cyril, Sum mereroft
Webster George, coal merchant
Hewens Hy. Edward, Bridge cottage Summers Thomas, Bank house
West Ada (Miss), shopkeeper
Hitchcock Alfred Edwd. Springfield Thomset Edward, White cottage
West Frederick, carpenter
Hoare Henry, Thames bank
Tine Albert, The Retreat
Whitlock & Rowe, coach builders
Horsburgh Mrs. 2 Ellington gardens Webster George, The Knowle
Winfield Charles, beer ret. & carman
Wyman & Sons Limited, booksellers,
Kennedy Arthur. River bank
Wells B. Mill house
Kilner John, 1 Ellington gardens
Whitlaw Mrs. Amerden house
Railway station
T A T T E N H O E is a parish, 2J miles west from and consisting of chancel and nave under a single roof,
Bletchley Junction station on the main line of the south porch and a small western turret containing on©
London and North Western railway and 3J west from bell: the chancel retains a piscina, and has a single
Fenny Stratford, in the Northern division of the county, east window of three lights, on either side of which i»
Cottesloe hundred, Winslow petty sessional division and a stone bracket; the font consists of an octagonal
union, county court district of Buckingham, rural basin, well carved, supported on four clustered shafts,
deanery of Mursley, archdeaconry of Buckingham and rising from an oval base: the church was partially
diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Giles occupies restored in 1892, and affords 50 sittings. The register
a retired situation on the site of the ancient manor of baptisms dates from the year 1733; marriages, 1765;
house, the moat belonging to which now partly sur­ burials, 1755. The living is a perpetual curacy, net
rounds the churchyard; the existing fabric was rebuilt yearly value ¿40, in the gift of W. Selby-Lowndes esq.
in 1540 from the ruins of the neighbouring priory of and held since 1867 by the Rev. Kitelee Chandos-Baily
Snelshall, in Whaddon parish, and having been for some B.A. of University Coilege, Durham, who is also vicar
time disused and desecrated, was reconsecrated in of Bradwell, where he resides. William Selby-Lowndes,
1636; itis a building of stone, supported by brick piers. jun. esq. J.P. is lord of the manor and sole landowner.