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Letters through Tring arrive at 8 a.m. Wall Letter
Box cleared at 7.50 a.m & 6.5 p.m. & sundays at
10.45 a-m
Elementary School (mixed), built in 1869, ^or 4° chR'
dren ; Mrs. Underhill, mistress
SEABROOK (divided in two parts, called Great and
Little Seabrook) is a hamlet of Ivinghoe, Cheddington
and Pitstone, lying between the London and North
Western railway and the Grand Junction canal, i£ miles
west from Ivinghoe and 1 south from Cheddington sta­
tion. The soil produces good wheat crops.
Letters through Tring arrive at 8.30 a.m

BUC K ING HA M SH IR E.

the memory of John William, second Earl Brownlow,
who died at Mentone, 20th Feb. 1867 :the chancel screen
is of carved oak in the style of the 14th century, and
ha9 on the pediment figures of Our Saviour, St. Michael
and St. Gabriel: the baptistery has oak parquet floor
and a triptych, representing the “ Incarnation,” flanked
by two cherubim, after Fra Angelico: the floor of the
sanctuary is laid "with mosaic: there are 467 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a
vicarage, net yearly value £250, including 188 acres of
glebe, -with residence, in the gift of Earl Brownlow, and
held since 1896 by the Rev. Treffry 'Harvey M.A. of
New College, Oxford. The Baptist chapel, erected in
1804, will seat 350 persons: the Wesleyan chapel, erected
FOR LINSLADE PETTY
in 1866, has sittings for 500: the Salvation Army also COUNTY MAGISTRATES
SESSIONAL DIVISION.
has barracks in Pitstone. The Town Hall is an ancient
and interesting structure, and adjoining it is the Police Williams Joseph Grout, Pendley manor, Tring,chairman
Station. Pleasure fairs are held here on the 6th of Bassett Theodore Bromhead, Barclay’s Bank, Leighton
Buzzard
May and the 17th of October. The charities, by
different bequests, amount to about £40 annually, Crimieu-Javal Paul, 39 Ennismore gardens, London S W’
which amount is distributed in money to the poor in Dalmeny Lord, Bletchley
December. The church lands produce about £ 2.7. a Duncombe Sir Everard Philip Digby Pauncefort- bart.
Brickhill manor, Bletchley
year. According to tradition, one of the Hampdens
lost this manor for striking the Black Prince a blow Finlay Lieut.-Col. Alexander, Little Brickhill manor,
B
letchley
with his racket when they quarrelled at tennis—
Giles Col. Peter Broome C.B., F.R.C.S.Edin. Holne
chase, Bletchley
“Tring, Wing and Ivingboe
Jenney Major Stewart William V.D. Tring, Herts
Hampdefl of Hampden did forego,
Lovett Percival Cosby Ernest, Stoke lodge, Stoke Ham­
For striking of ye Prince a blow,
mond, Bletchley
And glad he might escapen so.”
ls Joseph Trueman, Stock grove, Soulbury, Leighton
Sir Walter Scott named one of the most celebrated of Mil
Buzzard
his novels, “Ivanhoe,” from this place. Earl Brownlow Orkney
Earl of, Tythe house,Stewkley, LeightonBuzzard
P.C., Y.D. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Rothschild
de C.V.O., D.L. Ascott house, Wing,
Courts baron and leet are held annually for this manor; Leighton Leopold
Lovel Smeathman esq. steward and court bailiff. A Rothschild LBuzzard
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Nathan
de M.P. Ascott, Wing, Leigh­
large portion of the soil is chalky; subsoil, chalk and
ton Buzzard
clay. The crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans, peas Selby-Lowndes
Meyrick
Edward, Marsham manoT,
and roots. The area is 4,771 acres of land and 16 of Gerrard’s Cross
water; rateable value, ¿7,673; the population in 1911 The
chairmen
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of the Linslade Urban
was 827 in the civil and 1,046 in the ecclesiastical & Wing Rural District Coubeing
ncils, are ex-officio magis­
parish.
trates
Post. M. 0 .& T. Office, Ivinghoe.— Mrs. Beatrice Lydia
Clerk to the Magistrates, Charles Wallace B. Calcott,
Gates, sub-,postmistress. Letters are receivedthrough Leighton
Tring at 6.45 & 11.5 a.m. ; Sundays, 6.45 a.m. ; dis­ Petty SesBuzzard
e held for Ivinghoe sub-division of
patched at 11.15 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. ; sundays, 11.15 a.in Linsladesipoentstyar
sessional division in the Town hall, on
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Saturday
in every month at 11 a.m
HORTON is a small hamlet belonging to the parishes
of Ivinghoe, Edlesborough and Slapton, 2.^ miles north­ The following places are in the Ivinghoe sub-divisioh:—
west from lvinghoe and half-a-mile north from the Cheddington, Dagnall, Edlesborough, Horton, Iving­
Cheddington Junction station on the London and North
hoe, Ivinghoe Aston, Marsworth, Northall, Pitstone &
Western railway. Church services are held in the school­ Slapton
room : there is also a small Wesleyan chapel.
Police Station, John Neal, sergeant in charge, & 2
Letters through Leighton Buzzard arrive at 8 a.m.
constables
Wall Letter Box cleared at 8.10 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. Town Hall, Charles Lightfoot, keeper
week days only. Cheddington, half a mile distant,
PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services.
i9 the nearest money order & telegraph office
St. Mary’s Church, Rev. Treffry Harvey M.A. vicar;
The children of this place attehd the schools at Ched­ 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.; holy communion 8, 2nd & 4th
dington & Slapton
Sundays, mid-day 1st & 3rd
IVINGHOE ASTON is a scattered hamlet of the parish Baptist, 10.30 a.m. & 2 & 6 p.m
of Ivinghoe, ij miles north-east. Church of England Wesleyan, Ivinghoe, 2.30 & 6 p.m ) Leighton Blizzard
>Circuit,"
Rev. Joseph
service isheld in the school room in the afternoon ofthe Wesleyan, Horton, 2.30 & 6 p.m >
Ogden (supt.)
1st Sunday in the month at 3 p.m. The Wesleyan Wresleyan,IvinghoeAston,2-3o&6p.mJ
chapel here, built in 1831, seats 200 persons; attached Elementary School (mixed & infants), built in 1 8 6 5 , for
isa Sunday school, built in 1869.
200 children ; Arthur Hann, master
IVINGHOE.
Heley George, plumber
HORTON.
Horn Edwin, shopkeeper
BuckmasteT Albert Alfred J.P. Hor­
P R IV A T E RE SID E N TS.
Jellis Charles, farmer & millor (water) ton house
Elliott Arthur, Warwick house
Jellis Jesse, farmer (postal address,
COM M ERCIAL.
Harvey Rev. Treffry M.A. Vicarage
Cheddington, Tring)
Buckmaster Albert Alfd. J.P. farmer
Roberts Henry Mann
Keable James William, blacksmith Cook David Noah, King’s Head P.H
Roberts Reginald N. The Old Manor Parradine Charles, duck brdr.& drymn Ruff
James, grazier
Payne Robert, beer retailer
COMM ERCIAL.
Pickering George Thomas, King’s
IVINGHOE ASTON.
Andrews Dorcas (Miss), shopkeeper Head hotel
Ashby Thomas, farmer
Bailey Margaret (Mrs.), farmer, Vicar­ Putnam Arth. Geo. refreshment rms Horn James, grazier
age farm
Reading Room (Joseph Hawkins, Muirhead James, grazier
Bates George Alfred, boot &c. maker hon. sec)
Ruffett Ellen (Miss), grazier
Bonham Frederick, coal dealer
Roberts & Wilson Limited, brewers, Sanders William, grazier & carrier
Cato Caroline (Mrs.), beer retailer
maltsters & spirit merchants, Seabrook David, Swan P.H
Cook Sarah Jane (Miss), shopkeeper
Ivinghoe brewery; & Dagnall melt­ Turney Amos, duck breeder
Dollimore Arthur, baker
ings, Berkhamstead
Warren Frank, farmer, Grove farm
Elliott Phillip, shopkeeper
Rogers Alfred, coal dealer
Waters Thomas George, farm bailiff
Emmerson Amos, shopkeeper
Rogers Frederick, farmer
to Joseph Brandon esq
Gates Beatrice Lydia (Mrs.) shop-1 Simons William, duck breeder
SEABROOK.
keeper. Post office
¡Town Hall (Charles Lightfoot,keepr)
naiTovvell George Richard, Brown- Turney Ambrose, baker
Archer Ernest George, farmer
ow Arms P.H
West Harry Edgar, boot ma.Brookfld Simmons John, farmer
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■LITTLE K I M B L E form a parish ini Wycombe, rural deanery of Avlesbury, archdeaconry of
ue JVLid division of the county, hundred, petty sessional Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. By a Local Governmvision and couhty court district of Aylesbury, union of1ment Order, dated March 25, 1885, all the parish of