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HANSLOPE.

BUCK IN G H A M SH IR E .

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H A N S L O P E is a large parish and village on the bagatelle, card & reading rooms, was opened in 1896
borders of Northamptonshire, 4^ miles north from the The feoffee estate of 61 acres produces £182 yearly f0r
W'olverton station, and 2 north from Castle Thorpe the poor, and there is an allotment of six acres yielding
station, both cm the London and North Western rail­ £9. which is given away inblankets. Newman’scharity
way, north-west from Newport Pagnell, 5 north from of £6 yearly is for bread. Hanslope Park, the seat of
Stony Stratford, and 10 fi'om Northampton, in the Mrs. Watts, is about 322 acres in extent and contains
Northern division of the county, hundred, petty ses­ two small ponds; the house is a substantial mansion of
sional division, union and county court district of New­ stone. Hatton Court is the residence of Claude Borrett
port Pagnell, rural deanery of Newport Pagnell, arch­ esq. The manor of Tathall anciently belonged to the
deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The family of Tathall and afterwards to the Lanes ; it was
village is supplied with water from works established j sold by Sir William Wake bart. who inherited it by
in 1911 at Wood End Lane. The church of St. James female descent from the Lanes, to Edward Watts esq.
the Great is an ancient edifice of the Norman, Early who acquired also by purchase from the Howe family
English and Perpendicular periods, consisting of the manors of Stoke and Singleton, which formerly
chancel with aisles, nave, with clerestory lighted |belonged to the Pigott family. Mrs. Watts, who isladyof
by six windows on either side, aisles, north and south !the manor, and the Corporation of Lincoln are the
porches, and a lofty battlemented western tower, !principal landowners. The soil is mixed; subsoil,
with octagonal panelled and crocketed pinnacles at the stones, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat,
angles, and containing a clock and 6 fine bells, a sixth barley and roots. The area is 5,783 acres of land and
having been added in 1906 ; the spire, built of Ketton 18 of water; assessable value, £15,052; the population
stone, A.D. 1409 by Thomas Knight, then rector, and in 1911 was 1,398 in the civil and 1912 in the ecclesi­
reaching, together with the tower, a height of 200 feet, astical parish.
'was struck by lightning June 23rd, 1804, and sub­ By an Order of the Joint Committee of the Bucks
sequently rebuilt at a cost of £1,000, the total height and
Northamptonshire County Councils, confirmed by
now being 180 feet; flying buttresses, pierced with Local Government Board Order, 15 Oct. 1894, that por­
-quatrefoils, support the spire, which has two tiers of tion of Hanslope parish in Northamptonshire was trans­
windows and richly crocketed ribs; in the chancel are
red to Hartwell parish in that county.
■considerable remains of Norman work, including the fer
chancel arch and a fine doorway in the north wall, with Sexton, Frederick York.
zigzag and other ornament; the nave is separated from Post, M. 0 . AT. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office
or 25 miles radius.— George Frederick Whitbread,
the aisles by arcades of four arches; the chancel arch f
sub-postmaster. Letters received through Stony
is plain Norman but rises from fine piers with good
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tratford arrive at 7.35 a.m. A 1.35 p.m.; dispatched
capitals; only two Early English windows now remain,
and part of the church, including the tower, is Perpen­ at 1.20 A 6.20 p.m. week days; sundays, arrive at
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dicular; in the Troughton chapel are some memorials to I 35 a.m. ; dispatched at 10.50 a.m
that family, including a brass to the parents of Richard Wall Letter Boxes.— Long street, cleared at 9.15 a.m. &
Troughton, and a second to Maria, daughter of Thomas j 6 p.m.; sundays, 10.15 a.m.; Tatball End, cleared
Birchmore, 1602, besides four stones from which the ; at 8.30 a.m. A 5.30 p.m. week days only
brasses have been removed; in March. 1884. a memorial 1County Police, Robert Bosher, constable
window was placed in the chancel, and in 1893, another
was presented by Lingard Monk esq. of Fulshaw Manor,
Schools.
'Cheshire, in memory of his daughter: there are 600
sittings. The register dates from the year 1570. The 1Elementary (mixed), built in 1872, for 206 children;
living is a vicarage with the chapelry of Castle Thorpe
William Quixley, master
annexed, joint net yearly value £210, with 21 acres of Elementary (infants’), built in 1865, for 115 children;
glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford,
with an endowment of £9 14s. yearly, left by Lady
and held since 1892 by the Rev. William Jardine Harkness
Pierrepoint, and now undeT the control of the Board
M.A. ofEmmanuel College, Cambridge. The Corporation
of Education ; Miss A. Cox, mistress
of Lincoln are the impropriators of the great tithes
Here are two Baptist chapels, one erected in 1809 and Carriers— Edwin Eakins, to Northampton, mon. wed. &
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at. ; to Newport Pagnell, thurs. ; to Stony Stratford,
seating 200 persons, now closed, and another, built in
fri.; Frederick Curtis, to Northampton, wed. A sat.
1867, with 100 sittings: there is also a Wesleyan chapel,
Wolverton,
fri
with 200 sittings. A working men’s club, containing
Easte William Alfred L.S.A. surgeon, Rutherford Wm. George L.R.C.P. & S.
P R IV A T E R ESID EN TS.
Irel. surgeon A medical officer &
Malt Mill lane
Borrett Claude, Hatton court
public vaccinat-or, No. 7 district,
Elkington John, Watt’s Arms P.H
Easte Wm. Alfred, Malt Mill lane Fox
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Harkness Rev. William Jardine M.A Greenwood Albert, Green Man P.H Sawbridge APag
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Howes William. The Elms
Mary Jane (Mrs.), shopkpr Sawbridge Victor, butcher
Rutherford William George. High st Grisbrook
Slade Geo.A Richd. farmrs.Green End
Haynes Fred, farmer
Watts Mrs. Hanslope park
Smith Chas. A Albt. frmrs. Park farm
Haynes George, farmer
Hutchings George, farmer, Forest fm Smith George, farmer
COMM ERCIAL.
Smith Levi, farmer, Bullington End
Keeves Emily (Mrs.), draper
Tomkins Fredk. farmer, Green farm
Abbott Alfred, shopkeeper, Long st Kerridge Josiah, Cock P.H
Abbott Arthur, builder, Malt Mill la Lineham Wm. saddler A harness ma Tucker Daniel, farmer
Webb Stephen A Geo. frmrs. Ivy farm
Adams Alexander, Greyhound P.H. Lowe Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Webb Ernest, wheelwright
|Lowe Joseph, fishmonger
Tathall end
Wesley
Fdk. wheelwright,Malt Mill la
'Neal John, boot A shoe maker
Allen Annie (Mrs.), gTocer
Partridge Emma (Miss), provision dir Weston Brothers, farmers
Battams William, farmer
Weston
Chas. H. farmer,Lincoln lodge
Pattison John, farmer, Tathall end
Beesley Shadrach, farmer
Whitbread George Frederick, post
Paybody Alfred, cattle dealer
Branson Lovell, builder
IPaybody Arthur, farmer, Cuckoo hill office, A carpenter
Capell Edward Thomas, butcher
Whiting Charles (exors. of), farmers,
¡Payne Alfred, farmer
Chapman Abraham C. baker
Rectory farm
¡Payne Bert Staples, Swan P.H
Clarke Thomas, boot maker
Whiting Charles Reginald, farmer,
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Cook Harry, farmer, Milford Leys
Pindon end
Courtman Charles, blacksmith, Malt ¡Phillips Thomas Arthur, grocer
¡Plat-ten Stanley William, photographr Willingham William, coal dealer
Mill lane
Willingham Wm.jun. cycle agt. A dir
Powell Thomas, Black Bull P.H
Courtman Tom, farmeT
Woodland1Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Rainbow John, Globe P.H
Curtis Frederick, carrier
Working Men’s Club (Frederick Gar­
Dickins R W. builder, Gold street Rose John, builder
rett, sec)
Eakins Edwin, carrier, High street IRuff James, farmer
H A R D M E A D is a parish 5^ miles north-east from century, is a small edifice of stone chiefly in the Early
Newport Pagnell terminal station on a branch of the English style, and consists of chancel, nave of two bays
London and North Western railway, 8 south-east with clerestory, aisles, south porch and low embattled
from Olney station on the Bedford and Northampton western tower of Perpendicular date, containing 3 bells,
branch of the Midland railway, and 8 from Bedford, in only 2 of which are now in use ; the church was restored
the Northern division of the county, hundred, petty in 1861 and contains some memorials of the C ate sb ys.
sessional division, union and county court district of including a brass, with effigy in a furred robe, to
Newport Pagnell and in the rural deanery of Newport Francvs Catesby, youngest son of Antony Catesby, of
Pagnell, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Whyston esq. 1556, with effigy in civil dress and an
Oxf>rd. The church of St. Marv, built in the 12th inscription ; and the recumbent effigy of another Francis