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The soil is stiff clay, some gravelly; subsoil, clay and Parish Clerk, John Hooton.
gravel. The chief crops are -wheat, oats, beans and Letters through Bletchley, which is also the nearest
barley. The area is 647 acres; rateable value, ¿514;
money order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant
the population in 1911 -was 43.
The children of this place attend the school at Whaddon
Monk John Edward, farmer
Sipthorpe Thomas, farmer

Watts Thomas, farmer

T H O R N B O R O U G H is a large village and parish in
the Northern division of the county, on the river Ouse,
which is here crossed by a stone bridge of six arches,
and on the Buckingham and Leighton Buzzard road;
it is 2^ miles north-east from Padbury station on the
Bletchley and Banbury section of the London and North
Western railway, 4 east from Buckingham and 4$ westby-north from Winslow, in Buckingham hundred, petty
sessional division, union and county court district, and
rural deanery of Buckingham, Buckingham portion,
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The
church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the
Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chanoel, nave of four bays, north aisle, south porch, and an
embattled western tower containing a clock, with chimes
made and presented by John Sikes esq. in commemora­
tion of the Jubilee in 1887 of Her late Majesty Queen
Victoria, and 5 cast steel bells, taken in exchange for
an older peal of 4 bells, two of which were dated 1610
and 1736: the chancel is the property of trustees, now
(19x5) John Sikes esq. and Mrs. Webster, who are also
the lay rectors: the tower is Decorated, and has a very
good west doorway, but Perpendicular windows have
been inserted: the piers and arches cffthe nave are also
Decorated and the south porch is of like date, but
nearly all the windows are Perpendicular: the east
window was destroyed by a hail-storm in 1887, but has
been replaced: there are brasses with effigies to
William Barton and his wife, 1389: and inscriptions on
brass to John Crowche, chaplain, “who celebrated here
for the souls of John Barton, senior and junior,*’ 1473 ;
Dorothy, successively wife of John Butcher and John
Stevens, 1685; Elizabeth, wife of John Woolhed, 1696,
and John Woolhed, 1707: there are also memorials to
the Woolnoths: the church affords 300 sittings. The
register dates from the year 1597. The living is a
vicarage, net yearly value £114, with residence, in the
gift of Sir Harry Calvert Williams Vernev bart. M.P.

and held since 1914 by the Rev. William Richard
Williams, of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. There is a
Wesleyan chapel, built in 1832, and seating 60 persons;,
a Congregational chapel, built in 1872, with sittings for
100 persons, and a Baptist chapel, built in 1829, with
70 sittings. The Manor House, which stands in the
centre of the village, is an ancient building enclosed by
a high brick wall, and just outside it is the old tithe
barn. The poors allotment consists of 16 acres. There
are sand, stone, clay and gravel pits here. Near the
river Ouse are two tumuli. Some bronze vases of
exquisite form, glass cinerary urns, a bronze lamp and
other remarkable remains have been met with in a
tumulus near here, and were placed in the collection
of the late Lord Braybrooke. Sir H. C. W. Verney
bart. M.P. is lord of the manor; Henry W. Harris,
Lewis John Chapman, G. D. E. Wiglev and J. THarrison esqrs. the trustees of the late Mr. James
Ridge, the trustees of the late Mr. George Wilkinson,
the trustees of the late Dr. Clark, and the President
and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, are the prin­
cipal landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, various.
The land is arable and pasture, in about equal portions.
The area is 2,382 acres of land and 10 of water ; rate­
able value. .£3,050; the population in 1911 was 443.
Parish Clerk, Frank Capel.
Post, T. & Telephone Call Office.— Arthur Hounslow,
sub-postmaster. Letters through Buckingham arrive
at 8 a.m. & 3 p.m.; dispatched at 10.40 a.m. & 5.30
p.m. week days only. Buckingham, 3^ miles distant,
is the nearest money order office
Wall Letter Boxes.— Dick’s lane, cleared at 10.45 a na.
& 5.35 p.m. & Lone Tree, cleared at 10.50 a.m. & 5 40
p.m
Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1894, for 12»
children; William Henry Boon, master
Carrier to Buckingham— James Whitehall, mon. wed.
fri. & sat

Cave Arth. Jas. farmer, Manor farm King John, farmer
Richard Chapman Lewis John, farmer, The Madkins Annie (Mrs.), farmer, Nash
End farm
Coombes
Palmer Caleb, farmer
Dormer Henry, miller (water)
Rhodes Alfred, farmer
Dudley Joseph, Lone Tree P.H
C O M M E R C IA L .
Ridge William John, farmer
Franklin Edward, cowkeeper
Seaton James Wm. Two Brewers P.H
Anstee Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hatton Alfred, Swan P.H
Seaton Thomas, baker
Holt John, farmer, Grange
Bailey George, farmer
Baldwin William, coke & coal mer Hounslow Arth. shopkpr. & post off Tompkins Sidney, farmer
Whitehall James, carrier
Howard Jabez, farmer
Beckett Herbert, farmer
Jackman Joseph, blacksmith
Whitehall John, beer retailer
Butcher Thomas, butcher
Sewell Miss, Manor house
Williams Rev. William
(vicar), Vicarage

T HO R NT O N is a parish and village, separated from
Northamptonshire by the river Ouse, 4 miles south­
west from Stony Stratford and 4^ north-east from
Buckingham station on the Bletchley and Oxford sec­
tion of the London and North Western railway, in the
Northern division of the county, hundred, petty ses­
sional division, union and county court district of
Buckingham, rural deanery of Buckingham, Wolverton
portion, and archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of
Oxford. The church of St. Michael, rebuilt, with the
exception of the tower, about 1850, is an edifice of stone,
picturesquely situated in the grounds of Thornton Hall,
and now covered with ivy; it consists of nave, aislesand
an embattled western tower of Perpendicular date, con­
taining a clock and 3 interesting bells, with inscriptions,
the lower stage of the tower forms a porch: the chancel
has been pulled down; the interior was refitted at the
beginning of the present century by Thomas Sheppard
esq. then lord of the manor, when two altar tombs, with
brasses of the Ingletons, were removed, and the brasses
placed on the floor; these still remain and represent—
1»Robert Ingleton esq. in armour, with his three wives,
J472; 2, Jane, daughter and sole heir of Robert Ingle­
ton and successively wife of Humfrey Tyrrell and
^lexander Seynct Johns; she died in 1557 ; 3, George
lyrrell, her son: there are also effigies in alabaster of
John Barton, founder of a chantry here, ob. 1443, and
of his wife Isabella; these were removed at the time
above mentioned from under an arch between the body
Harris Henry W. Thornton hall
taple Henry, dairy, Village farm

of the church and the chancel, to the west end, where
they were placed on either side of the entrance: there
are 120 sittings. The register dates from the year
1562. The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of
Nash annexed, joint net yearly value £175, with i£
acres of glebe, in the gift of Henry W. Harris esq. and
held since 1897 by the Rev. Charles Clare DawsonSmith, who resides at Nash. Thornton Hall, rebuilt i n
1850 by the late Hon. Richard Cavendish (d. 19 Nov.
1873), and now the residence of Henry W. Harris esq.
is a noble and spacious mansion, with a lofty tower, in.
the Tudor style, and is situated in a park of 181 acres;
the approach from the Beachampton road is through
an avenue of fine elm trees. Henry W. Harris esq. is
lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is stiff
clay;subsoil, clay, gravel and limestone rock. The chief
crops are wheat, oats, barley and beans. The area is
1,340 acres of land and 7 of water; rateable value»
£1,910; the population in 1911 was 86 in the civil and
350 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Lettei's through Stony Stratford, arrive at 8 a.m
Wall Letter Box, cleared at 6 p.m. on week days; on
Sundays at 10.30 a.m. Deanshanger is the nearest
money order office & Thornborough, 2 miles distant,
the nearest telegraph office
Elementary School, erected in i860, at the expense of
the late Hon. Richard Cavendish; this school is not
at present in use; the children attend the schools in.
the neighbouring villages

(King John, farmer, Park cottage
¡North George, farmer, Sunnyfield

IRidge W. J. farmer, Home farm
|Warr William, farmer, Furzenfield