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DENHAM.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

« { « b it» rem ains of a p aintin g : the E arly E ng1! ft
s an ° « ae ° M l basin, supported on a centra]
shaft surrounded by eig h t sm aller ones : there are am
sittin gs. The reg ister dates from the year 1653. The
liv in g is a rectory, net yea rly value ¿500, in cludin g 50
acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of L ieu t.-C o l.
Benjam in Irb y W ay J .p . and is at p reSen t (1915)
vacan t
The W esleyan chapel here was opened in
, ol(i »chool, a picturesq ue b u ild in g on the
north side of the churchyard, is now a private
residence, and there are several in terestin g old houses
in the village.
B iddle’s and Stan ley’s charities each
produce ¿ 1 2
yearly.
Denham C ourt, th e seat of
H aio ld W illiam Sw ithinbank esq. F .R .S .E ., F .R .G .S .,
J.P . is reached th rou g h a fine avenue of lim es ; tra ­
dition gives this as th e place where Charles I I. was
once concealed by M argaret (W eld), wife of S ir W illiam
Bowyer, 1st bart. Denham Place, the residence of
L ieu t.-C o l. B enjam in Irb y W ay J.P . is a large b ut
p lain ly b u ilt stru ctu re, erected in 1667, and was
anciently the abode of the Peckham fam ily, and retains
some good tap estry. L ieu t.-C o l. B. I. W ay J.P . is lord
P R IV A T E

RE SID E N TS.

Anderson D. The L ittle house
Bewes W . A ustis The M arish
B urnham M iss, Redcastle
Coles O scar, Denham m ount
G ilb ey Gordon,
G rove
u w u u u , Tfuhe vjiuvH
G ilb ey W illiam Crosbie J.P . Th e Lea
Goodlake
e F
ery
v ^ v a .an.c M
iu rs.
u . TahHe
a ish
isuci
y
Parsons Major Edwd. Howard Thornbun?h. The Cedars
burgh,
Phipps N eville, W rango hall
Robinson E dgar, P rio ry house
Shand F rank, Sun Dial house
S m ith e W
illiam a
A,.. Black
MAAiiLue
Miuiarn
oiacK bush
ousn
Sw ithinbank H arold W illiam J .P .,
F .R .S .E ., F .R .G .S . Denham cou rt

[ b e l l y ’s

of the manor. H arold W . Swithinbank esq. M rs. Goodlake and Mrs. Bewes are the chief landowners. The
soil is loam and g r a v e l; subsoil, chalk. The chief
crops are oats, b arley and w heat and some land in
pasture. Th e
area is 3,880 acres of land and 5q 0f
w a ter; rateable valu e, ¿10 ,2 0 9 ; the population in iq i ,
was 1,290, in cludin g Denham N ew Town.
Sexton, Thom as Holloway.
Post, M. 0 . & T . Office.— M iss E d ith W iggin s, sub­
p ostm istress. L etters received from U xbridge at 7.1c
& 11.45 a.m . & 4.45 p .m .; dispatched at 9.2^ & i 0.4a.m . & 12.40, 3.30 & 7 p .m . ; sunday, delivered 7 .«
a . m . ; dispatched at 6.20 p .m
W all L e tter Box, Oxford road, cleared at 9.50 a.m . 1.3 5
p.m . & 7.30 p .m .; sunday, 11.30 a.m
S tation L etter Box, cleared at 10.5 a.m .
&3 25p m •
sunday, 10.45 a.m
'’
E lem en tary Schools (m ixed), b u ilt in 1878, for 260
c h ild re n ; W illiam Sanders, m a s te r ; Mrs. Lucy
Sanders, m istress
R ailw ay Station , A rth ur W arrin gton , station m aster

W ay L ieu t.-C o l. B enjam in Irb y J.P K in g W illiam (M rs.), m iller (water
Denham Place
& steam )
W illis Basil, The Elm s
Lipscom be A rth u r, farm er,R ed hill fm
W yld Maj. Charles E. The T ile house Lipscom be Jas.farm r.M oor H ousefrm
Lipscom be Joshua, farm er, Rush grn
COMMERCIAL.
Morgan Joseph, beer reta ile r
*
oaiier
w illia
m , blacksm
black
Baker unaries
Charles W
illiam
ith
Morten Richd. H y. farm er, Savoy farm
Bronsdon Daniel R. carm an
Pope
W
m
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Jas.
H
are
&
Hounds
P.H
— a C arter, tbuilder
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Bronsdon H erbert
Powell Fredk. & H enry, mechanical
C arter A lb ert, land steward to L ieut
engineers
Hnl
Col. R
B. T
I . Wow
Way
Ranee H arry, grocer
Edlin A lfred, farm er, Court farm
Saunders W illiam , farm er
E lkington Sarah M. (Miss), beer retir Selm an R obert, L a m b ert A rm s P.H
Evans Charles, baker
Taylor Robert Henry, Swan P.H
Javans
Evans Ureorge,
G eorge, beer Tetailer
retailer
V eitch Jam es, farm er
Fram e W m . farm er, Rushbolds farm W easer A rth u r, Falcon inn
F ryer Robert, cycle agent & dealer
W iggins A lb ert Edw d. tailor, Post off
Hoffmann C harles, beer retailer
Woodley Henry, beer retailer

D I N T O N (in Domesday “ D un n in gton ” or “ Donyngton ” ) is a parish, 17 m iles in circum ference, 4 miles south­
west from A ylesb ury station on th e London and North
W estern, M etropolitan and G re a t C en tral Joint rail3 ^ north-east from Haddenham station on the
G reat C en tral and G reat W estern Joint railw ay and
5$ north-east from Tham e, in th e M id division of the
county, in the hundred of A ylesbury, p etty sessional
division, union and cou n ty cou rt district of A ylesbury,
ru ra l deanery of A ylesb u ry, archdeaconry of B u ck in g­
ham and diocese of Oxford. Th e church of SS. Peter
and P aul is an ancient buildin g of stone, chiefly in the
E a rly E nglish style, consisting of chancel, nave, south
aisle and a m assive em b attled western tower, w ith
octagonal tu rr e t risin g over the paTapet, and containing
6 bells, and south porch : an arcade of five E arly English
arches on octagonal piers separates the nave and aisle :
the south doorway is Norm an, and is ornam ented w ith
zigzag and billet m ouldings and spiral s h a fts : in the
tym panum , inclosed with an intertw ined guilloche, is
a rude -carving of two wyverns devouring fru it from a
tree, and below these another rude carvin g of St.
M ichael th ru stin g a cross into th e m outh of a winged
m onster, a kind of dragon : there are also two inscrip­
tions : in the chancel are two piscinae and a hagioscope,
and there is a piscina in the south aisle: th e pulpit
dates from 1600; an old oak table, dated 1606. and a
chest dated 1612, are still p reserved: the porch is Per­
pendicular and the font E a riy D ecorated: the whole
edifice was restored in 1868, when the chancel was
alm ost entirely reb uilt, and the east window, a fine
trip let of lancets, widely separated, filled w ith stained
glass, p artly under the direction of L a d y E astlake, to
the m em ory of the Rev. John H arrison, vicar 1833-65,
and other m em bers of his fam ily, 1853-68, and pre­
sented b y his daughter, M rs. Acton Tindal, of the
Manor house, A ylesb ury : the west window w as erected
by Mr. Sackville Phelps to his wife, M atilda (Goodall),
1867: there is also a m em orial window placed hy the
Rev. Charles H enry Burton M .A. vicar. 1869-79 and
Lydia Helen, his wife, to their daughter, Em iline L ydia,
18 71: the ancient m onum ents, form erly in the chancel,
w ere re-erected in the to w e r: the brasses, now in
the south aisle, include one to the fath er of Simon
Mayne, one of the jud ges who condemned K in g Charles
I. and C olnberv. his w ife. 1617-28 : there are others to
John Sutton and Agnes, his wife, 1518 ; John Compton,
1424, and w if e ; Thom as G renewey and w ife, 1539;
Richard G reenway, 1551 and Joan, liis wife, w ith head­
less effigies; John Lee, of Morton, 1500; W illiam Lee and
Ann, his w ife, i48 6; Francis Lee, 1508, his wife, and

11 ch ild ren ; and Elenor, w ife of S ir Thom as Lee, of
Morton, 1633: th e communion p late includes two
flagons, given by S ir John V an h attem knt. in 1772 and
a salver given by Thom as Ingoldsby and Benjamin
G atton , vicar, in 1721 : the old pews were replaced with
hue open seats, under th e superintendence of the late
u
^ ree*i es(l- R A ., F .S .A , diocesan architect, and
the ch urch reopened Decem ber 8th, 1868, by the late
Bishop of O x fo r d : there are 350 s it t in g s : in the church­
yard are rem ains of a cross. T h e register dates from
tne year 1562. T he livin g is a vicarage, net yearty value
¿ 3 3 °» 'with 29 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift
of th e Lord C hancellor, and held since 1906 by the Rev.
E dw ard Charles Stu k eley M .A . of C am bridge University.
I he B ap tist chapel, erected in 1847, is now used as a
reading room &c. and there is a B ap tist Mission hall,
built in 1883, w ith 150 sittin gs. T he Raper charity
realizes about ¿ 4 6 yearly, and is principally devoted to
the support of th e school. In 1881 Mrs. E . Goodall left
by w ill the sum of ¿200, the in terest producing
¿ 5 10s. for th e use of the poor. Dinton H all, the
seat of L ieu t.-C o l. L ieb ert E dw ard Goodall D .L ., J.P.
is p icturesq uely seated near the ch u rch and surroundfed
by an old fashioned herbaceous g a r d e n ; the mansion
exhib its various styles of dom estic arc h itec tu re; the
north front, w ith its gables, m ullioned windows and
noble chim ney shafts, seems to in dicate a Jacobean
o rig in ; the south front is la te r: some carved stone
work in the cellar is said to date from the tim e of
E dw ard the Confessor and there is no doubt a house
has existed on the same site from very early tim es:
this house is an ob ject of great interest both from
its historical associations and on account of the various
antiquities which have been discovered in the neigh­
bourhood and now preserved h e re ; the manor was
form erly held by Sim on Mayne, and one of the judges
of the Com m ission C ourt at the tria l of K in g Charles I.
to whose death w arrant he affixed his signature and seal;
at the Restoration he concealed him self in Dinton Hall,
b ut afterw ards surrendered, and was tried with other
regicides at the Old Bailey, O ctober 16th, 1660, and com­
m itted to the Tower, where he died in the following
year, and was buried in the church, A pril 18th, 1661;
in 1727, Sim on Mayne, his grandson, sold the manor to
John Yanhattem esq. fath er of S ir John Vanhattem,
knighted by G eorge III. Jan u ary 23rd, 1761, and from
whom Lieut.-Colonel Goodall is descended ; am ongst other
curiosities in the house is a basket-hilted sword
used by Crom well a t the battle of Naseby, besides
num erous specimens of arm our, and three brass models
of ancient g u n s : in the windows are heraldic shields 01