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a ancient bells: portions of the building, including the vault belonging to the Knapp family. Linford Hall
»oath doorway, are of Norman date, and there is an the residence of John Matthew Knapp esq. J.P., c C*
early font: the chancel was rebuilt by the late which stands in a well-wooded park of over 60 acres
M. G. S. Knapp esq. (d. 1896) and the north aisle was was built in 1680 by John Knapp esq. but has been
added by A. J. Knapp and M. S. Knapp esqrs.: in the greatly enlarged. John Matthew Knapp esq. J.p
nave is a marble tablet to the eldest son of Doctor Lee, C.C. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The
physician to King George II. and to John Knapp, d. soil is mixed; subsoil, gravel, clay and stone. The
1747; and there are other tablets and brasses to the chief crops are wheat, beans, barley and oats. The
Knapp family: the church affords about 100 sittings. area is 7x2 acres of land and 15 of water; assessable
The register dates from the year 1757- The living is a value, £715; population in 1911, 64.
vicarage, net yearly value £ 170. with residence, in the Letters through Wolverton, Bucks, arrive at 7.45 a.m
gift of John M. Knapp esq. J.P., C.C. and held since & 6.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 8.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m
1895 by the Rev. Ernest Richard Sill, of Queen’s Col­ Newport Pagnell, 2J miles distant, is the nearest
lege. Birmingham, and F.R.G.S. There is no church­ money order & telegraph office
yard. but in the grounds of Linford Hall is a private The children of this parish attend Haversham school
Knapp John Matthew M.A., J.P., C.C.
SillRev. Ernest Rd. F.R.G.S.Vicarage
Odell William, head gardener to John
Linford hall; & Carlton & Boodle’s
M. Knapp esq. J.P
dnbs, London S W
LIN S L A D E is a parish adjoining Leighton Buzzard, poor. Here is a police station with three cells for
bounded on the east by the river Ousel, which separates prisoners, a house for the inspector and a police court.
the counties of Bedford and Buckingham, and is close to A recreation ground was presented in 1899 by Henry
Leighton Buzzard station on the main line from London Finch esq. at a cost of £3,500. Lord Haversham P.O.
to Bletchley of the London and North Western railway, 9^ is lord of the manor, and Leopold de Rothschild esq.
miles north-east from Aylesbury, 18 south-east from C.V.O., D.L., J.P., H. M. Hartigan esq. and the trus­
Buckingham, about 20 south-west from Bedford and 12 tees of the late Henry Finch esq. are the principal land­
east from Winslow: it is in the Mid division of the owners. The soil is principally sand; subsoil, sand­
county, hundred of Cottesloe, the head of a petty stone and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and
sessional division, union and county court district of barley. The area of the Urban District'and civil parish
Leighton Buzzard, rural deanery of Ivinghoe, arch­ is 1,667 acres of land and 26 of water; rateable value,
deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford.
£23,632; the population in 1911 was 2,262, including 65
This parish is governed by an Urban District Council on board barges.
of nine members, formed October 1st, 1897, under the
SOUTHCOTT is a small hamlet, half a mile south.
provisions of the “Local Government Act, 1894” (56
and 57 Viet. ch. 73), by Local Government Board Order, Town Sub-Post & M. O. & Telephone Call Office.— Thos.
Lloyd, sub-postmaster. Letters through Leighton
No. 36,631.
Buzzard, delivered 7 & 9.45 a.m. & 3.30 & 6.20 p.m.;
It is supplied with water from own water works, and
dispatched 8.15 & 11 a.m. & 12.15, 2.30, 5.30, 7.45 &
is lighted with gas from Leighton Buzzard gas works.
The church of St. Barnabas, erected in 1849, 9.30 p.m.; sunday, 7.30 p.m. Telegrams are dis­
is a building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting patched only from this office
erf chancel, nave of four bays, west porch, north and Wall Letter Boxes.— Wing road, cleared 7.45 & 11.20
south aisles, south chapel, and a western tower with a.m. & 2.30 & 7.15 p.m.; sunday, 7.15 p.m.; Canal
low spire added in 1868 and containing a clock and 8 bridge, cleared at 8.15 & xi a.m. & 12.15, 2-3°> 5-3°,
bells, five of which were removed from the old church of 7.45 & 9.30 p.m.; S u n d a y s, 7.15 p.m.; Railway sta­
St. Mary, and two were presented, c. 1906, by Mrs. tion, cleared at 8.15 & ix a.m. & 12.15, 2.30, 5.30,
Hadley, of this place, who also gave the clock, which 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. ; Su n d a ys, 7.30 p.m. & Southcott,
has four dials and a chiming apparatus:the side chapel, cleared at 7.45 & 10.30 a.m. & 7.15 p.m.; sunday6.
together with choir and clergy vestries and the first bay
7.15 p.m
of the north aisle were erected in 1905 at the cost of Pillar Box, Springfield road, cleared at 7.45 & 10.50
Mias Mary Lawford: the south aisle was completed and a.m. & 2 & 7.15 p.m. ; S u n d a ys, 7.30 .p.m
the church reseated in 1913: the chancel and sanctuary Letter Box on Lamp. Stoke road, cleared 8 & ro a.re
& 4.15 & 7.15 p.m.; Sundays, 8.15 a.m
were enlarged in 1914; these alterations were made
possible by a benefaction under the will of the late Mrs.
Charlotte Maria Simpson, to whose memory the new
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
west window is dedicated: the stained east window is a
memorial to Elizabeth Sarah Hadley, d. 1872: an organ, Meets at Council Room, Leighton road, the first & third
friday in every month.
the gift of Henry Finch esq. ofThe Gables, Linslade, was
Members.
erected in 1889 at a cost of £1,400; it was rebuilt in
1914: there are 550sittings. The register dates from the
Chairman, Johnstone Harris L.R.C.P.Edin.
year 1690. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value
Vice-Chairman. Arthur W. Merry.
£300, including voluntary contributions and 18 acres of
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glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of
IGordon Thomas
Oxford, and held since 1911 by the Rev. William William Jeffs
Stow Mahony M.A. of Trinity College. Oxford. The Arthur W. Merry
old church of St. Mary, originally of the Norman
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period, but now chiefly Decorated and Perpendicular,
ICharles Richardson
is used for burials and occasionally for divine worship ; Charles Birdsey
it consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a western John Lee
tower containing one bell: the chancel arch and font
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are Norman, and there are some remains of ancient Johnstone Harris
|Walter C. Prudames
glass, and effigies, c. 1500, of a man and his two Leonard Henry London
wives: in 1898 this church was beautifully restored at
Officers.
the sole cost of Henry Finch esq. : the churchyard was
enlarged in 1893 by half an acre ofground, given by Sir Clerk, Robert John Platten, Leighton road
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vhurch. with the manor house and a smaller house
near, form the old village of Linslade. The Baptist M.R.C.S.Eog., L.R.C.P.Lond. Leighton road
chapel here, erected in 1843. will seat 300 persons : the Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Malcolm Grace Gurney,
Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1861, affords 40c
11 Old road
sittings. The village, now rapidly assuming the pro­
COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR LINSLADE PETTY
portions of a town, adjoins the town ofLeighton Buzzard.
SESSIONAL DIVISION.
Leighton Buzzard railway station stands in this parish,
and the Grand Junction canal passes through, occupying Finlay Lt.-Col. Alexander. Little Brickhill manor,
26 acres of the parish. The petty sessions for the IvingBletchley. chairman
boe bench of the Linslade division are held here. Bassett Theodore Bromhead, Leighton Buzzard
There are a few small charities, viz.: Mrs. Peacock’s of Cr^rnieu-Javal Paul, 39 Ennismore gardens, London SW
£2 ios.; Sir Andrew Corbet’s, £12 4s.; the Hadley be­ Dalmeny Lord, The Grange, Bletchley
quest, amounting to £3 17s. 4d. yearly, and Miss C. Duncombe Sir Everard Philip Digby Pauneefort- barr.
Lawford’s of £2 5s. 4d. yearly, which is distributed in Manor bouse, Great Brickhill, Bletchlev
mcney to poor widows; Dr. Lawford’s charity, pro­ Jenney Major Stewart William V.D. Drayton lodge,
ducing £1 6s. 4d. yearly, is spent in blankets for the
near Tring