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Deane Dennis, baker
Pool John, chair turner
Deane William, chair maker
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Pool Lionel, chair turner
Barrett Rev. Richard J. (Prim.Meth) Eggleton John & Son, farmers, Home Priest John, baker
farm
Bayspoole Charles
Rogers Edwin, chair turner
Foster Annie (Mrs.), draper,Common Rolls Samuel, Coach & Horses P.H
Charles Selkirk, Penley
Foster Robert, baker
Cruickshank Mrs. Bangalore house
Saunders Richard, oil & color dealer
Fane Fredk. Wm. J.P. Wormsley ho Giles Owen, butcher
Saunders Robert, beer retailer
Scarlett Ebenezer, beer retailer
Foster Rev. Joseph Allen (Congrega­ Green Thomas, farmer, Kiln farm
Griffiths Charles, chair maker & Simmonds Henry, farmer, Pophleys
tional), The Manse
Load Rev. Frederic Crawford B.A. farmer, Pigeon House farm
Smith Fredk. daiiy frmr.Studley grn
Grimsdale Albert, farmer, Hall Stolterfoth
(vicar), Vicarage
Charles
Sigismund
Bottom farm
Slade Marcus K.C. Mallard’s court
M.R.O.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond.medi­
Stolterfoth Chas. Sigismund L.R.C.P. Grimsdale Thomas, farmer & butcher cal officer & public vaccinator 10 &
Harding E. W. & Co. saw mill proprs ri districts of Wycombe union &
Lond
Harding Thomas, chair maker
factory surgeon
C O M M E R C IA L .
Heath James, chair turner
Styles Jane (Mrs.), beer retailer
Early closing day, Wednesday.
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Syred George, builder
Anderson Harry, boot factor
Hodges Thomas, beer retailer
Barney Samuel & Son, builders
Towerton Thomas & Sons, chaii
manufacturers’ merchants, saw
Barney William & Herbert, blcksmths Holland & Sons, builders
Holmes Robert, farmer, Hill farm
Barney Joseph, boot maker
mills proprietors & carriers
Barney Samuel, jun. insurance agent Hopkins Herbert, Ye Olde King’s Towerton Francis, chair manufacturer
Arms hotel, coal merchant & con­ Towerton Henry, saw mills
Barratt George, tailor
Towerton Owen, chair manufacturer
Bates Charles Richard, insurance agt tractor
Hoskings
Jas. Richd. grocer & draper Tranter Arthur Harry, land surveyor,
Bates John, chair turner
master of endowed schools &
Bennell Edwin, dairy farmer,Gardons Hunt Herbert Richard, chair maker
Hunt Alfred, farmer, Chalk farm
assistant overseer
Bennell John, beer retailer
Trappitt John, Red Lion P.H
Biggs William & Son, chair turners Johnson James, chair maker
Judge Edwin, chair turner
Willson Albert, insurance agent
-Biggs Beatrice (Mrs.), grocer
Judge William, grocer
Bird Henry, dairy farmer
Witney George, chair manufacturer
Bird John, farmer, Keynshams farm Larner Henry, beer Tetailer
BEACON’S BOTTOM.
Britnell Mary Ann (Mrs.), grocer & Larner Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Larner Jonah, chair turner
postmistress
Butler Charles, chair turner
Messenger
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Britnell William George, blacksmith
Butler Henry, beer retailer
Chamberlayne George, wheelwright Moore Daniel, Fleur-de-Lis P.H
Butler William, chair turner
■Clegg Wilson, relieving officer No. 4, Moreton Frederick, beer retailer
Stratford John, chair turner
vaccination officer No. 5, district & North Alfred (Mrs.), farmer, Cooper’s Way Arthur, grocer
registrar of births & deaths for Court farm
White Henry, chair turner
Princes Risborough sub-district, Painter Walt, miller (steam & wind)
& registrar of marriages forStoken­
Wycombe union
WATER END.
church sub-district,Wycombe union Clarke James, beer retailer
Cockerill Edwin, chair turner
Cockerill William, Barley Mow P.H Palmer George, wheelwright
Neighbour
George,
farmer
Palmer Henry, farmer, Eastwood frm Pitcher Thomas, dairy
Cocks & Son, saddlers
farmer
Plumridge Edward, woodman to H. Plumridge
Collins John, wheelwright
William, farmer
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Brown esq. J.P
Dean James, chair maker
Stone Henry, chair turner
Deane George & Son, hardware deairs Plumridge James, farmer, Dell's frm West Henry, chair turner
STONE is a parish and village on the road from Mrs. Bartlett, of Peverel Court: the total cost amount­
Aylesbury te Thame, 3 miles south-west from Ayles­ ing to ¿1,997: m 19°° the chancel walls were raised,
bury, which is the nearest railway station, and 7 north­ the chancel new-roofed and re-fitted and an organ
east from Thame, in the Mid division of the county, chamber built on the north side, the entire cost being
hundred, petty sessional division, union and county about ¿650: there are 265 sittings. The register dates
court district of Aylesbury, rural deanery of Aylesbury, from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, with
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. Bishopstone annexed, joint net yearly value ¿303, in­
The church of St. John the Baptist, erected in the cluding 130 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift
reign of King Stephen (1135-54), is a cruciform build­ of Mrs. Lee, of Hartwell House, but pro hac vice the
ing of stone in the Norman, Early English and Decor­ Royal Astronomical Society of London, and late patrons,
ated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, and held since 1879 by the Rev. James Law Challis
small transepts, south porch and an embattled western M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and also rector
tower containing a clock and 6 bells: the church has of Hartwell. There is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in
considerable remains of Norman work, especially in the 1877 and enlarged in 1912. the Village Hall was
nave arcades, and a very good doorway in the south erected in 1910 at a cost of about £ 900 on a piece
porch: the chancel and transepts are Early English : of land given by the late Col. E. D. Lee. The Bucks
the tower is of three stages, with double buttresses at County Asylum, which stands on the high road from
the western angles, and has a parapet with a cornice Aylesbury to Thame, is a structure of red brick with
0 masks and a gabled roof: at the south-east angle stone dressings, erected in 1852, at a cost of ¿22,400,
is a large square turret, with pointed capping, sur­ for 200 patients; and enlarged in 1879 at a further cost
mounted by a vane: the font, brought from a garden
¿23*°°°; in 1892 a new block was added for the
at Lewisham, in Kent, and said to have originally be­ nursing staff, and new workshops in 1898; in 1902
longed to the church of Hampstead Norris, Berks, extensions were begun from plans by Mr. R. J.Thomas,
wnence it was removed about 1767 to a garden in Kent, the county surveyor ; this work was completed in 1907;
ana m i843 brought to this church, is carved with the asylum will now hold 695 patients; the chapel
interlaced work, the rude figure of a salamander, fishes, has also been enlarged so as to hold410 persons : in the
ana other creatures: in the south porch are the re­ Evthrope road a water tower has been erected, and
mains of a stoup: there is a palimpsest brass inscribed there is a recreation ground of 5 acres; the total cost
w L 006 Slde to Christopher Tharpe, ob. 28th Sep- is estimated at ¿50,000: the number of patients now
and ^be other to Thomas Gurney and (I9r5) m the asylum is 701. In the course of making
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’ 15205 on tbe back of the male effigy excavations for the foundations of the chapel various
with6 "’ire.0^ a lady, c. 1440-50: there is also a brass Roman remains were discovered; a bronze fibula of
1*™ a a
inscriPfcion to William Gurney, dated the Anglo-Saxon period has also been found in the vil­
SfntL f 0nS 0n tbe nortb wal1 to members of the lage, and a labourer, while working in his garden here,
in Hin +mily; P.*aced in 1913 ; other brasses, placed hoed up a gold ring set with a red stone in its rude
havA w eSi xduring some restoration of the church, state; in March, 1862, a skeleton with a spear head
reseatJ' ¡u *
chancel was rebuilt and the nave and knife blade were found in a sand pit on the glebe,
and c ct- ® ^ i843 : a gallery has also been removed, about two feet below the surface; in January, 1866,
in
west yindow inserted by a former vicar: various Anglo-Saxon remains, consisting of several
to the 1°
*s a lancet window, inserted 1910, skeletons, portions of shields, spear heads, a knife and
the nr0^T°-y °f Mar&wet Edmonds Challis. wife of fibula were exhumed from a pit of red sand in Cause­
to tho
yicar: in the chancel is a stained window way Field, on the east side of the road between Stone
chumKr,
family, inserted in 1913. In the and Bishopstone; all these relics are now in the
chnvek
are the r0mains of a stone cross: the museum of the Bucks Archaeological Society, riomei'fl
and ai<d &S res^ore^ *n *883 and 1885-90, when the nave charity of ¿ 2 t o s . yearly is distributed to the sick
were new-roofed, and a clock presented bv poor in bread or meat. Mrs. E. D. Lee is lady of
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