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Archer William, boot repairer
Morren Leslie, grocer & draper, p0at
Baldock Edward, cycle repairer
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
office
Baldock Fredk. Wm, insurance agent Parsons George, beer retailer
Andrews Robert John, Herniat
Bedford Alice (Mrs.), farmer, Nives Peedle Simeon, coal dealer
Bennett John, Vincent lodge
farm
Pratley Henry, King's Head P.H
Benson Edward, Long Platt
Biggs Janies Pryer, öouthgate view Beesley Harry, apartments, Silchester Saunders William, shopkeeper
Bircl Augustus Hy. Prestwood lodge Beeson Theophilus James, farmer, Smith Owen, farmer, Denner hill
Audlows farm
Stevens Cornelius, butcher
Buchanan George Newton, Uplands
Brown & Clark, builders
Stevens Edwin, cowkeeper
Clarke Mrs. Lissington
Ooltou W. Koberc A.K.A. Newhouse B“tler William Chequera P.H
Tanton George Frederick,Polecat P.H
Dresser Capt, H. Bruce RF A Nan- 01ark Herbert Reginald, builder, see Taylor Charles, Travellers’ Rest P.H
fans cottage
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Brown & Clark
Tompkins Alfred Jn. poultry higgler
Tompkins John, chair turner
Fremantle jionald Aubrey. Stoney !
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Clark William, farmer, Moat farm Wright Oliver, fruit dir. & shopkpr
Colton W. Robert A.R.A. sculptor, Wright Walter Enos, fruiterer
Frith John Griffith, The Roses
Gardner AllanCameron.The Chestnuts Newhouse
GREAT KINGSHILL.
Goodson Sir Alfred, Peterley manor Cox Ruth (Mrs.), chair turner
Davis Arthur, farmer, Denner hill
Hannell Charles, lfle Cedars
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Harte Alired, Frognal
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Gomm Arthur, butcher
Keane C. A. Mill house
COMMERCIAL.
Groom Alfred, apartments
Logan Thomas, Stoney Green
Grover Brothers, farmers, Collings Gill Robert M. farmer & land owner,
Miller Ernest, Prestwood cottage
Ninney Wood farm
Peters Rev. Thomas Edward M.A. Hanger farm
Hildreth
Albert James, blacksmith Haynes Alfred, Royal Oak P.H
(vicar), Vicarage
Howard Samuel, farmer, Kiln lodge Janes Arthur, beer retailer
Snow W. H
Humphrey Mary (Mrs.), Gate P.H. Janes George, chair turner
Stevens Alfred, Penrose
Bryant’s bottom
Janes James, cowkeeper
White G. B. Mower, The Firs
Hunting Joseph Carlton, farmer, Janes Peter, wheelwright
Pankridge farm
COMMERCIAL.
Leslie George & Sons, farmers
Jennings William, chair turner
Phillips Charles, chair turner
Adams Frank, chair turner
Johnston Thomas J. baker
Scott Alfred, grocer
Andrews Arthur, boot repairer
Lewis Mary (Mrs.), confectioner
West Albert, haulier
PRINCES RISBOB.OTJGH is a parish with a meetings and entertainments. The Princes Risborough
station about three-quarters of a mile west on the main Agricultural Association holds a show every year of
line of the Great Western and Great Central joint roots and vegetables, and there is also an annual dinner
railway, from Paddington and Marylebone to the Mid­ n the month of October. The Literary Institute and
lands and the North, and on the Great Western direct i
Reading Room, in the High street, the gift of Lord
line to Birmingham and thebranch lines of the same Rothschild, contains a billiard room and lecture hall
railway to Thame, Oxford and Watiington.
brom and has a library of about 600 volumes; it was opened
Princes Risborough is a branch of the Great Western in 1891. The Market house was built by John Grubb
line to Watiington and ofthe Great Western and esq. a former lord of the manor, and has a clock,
Great Central joint line to Aylesbury; it is 37 erected by the subscription of the inhabitants. Fairs
miles from London by road, 8 north-north-west from are held annually on the 6th of May (St. John the
High Wycombe,
south from Aylesbury, 6£ east-by- Evangelist ante Portam Latinam) and on the 21st of
south from Thame and
south-west from Tring, in October. St. Agatha’s Home, belonging to the Church
the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty of England Incorporated Society for Providing Homes
sessional division of Aylesbury, union and county court for Waifs and Strays, was erected in 1909 on a site in
district of High Wycombe, rural deanery of Aylesbury, the Aylesbury Toad presented by Mrs. Bardolph, who
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford; also provided the funds for the erection of the west
the town is lighted with gas by a company formed in wing as a memorial to her husband, the Rev. Reginald
1865 and supplied with water from springs.
Robertson Bardolph, formerly Tector of this parish;
Ihe churca of St. Mary, originally Early English but the home will hold 30 girls. The charities include
altered in the reign of Henry VII. is an edifice of stone 3a. 2r 26p. of land left by William Smith in1616 for
and flint, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of the poor, and producing ¿6 19s.3d. per annum;
seven bays, aisles, south porch and a western tower, a rent charge of ¿32 yearly by Mrs. Chibnall, in 1646';
with spire containing 2 bells: in 1908 the tower and ¿100 by Thomas Meade, of Princes Risborough, in
spire were rebuilt at a cost of ¿2,000: the chancel 1783, for apprenticing poor children; a portion of an
retains two Early English windows, but the others are estate left by Mrs. Katherine Pye, of Bradenham, in
Decorated, and the piscina and sedilia are of the same I733* f°r the education chiefly of children here and
date: the sacrarium is laid with mosaic pavement, the at Hughenden, Bradenhaxn, Towersey and West Wy­
gift of Capt. Jones, of Gerrard's Cross: in the south combe, but also for the relief of sixpoorwidows; one
aislo are four recessed canopies, once inclosing tombs, nomination to
Christ’s Hospital,left by Richard
an aumbry and a piscina niche: a window of three Stratton in 1772; a meadow, bequeathed by Mrs.
lancet lights, with elegant columns of Purbeck marble, Elizabeth Eustace, in 1784, to provide “lots of linen”
has been filled with stained glass at the cost of Mr. F. for the poor; an allotment of 30 perches to provide
Barraud, and in 1905-6 two memorial windows were funds for repairs to the church; and 40 acres granted
erected to Elizabeth Mary, wife of the Rev. J. Mander, to the poor in lieu of common rights, the income of
rector 1897-1914: in 1892 an organ was erected at a which amounts to about ¿30 yearly. Several trenches
cost of ¿320, and a new oak lectern and a litany desk and banks, on the west side of the churchyard, called
were provided in 1898 by the parishioners: in 1867-8the “The Mount,” and inclosed with a moat, are popularly
church was enlarged and thoroughly restored at a cost supposed to be the site of a palace of Edward the Black
of upwards of ¿2,200, under the direction of the late PTince, but called by the Rev. F. Wise B.D. the anti­
Sir A. TV. Blomfield A.R.A. architect, of London (d. quary, a Saxon camp. Henry III. gave the lordship of
1899): there are 410 sittings. The registers date from Risborough to Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwalland
the year 1561, but during the period of the Common­ Count of Poitou, his eldest brother, and it was held by
wealth there are no entries. The living, formerly a per­ his son Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, until his death, at
petual curacy, was declared a rectory February 25th, Ashridge Abbey, 1 Oct. 1300, when it reverted to the
1868, under the “ Church District Tithes Act, 1865” (28 Crown and was settled in dower on Queen Margaret:
and 29 Viet. c. 42), net yearly value ¿196, with resi- the rector has in his keeping an iron chest containing
dence, erected in 1865-6, in the gift of the Bishop of several very interesting documents, including a mutiOxford, and held since 1914 by the Rev. Reginald lated copy of letters dated June 12th, 1597, under the
Palmer, of Corpus Christi College,Cambridge. The Bap- Igreat seal of Elizabeth ; and the charter granting
tistchapel, in Bell street,erected in 1707, is a plain edi- immunity to Princes Risborough from serving on juries
fice, seating 400, and has a small burial ground attached and paying tolls, dated 39th year of Queen Elizabeth
to it and a residence for the minister adjoining; it is (1598). Lord Rothschild P C.,G.C.V.C. and the Warden
registered for the solemnization of marriages; adjoining and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, are the chief
is a Sunday school, erected in 1911, for 150 children, landowners, and there are many smaller owners. The
The Wesleyan Methodist chapel, in Station road, built jsoil is very variable, but generally light and chalky on
in 1869, is of brick and will seat 100. The Mission hall, ,the hills; on the low lands loamy, some parts strong
on the Aylesbury road, and the property of the Welch clay; subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops on the
Ale Brewery Co. Limited, is an iron structure, built in Ilicrht lands are barley, oats and turnips; low lands,
1870, and will seat 360 persons; it is now used for |wheat, beans and barley. The area is 4,693 acres of