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STO K E P O t.ts

BUCK 1NG HAM SH IK E,

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Wall Letter Boxes.— West End, cleared 8.50 & 10.35
Schools.
a.m. & 3.40 & 7.30 p.m.; sundays, 8.15 a.m.; VVex- Elementary, built in 1876, for 108 boys & 100 girlsham street, 8.10 a.m. 12 noon & 7-30 p.m. ; Mindavs, 8
a.m. ; at Hill house, 7.40 & 10.10 a.m. & 3 & 7.45 Albert Prewett Batten, master ; Mrs. Mary Batten,mist
p.m.; sundays, 7.40 p.m.; Cross roads. 9 & 11.20 Elementary (infants'), built in 1876, for 109 infantsa.m. & 3.45 & 7.10 p.m.; sundays, 8.25 a.m.; Stoke Miss Anna Bailey, mistress
Common, 8.45 & 11.20 a.m. & 3.20 & 7.50 p.m. ; S u n ­ The schools are in part supported by a yearly endow­
days, 7.30 p.m
ment of £40
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Savorv Sir William Borradaile bart. Lucey Charles, land steward to H.
Allhusen Henry Eden D.L., J.P. Woodlands
E. Allhusen esq. D.L., J.P. Stoke
Stoke court
Sutton James Bryan, The Hollies
court
Barnett Rev. Canon Arthur Thomas W;ilmsley Robert Benj. Rough Hey Major Arthur C. farmer, Ditton
(vicar). Vicarage
Williams Mr3. Uplands
Marshall Geo. farmer, Duffield farm
Bell Sir John Charles bart. J.P. Wolverton Lord Fredk. Glyn, Ditton Mitchell Horace, beer retaileT
Framewood
park (letters through Datchet)
Newell Horace, baker
Bellairs Clifford, D’Albini
Wriirht Mrs. The Firs
Piner Brothers, boot & shoe makers
Bird Stephen. Arron croft
Farnham road
Bisset Col. Sir Wm. Sinclair Smith
Purser Alfred, farmer
COMMERCIAL.
K.C.I.E., R.E. Hill house
Ridgley Amos, Fox & Pheasant P.H.
Boyd Clive, Stoke corner
Ayres John, market gardener
Common
Bowen John Evan, Appletons
Baldwin Wm. Hy. boot ma.West End Sherlock John, beer retlr. Common
Clifton William Chas. The Bungalow Betts Emma (Mrs.), beer retailer
Stevenson William, Sefton Arms P.H.
Dalryznple Donald, Whiterigg
Billing John, market gardener
& assistant overseer & clerk to
Decies Lord. Sefton park
Burgess Bert, cycle dealer
Parish Council
Durlacher Neville John. Larchmoor Burgiss Alfred, boot & shoe maker
Stoke Park Land Co. Ltd. Lion lod<*e
Elmore Alamont, Tregarland
Childs Fredk.rose grower,TheCommn Stoke Poges Golf Club (N. Lane
Farley Mrs. Rowland villa
Childs Frederick (Mrs.), laundress
Jackson, managing director)
Gardener Mrs. Grays park
Cook Edward N. shopkeeper & sub- Stoke Poges Institute (E. P. Batten,
Gilliat Algernon, Duffield
postmaster
manager)
Guv Frederick, Alderbourn
Devening George, baker
Sutton James Bryan L.R.C.P.Lond.,
Hanbury Mrs. The White house
Glaisher Jos. farm bailiff to H. L.S.A.Lond. physician & surgeon
Heathcote The Misses Boothby, Cleve- Howard-Vvse esq. Stoke Place
The Hollies
hurst
Gough S. R. (Mrs.), frmr. Berry frm Turner Samuel, Dog & Pot P.H.
Howard-Vyse Howard Henry D.L.. Harman James, butcher
West
End
J.P. Stoke Place
Hawkins Hy. farm bailiff to William Vallis Kate Elizabeth (Miss), Red
Judd Walter A. Holly hill
Bailey esq. Wexham crt. Stoke Grn Lion P.H. Stoke Green
Marshall A. Stoke common
Hunt Thomas, Montague Arms P.H. Waitman Frederick, One Pin inn
Marshall George. Duffield farm
Ditton
Walford Robert Ardlie, grocer
Mowatt Francis Herbert, Stoke lodge Jennings William Alfred, carpenter Walker Ernest F.farmer,Bumby’s frm
Murray Hon. Mrs. Tythe farm
Lane Wm. Percy Vaughan, confectnr Whiffin George, beer retlr.Wexham st
Randall Ernest M. Stoke Green house
IWhittock Fredk. Owen, Plough P.H

STOKENCHTJRCH is a large village and parish 011 making. The charities amount to about ^16 annually.
the Oxon border, 5 miles north-west from West Mason’s charity of £3 7s. 8d. provides coats for six old
Wycombe station on the Great Western and Great Cen­ men and six loaves of bread, together with 6s. 8d. for a
tral joint railway, 3 miles south-east from Aston sermon by the vicar on St. Thomas’ day; Jodrell’s
Rowant station on the Princes Risborough and Wat­jcharity of £2 10s. is for providing blankets for the
lington branch of the Great Western railway, 7 north­ |poor, and Holmes’bequest (14s. 8d.) is divided amongst
west from Wycombe and 5^ east from Watlington, in 1nine poor women. The bread charity amounts to about
the Southern division of Oxon for Parliamentary pur­ I£g 4s. Wormsley House, about 2 miles south-west
poses, Watlington union, county court district of jfrom the village, is occupied by Frederick William Fane
Wycombe, rural deanery of Aston, archdeaconry and jesq. J.P. Mallard’s Court, the residence of Marcus Slade
diocese of Oxford. From its position on the lofty Iesq. K.C. stands in extensive pleasure grounds about a
ridge of the Chiltern Hills, it enjoys a bracing and jquarter of a mile from the village. Henry Clerke
healthy atmosphere, and commands extensive and !Brown esq. J.P. of Kingston Blount, is- lord of the
beautiful views of the surrounding country.
imanor. The landowners are Woolmer R. D. White esq.
By the County of Buckingham (Stokenchurch) Order John Henry Scrope Fane esq. the exors of Mrs. Saville
1895,
parish was transferred, March 31, 1896, from Young, Col. William Terry and Major Charles Terry,
Oxon to Bucks, in pursuance of Section 54 of the “Local with other smaller proprietors. The soil is stiff loam in
Government (England and Wales) Act, 1888 ” (51 and parts; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, oats
52 Viet. c. 41).
and barley. The area is 5,920 acres; rateable value,
The church of SS. Peter and Paul is an ancient ^5,611; the population in 1911 was 1,592.
structure of flint in mixed styles, consisting of chancel,
BEACON’S (or BACON’S) BOTTOM and WATER
nave, aisles, south porch and a low western tower with
shingled spire, containing a clock and 3 bells: the END are hamlets in the parish of Stokenchurch,
miles
south-east, on the borders of Oxon.
chancel, restored about 1850, is Decorated, and retains
a piscina and two brackets; on the north side is an County Police, Sergeant Robert Alfred Bosher, and 1
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ancient tomb-stone, discovered at the restoration of
Parish Clerk, William Harding.
the church: the chancel arch is Transition Norman and
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0 . & T. Office.— Mrs. Mary Ann Britnell, subhas a hagioscope on the north side: the chapel has a
good wooden roof, and retains a piscina and traces of postmistress. Letters through Wallingford at 6.30
a.m.
&
.45 p.m.; dispatched at 9.25 a.m. & 6.40
an altar,but its windows are of a debased character, p m. ; di1
spatched on sundays at 6 p.m
save one. which is Early English: the south doorway
r Box, Water End, cleared at 8.25 a.m. & 5-3°Pm is also Early English and the font Perpendicular: a Lette
Norman doorway remains in the north wall of the week days; sundays, i t . 4 0 a.m
Schools.
nave: there are brasses to Robert Morley, 1415, in
armour, with inscription in Norman French; and Elementary Schools, built in 1877 (boys), for 100 chil­
another to Robert Morley, 1415, similar to preceding : dren ; Thomas Adkins, master; (girls), also for 100
the church was thoroughly restored in 1847, a°d in 1893 children; Miss Gertrude N. Painter, mistress;
it was enlarged by the addition of a north aisle, at a (infants), new school built in 1902, for 140 children;
cost of £727, defrayed by voluntary contributions: Mrs. Maude Adkins, infants’ mistress
there are 420 sittings. The register proper dates from Elementary, Beacon’s Bottom, for 70 children; Miss
about the year 1707, entries previous to that date
Ethel Buckley, mistress
having been made in the registers of Aston Rowant. Elementary (endowed) with an income of £ 4 8 yearly
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value ^200, with from Tipping’s charity, A.D. 1632; Arthur H. TranteT,
residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held master; 12 boys are educated & clothed & 2 are
since 1911 by the Rev. Frederic Crawford Load B.A. of apprenticed annually
University College. Durham. The Congregational chapel
Carriers to:—
here was built in 1820; and there are Primitive Thame— Sworder, passes through tues. returning same
Methodist chapels in the village and at Beacon’s day
Bottom. A considerable trade is carried on in chair- Wycombe— Towerton, daily