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And Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, and held since able value, £1,082; the population in 1911 was 128 m
913 by the Rev. Thomas William Tidmursh M.A. of the civil and 141 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Sexton, Joseph Boon.
Exeter College, Oxford. Mr. Joseph Evans Whiting,
who is lord of the manor, and Major Long are the Letters through Newport Pagnell arrive at 6.30 & 11.30
principal landowners. The soil is gravel; subsoil, a.m. Wall Letter Box is cleared at 1.50 & 7.5 p.m .
limestone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. Sunday, 11.35 a-m - Newport Pagnell is the nearest
The area is 1,031 acres of land and 26 of water; assess­ money order & telegraph office, about 1 mile distant
'oales Francis William
ITrevor William J.P. Lathburv park |Whiting Joseph Evans, farmer. Lath
Tidmarsh Rev. Thomas William M.A. Adkins John (Mrs.) (exors. of), bury Manor farm
(rector), The Rectory
| farmers, The Woad farm
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L A T I M E R is a parish, on the borders of Herts and on with new benches and affords 220 sittings. The register
'he River Chess, formed by an Order of the County of baptisms dates from the year 1782; marriages, 1755;
Council, August nth. 1898. and confirmed by Local burials, 1784; the previous registers are at Chesham.
Government Board Order No. 38,750, April 1st, 1899, The living is a rectory, united to the vicarage of
out of the parish of Chesham,
miles north from Flaunden, Herts, April 4th, 1876, joint net yearly value
Chalfont Road station on the Metropolitan and Great £225, with 5 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift
Central Joint railway, 3^ south-east from Chesham, 5$ of Lord Chesham. and held since 1891 by the Rev.
from Rickmansworth and 4^ north-east from Amersham, Frederic Charles Impey Long M.A. of New College,
in the Mid division of the county, petty sessional divi­ Oxford. St. George’s chapel of ease at Tyler’s Hill,
sion and county court district of Chesham. hundred of Botley, will seat 100 persons, and is served by the vicar
Burnham, union of Amersham, rural deanery of Amer­ of Christ Church, Waterside, Chesham. LatimerHouse,
sham, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Ox­ the property of the trustees of Lord Chesham (a
ford. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted May minor), is a large Elizabethan mansion of red brick
15, 1868. The church of St. Mary Magdalene, built in with stone dressings, and standing high above the vil­
1841 at the cost of the first Lord Chesham, from lage in a well-wooded park of 800 acres, through which
designs by Mr. Blore and rebuilt in 1867 from the runs the river Chess. On the village green, over­
designs of the late Sir G. G. Scott R.A. is an edifice shadowed by fine trees, is a pump, under an orna­
in the Gothic style, consisting of apsidal chancel, mental canopy, and this is the only source of refresh­
transepts, vestry and organ chamber, south porch and ment possible to the visitor, for no public house is
a turret over it containing one bell: the chancel has permitted, nor is there any kind of refreshment house
a credence and stone sedilia on each side: the prayer in the place. Within a plantation of fir trees, by the
desk and lectern were the gift of the Rev. Burgess stream, and a short distance from the village, are
Bryant M.A. rector 1857-89. and the sanctuary carpet slight Temains of the old church of Flaunden. The
was worked and presented by Lady Chesham and other trustees of Lord Chesham are lords of the manor and
ladies: there are memorial windows in the apse to sole landowners. The soil is loam overlying the chalk
Charles, 1st Baron Chesham, d. Nov. 10th, 1863, formation. The area is 3»o65 acrea of land and x5 ?f
Catherine Susan, his wife, d. Dec. 14th, 1866; and to water; rateable value, £ 4,5951 the population in
the Hon. Algernon William Cavendish, d. April 29th, 1911 was 609 in the civil and 388 in the ecclesiastical
1865, besides=other stained windows on both sides and a !parish, which extends into^ertsr,
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memorial west window, erected in 1887. to William The adjoining hamlets ofBO
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George. 2nd Lord Chesbam. d. June 27th, 1882. and |situated 3 miles north, and are on the main road from
Henrietta Frances (Lascelles), his wife; here also is a Chesham to Hemel Hempstead, and contain Primitive
memorial tablet to the Hon. Charles W. H. Cavendish, Methodist and Baptist chapels.
:7th Lancers, eldest son of the 3rd Baron Chesham,
Sexton, Henry Herrington.
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who was killed at Diamond Hill, South Africa, June .Post, M. 0 ., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.nth. i q o o : there is a mural tablet in the nave and a , Miss Sarah Uff, sub-postmistress Cleared at 1050
memorial in the churchyard to Major-Gen. Lord Ches- a.m. & 5.10 p.m. on vveek days M
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ham P.C.. K.C.B. (3rd Baron), who was killed in the 1 days; letters delivered from Chesham at 7.30 a.m. &
hunting field in 1907: there is also an alabaster 2.45^P;m -^Sundays, 7330 a.m ^
memorial to the Hon. Marjorie Beatrice Cavendish, Post Office, Ley Hill.— Thomas George Flury, sub-post­
daughter of the above-mentioned, who was killed by a master. Cleared at 8.10 a.m. & 7.15 p.m. week days
only; letters delivered from Chesham, which is the
fall from a pony in 1897; and a memorial to his widow,
Beatrice Lady Chesham, ob. 1911 : the land required for nearest money order & telegraph office, at 7.30 a.111
6.45 p.m. week days only foT1*a\ fnr no childrenthe extension of the building, as well as in part for the
enlargement of the churchyard, was given by the 3rd Elementary School (mixed & infants), for 92 children,
Baron Chesham: the whole church has been refitted 1 Lionel Gillard, master
LATIMER.
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T. , Long Bernard, farmer. Cowcroft
Aroomhead Frederick James, Little,Manders Hub6rtj gamekeeper to Lord Brown Albert, farmer, Jason hill
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Chesham
Brown George, farmer, Lee farm
Chesham Lord Latimer house
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Lowe John, Lye green
iStephens William, gardener to Lord Francis esq. Hollybush farm
Morford Walter. Nasbleigh house
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Stokes William Calcott, Dell farm IStokes William Calcott, land agent
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Swain Ernest, Little Nalders
Church Harold, Mount Pleasant
to Lord Chesfiam, Dell farm
Trueman Col. Thomas & Lady Susan uff garah (Miss)> tea deaier,PoStoffice Catling Hy. farmer, Cherry Tree frm
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(Letters received direct from
Sanders Henry, blacksmith & wheel­
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Boarder David, farmer, Mapletree frm
Chesham.)
Wells Alfred, farmer
Gee William, farmer. White End Park|Densham Ashley
Worrall
William, Crown P.H
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IPuddephatt Daniel, Woodlands
L A V E N D O N is a parish and large village on the road a clock and 5 bells: the east window and the eastern­
from Olney to Bedford and on the borders of Bedford­ most on the south side ofthe chancel are Perpen­
shire, 2 miles north-east from Olney station on the Bed­ dicular and on the same side is a Perpendicular
ford and Northampton branch of the Midland railway'. piscina: the chancel arch is plain: the south arcade
9^ west from Bedford, 12 from Northampton and 8 of the nave consists of three acute but plain arches
north-east from Newport Pagnell, in the Northern divi­ springing from round piers with square imposts: the
sion of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, arches in the northern arcade are similar but less lofty
union and county court district of Newport Pagnell, and are all of Transition Norman character: in the
rural deanery of Newport Pagnell, archdeaconry of Buck­ south aisle is a recessed niche and a piscina: the south
ingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary doorway is Early English, with a Perpendicular porch
is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave of six and parvise over it: the font is octagonal, with
anelled tracery .and
flo1wers- on the sides, ofJ the tbrtamv,
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bays, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled p
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tower, reputed to be of Saxon origin, and containing there are mural tablets in memory of two former