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river Ouse, over which is a stone bridge of one arch.
6 p.m. ; Sundays, 11.20 a.m. Wall Letter Box
F. A. Konig esq. is lord of the manor and sole land­ Tyringham House gates, cleared at 8.50 a.m. 12 noon
owner. The soil is mixed; subsoil, oolite and clay. & 6.50 p.m. ; sundays, 11.20 a.m. Newport Pagnell
The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and oats. The
about 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order &
area is 1,757 acres of land and 35 of water ; assessable telegraph office
value, £-2,170 ; the population in 1911 was 198.
Filgrave Elementary School, erected in 1911 to com­
Parish Clerk, Joseph Lee.
memorate the coronation of H.M. King George V. bv
Letters through Newport Pagnell arrive at 7 a.m. &
F. A. König esq. for 64 children; Edward William
12.30 p.m. "Wall Letter Box cleared at 7.30 a.m. & Shoobridge. master
König Friedrick Adolphus, Tyring­
C O M M E R C IA L .
Lawrence Richard F. farmer
ham house; & Carlton club, Lon­ Brett Geo. farmer,NorthFilgraves fm Milward Gervase Gwynne, resident
don S W
Eaton John, blacksmith, Filgrave
agent to F. A. König esq
McFerran Miss, Tyringham cottage Golding Ernest, head gardener to Philpott Robert Henry, estate car­
Milward Gervase Gwynne
F. A. Konig esq
penter to F. A. König esq
Bickards Bev. Walter Brooke M.A. Law Frank, farmer, Filgrave
Reeks James Hurd, gamekeeper to
Bectory, Filgrave
Lawrence John Sidney, farmer, F. A. König esq
Wood Miss, Tyringhum cottage
Fences farm
Smith Thos. Brooks,farmer,Park frm
UPTON-cum-CHALVEY, formerly a civil parish, has been entirely absorbed in the parishes of Slough,
Eton, Langley Marish and Wexham.
W A D D E S D O N is a township, parish and village, on de Rothschild, from plans by W. Taylor and Son,
the Bicester road, and on the Roman Akeman street, 44 architects, of Aylesbury, is of local stone and red
miles from London, 1 mile west by footpath and 2 brick with Monk’s Park stone dressings, in the Old
miles by road from Waddesdon Manor station on the English Domestic style, and includes concert and
Metropolitan and Great Central Joint railway, 5^ audit rooms, a dining room seating 100 persons,
north-west from Aylesbury and 12 south from Bucking­ commercial and bath rooms and 10 spacious bed­
ham, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of rooms ; there are two entrances with smoking bal­
Ashendon, petty sessional division, union and county conies over each; the stables and yard buddings
court district of Aylesbury, rural deanery of Waddesdon, are in the same style as the house; a garage, with
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. inspection pit, has been added. Waddesdon Village
A branch line, from Quainton Road station to Brill, hall was erected in 1897 at a cost of £3,000, from
passes through this parish and has two stations designs by W. Taylor and Son, architects, of Aylesbury,
called Waddesdon Road and Westcott. The Chiltern at the sole cost of the late Baron Ferdinand de Roths­
Hills Spring Water Co. supply the parish with water. child, and is used for parish council meetings, enter­
A new scheme of sewage was carried out in 1903 at an tainments &c. The Philharmonic Society was inaugur­
estimated cost of .£4,500, under the direction of Mr. ated in 1884, and is principally supported by Miss Alice
Guest Luckett C.E. of Aylesbury. The church of St. de Rothschild; conductor, Mr. S. C. Camp A.R.C.O.
Michael is an ancient building of stone in mixed styles, The Club and Reading Room, built in 1883 by the late
consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south Baron F. de Rothschild, for the use of the working men,
porch, and an embattled western tower containing a comprises a coffee bar, reading room, and a library of
clock and 6 bells: the earliest portion of the structure, 300 volumes, for the use of members; in connection
comprising the south piers of the nave, and the inner with this institution is a cricket club, mainly supported
doorway, is Norman; the tower, south porch, and piers by Miss Alice de Rothschild ; technical instruction
and arches on the north side of the nave are generally classes are also held here. Goodwin’s almshouses,
good plain Early English, and some parts of the chancel entirely rebuilt in 1894 by the late Baron Ferdinand
are Decorated : the clerestory is entirely Perpendicular, J. de Rothschild, is for 6 aged women, each of whom
and windows of that date have been inserted in other receives £5 a year; Turner’s charity yields about £100
parts of the church: there are three piscinae, one in annually, and is distributed amongst the poor of the
each aisle and one in the nave: the font is Decorated, parish; Fettoe’s and Beck’s charities produce together
octagonal in shape and panelled: in the chancel are about £28 yearly, £26 of which is for apprenticing
brasses to Robert Pygott and Mary, his wife; another poor boys and £2 for school prizes. This parish and
with effigy in armour, upon a raised table tomb at the Westcott each receive 7s. from Nash’s (Quainton)
east end of the south aisle, to Sir Roger Denham, or charity for bread. The W'addesdon Institute was
Dynham, d. 1490; this brass was discovered in 1887 opened in 1910 by Miss A. de Rothschild, the old school
at Eythrope, and the coffin containing the remains of premises having been converted into reading and re­
the knight, found on the site of a destroyed chapel, was creation rooms, for the use of tradesmen and farmersin
removed to Waddesdon churchyard and re-interred on the district; there is also a billiard room containing
the east side of the south porch by Miss Alice de Roths­ two tables and library of several hundred volumes.
child: there is also a monument to Guy Carleton, a Miss Alice de Rothschild is lady of the manor and the
veteran soldier, ob. June 1, 1608 ; a brass with effigy in chief landowner. Waddesdon Manor, the seat and pro­
shroud to Hugh Bristow, Tector of the first portion, to perty of Miss Alice de Rothschild, is a mansion in
which he was elected in 1548, and another, with vested the French chateau style, situated on an eminence
effigy, to Richard Huntingdon, a priest, 1543: affixed and commanding beautiful views of the surrounding
to the wall is a brass to William Turner, who left country; the adjacent grounds and parks, about 800
£3,625 to the poor of the parish : the chancel was re­ acres in extent, are beautifully laid out. In 1883
stored in 1877, the rest of the fabric having previously Mis6 Alice de Rothschild erected a pavilion at Eythrope,
been restored at a cost of £1,650, and in 1891-2 the in this parish, on the south side of which a lake
church was further restored, and the tower entirely re­ has been formed from the Tiver Thame. The soil
built, at a total cost of £2,300: in 1902 the whole is clay and clayey loam ; subsoil, various. The area is
exterior was thoroughly repaired under the direction of 4,984 acres of land, two-thirds of which are pasture and
Mr. J. Holland, of Waddesdon: new oak choir stalls, the remainder arable, and 19 of water; rateable value,
with miserere seats, and a screen, the work of H. Hems £12,054; the population in 1911 was 1,569 in the civil
and Sons, of Exeter, were fitted in the chancel and a and 1,886 in the ecclesiastical parish.
new organ added: the marble and alabaster pulpit, Post, M. 0 . & T. Office, Waddesdon.— Edward Thomas
formerly in Blenheim Palace Chapel, was the gift of the Humphrey, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through
Duke of Marlborough K.G. : there are 589 sittings. the Aylesbury office at 7 & 10 a.m. & 4 20 p.®The register of baptisms dates from the year 1541 ; week days; sundays, 7.20 a.m.; dispatched at 12.25
marriages, 1538 ; burials, 1538. The livingis a rectory, & 6 p.m. on week days & at 12.25 p.m. on sundays.
formerly in threeportions, but consolidated by an Order Letter Box, Aylesbury road, cleared 12.20 & 6.5 p-®in Council dated 1876, net yearly value £650, with week days & 12.25 p.m. sundays
residence, erected in 1869, in the gift of the Duke of
Marlborough K.G. and held since 1905 by the Rev. WESTCOTT is a hamlet, about if miles west, with a
James Edmund Gamul Farmer M.A. of Cambridge station on branch line from Quainton Road to Brill,
University, who is also domestic chaplain to the Duke, on the Metropolitan and Great Central Joint railway
rural dean of Waddesdon and vicar of Over Winchen- The church of St. Mary, erected in 1867 from design*
don. The Baptist chapel atWaddesdon Hill was by the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. at the sole exPe^s*
erected in 1788, and there is another in Waddesdon of the last Duke of Buckingham and Chandos P-L-j
village; the Wesleyan chapel was rebuilt in 1877, G.C.S.I. consists of chancel, nave and aisles and a bw
and the Primitive Methodist chapel in 1876. The Five turret: a memorial window has been erected to Carol®
Arrows hotel, rebuilt by the late Baron Ferdinand J. (Harvey), the Duke’s firstwife (who died Feb. 28, 1874)-