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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

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Spiers’s charity of ¿8 yearly is for coats and gowns, of Brill and appropriated to the Grown; the area is 261
given annually to six of the most deserving aged men acres; rateable value, ¿271; the population in 1911
and women in the parish ■ and Mrs. Cole’s of about was 22.
f i ios. for distribution in coal to the poor. Earl
Temple, the rector and T. Stone esq. are the principal TETCHWICK, anciently called “ Touching-Wyke,” is
landowners. The soil is loam and clay; subsoil, clay. also a hamlet i£ miles north-east
The area is 2,732 acres; rateable value, ¿3,207; the Parish Clerk and Sexton, John East.
population in 1911 was 301 in the civil and 323 in the
Elementary School, built in 1846, for 72 children;
ecclesiastical parish.
Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— George Williams, sub-post­ Mrs. Kate Hunt, mistress ; Miss Edith East, assistant
mistress
master. Letters received through Thame at 7 . 1 0 a.m.
& 2 . 1 0 p m. ; sundays, 8 .2 0 a.m. & dispatched at 9 . 1 5 Carrier.— Edwin Faulkner, to Aylesbury, wed. & sat. &
a.m. & 5 - 2 0 p.m. ; sunday6, 1 0 . 2 5 a.m
Bicester, on. fri
KINGSWOOD, formerly forest land, is a hamlet, about Railway Station (Brill & Ludgershall), Great Western
2 miles from the parish church, included on the Royalty
Railway, Ernest Wilkins, station master
.Johnson Rev. Henry Goodman M.A. Drew John Frederick, shopkeeper
Jones Wm. Jesse, farmer, Tetchwick
Rectory
East MaryAnn(Mrs.),White Hart P.H Lamborn Richard, farmer
COMM ERCIAL.
Edmonds George, boot maker
Mole Edwd. farmer, Burborough’a fm
Betts-Coles Walt. Jn. Five Bells P.H Elliott Fredk. & Charles, coal dealers Mole Louis Mark, frmr. Rookery farm
Bond Emma A. L. (Mrs.), farmgr
Ellis Robert, farmer, Glebe farm
Mule Urbane, farmer, Minns farm
Burnell Hy. Thos. farmer, Home frm Faulkner Edwin, carrier & farmer. Mole Walter, farmer
Burnell John, farmer, Green farm
Peartree farm
Roberts Henry, Bull & Butcher P.H
Cannon Frank, farmer, Tetchwick Faulkner John Allen, farmer
Taylor James, farmer, Lane farm,
Cannon Henry, farmer, Mercers farm, Gillson Tom Anthony, beer retailer, Kingswood
Kingswood
Kingswood
Thompson Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Cannon John, farmer, Sharp's hill Holton Jonas, farmer
Williams George, tailor, Post office
Curtis Ernest & Sidney, farmers, Jones Josiah, farmer, Yewtree farm
Manor farm
LTTFFIELD ABBEY, formerly extra-parochial, is Iit now remain. Sir Edmund Giles Loder bart. is lord
now a parish 7 miles north from Buckingham station on |of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is clay and
the Bletchley and Banbury section of the London and 1gravel; subsoil, various. About two-thirds of the land
North Western railway, in the Northern division of the ’is pasture; the remainder arable. The area is 216
county, petty sessional division, hundred, union and acres; rateable value, ¿184; the population in 1911
county court district of Buckingham. Here was once a was 7.
Benedictine priory, founded in 1124 by Robert Bello- The parish is reputed to be ex-parochial for ecde
mont, 3rd Earl of Leicester of that name ; but owing to siastical purposes.
its poverty it was suppressed in 1494 by Henry VII. Letters through Towcester. The nearest money order &
and annexed to the Abbey of Westminster: no traces of telegraph office is at Silverstone
Clarke Ellis, farmer
MAIDS M O R E T O N is a parish, one mile north-east of the church, carefully renovated: the old stained glass
from Buckingham station on the Bletchley and Banbury existing in various windows was collected and incor­
section of the London and North Western railway, in porated in the east window, but in 1898 a new stained
the Northern division of the county, in the hundred, east window was erected to commemorate the Diamond
petty sessional division, union and county court district Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, a t a cost of
of Buckingham, rural deanery of Buckingham, Buck­ ¿200: the interior was also reseated with open oak
ingham portion, archdeaconry of Buckingham and dio­ benches in 1892, and a new carved oak pulpit presented
cese of Oxford. The river Ouse and a branch of the by Dr. Edward Harold Browne, Bishop of Winchester
Grand Junction canal pass through the parish. The (I®73'91)» as a memorial of his parents, who are buried
church of St. Edmund was built about the year 1450 under the tower: the restoration of the nave, begun a t
by two maiden sisters of the Peyvre or Peover family, the same time, was completed in 1887, at a cost of
from which circumstance the village takes its name; ¿1,300, of which amount ¿650 was contributed by Miss
it is a very elegant structure in the Perpendicular Andrewes, of The Manor: there are 220 sittings. The
style, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south register dates from the year 1558. The living is a
porches, and an embattled western tower containing rectory, net yearly value ¿200, derived from 231 acres
6 bells: the windows were once filled with stained of glebe and houses, with residence, in the gift of the
glass, the greater part of which was demolished by Uthwatt trustees, and held since 1913 by the Rev
the soldiery of Cromwell, who otherwise damaged and William Keatinge Clay B.A. of St. John’s College, Cam­
profaned the building: there are still remains of ridge. The Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1869, will
paintings on the north and south walls of the b
seat 80 persons. Scott’s charity, consisting of the
chancel, that on the former being probably a repre­ i
nterest of ¿158 2s. 6d. is given in bread to the poor
sentation of “ the Last Supper,"” under a richly carved on
Scott’s charity of ¿16 3s. 9d. in 2| per
canopy; the figures, however, have been sadly defaced : Centsundays;
onsols, is for apprenticing poor children of
the roofs of the porches and tower entrance and vestry the .paC
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The poor’s allotment consists of 26
room are richly groined in stone: the font, which is acres of pasture
nd in lieu of “ common rights,” and
orman, consists of a circular basin, ornamented with is let at ¿60 a la
year. Elmer’s charity of ¿3 a year
carved work on the outer side, and supported on a plain is for the assistance of poor parishioners, ¿2 a year
octagonal base: in the middle of the nave is a large in the case of a man and ¿1 for a woman. There
marble slab on which were the effigies of the maiden are also church lands, producing varying amounts,
S1® .^s *n brass, but these being lost new brasses were for the repairs of the church. The Manor is the
relaid by Miss Andrewes in 1886: there are several residence of Miss Andrewes. The original Manor House,
ancient monuments and brasses, and on the north side the property of Miss Andrewes, is now used as a
a plain monument of white marble in memory of the farm house, and is in the occupation of Mrs. Martha
°<>n. Mrs. Penelope Veraey, first wife of the Hon. Gough.
Miss Andrewes, who is lady of the manor, the
ttichard Lord Willoughby de Broke, who died August Warden and
Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, and
31. 1718; the inscription is as follows:
the Baroness Kinloss are the principal landowners. The
soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops
are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 1,357 acres
“Under this stone doth lye
>f land and 9 of water; rateable value, ¿2,926; the
As much virtue as could die,
population in 1911 was 371.
Which, when alive did vigor give
To as much beauty as could live.”
Sexton, Sydney Daniels.
'ost, T. O. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.— Miss
Elizabeth North, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive
a krass to Frederick Joseph Dancer, who
Rev "R to t1^ South Africa, in 1901, and one to the through Buckingham at 6.30 a.m. & 12.15 P m - «to­
tonfi t k ;T°hnstone m -A . T e c t o r 1877-1903, placed in days, 6.40 a.m.; dispatched at 9 a.m. & r.io & 6.25
a fl.:mfl he chancel was restored and beautified in 1882 by p.m. week days & 11.25 a m - Sundays. The nearest
money order office is at Buckingham, 1 mile distant
whole
I' at a COst of uPwards of ¿380, when the
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or.was relaid, and the rood screen and Elementary School (mixed & infants), erected in 1854,
mcent canopied sedilia, one of the chief features for 94 children; Miss Ada Carter, mistress