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the north aisle to Simon Heynes, 1628, with two effigies Stratton. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords
kneeling at a desk: the church was restored in 1863, of the manor. Mrs. ,T. L. Stratton, Sir John Freche­
and affords 287 sittings. The register of baptisms ville Ramsden bart. and Capt. P. A. F. Spence are the
dates from the year 1695 ; marriages and burials, 1696. chief landowners. The soil is various; subsoil, various
The living is a rectory, net yearly value £200, includ- The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area
ing 17 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of is 1,291 acres of land and 4 of water; rateable value
the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and held since £r,88o; the population in 1911 was 243.
1890 by the Rev. George Albert Browning M.A. of Sexton, George Geary.
King’s College, Cambridge. The rectory house, built
in 1855, is pleasantly seated on an eminence a short Post & Telegraph & Telephonic Express Delivery
Office.— Alfred Law, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive
distance from the church. Here is a Wesleyan chapel
built in 1861, and seating 100 persons. Fairfax’s through Brackley at 6.25 a.m. & 12.15 pm.; sundays,
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.20 a.m.; dispatched at 9.10 a.m. & 0.45 p.m.; Sun­
charity and the Town plot and Constable’s Stock pro­
duce about £6 a year for educational purposes. There days, 8.45 a.m. Brackley, 1 mile distant, is the
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earest money order office
is an allotment of 11a. 2T. 26p. awarded in 1814, and
let at £5 yearly, which amount is distributed in Elementary School (mixed), erected by deed in i860, for
fuel. Turweston House is the seat of Mrs. John Locke
67 children ; Miss Edith Willgress, mistress
Browning Rev. George Albert M.A.
C O M M E R C IA L .
Greenhill Richard E. farmer
Rectory
[Blackwell Frank, assistant overseer
Harris William, farmer
Ramsden Sir John Frecheville bart. Blackwell John, carpenter
Law Alfred, shopkeeper, Post office
Turweston manor
jClark James, farmer, Oatleys
Lidington Annie (Miss), beer retailer
Spence Capt. Philip Alexander ¡Crossbv Charles, farmer
Page Caleb, farmer
Francis, Oatley's hall
IGeary Owen, farm bailiff to A. Hop- Seaton Wm. thrashing machine owner
Stratton Mrs. Jn. Locke,Turweston ho craft esq
T W Y F O E D is a parish and small village, watered by and is principally a heavy clay; about two-thirds of
a feeder of the river Ouse ; in the parish, which extends the land is pasture, the remainder arable; there are
to the Oxfordshire border, and 2 miles south-west from about 200 acres of woodland. The area of Twyford is
the village, is the Marsh Gibbon and Poundon station, 1,562 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value,
on the Bletchley and Oxford section of the London and £2,748; the population in 1911 was 358, and 693 in the
North Western railway. The village is also about 2^ ecclesiastical parish, including Charndon and Pounden.
miles west-by-north from Calvert station on the Great Post, M. O. & T. Office.— Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hall,
Central railway, 6 south-west from Buckingham, 8 west sub-postmistress. Letters received from Buckingham
from Winslow, 8 north-east from Bicester and 61 from at 7.45 a.m. & 3.35 p.m.; sundays, 7.35 a.m.; dis­
London, in the Northern division of the county, hun­
dred, petty sessional division, union and county court patched at 5.30 p.m. week days; sundays, 8.40 a.m
district of Buckingham, rural deanery of Claydon, arch­
is a hamlet of Twyford, about 2 miles
deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The souOHARNDON
h. Here is a Congregational chapel, erected in 1825,
church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice of stone of the seat
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sons. The principal landowners are
13th century, consisting of chancel, nave of four bavs,
Thomas Smith esq. and Wenman Aubrey
aisles, south porch, and an embattled western tower William
Wykehain-Musgrave
esq. D.L., J.P. Some land here is
containing a clock with chimes and 6 bells: the chancel let in allotments, and
barn has been erected by sub­
retains sedilia, piscina and an aumbry : the south door­ scription for the storaa
e of crops. The area is 1,911
way is a rich example of Late Norman: the font, re­ cres: rateable value, g£2,433;
the population in 1911
stored in 1877. is also Norman, and has a circular basin awas
240.
resting on columns: in the south aisle is an altar
tomb with the brass effigy of a knight supposed to
represent one of the Gifford family, who held this POUNDON is a hamlet of Twyford, about 1 mile and
manor from 1340 to 1550. when it passed by marriage a quarter south-west, and has a Mission Room, erected
to the Wenmans; there is also a tomb with effigy in in 1877, and seating about 60 persons. Here is a Con­
armour to Thomas Gifford of Twifford esq. 1550, and gregational chapel, erected in 1825, seating 25 persons.
Mary (Stavely). his wife ; this brass is said to be Poundon, the property and residence of John Pemberton
palimpsest; and another with demi-effigy to John Ever- Heywood Heywood-Lonsdale esq. who is the principal
don, rector, 1413; besides a fine monument to Sir landowner, is a stone built house, in the Queen Anne
Richard Wenman, 1st Viscount Wenman, of Thame style. The area is 980 acres; rateable value, £1,479;
Park, Oxfordshire, d. 1640: under a Decorated canopy the population in 1911 A va s 95.
in the south wall is the mutilated stone effigy of a Parish Clerk, Harry Aris.
priest: the tower was rebuilt and the nave and chancel
restored in 1887 at a cost of £1,448, and in 1897 the Charndon & Poundon letters through Bicester (Oxon),
arrive about 8 a.m. & 1.30 p.m. Marsh Gibbon is
south aisle and porch were restored at a cost of £587:
the nearest money order & telegraph office, about 2
in 1901 an ancient oak screen between the chancel and
nave was restored in commemoration of the reign of miles distant
Queen Victoria: the church affords 230 sittings. The Wall Letter Box at Charndon cleared at 3.40 p.m. & at
register dates from the year 1558 ; marriages and Marsh Gibbon &; Poundon station, cleared at 7.50
burials, 1561. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value p.m. week days; sundays, 7.35 p.m
£243, with residence, in the gift of the rector of Lincoln Elementary School, Twyford (mixed), built in 1839, for
College. Oxford, and held since 1911 by the Rev.
100 children ; W. T. Parry, master
Christopher Greaves M.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford. Elementary School, Charndon (mixed), built in 1914,for
The Congregational chapel, built in 1897 at a cost of 96 children; J. J. Broome, master
£ 4 0 0 , adjoining the former chapel, erected in 1825. i
s of
red brick and stone, and will seat 150 persons. At the Marsh Gibbon & Poundon Railway Station (L. & N. W.),
Calvert Brickworks is a Mission room, in which a Sun­ Sydney R. Pratt, station master
day school and evening services are held. The principal Carriers.— George Chapman, to Buckingham, mon. wed.
landowners are the rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, iri. & sat. at 9 a.m. returning at 6 p.m. & Charles
trustees of the late Edward James Athawes, and Owen
Hill, to Buckingham, mon. wed. A sat. & to Bicester,
Clark and Walter Wood esqrs. The land is all freehold, fri
TWTFORD.
Hall Francis, dairyman
CHARNDON.
Fitzgerald Major Gerald James, Hall John Edward, farmer
C O M M E R C IA L .
Twyford house
Hall Mary Elizabeth (Mrs.), shop
Gascoyne Henry John, Church view
keeper, Post office
Bennett Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Geeves Mrs. E. West view
Harper George, farmer,Twyford lodge Bishop Harold, farmer
Greaves Rev. Christphr.M.A.Vicarage Hill Charles, carrier
Coverdale Thomas, farm bailiff to
Joliffe Capt. Gerald Jas. The Grange Hill Joseph, Red Lion P.H
William Thomas Smith esq
C O M M E R C IA L .
Hodges William Henry, farmer
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tter A. W. (exors. of), brick makers
Allen Henry, farmer
Hurst William, blacksmith
(George Boden, manager) (postal
Aris Walter, carpenter
Johnson Joseph, grocer
address, Calvert, Steeple Claydon)
Bryan Felix, Seven Stars P.H
King Henry, farmer, Twyford mill Kineh Richard, farmer & landowner
Chapman George, Crown P.H
Tew Albert, farmer
Plant Bertie, haulier
Dudley Philip, butcher
Whiting Thomas, shoe maker
Plant Frank, farmer
George Enos, farmer
ood Walter Fred, farmer, Port­ Plant Frederick, grocer (postal ad­
Hall Esau, farmer
way farm
dress, Calvert, Steeple Claydon)