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BUC K ING HA M SH IR E.

Purssell Frederick, farmer, Benington ho. Aylesbury rd
Bance Brothers, farmers, Little London farm
Kance Joseph, butcher, Southfield house, London road
Boberts Charles, insurance agent, South street
Bose Oswald, farmer, Uphill farm
Butter Emily (Miss) & Le Masurier Lilian (Miss), Lady
Margaret school, Chiltern road
St. Teresa’s Holiday Home for Girls (Miss Leonore
Sichel, matron), St. Teresa’s, Dobbin’s lane
Sanders Ernest, farmer, Vine Tree farm, Back street
Saunders George John, farmer & pheasant breeder,Bank
farm, Tring road
Saunders Jane (Mrs.), confectioner, Aylesbury street
Scott Sidney, King & Queen hotel, South street
Sears Frederick, grocer & provision dealer, High street
Sharp Ernest John, watch maker, High street
Slade Frederick, market gardener, Aylesbury road
Slade Frederick, painter, Tring road
Smith William & Sons, butchers, High street (branch)
Smithers William, apartments, Chiltern view,Dobbin's la
Spittles Charles, fishmonger, South street
Spittles Joseph, Marquis of Granby P.H. World’s End
(postal address, Tring)
Stamp Office (Charles Edgar Freeman, distributor).
High street
Stevens Walter James, engineer, steam roller proprietor,
threshing machine owner & steam haulage contracts
& sec. to Reading room, Aylesbury street
WESTBTJRY is a parish and village, separated from
Oxfordshire by the river Cuse, and is i mile north from
Fulwell and Westbury station on the BanbuTy and
Bletchley branch of the London and North Western rail­
way, about 2 from Finmere station on the Great Central
railway, 4| north-west from Buckingham, 2J east from
Brackley and 62 from London, in the Northern division
of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of
Buckingham, Brackley union and county court district,
Buckingham portion, Buckingham rural deanery, Buck­
ingham archdeaconry and Oxford diocese. The church
of St. Augustin, situated close to the manor house, is
an edifice of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of
chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, north porch and a
western saddle-back tower, in part of the Transitional
period, containing 3 bells, repaired in 1898 at a cost of
£32: the organ was the gift of the family of the late
Viscount Barrington (d. 1901): there are various
memorial windows, presented by A. J. Roberts esq. of
Lillingstone Dayrell; the Hon. Mrs. Maclagan, of
Bishopthorpe, York; and the Viscountess Barrington:
the church was restored in 1863, and affords 200 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a
vicarage, net yearly value £100, with 88 acres of glebe
and residence, in the gift of Sir S. E. Scott bart. and
held since 1897 by the Rev. Richard Ussher, of ExeteT

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Stroud Arthur, insurance agent, Aylesbury road
Swannell & Sly, estate agents
Tapping Henry, farmer, Wendover Dean
Tarry James, White Swan P.H. High street
Tearle Major, butcher, Aylesbury road
Terry John & William, carting contractors, South street
Thompson William & Harry, bakers, High street
Thorne Fred, hair dresser & tobacconist, Aylesbury st
Turner Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Aylesbury road
Union of London & Smiths Bank Limited (branch) (open
tuesday & friday, 10.30 a.m. to*2 p.m.), High street;
draw on head office, 2 Princes street, London E C
Walker George, goat breeder & bee keeper, Honevmead,
South street
Walker M. A. (Mrs.), dress maker, Honeymead,South st
Wells Thomas, Black Horse P.H. Scrub wood
Wendover Brewery (J. S. Holland, proprietor), High st
West Kate Adelaide (Miss), liair dresser, Aylesbury rd
White Robert, cartage contractor & saddler, High street
Willoughby Alfred, shopkeeper, Aylesbury road
Wixon John Thomas, blacksmith, Wendover Dean
Wood Henry, plumber & glazier, High street
Woollerton & Onslow-Ford, physicians & surgeons
Woollerton Edwin Goodburn L.R.C.P. & L.R.C.S.Edin.
(firm, Woollerton & Onslow-Ford), surgeon, & public
vaccinator No. 7 district, Wycombe union, High street

College, Oxford. At the inclosure in 1 7 6 4 a piece of
pasture land, covered with bushes, containing 21a. ir.
3 7 P - was allotted to the poor ; i
t is now let at from £ 1 0
upwards yearly. Westbury Manor, rebuilt in 1903, and
the property of Sir Samuel Edward Scott bart. M.P.
lord of the manor and principal landowner, is a hand­
some mansion of stone, seated in a valley and surrounded
by pleasure grounds. The soil is mixed; subsoil,
various. The land is two-thirds arable, remainder pas­
ture. The area is 1 , 3 7 3 acres of land and 8 of water ;
rateable value, £1,824; the population in 1911 was 287
in the civil and 322 in the ecclesiastical parish.
By Local Government Board Order 15,987, dated
March 24, 1884, a detached part of Westbury was trans­
ferred to Biddlesden for civil purposes.
Parish Clerk, Edward Chapman.
Post, M. 0 ., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.—
John R. Cook, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive
through Brackley at 7.5 a.m. & 1 p.m. ; sundays, 7.20
a.m.; dispatched at 8.50 a.m. & 6.20 p.m.; Sun­
days, 8.30 a.m
Elementary School, erected in 1861, for 85 children;
Miss Ellen M. Hammond, mistress
Railway Station, Fulwell & Westbury, Frederick G. Kirk,
station master
Law William, shoe maker
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
COMMERCIAL.
Rogers Robert, carpenter
Scott Sir Samuel Edward bart. M.P. Chapman James, farmer
Tapper
Frederick, gardener to Sir
Westbury manor; & 78 Mount st Chapman James, jun. farmer
Samuel Edward Scott bart. M.P
W & Carlton & Marlborough clubs Chapman William, farmer
Working
Men’s Club (Jabez Robin­
SW & Turf club W, London
¡Cook John Reginald, shopkeeper,
son, sec)
Ussher Rev. Richard, Vicarage
Post office
Young
Frank,
blacksmith
'Jackson James J. Reindeer P.H
WESTCOTT, see Waddesdon.
W ESTON TTJRVILLE is a parish and village on portions of the earlier church and some sculptured
Icknield Way,
miles east of Stoke Mandeville and 2 fio-ures discovered during the restoration of i860: there
Rules north-by-west from Wendover, on the Aylesbury is a mural monument of marble on the south side, with
section of the Metropolitan and Great Central Joint fluted pilasters and a boldly-moulded pediment with
railways,^3J south-east from Aylesbury stations on the arms, to the Rev. John Tipping M.A. rector until 1722 :
Metropolitan, Great Western and London and North on the north side is a marble mural tablet, with effaced
Western railways, in the Mid division of the county, shield, to the Rev. John Taylor S.T.P. 27 years rector
undred, petty sessional division, union and county here, 1774, Mary his wife, 1779, and Danvers, their
•c°urt district of Aylesbury, rural deanery o f Wendover. eldest son, 1771: in one of the chancel windows on the
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. south side are the arms of John of Ghent, Duke of Lan­
be church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone, caster: the chancel generally is Decorated, and north of
S ns-ting of chancel, nave, vestry (serving also as organ the chancel arch, under a tall and narrow arch in the
•c amber), north and south porches, and an embattled eastern pier of the arcade, are the remains of the roodestern tower with hexagonal turret containing 5 bells: loft steps: the nave, also Decorated, is of five bays,
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e cbbncel is unusually lofty, having been raised in with clustered columns and moulded arches supporting
if.i^th century to receive a good open-timbered roof, a clerestory, lighted by four windows on either side ;
lch rests on a massive wall plate, carved with quatre- the roof is of timber and plaster, and dates from the
-1j.^closing shields; the ridge line of the older roof time of Henry VII. : the north aisle retains its original
istinctly marked on the western wall: the east roof and in one of the windows is a shield of arms,
head°W °* tkree ^?kts, with flowing tracery in the beneath a canopy, assigned to the family of Gernor or
Ch’l1.a ^as a small demi-figure of the Madonna and Horwood: the south aisle exhibits in its windows some
dnnHi" t-^e south side, projecting from the wall, is a elegant examples of Flamboyant tracery ; two of these
uinn'6 pi8(:ina of Early English date: within the com- are segmental headed and have interior hood mouldings,
TflDrtK°n ra,lls are i'wo carved chairs of Elizabethan or and the east window and two others retain some ancient
a hit6aiiv?ate’ 0n® which is unusually wide and has foliated glass in the heads ; one of the quarries in the
into f t
w.kic.h. being reflexed, converts the whole easternmost window of this aisle is inscribed “Altissmo:
a table: within recesses, in the south wall, are Gloriosissme: Optmo: Max“10: Laus & honos & prosBUCKS.
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