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NEWPORT TAGNELL.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

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White Digby Cooke B.A., B.Ch., M.D.Dub. medical
& public vaccinator No. 1 0 district, Newport Pagnell
officer of health to the Newport Pagnell Urban &
union, The Close
Rural District Councils, Cedar lodge, Union .street
Wigley George & Sons, auctioneers, valuers & land &
White John, postmaster & stamp distributor, Post office. estate agents. High street
High street
Wilford Brothers, builders, 7 4 High street
Whiteman William Charles, coal dealer, Wolverton road Wilkins & Co. outfitters, 5 1 High street
Wood Ernest Edward, shopkeeper, 2 7 Priory street
Whiting Henry William, farmer, Caldecote
Working Men’s Social Club (Jn. Roberts, sec.), Silver st
Whitmee Edward Perring, brazier, 14 Silver street
Wickham & Bailey, physicians & surgeons
Wright Elizabeth (Mrs.), plumber & painter, 9 High st
Wickham Harry Townshend M.D.. C.M. physician & York Walter, baker, 1 0 Caldecote street
surgeon (firm, Wickham & Bailey), & medical officer
N E W T O N B L O S S O M V I L L E is a parish and small affords 2 0 0 sittings. The register dates from the year
village in a fertile valley on the borders of Bedford­ 1 7 3 0 . The living is a rectory, net yearly value £ 1 8 0 ,
shire, separated from Coid Bradfield by the Ouse, and including 1 4 5 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift
is 3 miles west from Turvey (Beds) station and 5^ east of Denis H. Farrer esq. and held since 1 9 0 6 by the
by road from Olney station, both on the Bedford and Rev. William Henry Davis L.Th. of Durham University.
Northampton branch of the Midland railway, 6^ north­ There are charities of £g yearly for church purposes, of
east from Newport Pagnell, 9 west from Bedford and which ^5 is due to the parish clerk. Denis H. Farrer
17 from Northampton, in the Northern division of the esq is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The
county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and soil is mixed; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief
county court district of Newport Pagnell. rural deanery crops are wheat, beans, oats and roots. The area is
of Newport Pagnell, archdeaconry of Buckingham and 9 9 7 acres of land and 1 7 of water; assessable value,
diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas is an £ 8 4 0 ; the population in 1 9 1 1 was 1 5 3 .
ancient edifice of stone in the Decorated and Perpen­ Post Office.— Mrs. Clara Johnson, sub-postmistress.
dicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of two hays, Letters through Newport Pagnell arrive at 7 . 5 0 a.m.
north aisle, south porch, and an embattled western & 1 2 . 5 0 p.m. Letter Box cleared at 8 .4 0 a.m. & 6 .5
tcwer of Perpendicular date, containing 3 bells: the p.m. on week days & 9 . 3 0 a.m. on Sundays. Turvey,
aisle extends to the whole length of the church: the about 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order &
chancel retains a piscina, and there is a brass to Jane, telegraph office
eldest daughter of John Bodington Clerke, and Bridget, Elementary School, built originally for a Sunday school
his wife. 1 6 6 3 ; and one other to Bridget, wife of John by the Rev. Joseph Gould M.A. curate of this parish,
Bodington, 1 6 7 3 : the church was restored in 1862, and in 1 8 2 2 , for 5 0 children ; Miss E. E. Hammond, mist
Davis Rev. William Henry L.Th.
Johnson Harry, Old Mill P.H
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Rectory
Finch Albert (Mrs.), f armeT
Johnson John, hoot maker
Quenby Richard, farmer
Hariland Arthur de Percy
Finch Harriet (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Middleton John, The Poplars
Hudson Harry, gamekeeper to Denis Taylor Henry, farmer
Talbot Miss
Toovey William, farmer
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Farrer esq
Johnson H. & J . builders
N E W T O N
L O N G V IL L E
(or Newnton Longue- of New College, Oxford, and held since 1908 by the
ville) is a parish and village 2J miles south-west from Rev. Alan Matheson M.A. of New College, Oxford, and
Bletchley Junction station on the main line of the Lon­ M.B., C.M.Edin. and Tural dean of Bletchley. The
don and North Western Tailway and 10 east from Buck­ Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1864, will seat
ingham, in the Northern division of the county, hun­ 200 persons, and there is a Baptist chapel with sittings
dred. petty sessional division, union and county court for 160 persons. Alden’s charity amounts to one
district of Newport Pagnell, Tural deanery of Bletchley, guinea yearly. Here was anciently a priory of the
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. Cluniac order, founded in the reign of Henry I. by
The church of St. Faith is an ancient edifice of stone, Walter (GifTard), Earl of Longueville and Bucking­
consisting of chancel, with aisle or chapel on the north, ham, as a cell to the monastery of St. Faith at Longue­
olerestoried nave, aisles, north and south porches, and ville, in Normandv; it was suppressed in 1415, and
an embattled western tower containing a clock and 8 in T 4 4 2 Henry VI. gave the priory and most of its
bells: the pieTS and arches of the nave are Norman lands to the wardens and scholars of New College,
and the fine tower arch Early English: the chancel, Oxford. The manor now belongs to N p w College, Ox­
clerestory and aisles are Perpendicular, and on the ford, and in the ante-chapel of that college is a brass,
exterior east wall of the chancel is a figure of St. Faith : erected in 1879, bv the Rev. H. C. Blagden M . A . rector
there are piscinm and credence shelves in the aisles as 1875-1904, to William Grocvn B.D. rector here 147Q to
well as in the chancel, and one of those in the chancel 1504. fellow of New College 1465, and first public
bears the arms of William of Wykeham. bishop of teacher of Greek at Oxford, d. 1510- The land is
Winchester (1367-1405) and founder of New College. owned by several freeholders. The soil is light clay:
Oxford : the south aisle retains a niche: the font, also subsoil, clay. The area is 1,73 5 acres; assessable value,
Norman and restored in i860, stands on eight shafts and 7(2,172: the population in 1911 was 435.
has a fine old carved oak cover: in the south aisle is Post, M . 0 . & T. Office.— Mrs. Louisa Dickens, sub­
an arched recess, containing the head of a knight in postmistress. Letters through Bletchley arrive at 6.5°
& 10.20 a.m. ; sundav, 7 a.m. Box cleared at 11.15
mail armour; there is a tablet bearing a list of the
a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; sundav at 10 a.m
rectors from 1236-1903: in the chancel is a modern
mural brass to William Grocyn B.D. mentioned below: Wall Letter Box, Brickworks, cleared 11.20 a.m. & 6.25
the church was thoroughly restored during
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1881-91, at a cost of upwards of £1,951: there areElementarv School, built in 1838, rebuilt in 1902, ot
250 sittings. The register dates from theyear 1560. | too children; A. C.Marshall, master
The living is a rectory, net yearlv value £2^0, in-' Carrier to Leighton Bnzzard.— Amos Dickens,every
eluding 15 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift' tues. & fri. & Fenny Stratford, wed. & sat
Ramsbotbam & Co. nurserymen 1
Ramshotham
Matheson Rev. Alan M.A., M.B., Green Edmund, blacksmith
seedsmen
C . M . (rector & rural dean), The Hawley George (Mrs.), farmer
Read & Andrews, manufacturers of
Haynes William, baker
Rectory
all kinds of wire cut bricks & other
Henley Thomas, farmer
Powell Thomas
builders’ requisites; noted for the
Read Thomas George, Runley house Hoad William, Crooked Billet P H
celebrated red wire cut b r i c k s , The
Horne Joseph, farmer
Waller Mrs
Bletcblev steam brick works. TA
Irons Fred, baker
Young David, Hope cottage
“Read & Andrews, Newton LongJames Albert, boot maker
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Andrews Richard, brick maker, see Jordan Thomas, farmer
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Vines William, farmer
Missenden Rupert, farmer
Arnold Hattill, fa r m e T
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North & Son, farmers
Carter William, farmer
Willison Albert, farmer
Clark David M. farmer, Railway Oakman Alfred W. Red Lion P.H
Young
Joseph, farmer, assistant over­
Powell Thomas M.R.C.V.S. veterinary
farm, Wbaddon road
surgeon, & veterinary inspector seer & clerk to Parish Council
Dickens Amos, carrier
Dickens Louisa('Mrs.),grocr.Post office under the “Diseases of Animal
Acts ”
Geary Joseph B. beer retailer
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see Edlesborougb.