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B U C K IN G H A M S H IR E .

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jqn was 193 in the civil and 191 in the ecclesiastical number of boys & girls & for apprenticing out to
parish.
; trades three boys— two natives of this parish & one
Sexton, Alfred Smith.
from the parish of Little Woolston; the income,
Post Office.— Mrs. Amelia E. McCullock, sub-postmis­ amounting to ¿150 yearly, is derived from invested
tress. Letters through Olney arrive at 7.45 a.in. & funds ; about ¿40 is paid yearly to the overseers in
4 p.m. Box cleared at 8.5 a.m. & 4.55 p.m. week relief of the rates of the parish, and the repair &
upkeep of the school is provided for by the trustees
days & 10.40 a.m. on Sundays. The nearest money
order office is at Stoke Goldington & telegraph office of the charity
at Olney, 3 miles distant
Elementary School (boys & girls) (endowed), founded
The Rev. Robert Chapman, a former vicar of this in 1787 & rebuilt in 1862, for 100 children; Mrs.
parish, left property for building & endowing a school P in c k a r d , mistress
with salary & house for the master, foT an unlimited Carrier to Northampton.— Frederick Green, wed. & sat
Vyvyan Rev. Richard Rawlinson M.A. Co-operative Society Limited
Mead John, farmer, North End farm
Eyles William Godfrey, farmer
(vicar), Vicarage
Mead John Thomas, farmer
Green Frederick, farmer & carrier, Nichols Rosina (Mrs.), farmer
COMMERCIAL.
Ravenstone mill
Watson Frank, Horseshoe P.H
Alcock Frederick, farmer, East farm Kightley Edwin, builder
Whitmee Geo. farmer, Parkfield farm
Bates William, Wheatsheaf P.H
Looms Arthur, blacksmith
RISBOROTTG-H, see Monks Risborough and Princes Risborough.
ST. L E O N A R D S is a small village and ancient Queen Anne’s reign, who died in 1712: new choir stalls
chapelry, and was formed into an ecclesiastical parish were erected in 1889: there are 130 sittings. The
August 28, i860, from part of the civil parish of Aston register dates from the year 1737. The living is a
Clinton; it is on the Herts border, 6 miles south-west titular vicarage, net yearly value ¿200, with residence
from Tring station on the main line of the London and and 8 acres of glebe, in the gift of trustees, and held
North Western railway, 3 miles west from Wendover since 1911 by the Rev. James Alfred Walker L.Th. of
station and 6 miles north-west from Chesham station, Hatfield Hall, Durham, who is also vicar of Cholesbury.
both on the Metropolitan and Great Central (joint) rail­ The principal landowners are Lord Rothschild, the Hon.
way, and 8 south-east from Aylesbury, in the Mid divi­ Lionel Walter Rothschild, and Alfred C. de Rothschild
sion of the county, hundred of Aylesbury, petty sessional esq. C.V.O. The soil is chalk and loam; subsoil,
division, union and county court district of Aylesbury, chalk and gravel. The area is 993 acres; the popula­
rural deanery of Wendover, archdeaconry of Bucking­ tion in 1911 was 130.
ham and diocese of Oxford. The village is supplied Parish Clerk. Joseph Gilbert.
with water from the Chiltern Hills by the company Letters through Tring arrive at 8.30 a.m. & 4.30 p.m.
which supplies Aylesbury. The church, formerly a Wall Letter Box at the school cleared at 6 p.m. week
chantry chapal to the Abbey ofMissenden, isan edifice of days only. The Lee, about
miles distant, is the
rubble stone, consisting of chancel and nave under one nearest money order office & Cholesbury, 1^ miles
roof, south porch and a western belfry containing one distant, the nearest telegraph office
bell: there are two handsome tablets to the Wood Elementary School, built in 1862 & since enlarged at
family, one of which, with a marble bust, commemorates
various times, will now hold 175 children; Charles
General Cornelius Wood, a distinguished officer of Wescombe. master ; Mrs. E. Wescombe, mistress
Fletcher Herbt. Morley M.D.Hengrove farm (postal address, Charbridge, Dunton Maria (Miss) & Ernest, far­
Walker Rev. James Alfred L.Th. Chesham)
mers. Chapel farm
(vicar), Vicarage
Bishop George Henry,White Lion P.H Morris William, cottage farmer
West Samuel M.A., M.D. Frankland Bonham James, farmer, Chivery frm Rodwell Richard, farmer & pheasant
Brackley Geo. builder i& carpenter
breeder, Dundridge farm
COMMERCIAL.
Brown George, jun. farmer, Old Saunders Wm. frmr. Old Brun’s frm
Baldwin Edward, farmer, Brown's Chivery farm
SATJNDERTON is a parish and small village, with Leonard Frederick Packer M.A. of Magdalen College,
a station 3J miles distant on the joint line of the Oxford. The rectory house is distant 1 mile from the
Great Western and Great Central railways, and 1 mile church, and is situated between the up and down lines
south-west from Princes Risborough station on the of the new railway. The soil is light and shallow;
Wycombe, Thame, Oxford and Aylesbury branch of subsoil, Tubble and chalk. The chief crops are wheat,
the Great Western railway and Great Western and barley, peas, beans a,
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Area is 1,725 acres;
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Great Central joint linethrough Wycombe to Ayles- rateable value, ¿2,746; the population in 1911 was 4 4 3
bury and the North, in the Mid division ofthe county, i„ the civil and 456 in the ecclesiastical parish, includDesborough, petty sessional^division^ of ing 14 officers and 234 inmates in Wycombe Poor Law
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trict of High Wycombe, rural deanery of Aylesbury,
Sexton, Richard Hutchinson.
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. Letters through Tring, via Princes Risborough arrive at
The church of SS. Mary and Nicholas is an edifice of about 8 a.m. & 5 p.m. The nearest money order &
flint and stone, chiefly in the Decorated style and con­ telegraph office is at Princes Risborbugh, about
sisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a low wooden
miles distant
turret at the west end containing 3 bells: two door­ Princes Risborough is the nearest post office for
ways of the Early English period are now blocked: the
Saunderton; Loosley Row is the nearest post & money
chancel has a piscina and a stained east window erected
order office for Saunderton Lee, about 1 mile dis­
in 1888: the font, the basin of which is adorned with
ant ; letters are delivered here at 8.45 a.m. Wall
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Alder, architect, and affords 75 sittings. The register
dates from the year 1636. The living is a rectory, net Wycombe Poor Law Institution, 3 miles south-east, is a
structure of brick, flint and slate, erected in 1843, for
yearly value ¿324, less a pension of ¿70 payable to the
Iasi incumbent, with 400 acres of glebe, 50 of which 4^0 inmates; letters for the Institution through
"ere recently sold to Royal Victoria Hospital for Con­ Wycombe ; Charles Dixon Preston, master ;Mrs. Alice
sumption, who are building on the site, and residence, E. Preston, matron; Rev. Benjamin John Corder
B A. chaplain; John T. Bell M.D. medical officer
■n the gift of the President and Fellows of Magdalen
liege, Oxford, and held since 1905 by the Rev. Railway Station, William Kitson, station master
Packer Rev. Léonard Frederick M.A. Dell James, Rose & Crown P.H
Oxlade Geo. The Golden Cross P.H.
(rector), Rectory
Hitchcock Thomas, farmer, Frogmoor: Slough (postal address, High Wv.
COMMERCIAL,
Hoare Ann (Mrs.), cowkeeper, Slough combe')
nderson Arthur William, farmer, (postal address, High Wycombe)
Read Stratfold J.P. frmr. Church frm
larsonage farm
Joyes Frank, Carpenters' Arms P.H ,Saunders Harry, farmer, Pound farm
-ustm Herbert Jas. & Joseph, paper Morris Walter, farmer, Manor farm Silvey Samuel (Mrs.), farmer
takers, Bledlow mill ( 4 0 9 ) (re­
Warren Wm. Three Horseshoes P.H
ceive letters through Bledlow)