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LEE.

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Pliipps M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford, lion, canon of of the parish of Great Missenden, comprising LEE
Christ Church, Oxford, and chaplain of Aylesbury COMMON and HUNTS GREEN, containing about 500
union. The old church, a small building of hard acres, and that part of the parish of Wendover, com­
chalk, of Early English date, stands in its disused prising KING’S ASH, KINGSWOOD and SWAN
graveyard a little west of the present church, on the BOTTOM, containing 1,172 acres, was added to this
erection of which it ceased to be used: it has now parish.
no architectural features except a three-light east LEE COMMON is a hamlet 1 mile south-east, la
window, which has been filled with stained glass by 1914 by an Order in Council this hamlet was trans­
Sir A. L. Liberty as a memorial to John Hampden, ferred from the ecclesiastical parish of Great Missen­
and some 14th century glass has been preserved: it den to the ecclesiastical parish of Lee. Here is a
is now used as a Sunday school. Here is a
Baptist chapel, with 150 sittings, and a village club Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1839.
SWAN BOTTOM is a hamlet about x mile distant,
house, used for entertainments and the meetings
of the Parish Council. Day’s charity, “for the benefit and is now in the civil and ecclesiastical parish of Lee.
of five poor and impotent single women and widows, Here is a mission room called Emanuel Hall, with 80
not under 60 years of age, resident for 10 years within sittings.
a radius of 2 miles from the Parish church, who are Parish Clerk, George Stone.
communicants,” produces £ 1 2 1 7s. yearly; Watson’s Post, M. 0 . & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office,
charity, providing for gifts of food and coals to the The Lee.— Miss Charlotte Stone, sub-postmistress.
poor at Christmas, produces £5 yearly; Almond’s Letters through Great Missenden, Bucks, arrive at
a.m. & 1 & 7 p.m.; dispatched at 7.40 a.m. &
charity, for the poor of the parish, produces 10s. 7.45
1 & 5.15 p.m.; sunday, no mail or dispatch; tele­
yearly. In Bray’s Wood, one mile east, are the remains
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of a British or Roman camp ; of Grim’s Dyke, which
originally formed the boundary of the parish on the Post Office, Lee Common.— George Lewington, sub­
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west, about 2 0 0 yards still remain; in a wood, called
Missenden, Bucks, & are delivered at 8.10 a.m. &
Cindery Bottom, a mile and a half north-east, are
12.15 P-m - & are dispatched at 8.5 a.m. & 12.10 &
mounds formed of the refuse of an ancient foundry.
5.15 p.m. week days only. Lee, 1 mile distant, is
The soil is loamy; subsoil, brick earth and chalk.
the nearest telegraph & money order office
The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area
is 2,201 acres; rateable value, , £ 3 , 0 0 9 ; the population Wall Letter Box, Swan Bottom, cleared at 4.45 p.m. week
in 1911 was 775 in the civil and 431 in the ecclesiastical days only
Public Elementary School (mixed & infants’), Lee
parish.
Common, erected about 1850, for 250 children;
By a Local Government Board Order dated 14th
Ernest John Cosier Young, master
March, 1911, and cited as the County of Buckingham
(Lee Extension) Confirmation Order, 1 9 1 1 , that part Police Constable, Frederick Wicks, Lee Common
Gray James, head gamekeeper tolWixon John Thomas, blacksmith,
LEE.
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J.P. Concord farm, King’s Ash
LEE COMMON.
St. Leonards, Tring.)
Hedges Frederick, The Gate P.H
P R IV A T E RESIDENTSHigginbotham Percy, Cock & Rabbit (Postal address, Great Missenden.)
Ballard Mrs. Prestwick
P R IV A T E R ESID EN TS.
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Halse Alfred E. Rushmere
Holland William, farm bailiff to Sir Batchelor Ernest Thom, Laburnums
Harris Jas. Gibson, The Old vicarage Arthur Lasenby Liberty D.L., J.P Copland Harry, Rosmead
Jacobs Henry, The Old cottage
Holland William, jun. head gardener!Larner Miss, Berrymead
Liberty Sir Arthur Lasenby D.L
to Sir Arthur Lasenby LibertyILloyd Mrs. The Larches
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J.P. The Manor house; & Devon­ D.L., J.P
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shire club, London S W
Jacobs’ Harry, estate agent to Sir,Phillips Stanley, Oaklands
Phipps Rev. Canon Constantine Os­ Arthur Lasenby Liberty D.L., J.P
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borne M.A. (vicar), The Vicarage Piddington Wm.’frmr. Strawberry hi Brown Harry, builder
Smith Chas.Hodgkinson.Kingswood ho Price Albert George, Old Swan P.H. Collins John & Sons,frmrs & jobmstrs
Stewart-Liberty Ivor, Pipers croft
Cook John Liberty, frmr. Clump fann
Kingswood
Wood James, Zion cottage
Puddephatt George Alfred, farmer Hance Walter, cowkeeper
Holloway Frank, baker & beer retailer
Bruns grange
COMM ERCIAL.
Rose William & Son, farmers, Great;Humphreys Joseph, boot maker
iJudge Wm. farmer, Bassibones farm
Austin Ezra, blacksmith,Swan Bottom King’s Ash farm
Brown William, farmer, Hunt’s Green Snurdîrs Alfred James, Bed Lion.Lewington George, grocer, Post office
¡Pearce James, baker
Chapman & Harris, farmers. Haw­ P H. Swan Bottom
Tomlin Joseph,farmer, King’s Ash IPearce Jas. market gardnr. Laurel nl
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Gomm William, shopkeeper
L IL L IN G S T O N E D A Y E E L L i
s a parish. qi miles Cambridge. The rectory is an ancient mansion of
north from Buckingham station on the Oxford and stone covered with ivy and surrounded by a pleasant
Bletchley branch of the London and North Western rail­ lawn. The Rev. John Langham Dayrell’s charity, the
way, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, interest of £300 in Consols, is for clothing ; there is
petty sessional division, union and county court district of also another charity, the interest of £63 Consols, for
Buckingham, rural deanery of Buckingham, Buckingham coal. Lillingstone House, the property of A. J. Robarts
portion, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of esq. and now the residence of the Hon. Mrs. Archibald
Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas is an ancient Douglas-Pennant, is a quadrangular mansion with a
•edifice of stone, chiefly in the Early English style, portico of four pillars; it is pleasantly situated and
•consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south surrounded by a park of about 20 acres, a feeder of the
porch and a plain western tower containing 3 bells, river Ouse forming a part of its boundary. Tile House,
repaired in 1893 at a cost of £42: in 1868 it was the seat of Abraham John Robarts esq. D.L., J.P- the
thoroughly restored and a north aisle, organ chamber lord of the manor and sole landowner, is a building
and vestry added, mder the superintendence of the in the Late Tudor style, situated on an eminence,
late G. E. Street Sfeq. R.A. at the sole expense of and surrounded by well-wooded grounds. The soil is
A. J. Robarts esq.: in the centre of the chancel is clay ; about two-thirds of the land is pasture and onean altar tomb, with life-size effigies to Paul Dayrell third arable. The area is 1,869 acres of land and 4 of
and Dorothy, his wife, 1571, and on the south water; rateable value, £2,135; population in 19x1, 24°’
side of the tomb effigies of thirteen children, with a Parish Clerk, Frank Bennett.
Latin inscription, in good preservation ; there is also a Post & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery O f f i c e . — -Mrs.
brass to Paul Darrell, ob. May 29th, 1491, and to J. Smith, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive through
Margaret, his wife, and one to an ecclesiastic, with a Buckingham at 7.15 a.m. & 1.55 p.m. week days «
mutilated effigy and the date, April 6th, 1491, and a 8.20
a.m. sundays j dispatched at 12.30 & 5-35 P-111'
tomb with a black marble top to Mrs. Frances Wilkes : Sundays, 10.35 a.m. Buckingham is the nearest
a stained east window was erected in 1894 at a cost of .money order office
£100, and in 1896 a new choir vestry was.built at a j nQw
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Qf sfc(me & red bricki with master’s
cost of £135= .the church affords xao sittings. The ! regid£nce attached, was erected in 1889 by A. I
register dates from the year 1584. The living is a Robarts esq. for 80 children ; Tom Reynolds, masfceT
rectory, net yearly value £180, with residence, in the
gift of A. J. Robarts esq. and held since 1912 by the Carrier to Buckingham.— Henry Hurst, L illin g s t o n e
Rev. Arthur Outran! M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Lovell, daily