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the 13th century. Walter Giffard, Earl of Longueville i LONG CRENDON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL.
and Buckingham (ob. 1102), built a castle at Grendon, Meets at the Board Room of the Workhouse, Thame, on
of which he was lord. Courts leet and baron are held
Thursday after the last Board of Guardians’meeting in
annually on the Thursday in Whitsun week by the first each month, at 1,1.30a.m
three, each taking the third year alternately. Herbert j The parishes in the district are:— Brill, Chilton, Cren­
Dodwell esq. H. Reynolds esq. All Souls College, Oxford, I don (Long), Ddrton, Ickford, Oakley, Shabbington,
and Stone’s trustees are the chief landowners. The soil ! Towersey, Worminghall. The area is 21,262 acres;
is partly loam and clay; subsoil, clay and partly sand, rateable value, September, 1914, £26,816; the popu­
jhe chief crops are wheat, barley and beans ; clover is lation in 1911 was 4,235
largely grown; the land is about equally divided be­ Chairman, H. Dodwell
tween arable and pasture. The area is 3,341 acres of
Officials.
land and 7 of water; rateable value, £4,672; the popu­ CleTk, Charles Simmons, 2 High street, Thame
lation in 1911 was 1,082.
Treasurer, C. E. Wallis, London & County Bank, Thame
Sexton, George Mortemore.
Medical Officer of Health, Walter Biggar Bannerman
M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Oxford road, High
Post, M. 0 ., T. & Telephone Call Office.— Augustus
Shrimpton, sub-postmaster. Letters received through Wycombe
Highway
Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Arthur J.Webb
Thame are delivered at 6.30 a.m. & 12.20 p.m.; Sun­
days, ■7-35 a.m.; dispatched at 10.20 a.m. & 6.30
County Police, High street, Walter Mee, constable
p.m.; Sundays, 12.30 p.m
Schools.
Post Office, Easington Row.— Edward Blake, sub-post­
master. Letters received through Thame are de­ Elementary, erected with master’s house in 1877, at a
livered at 6.15 a.m. & 12.15 P-m - (to callers only); cost of about £2,500; it will hold 234 children;
Sundays, 9 a.m. (to callers only) & are dispatched at Matthew Maughan, master
10.15 a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; sundav, 12.20 p.m. LongInfants’ School, built in 1898, for 130 children; Miss
Crendop, 1 mile distant, is the nearest money order Sarah A. Janes, mistress
office & Chilton the nearest telegraph office
Carriers.
Wall Letter Boxes.— Commercial square, cleared 10.15 Thomas Hudson, jun. wed. & sat. to Oxford
a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; sundays, 12.30 p.m. ; Bottom of Herbert Leaver, to Oxford, wed. & sat
Carter’s lane, cleared 8.15 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; sundays, Harry Wright, to Thame, tues. & fri.; to Aylesbury,
wed. & sat. Carriers return the same day
12.30 p.m
Messer Stuart H. assessor & collector
P R IV A T E RE SID E N TS.
Conservative Club (M. Webb, sec)
of taxes for Long Crendon, Chilton
Buckman Sydney Savory F.G.S. Crook Cozens, farmer, Madge’s farm
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Nappin Edward William, coal dealer
Dodwell Henry William, grocer
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Dodwell Louis, farmer, College farm Pearce Frederick, baker
Dodwell John Shultz, Field farm
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Elwell Rev. Edward Simeon D.D.
Pearce Herbert, wheelwright
Elton George, butcher
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Woodcock BurtonEdwin.The White ho (letters received direct fromThame) Saw Mary (Mrs.) & Son, farmers
Shrimpton Albert Richard, musical
Hudson Thomas, beer retailer
instrument dealer
Hudson Thomas, jun. carrier
COMMERCIAL.
Humphreys Charles, farm bailiff to Shrimpton Thomas, shopkeeper
Anderson Harry, hair dresser
Shrimpton William, painter
Herbert Dodwell esq
Arnott Maria (Mrs.) & Sons, black­ James William, Crown inn
Simmonds George, beer retailer
smiths
Stone Charles, jobbing gardener
Kingswell Alfred, Eight Bells P.H
Betts John, grocer & bakerLawrence Alfred, chimney sweeper Timms Herbert, blacksmith
Bird Henry, Star inn
Leaver Herbert, carrier
Ward Charles, Churchill Arms P.H
Blane Albert, builder
Lecture Hall (Albert R. Shrimpton, Webb Arthur J. surveyor to the
Briscoe Gaius John, boot & shoe acting trustee)
Rural District Council
maker, Easington lane
Lovell Benj.Rising Sun P.H.Easingtn White Thomas, butcher
Brooks John, beer retailer
Messer Henry, cowkeeper
Williams Alice (Mrs.), dress maker
Brown James (exors. of), farmers,
Wilson William John, builder
Bigmarsh farm
Wright Harry, beer retailer & carrier
L O O S L E Y ROW, see Lacey Green.
LONGWICK, see Princes Risborcugh.
L O U D W A T E R is a village and ecclesiastical parish,
formed in 1866, and is on the road from London to
Oxford and on the river Wick, with a station on the
Wycombe and Maidenhead branch of the Great Western
railway, 26 miles from London,
miles south-east
from High Wycombe, 7 north from Maidenhead and
3 west from Beaconsfield, in the Southern division of
the county, hundred of Desborough, second division of
Desborough petty sessional division, union and county
court district of High Wycombe, archdeaconry of
Buckingham, rural deanery of Wycombe and diocese
of Oxford. The church of St. Peter is a structure of
brick, erected in 1788 and endowed with the sum of
£1.200 by William Davis esq. who left, at his death,
Oct..17th. 1818, the further sum of £400 towards the
endowment of the living: the church now consists of
nave, a chancel, added in 1903, and a small turret.
•mTmounted by a vane and containing one bell: the
entrance is at the west end : the font was presented by
R G. Hennell esq. in 1866: there are 400 sittings, 250
being free. The register dates from the year 1866.
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £248, with
residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1914
ny the Rev. William Henry Saulez M.A., B.D. of
Trinity College, Dublin. There is a Wesleyan chapel,
seating abont 300 and a Baptist chapel at Loudwater,
seating 150. From FLAOKWKLL HEATH, a portion of
^hich is in this parish, a beautiful view is obtained
of the river Thames ; here is a Church Mission room

to seat 150, and a Temperance hall, seating about 200.
TheEcclesiasticalCommissioners are lords of the manor,
and the Marquis of Lincolnshire K.G., P.O., G.C.M.G.
is the principal landowner. The soil is chalky; sub­
soil, chalk and flint. The chief crops are wheat, oats
and barley. The area is 704 acres; population in 19 1 1,
L5I3Parish Clerk, Walter Crocket.
Post, M. 0 .,T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.—
Miss Elizabeth Mary Milner, sub-postmistress. Let­
ters arrive from High Wycombe at 6.45 & n .45 am& 7.25 p.m. for callers only; dispatched at 10 a.m. &
5.55 & 8.5 p.m.; no Sunday delivery
Post Office, Flackwell Heath.— Leonard Smith, sub-post­
master. Letters arrive from High Wycombe, 7 a.m.
& 12 noon; dispatched 9.40 a.m. & 5.40 p.m. Loudwater, 1 mile distant, is the nearest money order &
telegraph office; no sunday delivery
Wall Letter Boxes.— Heath End, cleared at 9.35 a.m. &
5.35 p.m. ; Vicarage, cleared at 9.55 a.m. & 5.55 & 8
p.m
Schools.
Elementary, erected in 1874 with dwellings for the
master, for 435 children; Thomas Corke, master;
Mrs. Corke, mistress ; Miss Benskin, infants’mistress
Elementary School (infants’), Flackwell Heath, erected
in 1892, for 100 children ; Miss Mills, mistress
Railway Station, William Tayler Spooner, station master