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G RE A T MISSENDEN.

B UCK IN G H A M SH IR E .

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Tombling Naomi (Mrs.), shopkeeper. Union of London & Smiths Bank Ltd White Geo. estate agent
Church street
(sub-branch), High street; draw on Wild John, Lamb P.H. Potter row
Tompkins Thos. farmer. Potter row
head office, 2 Princes st.London E C Winkworth Frederick George, fanner
Townsend DavidWatts,draper,High st Walker Thomas, wheelwright
South heath
Turner Edgar Olive M.B.Lond., Ward Alfred, carpenter, Church st Wood Miss, dist. nurse, Mobwell t.er
M R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. sur­ Webb Alfred, boot maker, Back lane Woolford Gilbert Ernest, greengrocer
geon, & medical officer & public Welch Frederick & Son, butchers
High street
vaccinator Missenden district, West Mary Jane(Mrs.),Royal Oak P.H Wright Henry James & Arthur
Amersham union A 6 district, Wheeler Arthur, boot dealr. High st builders. High street. T N 7
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Wycombe union. T N 23 Great
Missenden
LITTLE M I S S E N D E N is a village and parish near of the oldest inhabitants attending Divine serviceon Sun­
the Misbourne stream, 5 miles north-east from Wy­ days, also a 2d. loaf to the clerk for delivering the same
combe station, on the Wycombe, Thame and Oxford Mrs. Sarah Bates, in 1787, left £100 3 per Cent. Con­
branch of the Great Western and Great Central Joint solidated Bank Annuities to the poor. The majority of
railway, 3 south-west from Chesham, 2^ south-east the above charities are now merged by the Charity
from Great Missenden station and 3^ west from Commissioners under a new scheme and produce nearly
Amersham station, both on the Metropolitan and £500 yearly. Little Missenden Abbey is the residence
Great Central Joint Tailway, in the Mid division of the of Mrs. Priestley. Missenden House, the residence of
county, hundred and petty sessional division of Ayles­ Mrs. Pembroke Stephens, is a very picturesque building
bury, Amersham union, Chesham county court district, of red brick, standing in its own grounds. The prin­
rural deanery of Amersham, archdeaconry of Bucking­ cipal landowners are Earl Howe G.C.V.O. who is lord of
ham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. John the the manor, William Wvkeham Tyrwhitt-Drake esq. of
Baptist is a small and plain building of stone in the Shardeloes, Amersham, and Major C. W. DarbyNorman and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, Griffith, of Padworth House, Reading. The soil is clay
aisles, transept and a lofty western tower containing 5 and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley;
bells: the firstbell was hung in J350 and is inscribed:— there is some woodland. The area is 3,210 acres of
“ 4-Ave Maria + ;” the second in 1450 inscribed:— land and 4 of water ; rateable value, £7,435 ; the popu­
'*Sancta Margarets, Ora Pro Nobis;’’ the others were lation in 1911 was 1,293 in the civil and 720 in the
hung in 1660, 1663 and 1881 respectively. In 1914 the ecclesiastical parish.
plaster was removed from the roof, exposing the ancient
timbers : the east window is Early English : there is a BRAY’S GREEN, x mile east; HOLMER GREEN,
south-west; BEAMOND END, 1 mile south; and
fine Norman font and a brass inscription to John Style,
of Holmer, 16x3: the church was repaired in 1853 and part of Little Kingshill, 2 miles west, are in this
reseated in 1881 at a cost of £372, of which £200 was parish; the remainder of Little Kingshill is in Great
subscribed by the late James Henry Bird esq. who also Missenden.
gave the stained east window as a memorial to his Parish Clerk, Mrs. Sarah Olliff.
wife, besides two others in the transept: in the church Post & Telegraph Office.— James Garraway, sub-post­
master. Letters arrive from Amersham at 7 & 11.30
is an inscribed tablet to Mr. Bird and his wife: a new
organ was provided in 1910 at a cost of about £260: the a.m.; dispatched at 8.30 a.m. & 3.15 & 6.50 p.m.;
ancient key of the church is preserved in the vestry: Sundays, delivery 8.20 a.m. ; dispatch 9 a.m. Great
Missenden, 2J miles distant, is the nearest money
there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the
year 1550 The living is a vicarage, net yearly value order office
£145, with 10 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift Post Office, Holmer Green.— Frederick Tucker, sub-post­
master. Letters through Amersham arrive at 8.15
of Earl Howe, and held since xqo2 by the Rev. Charles
a.m. & 4 p.m. ; dispatched at -10.25 a.m. & 5.45
Louis Manaton Fenn B.A. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge,
p.m.
; no delivery on Sundays. The nearest money
who resides at Little Kingshill. Christ Church, Holmer
order office is at Penn & telegraph office at Little
Green, was erected in 1894, and is served from Holy
Trinity, Penn Street. There is a Baptist chapel at Missenden, 2 miles distant
Holmer Green, erected in 1877, another at Little Kings- Post Office, Hyde Heath.— George Murrell, sub-post­
hill, erected in 1814, and a Wesleyan chapel. In 1867 master. Letters arrive from Amersham at 7.30 a.m.
Miss Charlotte Raine left the interest of £2,000 in & 12.10 p.m. ; dispatched at 7.25 a.m. & 12.5 & 5.20
the Lambeth Waterworks to be distributed half vearly p.m. ; no delivery on Sundays. Amersham is the
nearest money order office, 3 miles distant & Little
among 10 poor people, but since that date a further
Missenden,
miles distant, is the nearest telegraph
bequest of the interest of £2,000 has been made, and
the number of recipients is now 42. The late James
office
Henry Bird esq. who died 31st August. 1884, in the Post. Telegraph & Telephonic Express Delivery Office,
70th year of his age, left property in the hands of the Little Kingshill.— Frederick Spicer, sub-postmaster.
vicar and churchwardens of the parish, the rents of Letters through Great Missenden, Bucks, arrive at
which (provided that the tablet erected in the church
8.35 a.m. & 12.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 8.35 a.m. &
is kept fixed and in good order) he directed should be
12.25
& 5.30 p.m.; delivery on sundavs at 8.35 a.m.;
applied as follows: 15s. yearly to 16 poor deserving dispatch 5.5 p.m. Great Missenden, 2 miles distant,
families for coals; 50 quartern loaves of bread, on or is the nearest money order office
near the 8th of January, and 50 more on or near the Wall Letter Boxes.— Little Kingshill, cleared at^ 8.5
3rd of March in each year, to the poor of this parish; a.m. & 12.45 & 5.40 p.m.; Sundays, 5.10 p.m.; Nag’s
he also left various sums for the preaching of two
Head, 9.25 & 11.20 a.m. & 1.25 & 5.55 & 7 p.m.:
commemorative sermons in this church every year by
Sundays, 5.25 p.m. ; & Beamond End, 9.35 a.m. &
the vicar, on the Sunday next the 31st August and
5.55 p.m. week days only
on the Sunday following 7th December, and for re­
Elementary Schools.
muneration to the clerk, organist, choir and bellringers : at the close of 1921 the property left will yield Little Kingshill (mixed), erected in 1887, for 87 chil­
more than double its original value, and the testator dren ; David Parry' Richards, master
directs that then, after the payment of the specified Holmer Green (mixed), built in 1845, for 80 children &
bequests, the trustees shall distribute the surplus ac­ enlarged in 1908, for 138; Henry' 1.Wood, master
cording to their good judgment to the most deserving Little Missenden (mixed), entirely rebuilt in 1898,^at a
poor of the parish. Mr. William Line, in 1775, left two
cost of £1,000, for 130 children; Miss V. B.
meadows and an orchard to provide one 3d. loaf to six
Carnxthers, mistress
fPriestley Mrs. Little M issen d en
LITTLE MISSENDEN.
tChappell Mrs. The Dene
(Marked thus + receive their letters fCook Joseph Belcher L.R.C’.P.Edin. abbey
through Great Missenden. Bucks.)
Ryman John. Park view
Parkdene. London road
tScott-Hall Robt. Misbourne lodge
P R IV A T E R E SID E N TS.
fDouglas William, Sarum
tSmith Mrs. Cecil house, London rd
tAllender Ethelbert Edward, Cintra French W. Kvrle P. Manor house
Avis Thomas. The Flags
Grimes Walter, Fincher’s house, tSpencer Mfs. Homeleigh, London rd
tSprake Herbert A. Deerhaddnn
Barrington George H. Hillside
Beamond End
Stephens Mrs. Pembroke, Missenden
tBeauchamp Commander W. G., tHewitt Harry, Audley
R.N. Clive, London road
fLanghlin Major R.M.C. Whitefield house
,
fBeck Septimus F. The Mount, Lon­ Leake Richard Atterton, White house +White George, Fareham, London ra
don road
fWhite Miss, Ducie lodge
Le Jeune Miss, Redgewell
tBurlev John James. Frenchwood
Pell Miss, Ickenham house
COMM ERCIAL.
tBunaaby Mrs. Longfield
Pilley Mrs. Sonamarg
Archer Charles, farmer
Burroughs Mrs. Penwood cottage. fPowell Miss, Little Kingshill
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Priest Mrs. Beamond End
Beamond End