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Blowfield Stephen, farmer
Heath Arthur H. The Grange
Bond Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, surgeon, & medical officer & public
Heath Miss, The Grange
vaccinator 4th district, Aylesbury
Manor farm
Impey John, The Laurels
Bowerman Robert T.White Horse P.H union. The Lawn
McFarland Andrew, The Lawn
Noble Charles, grocer
Murray William, The Firs; & 105 Buckingham Amos, shopkeeper
Cannon Thomas John Nash, builder Parrott Frank E. cattle dealer
Mount street, London W
Parrott John, butcher
Clarke Edward, market gardener
Nelis Mrs. The Priory
Compton Fdlc. Crown & Thistle P.H Porter John, boot repairer
Bew John, Whitchurch house
Price David, grocer
Cook Ernest Charles, Swan P.H
Rickard Joseph
Rickard Ernest, jobmaster
Wall Reginald Bligh, The Old Rectory Dickens Henry, farmer
Rickard Frederick, bricklayer
Durley Elizabeth (Miss), grocer
Wilson Misses, St. Osyth
Rickard James, carrier
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Rev. Hugh M.A. (vicar),
Evans Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Rickard Robert, carpenter, assistant
Vicarage
overseer & clerk to the Parish
Evans Reginald, cycle repairer
C O M M E R C IA L .
Council
Foster Charles, baker
Alderman William, threshing machine Gaylor George, stud groom to Wm. Rose Lucy Ann (Mrs.), Cock inn
Tapping Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Murray esq
proprietor
Todd James, farmer, The Leys
Giddings Walter, saddler
Atkins Ralph, coal merchant
Tomlin Herbert, general dealer
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White Lewis John, blacksmith
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Thomas Edward, farmer, |Hill George, shopkeeper
Wood Robert May, beer retailer
Holt
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farmer
Holborn Hill farm
Wood Walter, farmer, Beech Moor
Blowfield Elizabeth (Mrs.), butcher Loader Thomas, corn dealer
WILLEN is a parish and village, 2 miles south from 1 9 1 4 by the Rev. William Chaffer M.A. of Oxford
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Newport Pagnell station on the Wolvert.on and Newport
Pagnell branch of the London and North Western rail­ Busby, is given in books, and his trustees also giveway, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, £ 1 4 a year to the poor. The trustees of Dr. Busby are
petty sessional division, union and county court district lords of the manor and sole landowners. The soil isof Newport Pagnell, rural deanery of Bletchley, arch­ mixed; subsoil, gravel and stone. The chief crops are
deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The wheat, barley, oats and T o o t s . The area is 6 6 9 acres of
Grand Junction canal passes on the west and the river land and 9 of water ; assessable value, £ 5 1 8 ; the popu­
Ouse forms its boundary on the east. The church of St. lation in 1 9 1 1 was 8 1.
Mary Magdalen, built in 1680, from designs, it is said, Parish Clerk, Leonard Stonton.
by Sir Christopher Wren, and restored in 1862, is a
Letter Box cleared at 8 .4 5 a.m. & 6 .2 5 p.m. ;
substantial edifice of brick, in the Italian style, con­ Wall
8 .4 5 a.m. Letters from Newport Pagnell
sisting of nave with eastern apse, and a tower contain­ Sundays,
airive’at 7 a.m. ; Sundays, 9 .1 5 a.m. Newport Pagnell,
ing 3 bells; the apse was added in 1862; all thewindows
about
2 miles distant, i
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are stained, and there are 80 sittings. The register
telegraph office
dates from the year 1665.The living isa vicarage,
net income £140, with residence and 20 acres of glebe, Elementary School, built in 1 8 4 7 , for 24 children ; Miss
in the gift of the trustees of Dr. Busby, and held since E. E. Bavlev, mistress
Chaffer Rev. William M.A. (vicar),IPayne John Nelson,farmer, Brook fm |Whiting ^Joseph Bennett, farmer,
Manor farm
The Vicarage
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W I N C H E N D O N L O W E R (or Nether) is a parish over the old doorway; subsequently the place became
and village, partly on the acclivity of a steep hill on the part of the property of the Goodwyns, and an aunt of
river Thame, about 6 miles north-east from Thame sta­ Sir Francis Goodwyn kt. M!P. for Bucks, married
tion on the Maidenhead and Oxford line of the Great Thomas Tyringham,' whose descendants continued to
Western railway, 4 south from Waddesdon Manor station reside here till 1771, when the heiress of this branch
on the Metropolitan and Great Central Joint railway, of the Tyringham family was succeeded by her cousin,
and 7 west from Aylesbury, in the Mid division of the Sir Francis Bernard, 1st bart. Governor 1758-60 of New
county, hundred of Ashendon petty sessional division, Jersey, and of Massachusetts 1670-70. On the death of
union and county court district of Aylesbury, rural his grandson, Sir Thomas Tyringbam Bernard, 6th and'
deanery of Waddesdon, archdeaconry of Buckingham last bart. in 1883, the property dev61ved upon his sur­
and diocese of Oxford. The village is plentifully sup­ viving daughter, Sophia Elizabeth, who married Joseph
plied with water from the many springs arising on the Napier Higgins esq. Q.C., J.P. There are several of
Manor Farm. The church of St,. Nicholas is a small the old Tyringham pictures in the house and some ofwvn family, including one of Sir Arthur
but ancient building of stone of the 14th or 15th the Good’
century, consisting of chancel, nave, aisle, south porch, Goodwyn M.P. for Wycombe 1620-24, Aylesbury 1625-6,
and
Bucks
1625 and 1640; John Hampden was elected
and an embattled western tower, containing a clock and
5 bells: the west doorway and some other portions are with him in 1640, but preferred to represent Wendover.
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daughter Jane married in 1637, Philip, 4th
good Decorated work: the chancel retains a piscina and
sedilia, and there are brasses of a knight of the 15th Baron Wharton, and thus carried the estate of Upper
Winchendon
to the Wharton family. In the village of
century; of a female in the attitude of prayer, and one,
with headless male effigy, to John Barton, 1487, and Lower Winchendon are some interesting cottages of the
Margaret, his wife: the pulpit is of carved oak; the 17th century, or perhaps even older. Mrs. Napier
chancel was rebuilt in 1891 at a cost of £540 by Mrs. Higgins, who is lady of the manor, and Miss Isham are
Napier Higgins and the trustees of the late Mr. Richard the principal landowners. The soil is limestone and
Rose: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from clay; subsoil, same. The chief crops are wheat, barley
the year 1563. The living is a perpetual curacy, net and turnips and pasture. The area is 1,549 acres of
yearly value £80. including 30 acres of glebe, in the land and 5 of water; rateable value, £2,416; the popu­
gift of Mrs. Napier Higgins, and held since 1888 by the lation in 1911 was 208.
Rev. Allan Cameron Alford M.A. of Corpus Christi Sexton, Frederick Mortimer.
College, Cambridge, who is also vicar of and resides at. Letters are received through Aylesbury, vi& Waddesdon,
Cuddington. The Bucks Evangelistic Mission has a by cycle messenger at 9 a.m. & 12.30 p.m. via
mission hall here. Winchendon Priory, the seat of Mrs.
Cuddington. Wall Letter Box, cleared at 12 noon &
Napier Higgins, is an ancient and interesting mansion, 4.45 p.m.; sundavs, 11 a.m. The nearest money
believed to occupy the site of a monastic house of order & telegraph’office is at Cuddington, i| miles
which, however, no trace now remains. Early in the distant
reign of Henry VIII it was leased to Sir John Daunce
School (mixed), erected in 1875, for 78
kt. whose tomb is in the church of Blewburv, Berks, and Elementary
children; Miss Annie Batts, mistress
whose eldest son married a daughter of Sir Thomas
More. Sir John, about 1528, restored or built the Carriers to Avlesbury.— Walter Welford & Harry Mor­
dining-hall, and his name, carved in oak, still appears timer, wed.’& sat.; to Thame, Walter Welford, tues
Goodall Misses, Chestnut cottage
Cox John Hughes, farmer, Manor frm Reading & Coffee Room (Miss Eliza
Higgins Mrs. Napier, Winchendon Hillsdon Thos.(exors. of), blacksmths Small, superintendent)
Smith Richard, grazier
Priory
,Maddams James, Bear P.H
Spicer Thomas, thatcher
Mortimer Harry, carrier & farmer
c o m m e r c ia l .
Payne Fred John Matthews, farmer Wilson Emanuel J. carpenter
Clark Thomas, farmer
Phillips Albert Henry, farmer.Brackwll
W I N C H E N D O N TIPPER or O V E R is a village 1and Great Central Joint railways, about 6 miles west
an<l parish, situated on elevated ground, about 2 miles from Aylesbury and 7 north-east from Thame, in the
south from Waddesdon Manor station, on the Metropolitan <Mid division of the county, hundred, petty sessional