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the manor and principal landowner. The soil is loam Post Office, Bishopstone.— Harry Hollyman, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through Aylesbury & are
and sand : subsoil, clav and limestone. The chief crops
are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. A considerable delivered 7.15 a.m. & 5.45 p.m. ; dispatched at 8.50
a.m.
& 5.40 p.m. ; no delivery on Sundays. Stone i*
portion of the parish is devoted to market gardening
the nearest money order & telegraph office
and fruit growing. The area is 2,638 acres of land
and 4 of water; rateable value, £8,052 ; the population
Elementary Schools.
in 1911 was 1,610 in the civil parish and 1,749 in the
ecclesiastical parish, including 70 officials and their Stone (mixed), erected in 1871 & enlarged in 1886, for
families and 687 inmates in the Asylum.
the parishes of Hartwell & Stone, at a cost of
Parish Clerk. John Harris.
about £1,200, for 200 children; Arthur Henry Lilley,
BISHOPSTONE is a hamlet, 2 miles south from Stone master
village, and has a chapel of ease erected on a site given Bishopstone (infants), erected in 1876 by the late vicar,
by the late vicar, Dr. Booth; it is a building of flint Dr. Booth, on a site given by Lord Carrington, for 50
and brick with stone dressings in the.Gothic style, and
children ; Miss Snowdon, mistress
will seat 1 0 0 . The Wesleyan chapel here was built in
1877.
Carriers.
Post, M. 0 ., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.—
Mrs. Martha Jane Beechey, sub-postmistress. Letters Bishopstone, John Ayres & George Miller, to Aylesbury,
wed.
&
s
a
t
arrive thro'ugh Aylesbury & are delivered at 6 . 3 5 &
1 0 . 1 0 a .m . ; S u n d a ys, 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 1 0 . 5 a.m. Stone, George Brooks & Frederick Woodford, to Ayles­
bury, daily
& 1 . 1 0 & 6.35 p.m
Wall Letter Box, Eythrope road, cleared 1 0 . 5 a.m. & Omnibus to Aylesbury, twice daily, except wed. & sat
when three times daily
1 . 1 0 & 6.25 p.m. ; sundays, 1 2 . 1 0 p.m
Turnham George, butcher
STONE.
Brooks George, beer retailer
Bucks County Asylum (Hugh Kerr Village Hall
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Waine Arthur Croxton, farmer
M.A.,
M.D.,
C.M.Glas.
medical
Bridge John Charles Edward. Peverel
superintendent; Thomas Stratford Warren Jeremiah, County Arms P.H
court
Logan
L.R.C.P.
&
L.
R.C
.S.
Edi
n.,
White Wm. farmer, Littleworth farm
Challis Rev.James Law M.A .F R A S.
L.R.F.P.S.Glas., D.P.H.R.CP.S. Woodford Fred Horwood, butcher
(vicar), Vicarage
Lond. assistant medical officer; Woodford George (exors.of), farmers,
Flowers Arthur John, Alwyn lawn
William Crouch,clerk to committee Vicarage farm
Hicks Joseph, Cromhamstone
Hyde Joseph, 2 Cromhamstone villas of visitors; Charles Edward Cobb Woodford John P. farmer. Hartwell
Aylesbury, treasurer;Ernest James End farm
Jefferies Ernest James
Kerr Hugh M.A.. M.D. (supt.), Jefferies, house steward & cleTk of Young Hv. farmer, Whaddon Hill fm
asylum)
Lunatic Asylum
Logan Thomas Strafford L.R.C.P. Carter Edward Chas.market gardener
BISHOPSTONE.
C
la
rke Edward Charles, farmer,
Edin. Lunatic Asylum
C O M M E R C IA L .
Chilborohill farm
McNair Mrs. Stonecroft
Harley Henry Joseph, Bugle HornP.H Anderson William Edward, farmer
Olliffe Miss, Cromhamstone villas
Ayres John, Harrow P.H. & carrier
Harris John, boot & shoe maker
Robertson Miss, Lindisfarne
Hartwell & Stone Village Hall (W. R. Clarke George T. farmer
Smyth Lady, St. John’s lodge
Crook John Cozens, farmer
Kinnear esq. hon. sec)
Todd James William, The Firs
Hollvman Harry,shopkeeper, Post off
Holloway Brothers, blacksmiths
C O M M E R C IA L .
Little William, farmer, Standals
Monk William, market gardener
Aylesbury Sand Co
Bates William John, market gardener Piddington Emily (Miss),beer retailer Miller Charles, carman
Plested Brothers, coach builders, Plested Brothers, blacksmiths &
Beechey Joseph, grocer
wheelwrights
Beechey William F. coal merchant, builders & undertakers
fruit'grower, assistant overseer & Seaton Thomas Rd. frmr. Manor farm White Walter, poultry dealer
Turnham Edwin, beer retailer
collector of taxes. Post office
S T O N Y S T RA T FO R D is a parish and small market of this church, which still remains, has a saddle-back
town and the head of a petty sessional division, on the roof and is considered a particularly good specimen of
river Ouse and the Northamptonshire border of the the Perpendicular style. The town is lighted with gas
county, comprising the united parishes of St. Giles and supplied by a company formed in 1837 and water is
St. Mary Magdalene, 8 miles north-east from Bucking­ derived from three artesian wells at Calverton, the
ham, 6 south-west from Newport Pagnell, 2 west from property of the Local Sanitary Authority. The church
Wolverton station on the main line of the London and of St. Giles, originally a chantry chapel, founded about
North Western railway and 54% from London by rail 1450. and endowed in 1482, is an edifice of stone. Tebnilt
and 51 by road ; it is in the Northern division of the in 1776 by Mr. Hiorne. of Warwick, in a debased Gothic
county, hundred of Newport, union of Potterspury, style, and subsequently enlarged: the tower, thp only
county court district of Newport Pagnell, rural deanery part of the original structure now remaining, is ofPer­
of Buckingham, Wolverton portion, archdeaconry of pendicular date, and contains 6 modern bells: the
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The town consists church was reseated in t866, and in 1876 theinteriorwas
mainly of one long street and the Market square, and restored, new side galleries replacing the former heavy
is built on the old Roman road called Watling street, ones, the groined ceiling and pillars decorated, and a
which passes through this county in a direct line from chancel formed by the erection of screens, at a cost of
Little Brickhill on the Bedfordshire border into North­ £1,600: in 1905 the church was decorated, and a new
amptonshire. At the west end of the town, and con­ chancel screen of English oak. designed by G. F. Bodley
necting it with Old Stratford, in Northamptonshire, is esq. R.A. erected as a memorial to the late John
a handsome stone bridge of three arches spanning the Worley, at a cost of £530: there are various memorial
river Ouse. In 1886 a tramway was laid between here windows :the church affords 630 sittings. The register
and Wolverton. This place is supposed to have been dates from the year 1613. The united livings of the
the Roman station “Lactodorum,” and a Roman urn two parishes of St. Giles and St. Marv Magdalene form
and a number of Roman coins have been discovered a vicarage, net yearly value £270, with residence ana
here. In 1464 Edward IV. appears to have left this 5 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford,
place for Grafton Regis, Northants, where he privatelv and held since 1902 by thp Rev. Henry Last M.A. of
married Elizabeth Woodville; the oak, under which Selwvn College, Cambridge. The Baptist chapel, founded
tradition savs they first met. is still standing, and is in 1656, has sittings for 400 persons. The Congrega­
known as the “ Queen’s Oak.” At an inn in the town tional chapel in Wolverton road, erected in 1823. will
the youthful and unfortunate monarch. Edward V. is seat 250 persons ; the Weslevan chapel, erected in 1844said to have slept on his ioornev to London to be ffords 200 sittings. The Retreat, erected in 1803,
crowned, a circumstance to which Shakespeare alludes a
the sole cost of Mr. Frederick William Woollard. and
in his tragedv of Richard TIT. Act 2. Scene 4- One °f resented by him to the town, consists of five cottage»,
the memorial crosses erected bv Edward I. to Eleanor, p
for the use of the aged and worthy poor of Stony Strat­
h i« o ’ip p ti. on the Temoval of heT remains in T290 from
ord, and stands upon the site of a monastic house, por*
Harby, Notts, where she died, to Westminster, stood at f
tions of which have been built into the conrtvard wallsthe west end of the town, but was demolished about The
h room, in New street, was bought in 1897.
T646. In the vear T736 a destructive fire occurred here, s aParis
church jubilee memorial. The Cemetery, ®
which burnt down fifty-three houses, and in May, 1742« a
C
a
l
ve
rto
n
one acre in extent, was formed at tn
another lamentable fire destroyed a lar"e portion of the expense ofEnd,
e parishioners in 1856; the entrance
»own and part of thp church of St. Marv Magdalene,, through a lyth
c
h
g
a
te, and there are two mortuary
occasioning damage to the extent of £10,000: the tower