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Palmer Chas. grocer, 24 Station par Roff Thomas Heim-, fruiterer. Sta­ Stransom & Son,ladies' k gentlemen's
Park Eleanor (Miss), 20 Station par
tion road. T N 50
tailors, hatters k hosiers, 29 Sta­
Payne DorothyM.(Miss),photographer, Rosam Frederick, builder, Station rd tion parade. T N 40
Station road
Royal Bucks Laundry, Station parade Sutton John, boot ma. The Common
Payne Thos. refreshment rms.Commn St. Lawrence’sConvalescent Home for Tayler Leonard Harry. groceT, Sta­
Payne William, cycle maker. Station Children (Col. Trench, bon. sec. & tion road. T N 60
parade. T N 79
treas)
Tomling George, music seller, Sta­
Penney George John, French Horn Sankey & Co. builders’ merchants
tion parade
P.H. The Common
South Bucks Hardware Co. Ltd. iron­ Trickey Willie Walter Macey, plum­
Perkins William Farmer, draper, 21 mongers, Oak End waye. T N 141 ber, Station road
Station parade
Spaull k Co. stationers, Station par­ Turner Janet (Miss), milliner, Station
Pocock & Rayner, dairyman, Oak End ade. T N 11
parade
waye & Isle of Wight- farm. T N 30 Springell Charles Frederick, hair Wiggins & Co. builders’ merchants.
Poole Walter, fruiterer, 2 Station par dresser, Station road
Station road
Rapson Alfd.Benj.jobmaster. Commn Stevens Flora E. (Miss), milliner, Williams Frank, builder, Bull lane
Rayner k Son, chemists. Station par­ Oak End waye
Woodbridge Benjamin, ironmonger.
Stone Wm. Jn. shopkpr. The Commn Station road. T N 45
ade. T N 84
G R A N D B O B O U G H (or Greneburgh) is a parish! 36 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sir
and village 2 miles south-west from Winslow station |Harry C. W. Verney bart. M.P. and held since 1908 by
on the Bletchley and Oxford section of the London and |the Rev. Owen James Jones. There is a small Wes­
North Western railway, and i£ miles north-west from jleyan chapel, erected in 1871, and holding 60 persons.
Grandborough Road station on the Metropolitan and ;The Village Hall and Library, opened in 1911, com­
Great Central Joint railways, 8 south-east from Buck- 1prises a large hall, capable of seating 200 persons,
ingham, 8J north from Aylesbury, in the Northern divi­ which is used as a billiard and club room and also for
sion of the county, hundred of Ashendon. petty ses- jentertainments, dances &c. and approached by an
sional division and union of Winslow, county court j external staircase; above this hall is the reading room
district of Buckingham, rural deanery of Claydon, arch­ and library, committee room, store room &c. The total
deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The cost of the building was about £1,000, which sum was
church of St. John the Baptist, originally dedicated to provided by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Verney, together with
God and St. Alban, is an ancient edifice of stone largely a subscription of £200 from Andrew Carnegie esq. of
in the Early English style, but restored in the Per­ Sliibo Castle. N.I1. The hall when completed was
pendicular period, and consists of chancel and nave and handed over to the Parish Council at a quit rent of is.
an embattled western tower containing 5 bells, rehung per annum. The poor's land consists of 5a. 2r. 22p.
in 1902: it was formerly a possession of the Abbey of and that of the church of 1 acre and 10 poles; 22
St. Albans; some portions appear to date from the acres of the glebe has been let by the vicar to the
time of Richard II. or from an even earlier date: labourers in half-acre allotments and 11 acres in grass
there is a low side window and piscina in the chancel, holdings of 2 acres each. W. Selby-Lowndes esq. is lord
and a remarkable and ancient wooden font; in 1880 of the manor, J. H. C. Hayward, Mr. Frederick Brazier
a small metal chrismatory, about 6 inches long with and Miss H. Fitz-Henry, of Aylesbury, are the principal
three cruets, was discovered in a niche in the wall landowners. The soil is clay, with veins of gravel;
near the chancel arch; this very rare and interesting subsoil, clay and marl. The land is chiefly in pasture,
relic, anciently used in the ceremonies of baptism, only about one-tenth being arable. The area is 1,580
confirmation and extreme unction in the Roman Cath­ acres; rateable value, £2,258; the population in 1911
olic church, is preserved in a glass case in the church: was 276.
Parish Clerk. H. Oanwell Price.
a stained east window was erected in 1889 to the
memory of the Rev. Arthur Newcombe M.A. vicar Post & M. 0 .Office.— William Norman, sub-postmaster.
1884-7; the church was restored in 1880-1, under the
Letters arrive through Winslow. Bucks. at 6.25 &
direction of the late Sir G. G. Scott R.A. and during
11.50* a.m.; sundays, 7 a.m.; cleared at 10.15 a.m.
the incumbency of the Rev. C. W. Stubbs M.A. afterwards & 6.15 p.m.; sundays, at 9.40 p.m. North Marston,
Bishop of Truro, at a cost o>f £1,150: there are 120 2 miles distant, is the nearest telegraph office
sittings. The register dates from the year 1538. The Elementary School (mixed), founded in 1854 & enlarged
living is a vicarage, net yearly value £200, including in 1888, for 86 children ; George Wilson, master
Cranwell Mrs. The Old vicarage
Dickins Charles Grace, farmer, Lower Newman Jabez, vermin destroyer
Newman Thomas, marine store dealer
Jones Rev. Owen James (vicar), End farm
Norman William, farmer, Post office
Vicarage
Dickins Joseph, farmer. Green end
C O M M E K C IA L .
Dickins Elizabeth (Mrs.), baker
Price Ralph, butcher
Brazier Frederick, farmer
Grandborough Co-operative Society Rawlings John, farmer
Cannon William Thomas, farmer, Grandborough Village Hall k Library Rickard William, farmer
cattle dealeT k breeder of shire & (Frank Cheshire & George Wilson, Seaton George, Sovereign P.H
light horses. Wings farm
joint secs)
Stonell & Sons, builders
Cheshire George, frmr. Rookery farm Henley George, grazier
Stonell Frederick, beer retailer
Kemp Cyril, poultry farmer
Stonell Levi, Crown P.H
Cheshire Frank, farmer
Clarke John, farmer
Newman Charles William, grazier Tompkins John, farmer, Green end
G B E N D O N U N D E R W O O D is a village and parish architect, of Oxford, when a good five-light window,
3 miles south from Calvert station, on the main line of carefully renewed from the mutilated remains of its
the Great Central railway,
miles west from Ake- predecessor, was placed at the east end; the nave
man Street station, on the Great Central and Great roof was also repaired, an open-timbered roof placed
Western Joint railway. 4^ north-west from Quainton over the chancel, the chancel arch restored and the
Road station, on the Metropolitan and Great Central fittings in the chancel renewed ; the pulpit, dated 1620.
Joint railway. 3^ south-east from Marsh Gibbon sta­ a Jacobean work, has been set up afresh on a pedestal
tion, on the Oxford and Bletchley branch of the London of Bath stone, and the font repaired in a similarmanner;
and North Western railway, and 4 north-east from the nave has also been seated with oak benches and
Brill and Ludgershall station, on the Banbury and a lectern introduced: in 1902 a thorough restoration
Birmingham section of the Great Western railway. g\ of the exterior was carried out at a cost of some £55°:
south-west from Winslow. 6 south-east from Bicester and an organ was provided in 1914: the church contains
11 north-west from Aylesbury, in the Northern division monuments to Lord and Lady Save and Sele and to
of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of the family of Pigott: in the. chancel and nave are
Ashendon. union of Aylesbury, rural deanery of Claydon, piscinae in good preservation ; and on the south side i?
archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The a very good Early English doorway: the church plate
church of St. Leonard is an ancient building of mixed includes a cup dated 1569 and a paten, dated 157°styles,and consistsofa chancel, nave, and embattled,west­ There are 150 sittings. The register dates from the
ern tower with turret containing 3 bells, dated 1621, year 1560 for marriages and 1592 for burials and bap­
¡644 and 1677: the edifice dates from the early half tisms. The living is a rectory, net yearly' value £26<$r
of the 12th century, with the exception of the tower, including 250 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift
which is of the 15th century, and the chancel, which is of Vice-Admiral W. H. Pigott, and held since 1914 b?
of the early part of the 14th century: the interior the Rev. Sidney Hugo Carl Wolfsberger, of London
was restored in 1866, at a cost of £900. principally University. This living has been in the gift of the
by the liberality of the Rev. R. H. Pigott B.A. Pigott family from 1519. There is a small Baptist
reotor 1862-1900, assisted by the landowners and chapel at KINGSWOOD, in this parish, erected in
parishioners, under the direction of Mr. E. G. Bruton, 1851. and seating 80 persons. A technical institute