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bent effigy in complete armour except the head, which acres and commanding a beautiful view of the surround­
j6 attired in a flowing wig; on the wall hangs his ing country. The principal landowners are the Presi­
helmet surmounted by a crest; behind him is his lady dent and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford,
in an attitude of grief; at the base of the tomb is the A. Mead esq. the Duke of Leeds, Vice-Admiral W.
sculptured figure of a human skeleton with an hour­ Harvey Pigott, Mr. Michael John Gibbs, Mrs. Dickens,
glass: another monument ofheavy design commemorates Mr. Warwick Woods, the trustees of Winwood’s charity
Sir Richard Pigott, knighted at Theobalds, Herts, 9 and the. Ironmongers’Company. The soil is stiff clay;
Julv, 1630» ob- 1685 : the church was restored in 1877, subsoil, loam and clay. The land isprincipally pasture.
at a cost of £2,600, under the direction of Mr. William The entire area is 5,338 acres of land and 8 of water ;
White, architect, of London: there are 350 sittings. rateable value, £7,900; the population in 1911, includ­
The register dates from the year 1599. The living is ing the hamlets, was 895.
a rectory, net yearly value £420, with 3^ acres of
alebe and residence, in the gift of Capt. H. Cautley,
SHIPTON LEE is about 1 mile north-west from the
and held since 1890 by the Rev. Proby Littler Cautley village. This place was by Local Government Board
M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. The Baptist chapel, Order 19,623, dated March 25, 1886, amalgamated with
huilt in 1894, has 200 sittings. The old Baptist chapel, Quainton.
.-rected in 1817, is now used as a Sunday school; the
Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1872, was rebuilt DENHAM is half a mile north-east and DODDERS­
1892, and will now seat 250 persons. There are eight HALL 1 mile west.
almshouses for poor widows and widowers, erected in Parish Clerk, George Uff.
1687 by Richaid Winwood esq. son of Ralph Winwood
knt. principal secretary of state to King James I.; Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— George Read, jun. sub-post­
these have an annual income of about £230; there is master. Letters are received through Aylesbury at
7.55 & 10.20 a.m. & 6.20 p.m. ; Sundays, 8 . 1 5 a.m. ;
also a charity, now producing £364 yearly, left in the
dispatched at 12.40 & 5.10 p.m.; Sundays, 10.15 a.m
last century by Christabella Dowager Viscountess Saye
Wall
Letter Boxes.— At west end of village, cleared at
and Sele for apprenticing poor boys of this and the
adjoining parish of Grendon Underwood and for educa­ 12.40 & 5 p.m. ; Sundays, 9.50 a.m. ; Station road,
12.50
& 5.25 p.m. ; Sundays, 10.30 a.m
tional purposes; and there are other educational
charities amounting in the aggregate to £30, beside Elementary School, erected in 1898, for 266 children;
Ernest William Ashley A.C.P. master. In 1911, from
a year for bread. In the village, at the north end
of the square, are the remains of an ancient stone cross, funds derived from the Saye & Sele Educational
consisting of a portion of the shaft, on a square base, Foundation, a building was erected adjoining the
schools, at a cost of about £700. & is used for the
elevated on three steps. Here was born, in 1773, GeoTge
Lipscomb, author of a History of Buckinghamshire, pub­ teaching of handicrafts & domestic subjects
lished in 1847. Doddershall House, the residence of Police Station, John W. Caswell, sergeant
Vice-Adm. William H a T ve y Pigott J.P. has been the Quainton Road Station, James Higgins, station master
seat of the Pigott family from the year 1503 ; the man­
sion is an ancient structure, seated in a park of 120 Carrier to Aylesbury.— Mrs. Eliza Bailey, wed. & sat
Gibbs Michl. Jn. farmer, Cross farm Topping Herbert Charles, farmer,
QUAINTON.
Grace Tom, builder, contractor, The Woodlands
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Woods Warwick, frmr. Middle farm
house decorator & painter
Cannon Alfred, The Laurels
Cautley Rev. Proby Littler M.A. Hewitt Thomas, White Hart P.H
Hunt Wm. Ernest, farmer,LoweT frm
Rectory
DENHAM.
Douglas Harold Mordey, Quainton cot Ingram Lucy (Mrs.), dress maker
Cox Esther (Mrs.), frmr. Denham io
Evans William Edward, Whitethorn Kibble George, farmer
Kinch John, boot maker
Dickins John, farmer, Lady mead
King John Waterloo, Hill view
Hill Joseph, farm bailiff to R. A.
Lester Rev. Henry James (Baptist), Kingham Alfred Herbert, grocer
Markham & Son, coal merchants
Curtis esq
The Manse
Markham Esther (Mrs.), farmer
Tomes Jn. Dover, farmer, Denham hi
Ridgway Mrs. Fern bank
Meggeson S. & M. drapers
Till Mrs. The Vine
Read George, jun. grocer & postmstr
Tomes John Dover. Elm croft
DODDERSHALL.
Rose George, shopkeeper
COMMERCIAL;.
Saunders Jas. George & Dragon P.H Pigott Vice-Adm. William Harvey
Anstiss Thomas. White Lion P.H
J.P. Doddershall house
Ashley Ernest William,insurance agt Simms Harry, wheelwright
Cooper William, farmer, North farm
Badrick Thos.Chas.Railway Arms P.H Simms John, horse breaker
Stevens John, Sportsman P.H
Cooper William James, agricultural
Bailey Eliza (Mrs.), carrier
Taylor Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper
engineer, implement agent, re­
Banham Frederick, baker
Uff George, parish clerk & saddler
pairer & ironmonger ; oil & petrol
Brown Edmund, farmer
engines, domestic & dairy ma­
Cannon J. & Sons,buildrs.& contrctrs Uff Henry, carpenter
chines, motOT cycles, cycles &
Cannon Thomas, farmer
SHIPTON LEE.
accessories
Cross William, blacksmith
Culley Joseph, shopkpr. The Strand Curtis Harry, frmr.The Grange farm Curtis Thos. Geo. Upper South farm
Hammond Arth.frmr.KnappsOak frm
Dean Charles, boot & shoe maker
Curtis Jesse, farmer, Hill farm
Dunell William Thomas, Swan & Lester Leonard Goodman, farmer & Ridgway Francis Thomas, farmer.
Castle hotel; good accommodation breeder of draught horses, Dry Lower South farm
& catering
Simms Benjamin, farmer, Wood farm
Levs farm
OTJARItEN'DON', or Quarrington, is a secluded vil­ appearance: the chapel was used for occasional services
lage and parish, 2 miles north-west of Aylesbury, and some time after 1720; a marriage was solemnized here
lies between the Bicester and Buckingham roads, in the Dec. 22, 1746, and burials have taken place in the ad­
Mid division of the county, hundred of Ashendon, petty joining churchyard during the past century. There is
sessional division, union and county court district of no church in the parish. The living is a vicaTage
Aylesbury, T u ra l deanery of Wendover, archdeaconry of annexed to that of Bierton. William Baring Du Pre
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. Here are the ruins esq. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The land
of an ancient and once splendid chapel dedicated to St. is fine pasture and extends over an area of 1,943 acres
Peter; the remains exhibit portions of the Early Eng­ of land, nearly the whole of which isdevoted to grazing,
lish and later styles: though the edifice is now’ com­ and 5 of water; rateable value, £2,687 1 th© population
pletely dilapidated, the arches which supported the in 1911 wras 73.
nave roof are of fine stone and in excellent preservation ; Letters arrive through Aylesbury about 7.15 a.m. which
the remains of mullions and corbels, especially those is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 2 miles
of the eastern window of the chancel, prove it to have
been originally adorned with great architectural skill; distant
the ruins, as they at present exist, situated in the Pillar Box cleared at 9.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; Sundays,
midst of a small meadow, have an extremely picturesque
12.45 p.m
Manning: George Herbt. Berryfield ho Hirons William, farmer. Lower farm Terry Arthur, farmer
Terry Arthur
King Jn. W. grazier, White’sField fm Terry Joseph Pitches, farmer
Simons John Richd.grazier,Berry field
COMMERCIAL,
rke John Sanders, farmer,Uppings
CLIVE is a parish on the river Ouse, a mile and 1Western railway, in the Norbhern division of the county,
R1 ♦ k west‘by-norttl from Buckingham station on the in the hundred, petty sessional division, union and
etchley and Banbury section of the London and North Icounty court district of Buckingham, rural deanery ot