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BUCKINGHAM,SHI RE.

rector of Halton 1883-95: there are 130 sittings. The
register dates from about the year 1606. The living is
a rectory, net yearly value £ 200, in the gift of Alfred
Charles de Rothschild esq. C.V.O. and held since 1895
by the Rev. Charles Edmund Roberts M.A. of St.
John’s College, Oxford, who resides at Weston Turville.
Bradshaw’s charity amounts to £20 yearly, Lambert’s
to about £4, Turpin’s to 20s. and Dagnall’s 6s. 8d.
Halton Mansion, beautifully situated on the slope of
Haddington Hill, is the seat of Alfred Charles de Roth­
schild esq. C.V.O. who is lord of the manor and sole
owner of the land. The soil is chalky; subsoil, chalk,
clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley,
beans &c. The area is 1,444 acres, of which there are

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about 500 acres of beechwood and 12 of water; rate­
able' value, .£2,850; the population in 1911 was 195.
Post Office. Frederick Joseph Sharp, sub-postmaster.
Letters arrive from Tring, via Weston Turville, at
6.40 & 9.50 a.m. week days & 7.30 a.m. Sundays; dis­
patched at 12.55 & 6.10 p.m. ; Sundays, 4.30 p.m.
Wendover, 2 miles distant, is the nearest monev order
6 telegraph office
Wall Letter Box, World’s End, cleared at 12.45 p.m. &
7 p.m. ; Sundays, 5.30 p.m
Mr. Alfred Charles de Rothschild’s School (mixed), for
78 children; Miss Amy Peek, mistress

P R IV A T E RE SID E N T.

Dade Charles, lodge keeper to AlfredISanders Richard, head gardener to
Charles de Rothschild esq. C.V.O I A. C. de Rothschild esq
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Sa“ ekeePer to¡Sharp Frederick Joseph, storekeeper
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Alfd.Chas. de Rothschild esq.C.V.O & beer retailer Post office
Aylesbury Motor Co.The Camp garage Hubbard Frederick Joseph, steward tojTrodd Herbert Hv house steward to
Rothschild Alfred Charles de C.V.O
Halton Mansion

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H A M B L E D E N is a pretty village and widely scat­ M.A. then rector, in 1848 and enlarged in 1872, when
tered parish, in a fertile valley, sheltered by extensive the south aisle was added; it now consists of chancel
woods on the east and west and bounded by the Thames
on the south, 4 miles north-north-east from Henley-on- onl'hrf?“'^ aih16’"orth P°rcb and a bell-cote containing
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chancel are two stained windows, on?
Thames terminal station on a branch of the Great O?
Western railway, and 5 west from Marlow and 11 south­ of which is a memorial to Frederick Edward Cripps;
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church of the Virgin Mary is a cruciform structure rector here from 1804, and another at the west end of
of flint and stone, in the Decorated style, but much th
aisle to the Rev. Canon W, H. Ridley M A • there
altered and modernised, consisting of chancel, nave, e C20
sittings. At FRIETH is a village hall,’erected
transepts, south porch and an embattled western
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armoor K °.V.O. as a memorial of his wife,
tower, built in 1721, with four turrets and vanes
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east window is a memorial to Anna Susanna Nixon and Institute0^atlrnt,w j* ^ 6° 8 }’6ar' The Working Ms"’®
ide.n- ereoted in 1890 bv the late
was erected by her daughter Augusta Eliza Scott- Rivhi w
Murray, of Hambleden House; there are three other Right Hon. W H. Smith P.O., M.P. on a site given by
» C. A Scott-Murray esq. J.P. contains reading^
stained windows in the chancel, as well as piscina and vamis
sedilia: in the north transept is a monument of ala­ games and lecture rooms and a small library. A home
persons on his estate was erected in
baster to Sir Cope D’Oyley kt. D.L. of Chiselhampton, i8nv O h vOxon, and justice of Oyer and Terminer, who died 4th 1897-9 bv Viscount Hambleden as a memorial to his
Aug. 1633, and to Martha (Quarles) his wife, who died lather, and in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee
, laie Malesty Queen Victoria. Greenlands, the
in 1618, with kneeling effigies of both and of five sons seat of
Viscount Hambleden, stands on the banks of
and five daughters; there is also a marble monument
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to John Greene esq. lord of the manor of Ewden, alias
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Greeneland, dated 1687: there are three stained win­ c
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and a splendid Wellingtonia: the
dows in the north transept, and in the south transept house was Lebanon
tified during the Civil War and stood
a memorial window to Augusta Eliza Scott-Murrav, a six monthsfors
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erected by her daughter, Augusta Eliza Anna Murray; the house in !853, and
again in 1894, several cannon
one to Rear-Admiral William Codrington C.B. d. 188*8; baUs were dug up. The Manor
House, built bv Emanuel
two others erected in the nave in 1899 as a memorial Ie Scrope), first and only Earl
of Sunderland of this
to the Right Hon. W. H. Smith P.C., M.P. d. 6 Oct. family (d. 1630), is the propert
and residence of
1891; one to the Rev. Canon W. H. Ridley M.A. rector Francis Joseph Scott Murray esq.y: Charl
the First
here 1840-82; three small stained windows and a marble is said to have taken refuge here in 16es
fter his
monument to Edward Marjoribanks, of Greenelands. escape from Oxford, then invested hv F4a6irfaa
x: the
dated 1868; in the nave are several monuments and fate Lieut.-Gen. James Thomas BrudeneU. 7th Earl
fragments of brasses; and at the west end, under the Cardigan K.C.B. who led the famous charge of thoef
tower are other fragments of brasses and a large
n ,"8 * at ,
BaJ?kIava- was born at this house
carved oak chest, said to have been formed from S
6th Oct 1797 and died 27 March. 1868. Hambleden
cardinal Wolsey’s bedstead; here also is a canopied 1
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monument of freestone, supported by two fluted pillars, of Hereford, 1275-82,ofwho
was baptized in the Norman
to Raffe Scrope esq. cousin unto Henry, Lord Scrope,
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0 olton,’dated 1572: in 1883 the tower was raised 10 propertyand residenceof
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eet, refaced with flint, and stone buttresses added at building which is said tLord
o have belonged to the Knights
a cost of ¿800, under the direction of Mr. Woodyer. Templars;
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architect of Graffham, the bells being also rehung: siderable age, hut the houseeshas
renovated and
he church itself had been previously restored in 1858-0 partly rebuilt in recent years. The been
house is a very fine
a cost of £2,981: there are 500 sittings, about half one, ana stands in a park and extensive gardens and
mg appropriated: in the churchyard is a mausoleum commands fine views over the Chiltern Hills and the
rS °f the Kenrick and Clayton families and a downs of Berkshire and Hampshire. Yewden Manor,
J?eAmonal
the Rev. Canon William Henry which probably takes its name from the avenues of
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rector 1840-82: a new graveyard was ancient yews, at least 400 vears old, in its grounds, is
. Z m *889, an acre of land haying been presented the property of Viscount Hambleden ; Bacres also the
Mr the purpose by the late Right Hon. W. H. Smith property of Viscount Hambleden, is the residence of
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at the entrance -was erected in 1Trs. Riversdale Grenfell, and has been much enlarged.
«93 by the inhabitants of Hambleden and Remenham, Francis Joseph ScottMurray esq. who islord ofthemanor,
as a memorial to tbe Right Hon. W. H. Smith P.O.. Yiseount Hambleden and Lord Parmoor K.C.V.O. are
rei;. J , whom there is also a granite cross. The the principal landowners. The chief crops are wheat,
rectory" * ■“ 0m the year *556- The
is a barlev and some pasture land. The soil is light and
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y00“ 6 ab°ut ,is°°. with residence and 18 chalky. The area is 6,?6i acres of land and 37 of
anrl t la ■ ln
h'it n- Viscount Hambleden, water; rateable value. £9.018; the population in 1911
was 1,367 in the civil and 1,305 in the ecclesiastical
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chilpel of etIse- at FRIETH, in the north of SKIBMETT is a hamlet 3 miles nortV The ohnrch
in the r n ' S an ediflce of
with stone dressings. here, built in t886 from designs of Mr. A. Mardon
Gothic style, erected by the Rev. W. H. Ridley Mowbray F.R.I.B.A. of Oxford, is a structure of flint