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B UCK 1iS G H A M S H I K K

NEWPORT PAGNELL.

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Kirby Edward, coal dealer
Sharp John, coal dealer
C O M M E R C IA L .
P lilV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Turvey
Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Bates Joseph, farmer, White gate
Anstee Mrs. Shorndown
Virgo Henry, Green Mari P.H
Appleford William Henry, Ivy cottage Bowler Albert, carrier
Ward
William
John, blacksmith
Brill Joseph, farmer, Primrose hill
Beecham Thomas, The Hall
Webb William & Son, farmers,
Fletcher William, carpenter
Bishop Mrs. Grove lodge
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Grace John F. butcher
Dickens Mrs. Sarah, Albert villa
Harrup Edward John, farmer, Church Wigley George, Windmill P.H
Jarman Thomas, Rose cottage
Hill farm
Maydon Miss, The Cedars
SALDEN.
Heady Jesse, farmer,Mursley Hall fm
Murphy Capt. John Oswald
Hollis Constance (Miss), stationer, (Letters received through Bletchley.)
Newman Mrs. Stewkley lane
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yrett, farmers, Penley
Post office
North Fredk. Win. Spring cottage
Hadley
Selby-Lowndes Rev. Octavius William Hollis George, carrier
Hinton Herbert Henry, farmer
Hollis Thomas William, builder
Cotton, Rectory
IIlling Edward, farmer, Spring grove Maydon Lynch Conway, farmer
Welles Charles Stuart, The Hall
Welles Francis Channing, The Hall 'Illing John (Mrs.), farmer. Manor fm Smith John. Edward & Albert, farmrs
MURSLEY.

Wright John

NAPHILL, see Hughenden.
N ASH is a parish and village, about 3^ miles north nexed to the rectory of Thornton, joint net yearly value
from Swanbourne station on the Bletchiey and Oxford £175, with i£ acres of glebe and residence, in the gift
section of the London and North Western Tailway, 4^ of H. W. Harris esq. and held since 1897 by the Rev.
south from Stony Stratford and 6 east from Bucking­ Charles Clare Dawson-Smith. There is a Baptist chapel,
ham. in the Northern division of the county, Cottesloe erected in 1798, with a small endowment, and sittings
hundred, Winslow petty sessional division and union, for 50 persons. The poor’s land of 3a. 3r. 19P. produces
county court district of Buckingham, rural deanery of about £6 a year, whichis distributedin money; Elmer’s
Buckingham, Wolverton portion, archdeaconry of Buck­ (Beachampton) charity of £3 yearly is for the support
ingham and diocese of Oxford. This place was consti­ of certain pensioners. William Selby-Lowndes, jun.
tuted a civil parish between 1896-9, under the provisions esq. is lord of the manor. The land is divided among
of the “Local Government Act. 1894” (56 and 57 Viet, several freeholders. The soil is stiff clay with beds of
c. 73). The church of All Saints is a small but elegant gravel. There is a chalybeate spring in the village
edifice of stone in the Gothic style, from designs by the called Bretch Well. The area is 1,247 acres; rateable
late G. E. Street esq. E.A. and consisting of chancel, value, ¿£1,676; the population in 1911 was 264.
nave and north porch, and a turret containing one bell: Parish Sexton, Frederick Smith.
the east and west windows are stained: the foundation Post Office.— Mrs. Lydia Harris, sub-postmistress. Let­
ters through Stony Stratford arrive at 8 a.m. & 12.15
stone was laid Nov. 5th, 1857, by the Hon. Richard
Cavendish, of Thornton Hall (d. 19 Nov. 1873), who gave p.m. Box cleared at 10.20 a.m. & 5.50 p.m.; Sun­
day, 10.50 a.m. Whaddon isthe nearest money order
the sites for the church, churchyard and schools, and
contributed £ 1,200 to the building fund : the chancel & telegraph office, 2 miles distant
was consecrated and opened May 10th, 1858, and the Elementary School, erected in 1857, mainly by the late
Hon. R. Cavendish, for 91 children; Mrs. S. R.
rest of the church in 1861: there are 220 sittings. The
Clowes, mistress
register dates from the year 1861. The living is anBond Mrs. Hill side
1Beckett Albert, frmr. Red House frm Harwood Frederick Selby, baker &
assistant overseer
Dawson-Smith Rev. Charles Clare, Beckett Gaius, Barracks farm
Hogg Mary (Mrs.), farmer
Rectory
'Cowley Bert, farmer, Yew tree
King
George, farmer & landowner
Jones William. Mount Pleasant
1Crosby Wm. farmer, Basshill farm
King George Thomas, jun. farmer
Weatherhead Walter
Dormer Edwin, -farmer
King
William,
farmer, Holywell
Faulkner Thomas, beer Tetailer
Moore John & Sons, farmers, Langc o m m e r c ia l.
Griffin Eli, carting c o n t r a c t o r
Alderman Philip, farmer
Harris Lydia (Mrs.), grocer, Post off bridge farm
Saunders Walter, New inn
Armitage William, Three Horse!Harrup Henry, farmer
Varney George, hurdle maker
Shoes P.H
N E W P O R T P A G N E L L is a parish and ancient and 9 bells, to which chimes were added in 1887;
market and union town, and the head of a petty the bells were all re-cast in 1911 in commemoration
sessional division and county court district, in the of the Coronation of King George V.: the north porch,
Northern division of the county, and hundred of its dating from the reign of Edward III. is the oldest
own name, with a terminal station on a branch from part of the building, and over it is a priest’s room :
Wolverton of the. London and North Western railway. the chantry chapel at the east end of the south aisle
50 miles fTom London, 4^ south from Olney, 14^ from is of the same date: the south porch has fine Early
Northampton, 8J north-west from Woburn, on the English arcading, and there is an arcade in the south
Liverpool road, 14J north-east from Buckingham and aisle: in the nave the original position of the rood
4 from the Wolverton Junction station on the main loft is distinctly marked, and there are traces of the
line of the London and North Western railway; and is rood loft door: there are ten stained windows, one
in the rural deanery of Newport, archdeaconry of of which is a memorial to Robert Collison, surgeon,
Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. Newport Pagnell who died April 3rd, i860, and another in the tower
is governed by an Urban District Council of nine mem­ was erected to the late Dr. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop
bers, formed on October 1, 1897, under the provisions of Oxford (1846-70), and of Winchester (1870-73), who
of the “Local Government Act. 1888 ” (51 and 52 Viet, died 19 July, 1873: there is a brass in the church,
c. 41, s. 57). The town is pleasantly situated on a much worn, to a civilian, c. 1440: the pulpit, presented
gentle elevation of the south bank of the river Ouse at by Mrs. Oliver Massey, is of carved oak supported on
its junction with the Lovat, which runs through the a stone pedestal; an open screen of carved oak separates
town, and is crossed by a light iron bridge at the the chancel from the nave: in 1867 an organ chamber
entrance to the town from London, the road from was built at the end of the north aisle and a new organ
Northampton being carried over a stone bridge of five placed in it, the gift of George Cooch esq. who also
arches with a long causeway crossing the Ouse. The gave the oak choir stalls: the organ was enlarged in
town is lighted with gas by a company formed in 1874. 1905: the church was restored in 1828 and in 1880:
and supplied with water from works at Ash Hill, the the nave and aisles were reseated in the year 1880.
property of the Urban District Council. The adjunc­ the chancel in 1894, in memory of Mrs. Taylor: a
tive name “ Pagnell ” is derived from the Paganels. the carved oak and painted reredos was erected in 1896 as
ancient possessors of the manor, whose castle here a memorial to Mrs. Maul, and the brass eagle lectern
continued a place of great strength till the Civil Wars, in 1898 in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Butler: in 1905
when it was garrisoned for the Parliament two years a large vestry was added at the north-east angle of
and nine months, the force of occupation being under the church, and the church now affords 1,230 sit­
the command, from 1643 to 1646. of Sir Samuel Luke, tings: in the churchyard, which is very beautiful,
supposed to be the original of Butler’s “Hudibras.7' both from its situation and its adornments, is an
The church of SS. Paul and Peter, situated on high epitaph by Cowper to Thomas Abbott Hamilton, 1788.
ground at the top of the High street, is a noble edifice The register dates from the year 1558. The living
of «tone, in the Early English and later styles, con­ is a vicarage, net yearly value £ 200, with residence,
sisting of chancel, nave of six bays, aisles, north and in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since
south porches and an embattled western tower, of 1904 by the Rev. Frederick Bernard Gunnery M.A.
Perpendicular date, with pinnacles, containing a clock of Christ Church, Oxford, surrogate and chaplain