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Catesby, 1636: there are 96 sittings. The register dates value, £578; the population in 1911 was 63 in th e
from the year 1536. There is a list of rectors from civil and 59 in the ecclesiastical parish.
the year 1223. The living is a rectory, net yearly By Local Government Board Order 18,130, dated
value £106, including 20 acres of glebe with residence, March 25, 1886, a detached part of Hardmead was added
in the gift of C. E. Lamplugh esq. of Mentone, and held to Emberton for civil purposes.
since 1856 by the Rev. Bartlet George Goodrich B.A. of
University College, Oxford. The payment in lieu of the Letters through Newport Pagnell arrive at 8.30 a.m.
Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.50 p.m. week d ay s; no
Town Land amounts to £2 yearly, which is distributed
Sunday collection or delivery; Newport Pagnell is
in coal. George Shedden esq. who is lord of the manor,
the nearest money order & telegraph office, 5^ miles
and Mrs. Edward Shedden are the landowners. The
distant
soil is clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans,
barley and roots. The area is 1,211 acres; assessable The children of this parish attend the Astwood school
Goodrich Rev. Bartlet George B.A. Munday Caleb, farmer, Manor farm iWait Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer
(rector), Rectory
jTaylor Henry, farmer
(Wait Thomas, farmer, Church farm
H A R D W I C K E is a parish, on the road to Bucking­ tion in 1911 was 167 in the civil and 493 in the eccle­
ham, 4 miles north of Aylesbury station, on the Great siastical parish.
Western, Metropolitan and Great Central Joint and
Parish Clerk, Thomas Ming.
London and North Western railways, and 13 south­ Post Office.— Edward Burrell, sub-postmaster. Letters
east from Buckingham, in the Northern division of through Aylesbury arrive at 6.50 a.m. & IO-55
the county, hundred of Cottesloe, petty sessional
.m. ; dispatched 12.40 & 5.50 p.m. ; sundays, 12
division, union and county court district of Ayles­ a
noon. Whitchurch, about 1 mile distant, is the
bury, rural deanery ofMursley, archdeaconry ofBucking­ n
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arest money order & telegraph office
ham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is
a building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting Elementary Schools (boys & girls), rebuilt in 1871, for
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, were endowed in 1781 by the late Dr. Bridle, who
of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a western
square embattled tower containing a clock, 5 bells and a bequeathed a legacy for the education of 18 boys &
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girls, since which the administration of the bequest
sanctus bell and a south porch ; in the south aisle is a
very curious monument to Sir Thomas Lee knt. dated has been reorganized by the Charity Commisioners;
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endowment now produces £ 1 1 5 yearly; £3 isdistri­
1616; there are also seven tablets to former rectors of
this parish : at the east end of the aisle is a curious cir­ buted in bread, £3 is payable to the parish clerk, &
of the remainder four-ninths goes to the maintenance
cular window and a piscina; the church was restored
in 1872-3 under the supervision of the late G. E. Street of school & five-ninths to the clothing of childrenj
esq. R.A. at a cost of nearly £4,000, when several John E. Woods, master; Mrs. Woods, mistress
stained windows were inserted, principally through the Carrier to Aylesbury.— Joseph Hughes, daily
munificence of Peter Reid esq. of the Stock Exchange ;
there is also a memorial window to the Rev. Christopher
WEEDON is a hamlet of the ecclesiastical parish of
Erie M.A. rector from 1833, and a brass eagle lectern Hardwicke, 3 miles north from Aylesbury and 14 south­
has been placed in the church as a memorial to Philip east from Buckingham. A service is held at the school
Cazenove esq. by his son, Henry Cazenove esq. who every Sunday by the Rector of Hardwicke. The Wes­
died 1894 ; on the north side of the nave is a stained leyan chapel, built in 1854 and restored in 1913 at a
window commemorating the silver wedding of Mr. and cost of £1,000, has a burial ground attached; the
Mrs. Cazenove; a font was presented about 1893 by Miss Primitive Methodist, built 1892, will seat 150 persons.
C. M. Yonge, and in 1901 a reredos was erected in The poor’s allotment of 28 acres is under the manage­
memory of the Rev. W. H. Biggwither, rector 1870-99; ment of the Parish Council and Weedon Union Benefit
there are 360 sittings; in the churchyard is a lych Club, to whom a part belongs. The poor of the
gate, and on the south side is a monument recording hamlet have £20 yearl-y3-:-dist
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ributed to them, princii
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®re-inberment by thAe late Lord Nugent, o
f 247 perVso. „nLs 1pallv in coal, and the-v also share in the Hardwicke
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ylesbury, March 21st1, .1C642, which
charities. About half of Weedon and one-third of
had been found in a fieldnear Aylesbury. The registers Hardwicke belong to the Rothschild family, Vernon
date from the 16th centurj- and are very imperfect. The Brittain esq. is also a principal landowner in. this
living is a rectory, net yearly value £600, derived from parish. Weedon is a meet for the Rothschild hounds.
477 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of New Lilies, the seat of Vernon Brittain esq. is a mansion
College, Oxford, and held since 1903 by theRev. Francis of red brick, with stone dressings, erected in 1870
Edwin Allen M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Here is a and standing in a well-wooded park and grounds of
Mission hall, built in 1883, and seating 150 persons. about 100 acres, containing fine trees and shrubs. The
Two charities of £3 each are annually distributed in mansion contains some fine pictures by Hogarth, Cuyp,
bread to the poor; there are also small charities left by and other notable painters. The area is 1,790 acres of
Dr. Barker and Dr. Dummer, rectors in the 17th land and 6 of water; rateable value, £2,928 ; the popu­
century, and one left by T. C. Howland esq. in 1882. lation in 1911 was 332.
Some gigantic Saurian and other fossil remains dis­ PostOffice,Weedon.— Miss Alice Fleet, sub-postmistress.
covered here were presented by a late rector to the Letters through Aylesbury arrive at 6.45 & 10.30
Museum of Practical Geology, in Jermyn street,London.
The Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford, who a.m.; dispatched 1 & 6.15 p.m.; Sundays, 12.15 p*n>are lords of the manor, Vernon Brittain esq. Leopold de Whitchurch, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money
Rothschild esq. C.V.O. and Lord Cottesloe are the prin­ order & telegraph office. The post office closes at 1
cipal landowners. The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, o’clock on thursdays
clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans and hay. The The children of Weedon now attend Hardwicke school
area is 1,213 acres; rateable value, £1,877; ^he popula- Carrier— William Simonds, Aylesbury, daily
Moore George Edwin, dairy farmer
HARDWICKE.
Griffin Mrs. Eliza
Paine Joseph, farmer, W eedon lodge
Allen Rev. Francis Edwin M.A. Jeiliff Miss
Rickard John, dairy farmer
(rector), Reotorv
COMM ERCIAL.
Robinson William, relieving officer for
Hervey Rev. Jas. Arthur, The Yews
Bates Harry, insurance agent
3rd district & registrar of b irth s &
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Burrell Edward, grocer, Post office
Fleet Walter, tailor, Post office
officer for W addesdon su b -d istrict,
Grove John, Bell inn
Aylesbury union & asst, overseer
Hughes Joseph, jun. frmr. Folly farm Ford Harry, blacksmith
Rolls & Son, grocers
Rickard Harry, gardener to the rector Griffin Arthur, baker
Halsey Henry, farmer
Simonds William, Wheatsheaf P.H.
Todd James, farmer
Honour James, wheelwright
& carrier
Todd Victor, farmer
Hook Henry Humphrey, farmer
Terry Geo. C. farmer, Weedon hill
WEEDON.
Janes Thomas, farmer. Manor farm Thorne Arthur Thomas, builder
Watkins Joseph, farmer
Jones Charles, Five Elms P.H
Antonini Mrs. The Cedars
Kingham John, farmer, Rectory farm White John, market gardener
Brittain Vernon, The Lilies
H A R T W E L L is a parish 2 miles south-west from ham and diocese of Oxford. The church, which is
Aylesbury station on the Great Western, Metropolitan named in honour of The Assumption of the Virgin
and Great Central Joint railway and London and North Mary, and stands in Hartwell Park, was rebuilt, on the
Western railway, and 7^ north-east from Thame, in the old foundations, after the model of the chapter-house at
Mid division o f the county, hundred, petty sessional York, by Sir William Lee, 4th bart. his uncle, Sir
division, union and county court district o f Aylesbury, William Lee lit. P.C. Lord Chief Justice of the King's
rural deanery o f Aylesbury, archdeaconry o f Buckin: - Bench, who contributed £1,000, and his uncle Sir George
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