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north transept, south porch and a western tower twenty shillings in money and a great coat to the
containing a clock and 3 bells, re-hung since 1882: value of forty shillings, not, however, to be given to
the brass of Thomas Richardson, rector here 1505-23, any people in the parish receiving relief; this
is now lost: there are two piscinze, and the remains benefaction was first received October 5th, 1752; and
of rood stairs in the south aisle and a screen of Per­ ¿3 a year is now assigned the parish of Oving, the
pendicular date: in the aisle is a Decorated niche: greater portion of the income being shared by Wendthe church was restored in 1867 an^ re-opened Decem­ over and Bierton. In a field, close to the church, is
ber 13th in that year, the clerestory windows renewed, the ancient camp, which formed the primitive settle­
the south and east walls of the chancel were rebuilt, ment here. Oving House, the residence of Henry Yates
a new open roof of pine fixed and a carved oak screen Thompson esq. stands in a commanding position over­
placed in the south arch: the reredos, of alabaster and looking the vale of Aylesbury; the mansion contains
marble, the communion table, stalls and prayer-desk some beautiful wood carving and richly decorated
and the pulpit, an octagonal work in Ancaster stone, ceilings designed, it is said, by Inigo Jones. The
were all new: the restoration of the clerestory was right to the lordship of the manor was disputed more
effected at the cost of the late Rev. William Henry than half a century ago, and the question is not yet
Young M.A. then resident curate and afterwards vicar definitely settled. Capt. H. A. Cartwright, Mr. Baron
01 North Moreton, Berks, and the members of his John Gates, and Leopold de Rothschild esq. C.V.O. are
family: the communion cloth was given by the Hon. the chief landowners. The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil,
Mrs. Caulfeild Pratt (d. March, 1894), and the books clay. The land is chiefly in pasture, but potatoes are
by her sons and their tutor; the total cost of the grown. The area is 990 acres; rateable value, ¿2,381;
restoration was about £800: the stained east window the population in 1911 was 318 in the civil and 350 in
was erected in 1882, and more recently the four remain­ the ecclesiastical parish.
ing chancel windows have also been filled with stained Parish Clerk, Frank Showier.
glass, one being the gift of Miss Hill, one the gift of Post Office.— Miss Jessie Miller, sub-postmistress.
14 priests, and one to the memory of the Hon. Catherine
etters are received through Aylesbury at 7.30 a.m.
Cecilia Caulfeild Pratt, d. 1894, and her son Douglas L
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Caulfeild Pratt, d. 1888; there are two other stained &
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arrive at 7.45 a.m. ; dispatched n.15
windows, one of which was placed in 1889: there are a.m.Sundays
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230 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the money order & telegraph office
year 1735; burials from 1678, and marriages from 1780. Pillar Letter Box, Bowling alley, cleared at 11.50 a.m.
The living is a rectory with Pitchcott annexed, ioint & 5.30 p.m. ; Sundays, 11.30 a.m
net yearly value ¿513, with residence and 23 acres of
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glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and Henry Elementary School (mixed), established in1861, for 90
Yates Thompson esq. ofOving house, alt. and held children; Mrs. John Showier, mistress
since 1901 by the Rev. St. John Baskerville James ICarrier to Aylesbury.— Fred Clarke, daily
B.A. of Hertford College, Oxford. The Primitive jCarrier to Leighton Buzzard.— William Smith, tues
(Marked thus * receive letters Bliss Archer George, blacksmith
Lloyd Ralph, butcher
through North Marston, Winslow.) •Buckingham Henry James, dairy Lloyd William, calf dealer
farmer, Buttermilk hall
Midwinter John, farmer
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Cannon Jn. dairyman, assistant over­ Miller Jessie (Miss), shopkpr.Post off
Ewart Miss, Marlow cottage
James Rev. St. John Baskerville B.A. seer & clerk to the Parish Council Nash Frederick, farmer, Manor farm
Clarke Alfred Eli,Butchers' Arms P.H Parrott Joseph, farmer,Church farm
(rector)
Clarke Frederick, Black Boy P.H
Smith Frederick, builder
Pratt Gerald George Caulfeild, The Elmer
Frederick, dairyman
Smith Isaac, greengrocer
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Smith William, carrier
Thompson Hy. Yates J.P. Oving ho “Hodges Alwin, farmer, Ramhill
Walk'er Henry, farmer
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Holden Priscilla & Sarah (Misses), Watts John, pig dealer
•Bates Arthur James, farmer, Cran- dress makers
White George, gardener to H. Y.
don farm
Lloyd Emanuel, grazier
Thompson esq
P A D B U R Y is a parish and village with a station J. Oldrid Scott esq. F.S.A. : there are 300 sittings.
on the Banbury and Bletchley branch of the London The register dates from the year 1538. The living is
and North Western railway, 4 miles north-west from a vicarage, net yearly value £90, including 72 acres of
Winslow, 3 south-east from Buckingham and 54 from glebe and residence, built in 1880, in the gift of the
London, and is in the Northern division of the county, Lord Chancellor, and held since 1911 by the Rev. Ernest
in the hundred, petty sessional division, union and Carmichael Schmalz M.A. of Queen’s College, Oxford.
county court district of Buckingham, rural deanery of The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1876, and will seat 130
Claydon, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of persons. In July, 1643, an engagement took place here
Oxford. The parish was enclosed by Act of Parliament between a detachment of Royalists, under Sir Charles
in 1795 The village stands on an eminence near the Lucas, and some Parliamentary troops, commanded by
London road and on the Lovatt, a feeder of the river Col. Middleton, in which the latter were defeated, and
Ouse, over which there is a stone bridge of three the burial of 8 soldiers is entered in the register. Lace
arches, built in 1826, and uniting this parish and making, formerly the general occupation of the women
Buckingham. The village is supplied with water by of this parish, now employs but few. The Warden and
means of 10 hydrants fixed at various points, the Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, who are lords of
water being drawn by gravitation from a spring on the the manor and the trustees of the late Viscount Clifden
Winslow road, about J mile distant. The works were (d. 1899) are the principal landowners. The soil isclay
carried out by the Buckingham Rural District Council and gravel; subsoil, clay. The land is pasture and
in 1894 at a cost of £280. The church of St. Mary the arable, the greater portion being pasture. The area is
Virgin or St. Matthew is an ancient edifice of stone in 2,016 acres of land, about 1,388 of which are held by
the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting yearly tenants, under the Warden and Fellows of All
of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and Souls College, Oxford, and 13 of water; rateable valne,
a low embattled western tower containing 6 bells, re­ £3,490; the population in 19x1 was 442.
hung in 1879: the chancel was restored in 1882 from Post, M. 0 ., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.—
designs by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott kt. R.A. the John Edward Thorne, sub-postmaster. Letters re­
interior being refitted with choir stalls and communion
ceived from Buckingham at 6.35 a.m. & 2.30 p.m.;
rails of oak, and new chancel steps of black and white dispatched at 6.35 a.m. & 2.50 & 6.30 p.m. week days
marble laid down at a total cost of £1,075; fcbe mas­ only; Sundays, arrive 7.30 a.m. ; dispatched 8.30 a.m
sive oak communion table is said to have been given Wall Letter Box.— Station, cleared at 7.15 a.m. & 6-3°
to the church by the young men of the parish in 1634:
p.m. ; Sundays, 8.10 a.m
the communion plate includes a silver chalice with Elementary School (mixed), built in 1840, for 90 chil­
cover, dated 1574, and a silver paten, with the hall­ dren; Charles R. Legge, master
mark of a date between 1618 and 1638, presented in
1876 by the wife ofthe present vicar: in 1897 the porch Carrier to Buckingham, Albert Morris, daily
was rebuilt, and the roofs of the tower, nave and aisle Railway Station, L. & N. YV. R., Levi Ambler, station
repaired, at a cost of £800, under the direction of master
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S.
Higgins Frank
C O M M E R C IA L .
Bouquet R. C. The Laurels
Perkins Mrs. Lime Tree house
Arnold William, grocer
Carey H. Cyril, Dunstall lodge
Schmalz Rev. Ernest Carmichael Barton Samuel, farmer. Folly far®
C hapm an Thomas, Vine cottage
M.A. (vicar), Vicarage
Biddlecombe Emily (Mrs.), B la c k b ir d
G ore-Langton Wm. Fredk.Padbury lo Witcher Frederick, Essex house
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