D BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. IOB:FORD. 118 parts are Early English : there are piscinre in the this parish has been traced up to the year 1270. The ~hancel aisle; the latter has a hagioscope, and also living is a rectory, net yearly value from 200 acres of contains a plain altar tomb, said to be that of Benedict glebe £160, with residence, in the gift of Leopold de Leigh, one of the lords of the manor, buried in 1547, Rothschild esq. and held since 1907 by the Rev. Chas. but the inscription has been defaced and the brasses Edward Dandridge M . .A.. of Corpus Christi College, removed : the stained east window was the gift of the Cambridge, and surrogate. Leopold de Rothschild esq. .Rev. Edw. Bonus LL.M. rector 1864-1907: the church C. V. 0. of .Ascott Park, who is lord of the manor, and was restored· in :r862-3 under the direction of the late Lord Rothschild P.C., G.C.V.O. are the principal land G. E. Street esq. R . .A.. when the roofs were renewed, owners. The soil is strong clay; subsoil, same. The the interior refitted with oak benches and the chancel greatest portion of the parish is grazed by dairy and with stalls: in removing the plaster from the walls, the feeding stock. The area. is 741 acres; rateable value, .entrance to the rood loft was discovered built up in £992; the population in 1901 was 88 . -the south-east angle of the nave: the communion table Parish Clerk. n uliam ¥enday. o0f st
.Dandridge Rev. Charles Edward M . .A.. COMMERCIAL. Gough William Scott, farmer (rector & surrogate), Rectory Elliott George Albert, fanner Griffin Harold, farmer, Grove farm Gough William Belgrove, farmer Hill J oseph, biggler
.IBSTONE is a parish 9! miles north-west frDm High 1906 by the Rev. John Stratton Davis M . .A. of Durham Wycombe station on the Maidenhead and Thame sec University. Ibstone House, the seat of Francis Wright -tion of the Great Western railway, 9 north from Henley, esq. is a modern stuccoed building on an eminence, and .6! north-west from Marlow, in the Southern division of affords good views of the neighbourhood. Here is a the county, hundreds of Desborough and Pirton, Des Primitive Methodist chapeL The Warden and Fellows borough (1st division) petty sessional division, union and of Merton College, Oxford, who hold the manor, are -county court district of Wycombe, rural deanery of Wy- the principal landowners. The soil is chalky; subsoil, -combe, archdeaoonry of Buckingham and diocese of Ox- graveL The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. "ford. This parish is now wholly in Bucks, the part pre The area is 1,121 acres; rateable value, £970; the ·viQusly in Oxfordshire having been transferred to the population in 1901 was 236. Jormer county. The church of St. Nicholas is a small Under the provisions of the "Local Government .Act, and plain building of stone in the Norman and Early 1888," by Local Government Board Provisional Order, English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch dated September 30, 1895, the whole of Ibst
..ICKFORD is a village and parish on the borders of manor, Sir Waiter Gray kt. of Oxford, William Henry Oxfordshire, from which it is separated by the river .A.shurst esq. of Waterstock, Ox on, and' Alfred Fuller esq. "Thame, 2 miles from Tiddington station, on the Wy are the principal landowners. The soil is alluvial; sub -combe, Thame and Oxford branch of the Great West-ern soil. clay. The land is principally pasture. The chief .railway, 4 north-west from Thame, 5 south from Brill, crops art'l wheat and beans. The area is 1,249 acres; 14 west-south-west from .Aylesbury and 10 east from rateable value, without Draycott, £1,852; the population Oxford, in the Northern division of the county, in the in 1901 was 319 in the civil, and 33r in the ecclesiastical llundreds of Ashendon and Ewelme, .A.shendon petty sPs parish, which includes 12 in Oxfordshire. .sional division, Thame union and county court district, rural deanery of W addesdon, archdeaconry of Bucking Draycott, formerly a. hamlet of this parish, but .ham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicbolas situated in Oxfordshire, in the hundred of Ewelme, now is a small but ancient building of stone in mixed styles, forms part of Waterstock in that county, bub for eccle principally Transitional and Early English, consisting of siastical purposes still remains part of Ickford. -ehancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and a wes Parish Clerk, William Lester. tern tower, with saddle-back roof, containing 3 bell!! and Post Office.-George Tapping, sub-postmaster. Letters a sanctus hell : in the chancel is an Early English pi!lcina, with a projecting basin, and a low-side window, received through Thame at 7-55 a.m. ; dispatched at and the church still retains some remains of ancient 5.30 p.m. ; sundays, arrive 8.35; dispatched at I0-45 a.m. The nearest money order office is at Worming glass, ILDd a tomb to Thomas Tipping, curiously adorned with carving in low relief: there are rso sittings. The ball & the nearest telegraph office at Thame, 5 miles distant registen date from the year 1561. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £273, with 16 acres of glebe Wall Letter Box, Bridge road, cleared ID-50 a.m. & 5-35 ILDd residence, in the gift of Mrs . .A. H. Turner, and held p.m aince 1905 by the Rev. .A.rthur David Burnett M . .A.. of Council School; average attendance, 50; Miss .Anne Keble College, Oxford. Gilbert Sheldon D .D. .A.rch Witt, mistress oishop of Canterbury 1663-77, was sometime rector here". Then~ ia a Eaptist chapel, built in 1825 and seat The elder children attend the school at Worminghall ing 120 persons. Phillip's charity of £10 yearly is for Carrier.-Edward Honour, to Thame, tues.; to Oxford. clothing. Arthur Parsons-Guy esq. who is lord of the wed. & sat
"Brazil Jame1 Turner Mrs. A. H. The Hollies Brazil Thoma!l ~ Son. blacksmiths Bornett BeT. Arthur David M.A. Waiter Francis, Grange Dover Robert, coal merchant Rectory COMMERCIAL. Freeman William, butcher Jl'uller Alfred, Manor house Cox Harriet (Mrs.), farmer Fuller Alfred, farmer, Manor hou!!e BUCKS. 8