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. lBUOKS.] WYCOMBE. 516 (POST OFFic£ ~everal estates laid out for building, which have been Bucks Free Press," and the "Wycombe Guardian," both on Fridav. built on aud are becoming populous streets. The borough • is divided into four wards, over each of which a justice and Wycombe Abbey, the seat of Lord Carington, is a hand- four councillors preside-High-street Ward, Easton Ward, some regular mansion, standing in the corner of a park, Frogmore Ward, and Paul's-row Ward: Frogmore 1Vard is which extends along the hill-side, and is ornamented by a the most populous. It is situated in a valley, and has a large piece of water. beautiful stream of water running through it, called the Wye, A large pleasure and hiring fair is held on the 1\londay from which it derives its name. Chair making is the chief and Tuesday precedin!'l= Micbaelmas Day, and a horse and trade, and peculiar to the town and adjoining district; they cattle fair on 28th October, the former in the High-street are the lighter sort of cane and rush bottomed chairs; the and the latter in the Market-place. The wool fair has more common sort are made from the beech wood, with for some years been discontinued. which the neighbourhood abounds, and the better sorts, The Union House is situated at Saunderton. The union such 11s drawing room, folding, communion table, and consists of 30 parishes. hall chairs, from walnut, birch, cLerry, and other ornamental woods. Paper making is also carried on to a considerable Wycombe abounds in antiquities. The Roman station at extent. The female poor are occupied in lace, straw plait, the east end of the Rye, proves it to have been the head and bonnet making. There is a board of commissioners, quarters of a large district. A British fortification closely appointE-d under a local Act, which consists of the mavor and adjoins the station. Castle Hill, close to the church, has on aldermen for the time being, and about 40 others elected by its summit a fine Roman fortification; and the Roman camps the rated inhabitants. The town is lighted with gas, and is of Desborough and West Wycombe are well known. In the well supplied with most excellent water. latter stllnds 'Vest Wycom be church. Roman remains have The church of All Hallows is a venerable cruciform been found in abundance in the churchyard and town. The building-, erected in the year 1273; it is in the Early splendid tessellated pavement found at the station has English style of architecture, and consists of a body and two female busts at the an~·les, and is filled up with twisted sea aisles, and, with the chancel, is above 200 feet long, and the monsters, &c.; it is 15 feet by 25 feet. Another pavement nave 50 feet high: the tower is 108 feet high, and was (now destroyed) exhibited a dog standing by a tree; this built in the year 1522; it was adorned with pinnacles in pavement was 14 feet square, and portions of othet·s have been discovered. There was also found a Roman statera, 1753 by the Earl of Shelburne; in the tower are 10 bell~, the tenor weighing 27 cwt., which have been re-hung, and or steelyard, with leaden counterpoise. There are several .. n excellent set of chimes, made by the late Mr. G. Har medireval houses and halls in the borough, which are fast disappearing to make way for modern shops. •c 1an in 1790: the church organ is in course of being rebuilt ty :Messrs. J ones, of Brompton, at a cost of £650 : the The county court is held monthly ; the following parisl:es ,,orth chapel contains a very beautifitl marble monument to and places comprise the district :-Applehouse Hill (Berks), ilenry Petty, Earl of Shelburne; there are also several Askett, Aylesbury End, Beacon's l!otton, Beaconsfield, other neat marble tablets and a few ancirnt brasses. Heacon Hill (Penn), Bennett End, Berger's Hill, Big ':~'he register dates from the reign of Queen Elizabeth. frieth (Berks), lligmoor Common (Oxford), Bisham (Berks), '!'here were anciently several other churches ami chapelries Bledlow, Bledlow Ridge, }looker, Bonlter End, Bourne ~.-1 the town, destroyed at the Reformation. The living is a End, Bovingdon's Green, Bradenham, Bryant's Bottom, '• icarage, in the gift of tl1e Marquis of Lansdowne, annual Cadmore End, Camley Corner (Berks), Cold Moorholm, - alue £400, with residence; the Rev. Thomas Henry Pad- Cores End, Cross Roads (Berks), Culverton, Dell's Com on, li.A., is the incumbent. mon (Oxford), Denner Hill, Downley, Egham's Green, 'l'here are several other places of worsllip for Indepen Fingest, Flnckwell Heath, Flower's Bottom, Forty Green - ents or Congregationnlists, Wesleyans, General Baptists, (Bleulow), Forty Green Place, Great Marlow, Green End, Pal'ticular Baptists, RPform Wesleyans, and Primitive Ham, West Wycombe, Hampden (Great), Hampden :Methodists, and a Meeting-honse for the Society of Friends. (Little), Handy Cross, Halding's Green (Berks), Harley 'l'rinity chapel, for Independents, situated at the west end of tord, Heaven's Lee, Hazlemere, Heath End, Helisor, Holt Maston-street, is a remarkably handsome building, in the spur, Horn's Lane, Horsendon, Hostler's Green (Oxford), Romanesque style, built by 1\ir. Searle: it has a nave and f!nghenden, Ihston (Bucks and Oxford), Kingshill (Great), l.ransept, flanked by two square towers, erected principally Knave's Beech, Lacey Green, Lane End, Lewknor Uphill at tl.Je expense of tl1e Rev. John Hayden, who is the (Oxford), Little London, Little Marlow Moor, Littleworth minister thereof. Crendon Lane chapel, built 1714, for Common, Longwick, Loosley Row, Loudwater• .1\Iarlow Independents, l1as been lately restored. Salem chapel, (Great), 1\farlow (Little), .M:arlow Common, :1\Iarsh Green, Oxford-road, and a new Reformed W esleyan chapel have Meadle, Mill End, l\Ioore's End, Naphill Common, Nurth been lately completed. dean, North End, Northern Wood, Oaken Grove (Great There are British schools for boys and g·irls, National Marlo,~), Owlswick, Park Mills, :t=:enleys (Oxford), Penn, schools, and an Infant school; also a Royal Grammar school, Penn ::Street, Piggot's Common, Pmkney's Green (Berks), founded by Sir E. Peckbam, in 1548: thit~ school is under Piper's Corner, Polecat Lane, Pond Farm, Prestwood, the management of the trustees of charities; the salary of Radnadge, Red Lane End, Red Pits, Risborough (Monks), the head master is £210 per annum, besides an excellent Risborough (Princes),Rout's Green, Saunderton,Saunderton house, with large garden, orchard, &c.; the second master Lee, Seer Green, Sheepridge, South End, Spade Oak, enjoys a stipend of £70. A new and handsome building Speen, Spring Gardens, Stokenchurch (Oxford), Stoney for National schools was erected in 185-3. in the Gothic style, Green, Strong l!eer Acre, StubbinO"s (Berks), Tencrotts, from the designs of Mr. Bond, accommodating 650 children. The Hillocks, Tottcridge, Turville Heath, Turville, Tyler's The Guild Hall is a handsome buildin(?, on stone pillars Green, Waiter's Ash, Waiter End (Oxford), Well End, and arches, standing at the junction of High-street and Wheeler End, White Cliffe Cross, Widmore End, Winch Paul's-row; it contains ante rooms and a spacious council more Hill, Wooburn Common, Wooburn Green, ·woobum eh am her, with several pictures. The StJ.am bles is an octa Moor, Wooburn, Wormsley (Oxford), '\Vycombe Chepping, gonal building, erected in 1761, from the designs of Adams, Wycombe Heath, 'Vycombe (High), Wycombe Marsh. standing in the Old Hog 1\farket, The population in 1861 of the whole of the parish was New Gas Works were erected in 1848, and have been since 8,373 ; the area of the parish is 6,318 acres. greatly altered and enlarged. HAZLEMERE is a hamlet and ecclesiastical district. of A lanre Roman station has been lately• excavated at the Wycombe, suiTounded by a dense woodland of great beauty. east end of the town, containing tessclated pavements, &c., The church of the Holy Trinity is a very neat edifice, built at the expense of Lord Carington : Roman remains and en in the Romanesql~e style _of architecture. The living is a campments arc numerous on the eiuincnces surrounding the perpetual curacy, m the gift of the trustees of Miss Carter, town. annual value £42, with residence, and held hy the Rev. 'l'here Are several alllUlbouse foundations in the town. Qupen George Allan, M.A. There is a Parochial school. The soil Elizabeth's almshonses, in Easton-street, were endowed out is chiefly clay. of the property of the dissolved guild or fraternity of St. TYLER's GREEN is an ecclesiastical di!>trict, whert' a ~Iary; five others in Easton-street, and two in St. 1\Iary new church, named St. Margaret, has been built. The street, were endowed by the corporation, temp. Charles II. living is a perpetual curacy, annual value £30, with resi ·wailer's almshouses, in Newland, six in number, have been dence, in the gift of Earl Howe, and held by the Rev. J, lately rebuilt. Lane's almshouses, Crendon-lane, were Power. founded by John Lane, in Hl87. There are other charities, most of which are administered by the municipal charity LounwATER, a hamlet of this parish, will be found under trustees. The Rye is a larg-e meadow of 30 acres, which a separate heading. has belonged to the town since the time of Henry Ill.; in WYCOMBE 1\fARSH.-A new clmrch, St. Anne, was con· it all inhabitants have common of pasture for cows, in con secrated here in 1861, in the Early Gothic style, from the l!equence of which the town is well supplied with milk.

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