26 GREAT GR.ANSDEN. . [ KELLY's

GREAT GRANSDEN is a village of considerable weekly papers and with various periodicals. Charities, size and an ext~nsive parish, on the borders of Olm- amounting to about £r6 yearly, are distributed in fueL bridgeshire, 4 miles ruorth-east from station The rent of the parish lands of 20 acres, r rood, 19 polea,it on the Bletchley, Bedford and section of the divided, £7 rss. going to the church, and £2 ss. for the and North ·western railway, and 7 south-south- benefit of the village. There are five almshouses, built by east from St. Neots. in the Southern division of the the Rev. Barnabas Oley in 1679 for poor people in tho county, hundred and peLLy sessional division of Toseland., village. .An ..Agricultural Show and ploughing match iJ union of Oaxton and ..Arrington, county couT't district of held here yearly about the first week in October. Grans. St. Neots, rural deanery of St. Neots, archdeaconry oi den Hall, now occupied by William Bromwich Ryder esq. and . The church of St. Bar- J.P. is a .spacious mansion, standing in moated grounds, tholomew is an edifice of stone, in the Perpendicular in a park of 2-1- acres. Here are four manors, viz. the style, erected about 1460, and consists of chancel, nave, manor of llaldwins, belonging to the Master and Fellows aisles, nol"th and south porches and an embattled western of Clare College, Cambridge; the manor of Great Grans· tower, with spirelet, containing 6 bells and a clock with den, which belongs to the Master and Fellows of Emanuel chimes, playing five different tunes; the pulpit is said College, Cambridge; and the manors of Mannock and Rip­ to have been formerly in the Universit:r church of Great pington, both the property of W. B. Fowler esq. The St. Mary, Oambridge; the screen which divided the principal landowners are Mrs. Webb,W. B. Fowler esq. the chancel and nave is now placed in the organ chamber; Flinders family and Clare College, Cambridge. The .soil is the organ was built in r888, by subscription, at a. cost chiefly clay; subsoil, strong clay. Bricks are made. of £300: the church was thoroughly restored in 1874, The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area at a cost of over £3,000, when the north porch was re- is 3,401 acres; rateable value, £2,228; the population in built and organ chamber added: there are 350 sittings. 189r was 586. The regiSIWr dates from the year 1538. The living is a The adjoining village of Little Gransden is in Cam- vicarage, net yearly value £200, with residence, in the bridgeshire. gift of Clare College, Cambridge, and held since 1884 by the Rev . ..Arthur Jonathan Edmonds M.A. of that col- PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. lege, who has written a history of the village. There is a -Berry Wayman, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Eaptist chapel, built in 1735, with a yearly endowment of Sandy via Gamlingay at 8.15 a.m. & 2 p.m. ; dis- £53; the church book dates from 1694; there are 28o patched at 8.15 a.m. & 5·45 p.m. The nearest tele- sittings. The Gransden Union Society's building, erected graph office is at Caxton, 3 miles distant in 1872 at the expense of the late T.V. Webb esq. consists National School, built in 1866 at the expense of the late of large reading-room, smoking and recreation rooms, Theodore V. Webb esq. assisted by subscriptions, and and hag a piece of land adjoining for out-door amuse- enlarged by him in 1879, for 200 children; average ments; the reading-room is used for meetings and con- attendance, 84; Richard Chaplin, master; Miss MBIJ' certs, and is well supplied with the London daily and Ann Nnnn, assisia.nt mistres.s Croshaw Benjamin, Grotto house Crane ·william, blacksmith Mumford Fredk. boot mkr. & shpkpr Edmonds Rev. Arthur Jonathan ll.A. Giles John, Three Horseshoes P.H. Reading Room (George Thomas Vin- Vicarage carpenter & wheelwright cent Marshall, sec) Farrow Mrs. J. Brinkley cottage Gransden & District Agricultural So- Smith 1Villiam Peters, grocer, draper Morton Rev. John (Baptist) ciety (R. J. Kisby, secretary) & farmer Ryder William Bromwich l.P. Grans- Hadder Thomas, beer retailer Spencer Sa.muel, baker den hall Harradine James, baker Townsend John, Fox P.H Webb Mrs. Audley house Hart John, farmer Wayman Berry, grocer & provision Wright Miss King Charles, tailor dealer, Post office Maries John, farmer Webb William Jabez, miller (wing) COMMERCIAL. Millard J osiah, farmer, Moor farm Whittet Wilmer, butcher Bollons Joseph, Plough P.H (postal address St. Neots) Wil8on Charles, farmer, Hayden fatm Christmas Fred, asst. overseer & frmr Millard Susan (Mrs.), farmer Wright John, estate carpenter & joiner Crane Sophia (Mrs.), beer retailer Mnmford .Albt. Edwd. The Crown P.H :HAD DON is ·a small parish and village, near the boruers dence at Chesterton, in the gift of the Marquess of Huntly,