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Sutton & Co.'s Parcels Office (Harry Harman, agent), Weatherhead Color-Sergt. Alfred E. drill instructor to Market square .A Co. Bucks Battalion (Oxfordshire & Bucks Light Swadling Edward (Mrs.), dairy, Prospect road Infantry), Territorial Force, The .Armonry,Institute rd Swadling Eliza (Mrs.), beer retailer, "West street Webb David, corn dealer, Dean street Taylor Reuben, watch maker, West street Welbourne & Simpson Ltd. stationers & printers,High st Taylor William George, fruiterer, West street I Wellicome Banner (Mrs.), antique fumisher, High street Thames Riparian Owners' & Occupiers' .Association , Wellicome Emily (Mrs.), milliner & draper, High street (Llewelyn Shone,

Way Robert, cabinet maker, Station road 1 Woodbridge Charles Stephen, grocer, West street Way Thomas Edward, beer retailer, Station road ' Wright Wm. & Sons, paper manufacturers,Ma~low mills

LITTLE MARLOW is a parish one mile and a half owners. The soil is chalk, flint and gravel. The chief from market place, in the Southern crops are wheat, and there is much woodland abounding division of the county, hundred of Desburough, 1st , with beech trees. A portion of Bourne End, Well End division of Desborough petty sessional division, union I and a great portion of are in this .and county court district of "Vycombe, rural deanery of I parish. The area is 3,3 r 8 acres of land and ro of water; Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese rateable Yalue, £6,g8g; the population in rgor was 945· -of Oxford; it is a widely scattered place, with a few The .Abbey Estate, Bourne End, situated chiefly in farms and shops and bounded on the south by the this parish and partly in , has recently been Thames. The church of St. John the Baptist is a laid out in a very artistic manner : there is a trout ;plain edifice of stone in the Early English and Perpen­ stream running through the estate: the property "-dicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, originally formed part of the Abbey farm, where slight aisles, north porch and a lofty western tower containing remains of the Benedictine Priory, dating from the . 3 bells and a clock: it was originally erected in ngo, early 13th century, and probably founded by the but of th~ earlier building the Early English tower De Clares, can still be seen. The entire site of this . and chancel only remain; the nave and aisles, rebuilt nunnery was excavated in rgo2 by Mr. Vaughan in 1430, were re-seated with open benches, an organ Williams, of the Abbey Farm house, which is largely 1Jlaced in the south aisle and the church carefully re­ constructed with materials from the monastic buildings, stored in r866; a gallery and the high square pews the only part of which now above ground is part of the were then removed, the timber roof of the chancel north-east angle of the frater (refectory), but the whole opened and two elegant Early English wind'ows in the plan has been made out and comprises an aisleless chancel restored; the east window is stained, and church, with north transept having an eastern chapel, there are three others: in the church are many marble and a western tower ; south of the nave were cloisters, tablets to the Nugent, Chase and Warren families and having on the west cellars with guest hall over; on an altar tomb with brasses to Nicholas Ledewick, ob. the east, chapter house and warming house with dorter 1430: during rgo2 various restorations and repairs (dormitory) over; on the south the frater with kitchen, were carried out at a cost of about £r,ooo; the qtb and south of this the infirmary; part of the leg of a ·.century roofs being re-covered and the window mullions mailed effigy, floor tiles of the 14th and rsth century, renewed: in the course of the work traces of the rood- and a stone coffin have been found. By the con­ 1oft, a priest's door in the chancel and a Norman struction of a weir, about three-quarters of a mile of piscina were brought to light: there are 270 sittings. water is now available for navigation, with roads 10 The register of baptisms dates from 1562; marriages arranged that the gardens of the houses slope to the and burials from 1559; these books also include the water's edge: numerous bungalows and quaint baptisms and burials of till about r5go. The thatched cottages and boat houses have been erected. living is a vicarage, net yearly value £1zo, including 25. Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes .Act," acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the trustees WELL END has been transferred from Hedsor to Little of Little ~Iarlow Estate, and held since tgofl by the Rev. Mar low. :Peter Lambert M.A. of Selwyn College, Cambridge. There is a Parish Council, which also acts as a burial Parish Clerk, WalteT E. Yates, Gloucester vil.Marlow. lloard; John Astley Bloxam esq. chairman. The Congre­ Sexton, Phillip_ Harris. gational mission ball at Well End, built in r886, is of Post & Telegraph Office.-William Werrell, sub-post­ re-d brick, and will seat 120. The Upper Thames Sailing master. Letters arrive from Marlow at 7 a.m. & r Club has its head quarters and club house at Bourne p.m; dispatched at 10.20 a.m. & 7·5 p.m.; on sundays End. There are charities of £24 yearly value left by at g.4o a.m. The nearest money order office is at Field-Marshal Sir George Nugent bart. G.C.B., D.C.L Well End, I mile distant. Flackwell Heath letters via d. r848, and Messrs. Allanson and Birch, for distribution arrive at 8.30 a.m in bread and clothing. The Manor House, the scat of J\lrs. Bra dish-Ellames, is partly of Elizabethan date Post & M. 0. Office, Well End.-Edwin James Day, sub­ and stands in its own grounds on the north b11nk of postmaster. L&tters are delivered from Bourne- End the Thames; the south front overlooks well laid out & are dispatched at g.3o a.m. & 12.15, 2.r5 & 7-I5 pleasure grounds and contains many noble and orna­ p.m.; sundays, dispatched at 6 p.m. Nearest tele­ mental trees. Westhorpe, the residence of Major Herl:eTt graph office is at Bourne End, 1 mile distant Spencer Compton Gordon, is situated in park-like grounds Elementary School (mixed), built in r862 & eooowed containing several noble cedar trees and has also good by the late Lady Nugent with £9 yearly (for Sunday pleasure grounds. The trustees of the late Lieut.-Col. school); it will hold r 14 children; average attendance, 1 W. Bradish-Ellames, who are lords of the matwr, and 1 106 ; W illiam J ames Shergold, master; Mrs. Shergold, Earl Carrington P.C., G.C.M.G. are the principal land- I assistant mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. *Bloxam John Astley J.P. Vineleigh, *Clifford Charles Edward, Kingsdene Marked thus * receive letters through Well end *Cloete M:ontrose, The .Abbey Bourne End. Bradish-Ella:nes Mrs. \fanor house *Curtis William Henry, The Grove . ' Carr Mrs. Walnut Tree cottage : *Cuyler Sir Charles bart. The Haven Marked thus t receive letters through *Chandler Georgr, Abbey view *d'Esterre Miss,Summer cot.Well end High Wycombe. *Clark Lyonel, Briar holme , *Dickinson Chas. H. Ye Olde Thatch *_\ndrews Ernest F. Hillside cottage *Clarke Joseph Henry, The Elms *Downey .A. J. Summerholm *Barnes Jersev, Gayreach *Clarke William Balfour,The Cottage, Dnrbeck L. Westhorpe Farm house *Belev Mrs. Lowther cottage Well end *Finch Mrs . .Abbey cot. Well end